The Green Files: February 2008 Archives

The Green Files > February 29, 2008

China looking to GMO crops

[Green living tips - Blogs] On the flip side, GM crops can be made to be insect and drought resistant and are viewed by many to be the answer to the world's food problems. To my way of thinking, the only food problems we have are related to poor basic farming practices, and distribution - and not production per se.

Philippines: Greenpeace Seeks Quarantine of US Rice Shipment Until ...

[pinoypress -- Philippines news, opinion, blogs.] Philippine GMO testing procedures are grossly inadequate,” said Daniel M. Ocampo, Genetic Engineering Campaigner of Greenpeace Southeast Asia.

Posted at 03:01 PM

February 29, 2008

China looking to GMO crops

Posted at 03:02 PM

Philippines: Greenpeace Seeks Quarantine of US Rice Shipment Until ...

[pinoypress -- Philippines news, opinion, blogs.] Philippine GMO testing procedures are grossly inadequate,” said Daniel M. Ocampo, Genetic Engineering Campaigner of Greenpeace Southeast Asia.

Posted at 03:01 PM

February 28, 2008

London to slash emissions from public buildings - Greenpeace response

[Greenpeace UK RSS] "London is setting the pace, and if we're going to beat climate change then we need to see this level of ambition in cities across the world. Slashing energy waste and decentralising power across the capital will save Londoners money and cut emissions, but just as importantly it will mean our city is seen as an environmental trailblazer.

Posted at 03:02 PM

Climate campaigners bring peaceful protest to Heathrow

[Greenpeace UK RSS] This is about stabilising the number of flights from UK airports, which is why we're calling for the government to stop all plans for airport expansion, for a ban on domestic flights, for a cap on long haul flights and for a transfer of the £9 billion subsidies the aviation industry gets over to rail, to make train travel better and cheaper (at the moment, per person, Britons emit more from flying than any other people on the planet...).

Posted at 03:01 PM

February 27, 2008

Climate Change and Death Rates

[In Search of Enlightenment] I came across two interesting stories today in UK newspapers on the issue of deaths caused by climate change. The first is this piece by Simon Lewis who asks "Climate change is killing us.

Posted at 02:33 PM

US business in the dark on climate change

[Sox First] The findings are important because they show the big gap between US businesses and businesses in other parts of the world over climate change. While four out of 10 businesses globally said concern for the planet was a factor, it only applied to two out of 10 American business owners.

Posted at 02:32 PM

February 26, 2008

'Science' - Environmentalism's Fig Leaf

[Climate Resistance] Environmentalism has a lot to hide, and uses science as a fig leaf. Sceptics (and skeptics), in whatever political colours (or colors) they wear should not be afraid of bringing political perspectives to the discussion.

Posted at 02:33 PM

Conservative Environmentalism

[David Frum] I suggest in Comeback that the environmental issue may be ripe for claiming by conservatives. This interesting article in the current New Yorker offer...

Posted at 02:32 PM

February 25, 2008

We're Headed Over A Cliff Our Leaders Want To Ignore

[Peak Oil News] U.S. and European consumption is growing slowly, so the difference between flat production and increasing demand is being made up by reduced consumption in the poorer nations of Africa, Latin America, and numerous small island states that are heard from occasionally. World stockpiles are also shrinking at a measured pace.

Posted at 12:33 PM

Dan on Has Peak Oil arrived? More importantly what price does gas ...

[GM-VOLT : Chevy Volt Concept Site - All Forums] I’m not really buying into peak oil. If the price of oil stays consistently around $100 a barrel, massive reserves of unconventional oil will become economical.

Posted at 12:31 PM

February 23, 2008

Global Map of Human Impacts to Marine Ecosystems

[BU Science Library Blog] The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis has released an analysis of human impacts on marine ecosystems worldwide. To view the map and read about the analysis, please visit the web page: .

Posted at 03:02 PM

Ecosystems Biologist

[Eluta: biology jobs] The BC Public Service Agency, a branch of the Government of British Columbia, provides human resource management services for over 33,000 provincial government employees in British Columbia.

Posted at 03:01 PM

February 22, 2008

Australia: Squabbles, obfuscation and resignation as the world warms

[Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed] Well before Koperberg's resignation, the vital decisions affecting the state's rising greenhouse emissions were being made by the Treasurer, Michael Costa, a proclaimed climate sceptic, not the climate change minister.

Posted at 03:04 PM

Another Expert Says Man-made Global warming a Myth

[Don't Get Me Started...] I don’t think we have enough info to say that MAN-MADE global warming is a given fact, and I believe that most of it is just hype. There are too many experts out there who disagree with Gore’s hysterical rantings, and this article spotlights an interview with one.

