California has set ambitious goals for a transition to clean, renewable energy: 33% by 2020. Some are skeptical that the goal is within reach. In a special series unfolding over several months, KQED’s environmental and science initiatives, Quest and Climate Watch, explore the promise and pitfalls of this historic transformation to “33 by 20.” http://www.kqed.org/news/science/climatewatch/33by20/index.jsp
The definitive story from environmental journalism icon and Pulitzer Award-winner Mark Schliefstein:
“A massive, 22-mile-long underwater plume of oil droplets flowed to the southwest of the BP’s failed Macondo well at the end of June, and the threat it poses to natural resources of the Gulf of Mexico remains uncertain, scientists who mapped the plume said [...]
CIO — We are entering an era where corporate social responsibility (CSR) is of central concern to executives of almost every enterprise. With the publication of ISO 26000, a standard for CSR based on the UN Global Compact, executives now [...]
Britain and other countries face a collapse of their economies and loss of culture if they do not protect the environment better, the world’s leading champion of nature has warned.
“What we are seeing today is a total disaster,” said Ahmed Djoghlaf, the secretary-general of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. “No country has met its [...]
President Barack Obama, embarking on a three-day tour to raise money for Democrats, said Monday that a rising homegrown clean energy industry can help reverse years of manufacturing job losses overseas and help heal a still-ailing economy.
“We can’t turn back, we’ve got keep going forward,” Obama told a group of workers at the ZBB Energy [...]
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill still poses threats to human health and seafood safety, according to a study published Monday by the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Association.
Federal officials disputed the new report and said ongoing testing is aggressive and sufficient to protect public health.
In the short term, study co-author Gina Solomon voiced [...]
Ron Cunningham celebrates the Blue Path:
“And here’s the bottom line message of Blue Path:
“Florida’s springs are degrading at an alarming rate as a direct result of our collective over-pumping of the ground water and adding too many nutrients to the groundwater,” says Annie Pais, director of Florida’s Eden, the organization that assembled the exhibit. “Simply [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Alachua County Environmental Protection Department, Gainesville Regional Utilities, Alachua County Health Department, Gainesville City Manager’s Office, and technical consultants will hold the first of two public meetings to discuss proposed comments to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed cleanup plan for the Cabot-Koppers superfund site on Tuesday, Aug. 17 at 6 [...]
YES WE CAN DO THIS!
“Nearly 45 percent of the electricity in Portugal’s grid will come from renewable sources this year, up from 17 percent just five years ago.
“So far the program has placed no stress on the national budget” and has not created government debt, said Shinji Fujino, head of the International Energy [...]
What does it take to get us to push our world into a healthier future? We’ve been trying to figure this out for our Conservation Challenge. I still believe that awareness is the first step. Thanks to Ken McMurry for passing this along:
“Which psychological hurdles are standing in the way of improved energy efficiency in [...]
Better known for long, bitterly cold winters, Russia is well on the way to becoming the poster child for the perils of global warming this summer.
On Thursday, the mercury hit 100 degrees in Moscow, the hottest day since record-keeping began in 1880; it was the fourth day in a week that the city set a [...]
We’re Hot as Hell and We’re Not Going to Take It Any More
Three Steps to Establish a Politics of Global Warming
By Bill McKibben
Try to fit these facts together:
* According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the planet has just come through the warmest decade, the warmest 12 months, the warmest six months, and the [...]
Our world is starting to sizzle as rising levels of greenhouse gases trap more and more of the sun’s heat in the lower atmosphere – a point that was confirmed on Wednesday when the Met Office reported that sensors from around the world were showing that 2010 would be the hottest, or just possibly the [...]
Researchers at Yale University have developed a custom membrane that can clean and purify water from oceans, salty ground water or sewage water with far less energy input than currently is required to do a similar job.
The membrane may be a big step forward in reaching the goal of reliable and affordable sources of fresh [...]
Devastating roundup of the month’s environmental news:
July in Review, Pt. II: Oil spilled (again), prison farms defended, posters permitted, dykes marched | The Dominion.
Living with the knowledge that we will die in the future is thought to be a burden of the human species alone. But living with signs that life systems on the planet we inhabit may be on the brink can be overwhelming.
Corexit, one of the products used in the clean-up, is banned in the UK [...]
Pennsylvania may soon become the capital of energy that is really green — as in algae.
It turns out that algae — that slimy stuff that makes your skin crawl when you swim through it — is pretty powerful stuff.
via Berks lawmaker courts algae farms for Pennsylvania – The Mercury News: Pottstown, PA and The Tri [...]
“I was in and out of the water until sunset, not getting home until dusk,” Shindo recalled. “I walked (to the beach) at a very brisk clip every morning, but my pace was much slower going home, taking me twice as long as in the morning … . The seas were my childhood itself.” This [...]
This is what American capitalism is doing to the world. Looks like fun, but please read between the lines. Thanks, Ewen and Nancy for sending this along:
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