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Peaceful environmental activists who were protecting an old-growth forest in Tasmania, Australia, have been violently attacked by timber workers as they were blocking the road for them.
The timber workers attacked the car that the protestors were using to block the road using a sledgehammer and kicking in its windows. They later dragged out a 22-year-old protestor and kicked him repeatedly.
The brutal attack was caught on tape by one of the protestors:
Via Ecowar
October 25 2008 | Environment and External Blogs and Green | No Comments »
photo: erasmusa
In the same week that it was announced that the UK overtook Denmark to be the world’s foremost producer of electricity from offshore wind farms, the Crown Estate (which holds all of the Queen’s property, but is independent of the monarchy or government) has said that it will be making a significant investment in offshore wind power by promising to pay for up to half of all pre-construction development costs for offshore wind projects in areas under its control.
I admit that’s quite a mouthful, but this is what i…
October 25 2008 | Environment and External Blogs and Green | No Comments »
Yvo de Boer, who heads the Bonn-based U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, is a bit more optimistic about the current financial crisis than George Monbiot is. Yvo de Boer says that the current financial crisis could “hasten” countries efforts to create a greener and more sustainable economy.
“The credit crisis can be used to make progress in a new direction, an opportunity for global green economic growth,” Yvo de Boer told a news conference.
“The credit crunch I believe is an opportunity to rebuild the financial system that would underpin sustainable growth,” and that “governments now have an opportunity to create and enforce policy which stimulates private competition to fund clean industry”, Yvo de Boer said.
Yvo de Boer said that to be able to “create new markets, investment opportunities and job creation” the climate meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December 2009 must be successful.
Read the whole interview over at wbcsd.org
October 25 2008 | Environment and External Blogs and Green | No Comments »
Italian Grayhound, At Earthwatch Tree Planting Project, “Roxbury”, Boston, USA
By: Jeanine Pfeiffer
We all have choices. As we fill our lives with things or creatures or experiences, we have an astonishing array of options. Bling or plain? Doberman or Chihuahua? Whale watching or poolside tanning? Paper or plastic or bring your own gosh-darn bag?
We consumers are demi-gods of the Universal Supermarket of Life, setting off a cascade of repercussions with our choices, all the way up and back down the production-consumption-disposal chain. Do we recognize our extraordinary collective power?
P…
October 25 2008 | Environment and External Blogs and Green | No Comments »
Sarah Palin, Republican candidate for the Vice Presidency and running mate with John McCain, ignores basic climate science by claiming that climate change is not man-made and that weather patterns are to be blamed instead. And during an interview in Las Vegas two days ago Sarah Palin couldn’t name a single man-made cause that contributes to climate change.
Q: I’ve also heard you hint that you do think there might be some man-made causes that are contributing to this. Can you describe what those are?
PALIN: Right, well what I have said about this is really the debate at some point, had better shift to, no matter the cause, whether it all be attributed to man’s activities or just the natural cycle of climate changes in our earth’s history. We have seen this before.
Watch the interview below:
Either Sarah Palin is totally clueless, about anything, or she refuses to acknowledge man-made climate change because she is bought by the oil and coal industry. Either way it’s bad. Really bad.
Just like Joe Biden said, the Democratic Vice President candidate: “if you don’t understand what the cause is, it’s virtually impossible to come up with a solution.”
October 25 2008 | Environment and External Blogs and Green | No Comments »
Is it just me or is Halloween on steroids this year? As I strolled the sleepy, autumn streets of Park Slope, Brooklyn it seemed as though my neighborhood’s infamous brownstones were way more jazzed up than ever with flashing, electronic pumpkins, cob-web adorned cast-iron gates, plastic window decals and inflated ghosts. Among these, I picked out my favorite, more sustainably decorated homes sporting real, carved pumpkins, homemade stuffed scarecrows and kid-crafted signs. My favorite: A simple white sheet of paper with this crypt…
October 25 2008 | Environment and External Blogs and Green | No Comments »
Bikes in Sapporo under snow, photo: Daniel Cuthbert.
When your island gets 20-30 feet of snow in a year, I suppose coming up with interesting ways to put that snow to use. That’s just what Japan’s transport ministry plans on doing at the new New Chitose Airport terminal in Sapporo, Hokkaido. Japan Today is reporting that the ministry plans on introducing a system by 2010 which will use collected snow to provide 30% of the facility’s cooling energy. Here’s how i…
October 25 2008 | Environment and External Blogs and Green | No Comments »
Tendril and Itron are pairing up to solve the issue of communication between smart meter-equipped homes and utility companies. Their new solution would allow for a two-way communication between smart meters and utilities without the need for a home to have a broadband connection. …
October 25 2008 | Environment and External Blogs and Green | No Comments »
Photo via WhiteAfrican
As we know, Google is hard core about getting on target with a switch to renewable energies.
The US and China are big old guilty culprits in energy consumption and car…
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photo: Ausra
The Kimberlina solar thermal power plant, located near Bakersfield, California and the first solar thermal plant built in the state in some 20 years, opened yesterday. Although only 5 megawatts in size, its developer Ausra is understandably pleased to be operating its first solar thermal power plant in the United States. Regarding the plant opening, Ausra’s CEO Robert Fishman had this to say,
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October 25 2008 | Environment and External Blogs and Green | No Comments »
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