The Green Files

February 08, 2010

Is Bottled Water Harmful To The Environment? | MyArticleWizard.com

[MyArticleWizard.com] Whatever way you look at it, whether from a health, taste, cost or environmental stance, there really isn’t much to recommend the use of bottled water. If you really find the taste of the water that comes out of your tap at home to be unsatisfactory, then you could always use some type of home filtration system.

Posted at 12:36 PM

Ritchie urges Minister for Environment not to cut funding to ...

[Margaret Ritchie, MLA for South Down] Miss Ritchie said, “The Mourne Heritage Trust is funded through the Natural Heritage Grants Programme. This programme is in turn financed by the NI Environment Agency who are a agency of the Department of the Environment.

Posted at 12:34 PM

February 06, 2010

CentreRight: Geoffrey Lean on climate change policy

[CentreRight] article for the National Review in 2007 (not available online unfortunately) developed a similar premise to Geoffrey Lean's column: that we could have the policy debate without the scientists giving us a definitive, settled position. But it came to a much more sensible conclusion:

Posted at 03:08 PM

Anorak News » Blog Archive » Climate Change: Dr Rajendra K ...

[Anorak News] Veteran journalist and former BBC Bureau Chief Mr Mark Tully and Dr Prannoy Roy, Chairman and whole time director, NDTV read a few passages from the novel to thunderous applause in Delhi, setting the tone for the launch in Mumbai where actor Rahul Bose lent a voice to the powerful prose penned by Dr Pachauri.

Posted at 03:05 PM

February 05, 2010

WSJ Cancels Energy/Environment Blog : CJR

[CJR] Environmental Capital has been uniquely helpful for me and just a quick story to tell how helpful your blogs have been. In late summer you wrote an article on solar power panel glut while a group of us from engineering, architecture, business, and anthropology were working on designing a sustainable school and field station in the Brazilian Pantanal.

Posted at 03:06 PM

Environmental Management is Good Business: Copenhagen Conference ...

[Suite101: Business Management Articles] The Copenhagen Economic conference focused on environmental issues, for example. However, political compulsions and inadequate resources and projects are hampering sufficiently forceful action.

Posted at 03:04 PM

February 04, 2010

UK Greenpeace Chief Calls on Pachauri to Resign: Al Gore Still ...

[Walter Russell Mead's Blog] Even the leadership of Greenpeace UK understands that low scientific standards and reckless disregard for the truth are destroying the credibility of the global warming community, and John Sauven has the courage and integrity to speak up about it. Al Gore, who shared the Nobel Prize with Rajendra Pachauri and the increasingly discredited IPCC, has a special responsibility to environmentalists and others in the United States to clearly state that bad science and poor judgment have no place in the leadership of the movement to stop climate change.

Posted at 03:07 PM

UK Greenpeace director calls for new IPCC chairman - meanwhile ...

[Watts Up With That?] The IPCC was established in 1989, but the First World Climate Change Conference (1stWCC) had already decided human-induced Global Warming and Climate Change was a foregone conclusion and fact ten years earlier in 1979. The IPPC was established to determine only the extent of the climate change and what efforts the Conference of Parties (member states of the United Nations) would take to mitigate the effects of the alleged climate change.

Posted at 03:04 PM

February 03, 2010

Peak Oil News - Peak oil looms

[Peak Oil News] Faith Birol, chief economist for the IEA, announced that unless there are major new oil discoveries, something his agency does not expect, the output of conventional oil production will peak in 2020. The agency's official conclusion is that production will reach a plateau sometime before 2030.

Posted at 02:36 PM

Peak Oil News - Kjell Aleklett: The OPEC bulletin and focus on Angola

[Peak Oil News] Peak Oil News and Message Boards is a community and collaboration portal about energy-related topics.

Posted at 02:34 PM

February 02, 2010

Fujitsu and Cisco Create Unified Communications Environment for ...

[Stilton Company - NJ SEO & IT Services - Ocean County - Monmouth County - Toms River - Jackson - Freehold] Tokyo, Feb 2, 2010 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu and Cisco today announced that they have created a large-scale unified communications(1) environment for JGC Corporation. Designed to provide a more robust communications platform for JGC, the new environment will utilize 5,400 Cisco IP telephones.

Posted at 02:37 PM

Bringing User Centered Design to the Agile Environment - Boxes and ...

[Boxes and Arrows] Before joining Different in 2007, Anthony led UX teams holding positions of Creative Director, User Experience Manager, Interaction Design Team Lead for myfamily.com, Classmates.com and the BBC in London respectively. Anthony also graduated with a Bachelor of Graphic Design from the University of Canberra, Australia in 1996.

Posted at 02:36 PM

February 01, 2010

Pentagon review to address climate change for the first time ...

[Top News] “I will tell you that the defense review of the United States Pentagon next week is going to come out and list climate change for the first time as an instability factor that affects our troops and may in fact wind up costing us lives down the road,” Kerry said at a forum hosted by labor, business, veteran and other groups backing climate legislation.

Posted at 12:35 PM

Climate Change Fraud - Keeping Canadian students in the dark on ...

[Climate Change Fraud] Spending time and money on the issue is largely a waste," posited Steve Paikin, host of TV Ontario's The Agenda, to his live studio audience at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies Thursday evening. Paikin's statement to the students came in the middle of an hour-long debate on climate change in which I participated, along with four other panelists.