The Green Files: December 2008 Archives

The Green Files > December 31, 2008

Hackers help destroy the Amazon rainforest | Greenpeace UK

[Untitled] Police started investigating the suspecthackers in April 2007, swooping in a couple of months later to arrest 30 ringleaders. One is still in jail - the intermediary who brought the hackers andthe loggers together - and in total, 202 people are facing prosecution.

Greenpeace Holds Greenwashing Award Ceremony in BP Headquarters ...

[EarthFirst.com] The Greenpeace spokesman who presented the award said, “You wouldn’t know it from their adverts, but BP bosses are pumping billions into their oil and gas business and investing peanuts in renewables. They’ve won the 2008 Emerald Paintbrush award because their slogans suggest that they are serious about clean energy, while their actions show they’re still hell-bent on oil extraction.”

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December 31, 2008

Hackers help destroy the Amazon rainforest | Greenpeace UK

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Greenpeace Holds Greenwashing Award Ceremony in BP Headquarters ...

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December 30, 2008

Linux Society:: Obama's Environmentalism Embraces Destruction

[Untitled] Instead of supporting hunting as environmentalism, Obama needs to look to great naturalists for advice, especially John Muir who founded the Sierra Club. Muir, along with my favorite writer Lewis Mumford, was disgusted by hunting.

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The Informal Discussion Group: Anand Patwardhan - Environmentalism ...

[Untitled] Fears that globalization necessarily hurts the environment are not well-founded. A survey reveals little statistical evidence, on average across countries, that openness to .

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December 29, 2008

Darryl Siry's Blog: In 2009, recession and populism will defeat ...

[Untitled] Global warming and concern about CO2 emissions is a global, social problem that has extraordinary long term impacts but when you look at it on an individual level, the marginal returns that a selfish individual can gain by ignoring the greater good far exceeds the marginal cost to that individual in the short run. In the long run, though, everyone pays more.

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The Green Issue: Can Environmentalism Still Sell Magazines ...

[Untitled] Photo courtesy of Monocle Seems green’sa tough sell on the newsstands these days””maybe it’s the general decline of print advertising, the massive economic downturn, or an over saturation of eco-friendliness in the media.

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December 27, 2008

beSpacific: USGS: Abrupt Climate Change - Will It Happen This Century?

[Untitled] U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey news release: "The United States faces the potential for abrupt climate change in the 21st century that could pose clear risks to society in terms of our ability to adapt. "Abrupt" changes can occur over decades or less, persist for decades more, and cause substantial disruptions to human and natural systems.

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t r u t h o u t | Faster Climate Change Feared

[Truthout - All Articles] The climate change debate usually leaves out the ultimate causes of most earth destruction, which is capitalism enshrining human consumption and population growth as gods. Read the book The Enemy of Nature and see the absolute proof that unless we stop the borrow/spend/bulldozer mentality that charecterizes Liberals and Conservatives alike, that we will soon destroy the biosphere will also creating an enslaved world of humans who struggle for oxygen, water, food and freedom while being held down by the fascist police state elites and their political/government/corporate enablers who increasingly control our lives.

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December 26, 2008

Effects of ocean acidification on marine ecosystems « Ocean ...

[Untitled] Introduction to a MEPS Theme Section on “Effects of ocean acidification on marine ecosystems”. Vézina A., F.

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Health & Personal Care: Imbalance of Ecosystems and Its Effect on ...

[Health & Personal Care] In some areas of the world, gains in life expectancy and quality of life made during the twentieth century are at risk of being reversed in the twenty-first century. The consequences of ecosystem degradation to human health are numerous, and include health risks from unsafe drinking water, polluted air, climate change, emerging new diseases, and the resurgence of old diseases owing to ecological imbalances.

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December 25, 2008

Peak Oil News >> Business News; Market Research >> Oil looks cheap ...

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

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The peak oil crisis: Confusion in the markets | Energy Bulletin

[Energy Bulletin -] To the delight of motorists, gasoline prices in the US went from $4 - $5 a gallon in July to $1 - $2 in December. Although it went unnoticed, America's economy received a massive stimulus from the billions of dollars that were left in consumers' pockets after each fill-up.

