The Green Files: January 2009 Archives

The Green Files > January 31, 2009

Blog: 'Cracking the whip' for an inspirational environment ...

[Untitled] In the next four years London Wildlife Trust will look to run numerous events across the Host Boroughs with schools and community groups taking the lead in identifying appropriate sites and applying to be part of the project. To ensure the tree saplings have every chance of survival, London Wildlife will run a tree care course with each community group or school to ensure this environmental project has its own legacy well beyond 2012.

Nicholas Stern Discusses Environment And The Economy ...

[Untitled] LSE Professor Nicholas Stern discusses his thoughts on the environment and the economy. ...

Posted at 03:02 PM

January 31, 2009

Blog: 'Cracking the whip' for an inspirational environment ...

Posted at 03:04 PM

Nicholas Stern Discusses Environment And The Economy ...

[Untitled] LSE Professor Nicholas Stern discusses his thoughts on the environment and the economy. ...

Posted at 03:02 PM

January 30, 2009

Obama Tackling Climate Change and Peak Oil

[Untitled] Accordingly, the Obama stimulus package includes funds to weatherize two million homes with better insulation and windows, and to improve the efficiency of 75 percent of federal buildings.

Posted at 03:05 PM

The peak oil crisis: the stimulus | Energy Bulletin

[Untitled] It puts the American people at the mercy of shifting gas prices, stifles innovation, and sets back our ability to compete. These urgent dangers to our national and economic security are compounded by the long-term threat of climate change, which, if left unchecked, could result in violent conflict, terrible storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe."

Posted at 03:04 PM

January 29, 2009

TPMDC | Talking Points Memo | Bob Corker, Climate Change Rebel?

[TPMDC] Corker at the moment. I did not vote for him, and probably will not in the future after his campaign stooped to smearing former Congressman and current Chair of the DLC Harold Ford, Jr.

Posted at 03:05 PM

Climate Change Action

[Climate Change Action] Climate Change Action Links. I`ve just been updating some links in the blog sidebar, and there are some really interesting sites, so if you havent done so already, check out the links! Labels: links · Climate Change Action ...

Posted at 03:03 PM

January 28, 2009

Leo Hickman on climate change: Are we between the devil and the ...

[Environment: Climate change | guardian.co.uk] The first suggests that the game is basically up and it's only really now a matter of adapting and protecting ourselves against the unstoppable impacts of climate change. However, the second story suggests that desperate times call for desperate measures and we should now be throwing everything we have at our disposal at tackling this problem, even it means risking negative side-effects.

Posted at 02:34 PM

Climate change could be ”˜irreversible’ for 1000 years? Gulp ...

[Untitled] Innovation editor Chris Gaylord and blogger Andrew Heining write about the latest news, launches, rumors, gadgets, and general geekery that swirl around the blogosphere each day.

Posted at 02:32 PM

January 27, 2009

Ecosystems and Human Well-Being~ Volume 1~ Current State and ...

[Newly Published Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Ecosystem management: An approach to maintaining or restoring the composition, structure, function, and delivery of services of natural and modified ecosystems for the goal of achieving sustainability. It is based on an adaptive, collaboratively developed vision of desired future conditions that integrates ecological, socioeconomic, and institutional perspectives, applied within a geographic framework, and defined primarily by natural ecological boundaries.

Posted at 02:33 PM

Open Left:: USGS Report: "Thresholds of Climate Change in Ecosystems"

[Open Left - Front Page] Much ecosystems research focuses on enhancing understanding of climate change impacts on ecosystems (and vice versa) and in developing the capability to predict the potential impacts of future climate change. In addition to the gradual types of climate-related change mentioned above, there is increasing recognition that small changes in climate can trigger major, abrupt responses in ecosystems when a threshold is crossed.

Posted at 02:32 PM

January 26, 2009

Climate Change Fraud - Because the debate is not over - Alaska ...

[Climate Change Fraud news] Despite its established existence and influence, this natural cycle is often overlooked or ignored in zealous attempts to paint the current climate of Alaska as being one primarily molded by the emissions from anthropogenic industrial activities. In truth, the climate of Alaska and the ecosystems influenced by it have been subject to the cycles of the PDO and other natural variations since the end of the last ice age (some 12,000 years ago) and likely for eons prior.

