The Green Files: September 2008 Archives

The Green Files > September 30, 2008

Protecting the Environment Will Combat Poverty: Wangari Maathai

[TreeHugger] photo: Ricardo Medina The morning plenary session at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting last Friday was on the “Global Impact of Rural Innovation” and had quite a distinguished panel of speakers. Well, every session at CGI had .

Maps, Online Communities and Games for the Environment

[Environment] Earlier this year, GV Environment listed the web2.0 tools for environment activism. Since then many more tools have been developed to help concerned citizens make decisions about their carbon footprint and engage with others using maps .

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September 30, 2008

Protecting the Environment Will Combat Poverty: Wangari Maathai

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Maps, Online Communities and Games for the Environment

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September 29, 2008

Aussies put jobs 'before climate change'

[Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed] A telephone poll of 1001 people conducted between July 12 and 28, 21 per cent were not prepared to pay anything extra on their electricity bill to help solve climate change.

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Climate Change? This Looks Like a Job for Captain Ozone ...

[TreeHugger] Photo courtesy of Captain Ozone Calling Captain Ozone Perhaps what the modern environmental movement needs is more masked, spandex clad superheroes who make public appearances perched atop latrines lashed to the roofs of cars.

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September 27, 2008

Climate Change in the News, Week of September 27, 2008

[Fresh Air. The Scent of Pine.] Assessing risks of climate change - Age, The (AU) (Sep 25, 2008); Climate-Change Program Gets New Funds and Home - NY Times (Sep 25, 2008); Cutting deforestation can fight climate change, reduce poverty and conflict - Mongabay (Sep 24, ...

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Bringing Climate Change Research Down to Scale

[Wired Science] Global climate change could cause widespread extinction of all sorts of plant and animals. The common sense explanation for this is that some, though it's more likely many, species will not be able to adapt to changes in their local climate quickly enough to survive and reproduce and will consequently disappear.

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September 26, 2008

Environmental Health News has a new Editor-in-Chief and expands ...

[Health and Environment Alliance] Cone, one of the most experienced environmental journalists, says: “My goal is to make EHN the main source of news related to environmental health, to tell readers everything they need to know to understand these complex issues." She also plans to work together with newspapers and magazines to share EHN content.

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INCHES launches International Film Competition

[Health and Environment Alliance] INCHES is a network of people and organisations working to create a healthier environment for children. Their competition, called "Focus on Children in a Healthy Environment" centres on the themes "Climate" and "Environmental Health" and will run until 1 March, 2009.

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September 25, 2008

Misconception And Oversimplification Of the Concept Of Global ...

[Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News] Unfortunately, the Ramanthan and Feng PNAS paper does not use the more appropriate metric of ocean heat content changes as a diagnostic of global warming, but perpetuates a very significant misunderstanding of the Earth’s radiative fluxes by using the global average surface temperature anomaly.

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Shock: Global Warming Still Happening!

[Adding Noughts in Vain] As a result of such fluctuations, global average temperature trends calculated over ten-year periods have varied since the mid-1970s, from a modest cooling to a warming rate of more than 0.3 °C per decade. Similar behaviour is also seen in individual model predictions of future climate change where the long-term warming trend is forecast to exceed 2 °C per century.

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September 24, 2008

Economies and Ecosystems

[*!] The problem with the banking fiasco is that it ISN'T being regulated smartly in the first place (they let the lake be overfished) and now they are charging us, the innocent bystanders, with the cost of maintaining the banking ecosystem, rather than the fishermen who are getting the benefit of draining the lake.

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IUCN’s Marine Turtle Program Supports Management on Many Levels

[IUCN - Ecosystems News] The stakeholders gathered for a September 18, 2008, workshop closing out the second phase of the joint IUCN, WWF and TRAFFIC project, which Danida primarily funded. After supporting the development of the MTCAP in Phase I, the initiative continued grassroots, awareness-raising activities into Phase II, with additional funding from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

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September 23, 2008

WHO: Global warming to lead to hike in dengue, malaria cases in RP

[GMA News.tv] Aside from the rising cases of dengue and malaria, Omi said “that some low-lying island states in the Pacific were at risk from rising ocean levels, while heat waves and droughts elsewhere were among the many factors contributing to the global food crisis."