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December 24, 2008

Tie-Up Some Fashion with Eco-Awareness | Trends Updates

[Untitled] Quite a welcome relief these belts are for our bovine friends. Not only are they animal friendly but are also hypoallergenic, antimicrobial, UV protected and fade resistant.

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Last Minute Eco-Friendly Christmas Centerpiece | RiverWired

[Untitled] Here in Oregon, most of us have lost power at some point over the last week, and almost everyone is stuck at home due to snow and ice. If you’re in this same situation, you can still whip up a nice Christmas centerpiece for your holiday table or mantle.

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December 23, 2008

World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

[Untitled] "Measuring Corporate Impact on Ecosystems: A Comprehensive Review of New Tools" looks at two types of tools: some analyze multiple ecosystem services, others focus more on biodiversity linked to ecosystem services.

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Friday links: fragile ecosystems « Abnormal Returns

[Untitled] (Ultimi Barbarorum). Will 4.50% 30-year mortgage rates keep the housing market from overshooting on the downside?

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December 22, 2008

Environment court confirms consents for Trustpower windfarm ...

[National Business Review (NBR) New Zealand - Business, News, Arts, Media, Share Market & More -] One submission from Uplands rejected by the Court was a suggestion that TrustPower reduce the number of turbines to 40, each of 6 megwatts, or three to four times the per unit output proposed by TrustPower.

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Download Touché for Mac - Tracking environment for optical ...

[MacUpdate - Universal Binary] Touché is a free, open-source tracking environment for optical multitouch tables (FTIR, DI, Lasers). It has been written for Mac OS X Leopard and uses many of its core technologies, such as QuickTime, Core Animation, Core Image and the Accelerate framework, but also high-quality open-source libraries such as libdc1394 and OpenCV, in order to achieve good tracking performance.

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December 20, 2008

Campaign for Environmental Literacy - Barack Obama

[EarthBlips - Top Environment News, Videos, and Blogs] Whether Ron Kirk is a good choice for trade representative will be determined by his ability to deliver on President-elect Obama’s pledges to the American public to create a new trade and globalization policy that benefits more Americans. read more

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Automakers Keep the Environment in Mind to Prove Bailout Viability ...

[US News - Money & Business] Here's what the Big Three have to say about sustainability and their bailout.

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December 19, 2008

Ecosystems of Support - Karuna and World AIDS Day in Second Life ...

[Comments for Official Second Life Blog] With World AIDS Day and Karuna, we have a collection of real world organizations coming together to both fund and manage an ongoing project that addresses a serious public health issue. A vibrant new community of support has been created, kicked off by a very successful event that was attended by thousands of individuals.

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Jellyfish Swarms Invade Ecosystems Out of Balance

[ENS] Environment News Service latest environmental news, global warming, water, food, forests, species, energy, education. RSS feed available.

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December 18, 2008

PBS Airs Must-See Episode about Climate Change and Kiribati ...

[TreeHugger] Little wonder that many believe the tiny island nation has already lost the fight against climate change. Even its brave president, Anote Tong, has essentially conceded the battle, noting during the show that: "It's too late for countries like us.

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Oil Is Not the Climate Change Culprit ”” It's All About Coal ...

[Wired Science] Fuel for your car is just the easiest to quantify. Personally, I make a much bigger deal about wasting less.

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December 17, 2008

Craig's Blog: Environmentalism and the destruction of the world

[Craig's Blog] Environmentalism and the destruction of the world · Thought provoking piece by AB. Posted by CraigS. 0 comments:. Post a Comment · Older Post Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). News & Views. Guitar Chords for Hymns ...