Posted at 03:02 PM

February 21, 2008

4 Strange Greenpeace Moments

[mental_floss Blog] Greenpeace has been at the forefront of political and environmental activism since its inception in 1971. While opposing nuclear testing and supporting environmental causes, Greenpeace has routinely been in the media spotlight, and often seeks out media coverage to promote its cause.

Posted at 03:03 PM

Greenpeace has Eddie’s number.

[STOP: Stop Tar Sands Operations Permanently] “Albertans have repeatedly told this premier that we can’t put any more tarsands projects online. That we need better balance and that the impacts are already too severe for Albertans to handle …

Posted at 03:01 PM

February 20, 2008

On Value Systems and Environmentalism

[Tiny Choices] I don’t want to assign motives onto her actions, but I think it’s admirable that, as we are all faced with so many potential environmental toxins, Jenn is taking a stand and trying to reduce her exposure to them by removing as many plastics from her life as possible. I mean, colloquially it really seems like more and more people are being diagnosed with cancer, you know?

Posted at 02:31 PM

Environmentalism in 1778

[Environmental News Blog | Environmental Graffiti] When word of the massacre reached the Maharaja, he was shaken. He personally travelled to the region to apologize to the people, and issued a decree that no ruler could ever again ask for timber from their land and no hunting would be allowed near there villages.

Posted at 02:31 PM

February 19, 2008

SolarBee: Using the sun to clean up your water sources

[Digg / Environment / upcoming] Doesn't look like a bee to me, but the functionality is wicked. Using the sun to clean up bodies of water. I wonder how durable it is though. And if it poses any threat to wildlife.

Posted at 02:33 PM

Greening the Office

[Digg / Environment / upcoming] We worked hard to build a LEED gold certified green office. Check out some of the cool features like signs made of recycled bank notes.

Posted at 02:33 PM

February 18, 2008

Adapting local ecosystems can soften impact of global climate change

[HandsNet] - Breaking News:. "Think globally, act locally" makes for a nice bumper sticker -- but is it an effective policy for coping with global climate change?

Posted at 12:33 PM

Adapting local ecosystems can alleviate impact of global warming

[Science] With his presentation, Perrings aims to point "the value of regulating ecosystems locally to function over a range of environmental conditions." In addition to his proposition, he noted that, "the challenge now is to deepen our understanding of diversity’s impact on both the supply of valued goods and the severity of harmful events.'

Posted at 12:32 PM

February 15, 2008

Course: MSc/Diploma/Certificate - Climate Change: Impacts And ...

[Lowcarbon.com: Latest] The MSc course offers one core module to introduce climate change causes and impacts (Semester 1) and reviews the possible mitigation and adaptation measures in a second (Semester 2). The course structure allows for three optional and relevant modules each semester from amongst the University’s postgraduate syllabus so that a ‘tailored’

Posted at 03:03 PM

The Climate Change Summit 2008

[Tshirt & Sons] The key topics focused on where climate initiatives that achieve both environmental and business objectives, crafting climate change messages that win over the most skeptical consumers, an A-Z of using offsets and taking advantage of carbon trading, how to report on your climate change objectives, achievements for maximum impact and how to manage the many risks of climate change.

Posted at 03:01 PM

February 14, 2008

Global Warming Related To ... the Sun?

[Digg / Environment / upcoming] Sallie Baliunas' work with fellow Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics astronomer Willie Soon suggests global warming is more directly related to solar variability than to increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, an alternative view to what's been widely publicized in the mainstream media.

Posted at 03:03 PM

GM Vice Chairman Calls Global Warming A "Total Crock of S**t"

[Popular Science -] Here’s an odd PR move making the blog rounds today: Bob Lutz, the General Motors Vice Chairman who’s driving the charge to build the Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid, was recently quoted in D Magazine calling global warming a “crock of s**t.” (Actually, the writer for D heard these comments in a “closed door session with several journalists,” which makes me wonder whether this whole thing was supposed to be off the record.)

Posted at 03:02 PM

February 13, 2008

Peak oil - Feb 12

[energybulletin.net Peak Oil] But before dismissing "Peak Oil," read a few books like: "Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock & the World Economy," "A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash," "The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous World," and others exposing "Big Oil's" rosy estimates of inexhaustible oil reserves, new exploration technologies, geopolitics conflicts and, above all, the inability of supply-side scenarios to meet demand as the global population bubble explodes in the 21st century. See previous Paul B.

Posted at 02:34 PM

Peak Oil and "The Limits to Growth": two parallel stories

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] Here is, instead, an example of recent results obtained by Jean Laherrere who uses a Hubbert-like approach for describing the production of the main categories of fossil fuels. The date for peak oil is shifted by some years forward with respect to the early predictions by Hubbert, but the bell shaped curve remains about the same.