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Global Warming

[Climate and Capitalism] Even then, due to the natural variations in climate, we expect to see ten-year periods both globally and regionally with little or no warming and other ten-year periods with very rapid warming. This complex behaviour of the climate system shows why we need to examine much longer periods than ten years if we are to fully understand and quantify how the climate is changing.

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September 22, 2008

Advent Eco PC dials down your power meter

[Engadget] PC World has branched out its Advent brand, offering the Eco PC through its UK online store, aiming to best the average desktop power consumption by 78 percent. The system is priced at just under what you might expect to pay for a .

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Alter Eco Episode: H2Eco

[Planet Green Articles Feed] It takes specialists to spray eco insulation into the walls of the HQ house in Los Feliz, and this means the green team has the week off! Angela, Boise & Darren visit an eco surf shop in Venice to test out bio-foam surf boards.

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September 20, 2008

Peak Oil Over Lake Michigan at 34000 Feet

[Value System: Peak Oil, Gas Prices, Money and The Future] With a crushing 8.9% unemployment rate, a staggering core automotive industry, and an epidemic of home foreclosures, Michigan is on the very edge of being the first state to not just enter a recession, but to enter a full fledged depression. Already, within the great cities of Detroit and Flint, the people cry out for help from this economic crisis.

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Peak oil: postponed • The Register

[KK-Net] In a wide-ranging interview, Dr Pike talked about energy independence, Peak Oil, and how to educate our scientifically illiterate elites.

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September 19, 2008

Integrating technologies into educational ecosystems

[elearning Library] by Pierre Dillenbourg Distance Education; Aug 2008; Vol. 29, No. 2; pg. 127-140. Abstract. Discourse on e-learning propagated myths that generated overstatements regarding the effects of technologies on learning. ...

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Ike Pounded Fragile Ecosystems

[US from Newser] Hurricane Ike caused massive damage to fragile coastal ecosystems already clobbered by development, the Dallas Morning News reports. Damage to wetlands vital to a vast range of life could take a generation to heal, scientists warn.

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September 18, 2008

Peak oil - Sept 18

[Energy Bulletin -] On Wednesday September 24th at 9PM & 1AM ET, CNBC presents "The Hunt for Black Gold," an original one-hour documentary reported by Maria Bartiromo.

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The Next Big Disruption: Peak Oil

[CRM Buyer] A few hardy souls ventured a guess, and those guesses were not far from reality. If you take those words to a search engine you will be surprised by the number of hits you get.

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September 17, 2008

Was Peak Oil A Stupid Fear?

[Environment and Energy] Matt Simmons is a better analyst /spokesman for the Peak Oil thesis. H'es an oil industry pro who's actually been to the production rigs and scrutinized the reserves data (real and imaginary) with a pro's eye.

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Peak oil - Sept 17

[Energy Bulletin -] This summer, as oil prices set record after record, many in the “peak oil” camp were thumping their chests. The massive price spikes in the space of a few months underscored their warnings that global oil supplies weren’t keeping up with global oil demand, and that things could only get worse.

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September 16, 2008

Environmentalism and Equity

[Net Traveller] Ms Narain suggests what is needed is environmentalism of the poor. The industrialised world industrialised first and then responded to the waste generated.

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Environmentalism protects our most basic human rights

[Nature Alert] According to the World Health Organization, millions of people die unnecessarily each year due to preventable environmental causes. Our disregard for the health of our planet is taking its toll on our own wellbeing.

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September 15, 2008

Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

[2collab public bookmarks] Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, edited by Parry, M.L., Canziani, O.F., Palutikof, J.P., van der Linden, P.J. and Hanson, C.E., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK

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Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis

[2collab public bookmarks] Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, edited by Solomon, S., Qin, D., Manning, M., Chen, Z., Marquis, M., Averyt, K.B., Tignor, M. and Miller, H.L., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA

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September 13, 2008

SEC urged on reporting oil climate impact

[Peak Oil News] Major investors from the US, Canada and the UK are pressuring the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to require energy companies to assess the environmental impact of oil and natural gas reserves.