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The Far Right’s Newest Boogeyman: Environmentalism | Right Wing Watch

[Untitled] The SPLC recounts that while Phyllis Schlafly was content to deliver her anti-judges stump speech, the other speakers were committed to exposing how instituting sustainable development policies was the ultimate goal of those shadowy one-world government figures who are behind the (non-existent) efforts to create a so-called North American Union so that they can institute a new worldwide false religion based on “earth worship”:

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December 16, 2008

t r u t h o u t | NOW | Climate Change Crisis: An Entire Nation ...

[Truthout - All Articles] Just this week, a top UN official predicted that by the middle of this century, the world should expect six million people a year to be displaced by increasingly severe storms and floods caused by climate change. But for many island nations in the South Pacific, climate change is already more than just a theory - it is a pressing, menacing reality.

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Climate Change Ahead of Schedule | Use Celsias.com - reduce global ...

[Celsias Expert Articles] In conclusion, say the Climate Safety authors, "the observed impacts of climate change have raced ahead of the predictions made in the IPCC's 2007 report, even in the short time since it was published." Because of the complexity of climate modelling, it takes years to include new data sets into the equation. It is unlikely that new research can be factored in soon enough to deliver targets that are still achievable.

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December 15, 2008

Shanghai Environment Report

[Untitled] population growth, the overall environmental quality in Shanghai has been stabilized and some areas have seen recent improvement.” For a mega-city that has experienced 10%+ growth rates for 16 consecutive years, this really isn’t a bad record. As we will report tomorrow, Shanghai will face increasing environmental challenges in the future (as it continues its rapid growth and its increasingly wealthy citizens adopt Westrern lifestyles). Fortunately, it seems prepared to meet those challenges, and embrace some innovative environmental concepts.

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CrunchGear » Archive » Video: PlayStation Home isn’t a safe ...

[Untitled] My only hope, for Sony’s sake, is that PlayStation Home didn’t cost too much money to develop, because, frankly, it’s rubbish.

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December 13, 2008

Right Winger Paranoia that Environmentalism Is a Stealth Police ...

[Untitled] The basic thesis pushed at Freedom 21 was that the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), a trade agreement between Canada, Mexico and the U.S. that includes some environmental requirements, is part of a nefarious and secret plan to merge the U.S, Canada and Mexico into something called the "North American Union" (NAU) -- an entity which does not, in fact, exist, and has never been planned, despite the hysterical warnings of conspiracy theorists like Corsi.

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LIBERTARIAN PARTY OF COLORADO BLOG: Environmentalism

[Untitled] For those who want to bean count their way to an environmental utopia, Mother Jones has compiled a list of all the burning questions we ask about how we live with ourselves because we eat, poop, drive, walk, and breathe. It's too comical to actually paste here.

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December 12, 2008

The Island of Doubt : Free Tibet (from global warming)

[The Island of Doubt] Someone tell the Dalai Llama he's got bigger problems than the Chinese to worry about.

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Global Warming Frozen In Bad Data - Right Wing News (Conservative ...

[Right Wing News] Right Wing News is the best source on the net for conservative news, views, & interviews.

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December 11, 2008

Hoffmania!: No Gore in the Energy/Environment Cabinet Posts

[Untitled] President-elect Barack Obama has picked a Nobel laureate, a former Environmental Protection Agency administrator, and officials from New Jersey and Los Angeles to run his energy and environmental initiatives, putting heft into roles likely to dominate domestic policy in his first years in office.

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The Washington Monthly

[Political Animal] President-elect Barack Obama has selected his top energy and environmental advisers, including a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, presidential transition officials said Wednesday.

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December 10, 2008

A New Argument for Environmentalism | CommentURL.com

[CommentURL.com] gotta love a clever argument for saving the planet (;-D) Publicado hace 5 meses. ( enlace permanente )

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A New Argument for Environmentalism : Fortuna

[Fortuna] December 9, 2008 by admin1. Filed under Funny · Leave a comment · a_new_argument_for_environmentalism A New Argument for Environmentalism.

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December 09, 2008

Paul Cipywnyk's Blog: Mapping Multiple Benefits of Marine Ecosystems

[Untitled] article on a joint project between Stanford University's Woods Institute for the Environment, the Nature Conservancy, and the World Wildlife Fund to develop software to assist in mapping the economic benefits of marine ecosystems.