Posted at 02:32 PM

February 12, 2008

Bloomberg on Terrorism, Nukes and Global Warming

[The Politicker] After giving a speech at the United Nations about climate change, Michael Bloomberg told reporters that stopping global warming "is just as important as stopping nuclear proliferation" and "fighting terrorism."

Posted at 02:34 PM

Global Warming Effects Could Kill 10000 in the UK by 2012

[Environmental News Blog | Environmental Graffiti] The report, “Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK”, was written by Professor Bob Maynard and colleagues with the Health Protection Agency. It is being issued as official government advice to hospitals, nursing homes, and other medical

Posted at 02:32 PM

February 11, 2008

“Transforming Humanity:I LOVE THE LAND”: Classical Mini-Series ...

[A Painting A Day of ECO ART] as I write and record, which brings me to a lesson learned - seeing how many you can start not how many you can finish. As all artists know -an internal whisper will get you to finish a work you have already started, but sometimes all the tea in China cannot get you to commence upon a new project.

Posted at 12:32 PM

Comment on Eco-friendly, fair trade candy wrapper bags ”” and Ugly ...

[Comments for green LA girl] From my laptop, it looked like the bag Betty was toting in the last episode looked a lot like an eco-friendly bag made from candy wrappers.

Posted at 12:31 PM

February 09, 2008

Destroying native ecosystems for biofuel crops worsens global warming

[Feeding The Snake] This article will certainly not be the last word on the subject, but physorg posts a study (to be published in Science magazine later this week) that claims destroying native ecosystems for biofuel crops worsens global warming.

Posted at 03:03 PM

Climate Induced Collapse of Deep-Sea Ecosystems

[Deep Sea News] Beginning with Victorian science and progressing through the onset of modern deep-sea biology, the dominant paradigm was that the deep sea was a stable ecosystem. Organisms, and the communities that contained them, were unchanging because the deep ocean was buffered against climatic variability.

Posted at 03:01 PM

February 08, 2008

Biofuels Worsening Global Warming”¦Now What?

[The Naive Indian] Just when we thought that biofuels will help us fight Global Warming, a few studies (published in the journal Science) are saying that growing crops to make biofuels results in vast amounts of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere and does nothing to stop global warming.

Posted at 03:02 PM

Best Bet On Global Warming Is Internet News

[naturalistjourneys] Juliet Eilperin, a definite Maverick writer for the Washington Post, can be found after she writes her article on Global Warming on the Internet as evidenced by her writing, Studies Say That Clearing Land For Biofuels Will Aid Global Warming. I found this on Google-Science and Technology News.

Posted at 03:01 PM

February 07, 2008

Irish scientist and blogger Shane Morris attracts a lot of energy ...

[GMO Pundit aka David Tribe] The former UK Environment Minister Michael Meacher MP, has tabled an Early Day Motion [22] in the House of Commons which states: “This House (...) deplores the continuing efforts by an employee of the Canadian Government, Shane Morris, to close down websites in the UK and Republic of Ireland which have, along with Dr Richard Jennings of Cambridge University, said that research which claimed that consumers prefer GM sweetcorn published by this employee and others and given an Award for Excellence is a flagrant fraud.” [23] The motion has since been co-signed by twenty six MPs.

Posted at 03:01 PM

Healthier GM bananas in Queensland

[GMO Pundit aka David Tribe] Scientists from the Queensland University of Technology will trial Cavendish bananas with extra genes that increase the levels of pro-vitamin A and iron in the fruit.

Posted at 03:01 PM

February 06, 2008

Wall Street Environmentalism

[Bureaucratic Student: A Public Administration Blog] Wall Street has come the realization that more regulation on polluting energy like coal will be regulated in the future more than it is today. This anticipation will likely push a broader segment of the US into cleaner power technology even before the regulations take place, easing us into new environmental regime.

Posted at 02:32 PM

Environmentalism in 100 AD

[Environmental News Blog | Environmental Graffiti] Funnily enough, the Romans didn’t let their discovery of the ill effects of working with lead and mercury stop them from using the metals for all sorts of ridiculously hilarious purposes. You’d think that a society who noticed working in lead mines was dangerous might think eating lead was dangerous as well.

Posted at 02:31 PM

February 05, 2008

Natural ecosystems as a source of ideas

[This Week in Evolution] The earlier story had valued that service at $60,000 per year (PNAS 101:12579) -- but then the farm in question replaced coffee with pineapple, which doesn’t need pollinators. By the logic of ecosystem services, “the monetary value of the pollinators in forest fragments around Finca Santa Fe dropped from $60,000 per year to zero.” But, McCauley pointed out, that’s only if we assume that ecosystem services are the only reason to conserve nature.