Posted at 12:34 PM

Moving Up: Climate Change Forces Species to Higher Elevations ...

[TreeHugger] The large range of elevation creates unique habitat conditions from lower to higher elevations, leading to a rich diversity of life. In 1965 three undergraduates set off to trap moths on the mountain, and unknowingly established the foundation for future studies of the impact of climate change.

Posted at 12:33 PM

January 24, 2009

Economy & Jobs Top Priority, Global Warming Last on List ”¦ My How ...

[Scared Monkeys] What is striking though is that “global warming” is last on the list of priorities in a recent Pew Research Poll. With all the play that global warming gets, the American public find saving the clock tower a greater priority.

Posted at 03:04 PM

JustOneMinute: Cool On Global Warming

[JustOneMinute] Dana Priest writes in the WaPo that Bush's War on Terror is Over. (Note, not our war, and not our bipartisan war, taken oh so seriously by the Dems, whose patriotism you may not question.

Posted at 03:03 PM

January 23, 2009

Public Yawns At Climate Change - Environment and Energy

[Untitled] But, to be effective, he will have to halt counter-productive practices like promoting corn based ethanol, which doesn't look likely. If he did and place even draconian measures on the energy industries and level with the American people about how much it will cost, I will respect him enormously.

Posted at 03:09 PM

Climate Change Killing America's Trees at Ever Faster Rates ...

[Untitled] The mounting deaths could fundamentally transform Western forests because tree reproduction hasn’t increased to offset losses, according to a new study published Thursday in Science. And new seedlings aren’t rising quickly enough to fill the gaps.

Posted at 03:08 PM

January 21, 2009

Ubuntu Mobile looks at Qt development environment

[Untitled] The Ubuntu Mobile operating system is undergoing its most radical change, with a port to the ARM processor for Internet devices and netbooks, and may use Nokia's LGPL Qt development environment as an alternative to GNOME.

Posted at 02:34 PM

Economist's View: "Models of Bounded Rationality and the Credit ...

[Untitled] A second kind of bounded rationality reflects the idea that people do not have access to all relevant information. Danielsson and de Vries (2008) discuss an important example - information asymmetry - and an interesting solution - enforced transparency.

Posted at 02:33 PM

January 20, 2009

Nick Herbert moved to environment in Tory frontbench reshuffle ...

[Untitled] A leading gay Tory has been moved from his Shadow Justice brief to take on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Posted at 02:34 PM

Terry Macalister on the environmental history lessons being ...

[Environment: Environment blog | guardian.co.uk] The local Abu Dhabi Crown Prince is here, but also someone I vaguely remember from my history lessons - The Prince of Orange.

Posted at 02:33 PM

January 19, 2009

Heavy-Handed Politics: What Global Warming?

[Untitled] News and views. One man's opinions on politics, culture and social policies.

Posted at 12:33 PM

Frigid winter weather raises questions about global warming ...

[Untitled] "Just because certain areas cool down in the midst of an overall warming trend doesn't mean warming isn't going on," Skilling said. But the intensity of the cold and snow over the past two winters is raising some questions about how well scientists understand the interaction of an array of weather-changing forces, from sunspots to volcanic activity.

Posted at 12:32 PM

January 17, 2009

Nokia N79 goes eco-friendly

[Untitled] Anyhoo, for those who wish to contribute to nature, they can order for the set from the Nokia UK shop at JUST 319 pounds and it will be delivered to your doorstep in a smaller packet (still saving the environment) and you will also be responsible for the company donating 4 pounds to the WWF as part of its community services. How touching.

Posted at 03:03 PM

Inhabitat » ECO FURNITURE: Santiago Morahan’s Diseno Cartonero

[Inhabitat] A thoroughly eco-friendly process from collection of materials to the crafting of each piece, Morahan showcases beauty and functionality–proving sustainable cardboard design is definitely a worthy venture.

Posted at 03:01 PM

January 16, 2009

Hit & Run > Climate Change Teetotalers Denounce Baptists and ...