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Sustaining the Eco-systems of the Mekong Delta

[Untitled] "Pangasius aquaculture in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta is no doubt to be the fastest of its kind in the world, achieving a production level of 1.2 million tonnes in less than a decade," said Professor Sena De Silva, Director General of the Thailand-based Network of Agriculture centre in Asia and the Pacific.

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December 08, 2008

Seven wacky ways to battle global warming | COSMOS magazine

[COSMOS magazine - The science of everything] Some of the stranger schemes proposed to tackle global warming were knocked down by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change when it met in Thailand, last year (see, Oddball global warming schemes rejected).

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Global warming goals prove difficult

[The Portland Tribune - News] As it turns out, the warmer the earth gets (ie as a result of methane and CO2), the atmosphere's capacity to hold water vapor increases, and thus the increased water vapor amplifies the greenhouse effect. Apparently without any increases from the other greenhouse gases, water vapor concentrations remain stable, and temperatures remain relatively stable.

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December 06, 2008

The Climate Change Red Herring | Pundit Review

[Pundit Review] The Global Warming Climate Change Fanatics want control over every aspect of global commerce and they are simply drumming up fear about environmental catastrophe and doomsday scenarios as a way to do it.

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President Obama should host a UN Climate Change Conference « It’s ...

[It's Getting Hot In Here] On home turf, the media, civil society, and other actors would bring to bear the kind of pressure needed to stimulate domestic US action and raise its leadership profile in the international arena. Leading the global response will not only help our economy, cities, and overall public health, it will also reaffirm America’s progressive position in international diplomacy.

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December 05, 2008

Using US power need - to restore water ecosystems « Nature’s ...

[Nature's Crusaders' Action Log] Janet Sternberg, a Missouri Department of Conservation policy coordinator, urged FERC months ago to not move too hastily on such projects until more about hydrokinetics is known.

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ORC moves to protect Nevis River ecosystems | Otago Daily Times Online

[Otago Daily Times:] The Otago Regional Council has begun the process of setting minimum flows to protect the aquatic ecosystems, and their natural character, of the Nevis River, in Central Otago.

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December 04, 2008

British Scientists Launch Climate Change Monitoring Robot Gliders ...

[TreeHugger] Image from National Oceanography Center Meet Ammonite, Bellamite and Coprolite. You've probably never heard of them before (and may not hear much about them thereafter), but these three robots, part of a growing fleet of so-called .

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State task force releases climate change report | KOMO News ...

[KOMO - News - Local] The final report of the Climate Action Team calls for more energy-efficient buildings, compact urban development, better collection of recycled materials, using tolls to reduce driving and revising development rules to account for greenhouse gas emissions.

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December 03, 2008

Marina Sum's Blog: Enforcing Single Sign-On in a PHP Environment

[java.net Weblogs] Interested in finding out how to put single sign-on (SSO) into effect in a PHP development environment? As its synopsis points out, the new Sun Developer Network article, Single Sign-On for SugarCRM Through a SAML-Based Integration of .

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Using the EC2 environment for fewer moving parts - (37signals)

[Signal vs. Noise] Puppet’s choice to avoid using normal Ruby for its DSL seems unnecessary. I love using tools whose code I can read over in a few hours so I might extend it as needed.

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December 02, 2008

What Does Barack Know About Peak Oil? | | AlterNet

[AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas] O know that world oil discovery has fallen to insignificant levels after peaking long ago in the 1960s? Does he know we are finding no more super-giant oil fields on the scale of Arabia's Ghawar or Mexico's Cantarell, which have supplied most of the world's oil for the past 40 years and are now running down?

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Peak Oil Review - December 1 | Energy Bulletin

[Energy Bulletin -] Amid the year's ups and downs, 2008 will mark a record for global oil demand, at 87 million barrels a day. While U.S. oil demand is off 5.5% in the past year to its lowest level since 2002, China's is up 6.5%.

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