Posted at 02:31 PM

Meetings: Adaptation for Climate-Sensitive Ecosystems and ...

[Regulations.gov] Meetings: Adaptation for Climate-Sensitive Ecosystems and Resources Advisory Committee; Public Conference Call;

Posted at 02:30 PM

February 04, 2008

Farm Chemicals a Major Source of Water Pollution in Philippines ...

[pinoypress -- Philippines news, opinion, blogs.] Decades of agrochemical use in the Philippines has polluted water sources in the country and are directly posing risks to human health and the environment, Greenpeace said today at the launch of a new study entitled “Agrochemical use in the Philippines and its

Posted at 12:31 PM

Question and Answer Session with Greenpeace

[Voice from the Deep!] We’ve started that process in the Southern Ocean and what we need to do is concentrate our resources where we will be most effective in stopping whaling for the entire season every year not just this year. It’s neither a question of money or energy, it’s a question of where we will be the most effective and we believe at this point having generated this amount of pressure that we will be most effective in Japan.

Posted at 12:31 PM

February 02, 2008

Assistant/Associate Professor, Urban Ecosystems, Green ...

[Beyond.com - Available Jobs In: Education, Training, & Library] in an appropriate field by July 1, 2007(2) experience in urban ecosystems or green infrastructure and an interest in interdisciplinary work; (3) student advising and mentoring experience(4) outstanding problem-solving, oral and written communication skills(5) the ability to collaborate in an interdisciplinary team environment(6) .

Posted at 03:01 PM

George Wuerthner Gets it Right on Fire, Ecosystems, Management

[Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News] I was starting to warm up (no pun intended) to the idea of thinning and controlled burns that that blog advocates. I thought it was radical until I read the story about the Kootenai and Salish tribes of the Flathead Reservation.

Posted at 03:01 PM

The Green Files > February 29, 2008

China looking to GMO crops

Philippines: Greenpeace Seeks Quarantine of US Rice Shipment Until ...

February 29, 2008

China looking to GMO crops

Philippines: Greenpeace Seeks Quarantine of US Rice Shipment Until ...

February 28, 2008

London to slash emissions from public buildings - Greenpeace response

Climate campaigners bring peaceful protest to Heathrow

February 27, 2008

Climate Change and Death Rates

US business in the dark on climate change

February 26, 2008

'Science' - Environmentalism's Fig Leaf

Conservative Environmentalism

February 25, 2008

We're Headed Over A Cliff Our Leaders Want To Ignore

Dan on Has Peak Oil arrived? More importantly what price does gas ...

February 23, 2008

Global Map of Human Impacts to Marine Ecosystems

Ecosystems Biologist

February 22, 2008

Australia: Squabbles, obfuscation and resignation as the world warms

Another Expert Says Man-made Global warming a Myth

February 21, 2008

4 Strange Greenpeace Moments

Greenpeace has Eddie’s number.

February 20, 2008

On Value Systems and Environmentalism

Environmentalism in 1778

February 19, 2008

SolarBee: Using the sun to clean up your water sources

Greening the Office

February 18, 2008

Adapting local ecosystems can soften impact of global climate change

Adapting local ecosystems can alleviate impact of global warming

February 15, 2008

Course: MSc/Diploma/Certificate - Climate Change: Impacts And ...

The Climate Change Summit 2008

February 14, 2008

Global Warming Related To ... the Sun?

GM Vice Chairman Calls Global Warming A "Total Crock of S**t"

February 13, 2008

Peak oil - Feb 12

Peak Oil and "The Limits to Growth": two parallel stories

February 12, 2008

Bloomberg on Terrorism, Nukes and Global Warming

Global Warming Effects Could Kill 10000 in the UK by 2012

February 11, 2008

“Transforming Humanity:I LOVE THE LAND”: Classical Mini-Series ...

Comment on Eco-friendly, fair trade candy wrapper bags ”” and Ugly ...

February 09, 2008

Destroying native ecosystems for biofuel crops worsens global warming

Climate Induced Collapse of Deep-Sea Ecosystems

February 08, 2008

Biofuels Worsening Global Warming”¦Now What?

Best Bet On Global Warming Is Internet News

February 07, 2008

Irish scientist and blogger Shane Morris attracts a lot of energy ...

Healthier GM bananas in Queensland

February 06, 2008

Wall Street Environmentalism

Environmentalism in 100 AD

February 05, 2008

Natural ecosystems as a source of ideas

Meetings: Adaptation for Climate-Sensitive Ecosystems and ...

February 04, 2008

Farm Chemicals a Major Source of Water Pollution in Philippines ...

Question and Answer Session with Greenpeace

February 02, 2008

Assistant/Associate Professor, Urban Ecosystems, Green ...

George Wuerthner Gets it Right on Fire, Ecosystems, Management

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