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Press Conference to Announce Opposition to Oil Gas Drilling Off Calif

[Peak Oil News] Graeme writes: Assemblymember Pedro Nava, Chair of the Joint Committee on Emergency Services and Homeland Security was joined by Environment California, Sierra Club California, and the Natural Resources Defense Council to announce opposition to renewed efforts by Congress and the President of the United States to open up the coasts of the United States to offshore oil and gas exploration and drilling. The Congress is considering an energy proposal this week that places in jeopardy the coastline of many states, including California´s.

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September 12, 2008

Nightline: Palin on global warming

[Spin Cycle] On foreign affairs: Gibson has to press her hard on whether she would OK unilateral cross border incursions into Pakistan, and she finally says yes -- if it was necessary to catch terrorists. Asked about an Israeli strike against Iran, she repeats three times the same phrase -- we can't "second guess" Israel -- which sounds a little rehearsed.

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Gibson Pushes Palin to Concede Global Warming 'Man-Made'

[NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias] You have said in the past it's not.” To which Palin promised “John McCain and I are gonna be working on what we do about it.” Still not satisfied, Gibson argued: “Yes, but isn't it critical as to whether or not it's man-made, because what you do about it depends on whether its man-made?” Palin repeated herself (“That is why I'm attributing some of man's activities to potentially causing some of the changes in the climate”), which finally led Gibson, “color me a cynic,” to gloat “it sounds to me like you're adapting your position to Senator McCain's.”

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September 10, 2008

Greenpeace jury considers verdict - BBC News

[Climate Change News Digest] The jury in the trial of six Greenpeace activists charged with causing criminal damage is considering its verdict.

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Less toxic iPods rock

[Greenpeace - Making Waves] While these iPods may rock what would really shake up the computer industry is if Apple sticks to it’s promise and becomes the first company to make personal computers free of toxic PVC and BFR’s. That would be truly groundbreaking announcement.

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September 09, 2008

Eco friendly torch

[Keetsa Mattress Store - Keetsa! Blog - Eco-Friendly and Green News] You can build your own Wind Turbine; Woody Harrelson to go “Lost” on island; Wind-Up Bike Torch; Wind up radio; Why Not Use a Recycled Tent? Washing the eco friendly way; Voice Your Choice @ Patagonia; Vase made from inner tube.

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Wear Eco-Friendly Boxers for a Change

[Keetsa Mattress Store - Keetsa! Blog - Eco-Friendly and Green News] Eco-fashion has been aggressively in demand these days and it goes all the way down to your underwear. Finding the right boxers where we can be comfortable is a dilemma but this time around, we can add that eco-friendly tag to it as we .

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September 08, 2008

Environmentalism: First Tree Hugger

[Sufficient Grace for Suffering Saints] However, when I embrace the changes that have come, I go beyond what I see to the unseen through faith and draw on the strength God offers me. I see difficulties and change in my life as an opportunity for growth instead of something to simply cope with.

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WordWeb Environmentalism

[Prometheus] I was a regular user of WordWeb till I read their licensing conditions. I immediately uninstalled the application and want nothing to do with it anymore.

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September 06, 2008

People, Water, Future: Bridging divides in science, practice and ...

[IUCN - Ecosystems News] The Dialogues provide a key reference point for international development discussions within the framework of the Vienna Congress and feature a daily programme of discussions, details of which are provided below. Eight organizations have been invited to participate in the Corner and to prepare Dialogue sessions, ranging in type from departments of national governments, through United Nations agencies to international NGOs.

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Open or Die: The Value Of Robust Ecosystems

[Leigh's Blitherings] The value of robust ecosystems and connecting with the developer community particularly in the difficult mobile market place will absolutely blow the doors wide open. Already hand sets with more robust browsers like the iPhone and the Bold are changing the way that people extend their desktop experiences to the mobile work force and economy.

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September 05, 2008

Participatory Environmentalism

[Cathy Davidson's blog] Niemeyer calls his game the Black Cloud after the ominous andmysterious clouds of black soot that descend on Cairo, Egypt, everyOctober. No one is really sure what causes the clouds exactly, but somesay they're a result of burned agricultural waste combining with thecity's excessive pollution.

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Learning from the environmentalism of the poor to build our common ...

[Graduate Environmental Program] Ms Sunita Narain was named “India’s Most Influential Environmental Activist” by Time Magazine in 2007. She heads The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) which monitors air pollution levels around India, studies the effects of climate change and campaigns on how to lead greener lives.

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September 03, 2008

Swimming Pool Eco-Maintenance, Toxin-Free Teeth Whitener and DIY ...

[TreeHugger] Make sure your swimming pool is as green as it can be. Whiten your teeth without all the potentially harmful side effects.

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FabiKins Eco-Friendly Napkins

[Keetsa Mattress Store - Keetsa! Blog - Eco-Friendly and Green News] FabiKins® eco-friendly bamboo napkins make saving the planet practical. A former business manager and new mom wanted to reduce her family’s trash contribution to local landfills and teach her children how the smallest endeavors can significantly impact the planet.

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September 02, 2008

London mayor rolls out climate change attack plan

[Green Daily] Filed under: Local, Climate Change. Is your city ready to handle challenges like rising sea levels, intense heat waves strike, water shortages, cats and dogs living together, etc.? One day, this question might actually be a play a huge ...

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”¦climate change is bigger than petty politics”¦”¦

[Winston says...] I’ll tell you - it was the National Party’s Nick Smith at the end of 2007 talking on the Climate Change Bill. Smith went on to say, “We now welcome the fact that there is consensus between the major parties that an Emissions Trading System, covering all sectors and all gases, is the right way forward.”

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The Green Files > September 30, 2008

Protecting the Environment Will Combat Poverty: Wangari Maathai

Maps, Online Communities and Games for the Environment

September 30, 2008

Protecting the Environment Will Combat Poverty: Wangari Maathai

Maps, Online Communities and Games for the Environment

September 29, 2008

Aussies put jobs 'before climate change'

Climate Change? This Looks Like a Job for Captain Ozone ...

September 27, 2008

Climate Change in the News, Week of September 27, 2008

Bringing Climate Change Research Down to Scale

September 26, 2008

Environmental Health News has a new Editor-in-Chief and expands ...

INCHES launches International Film Competition

September 25, 2008

Misconception And Oversimplification Of the Concept Of Global ...

Shock: Global Warming Still Happening!

September 24, 2008

Economies and Ecosystems

IUCN’s Marine Turtle Program Supports Management on Many Levels

September 23, 2008

WHO: Global warming to lead to hike in dengue, malaria cases in RP

Global Warming

September 22, 2008

Advent Eco PC dials down your power meter

Alter Eco Episode: H2Eco

September 20, 2008

Peak Oil Over Lake Michigan at 34000 Feet

Peak oil: postponed • The Register

September 19, 2008

Integrating technologies into educational ecosystems

Ike Pounded Fragile Ecosystems

September 18, 2008

Peak oil - Sept 18

The Next Big Disruption: Peak Oil

September 17, 2008

Was Peak Oil A Stupid Fear?

Peak oil - Sept 17

September 16, 2008

Environmentalism and Equity

Environmentalism protects our most basic human rights

September 15, 2008

Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis

September 13, 2008

SEC urged on reporting oil climate impact

Press Conference to Announce Opposition to Oil Gas Drilling Off Calif

September 12, 2008

Nightline: Palin on global warming

Gibson Pushes Palin to Concede Global Warming 'Man-Made'

September 10, 2008

Greenpeace jury considers verdict - BBC News

Less toxic iPods rock

September 09, 2008

Eco friendly torch

Wear Eco-Friendly Boxers for a Change

September 08, 2008

Environmentalism: First Tree Hugger

WordWeb Environmentalism

September 06, 2008

People, Water, Future: Bridging divides in science, practice and ...

Open or Die: The Value Of Robust Ecosystems

September 05, 2008

Participatory Environmentalism

Learning from the environmentalism of the poor to build our common ...

September 03, 2008

Swimming Pool Eco-Maintenance, Toxin-Free Teeth Whitener and DIY ...

FabiKins Eco-Friendly Napkins

September 02, 2008

London mayor rolls out climate change attack plan

”¦climate change is bigger than petty politics”¦”¦

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