[Untitled] [1Sky Campaign Director Gillian] Caldwell explained that the U.S. Climate Action Partnership’s (USCAP) proposal includes giveaways to the nation’s most powerful polluters rather than the bold solutions necessary to solve the climate crisis. “Under this proposal, 40% of the dirtiest polluters would be allowed to keep polluting,”

Posted at 03:03 PM

CURRY.COM » Climate Change Debunk From CNN

[Untitled] Adam Curry's Daily Source Code: There are no secrets... only information you don't yet have.

Posted at 03:02 PM

January 15, 2009

Group Calls for Obama to Create Department of Ecosystems : Red ...

[Untitled] A Department of Ecosystems would essentially be the “EPD”, just with a different name and frame. According to the group’s founder, Mark Winstein, “Ultimately, our goal is to expand the frame of reference through which our society views its relationship to the world from one of separation to one of coexistence and mutual benefit.”

Posted at 03:03 PM

Ecosystems are fragile « Mr. Barlow’s Blog

[Mr. Barlow's Blog] However, with fewer rabbits as food, the cats began to eat the island’s native burrowing birds, so a cat eradication program began in 1985. When the last cat was removed in 2000 the rabbit population grew and destroyed much of the fragile vegetation that birds depend on for cover.

Posted at 03:02 PM

January 14, 2009

Treasury Department Can Help Fight Global Warming, Says Paulson

[Untitled] Treasury Department Can Help Fight Global Warming, Says Paulson The U.S. Treasury and other finance ministries around the world should play a major role in fixing climate change, outgoing Bush administration Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Monday at an event sponsored by the environmental group Resources For the Future. The discussion...

Posted at 02:35 PM

Gateway Pundit: Brrrr... Goofy Hillary Says "Global Warming May ...

[Untitled] 13, President-elect Barack Obama’s Secretary of State designate Hillary Clinton told the Senate Foreign Relations committee she would use the office to shape foreign policy that would fight climate change.

Posted at 02:34 PM

January 13, 2009

A surprising idea for “solving” climate change | The Big Picture

[Comments for The Big Picture] Environmental scientist David Keith proposes a cheap, effective, shocking means to address climate change: What if we injected a huge cloud of ash into the atmosphere to deflect sunlight and heat?

Posted at 02:38 PM

RealClimate

[RealClimate] In addition, the AAAS, in partnership with NSF, has a web site on communicating science (www.aaas.org/communicatingscience). They have sections on the basics of communication, working with reporters, and public outreach.

Read related posts for „RealClimate“.

Posted at 02:32 PM

January 12, 2009

Google searching not eco-friendly? - broadstuff

[broadstuff] While millions of people tap into Google without considering the environment, a typical search generates about 7g of CO2 Boiling a kettle generates about 15g. “Google operates huge data centres around the world that consume a great deal of power,” said Alex Wissner-Gross, a Harvard University physicist whose research on the environmental impact of computing is due out soon.

Posted at 12:33 PM

Peculiar Paper Sculptures - Revol-Design’s Leggy Eco Art (GALLERY)

[TrendHunter.com - Cool Websites and Internet Culture] I love these brilliantly morbid life-sized sculptures of legs made from recycled shopping bags. Situated in the snow, as in the images above, the sculptures look oddly like someone has been buried in an avalanche.

Posted at 12:32 PM

January 10, 2009

Get the message on climate change | Environment | guardian.co.uk

[Untitled] A hard-hitting TV campaign is need to bring climate change to public attention as the Aids adverts did in the 1980s, writes Leo Hickman.

Posted at 03:04 PM

Gold the Asset to Hold in Any Environment :: The Market Oracle ...

[Untitled] (c) 2005-2009 MarketOracle.co.uk (Market Oracle Ltd) - Market Oracle Ltd asserts copyright on all articles authored by our editorial team and all comments posted. Any and all information provided within the web-site, is for general information purposes only and Market Oracle Ltd do not warrant the accuracy, timeliness or suitability of any information provided on this site.

Posted at 03:02 PM

January 09, 2009

Dobbs Again Ignores Science of Global Warming

[Global Warming - Climate is Changing] Ignoring the international scientific consensus on climate change, on the January 5 edition of CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight," Dobbs again questioned the impact of humans on global warming and suggested that solar activity may be more responsible for global warming than humans.

Posted at 03:03 PM

Food and Global Warming (ScienCentral)

[Global Warming - Climate is Changing] Half the world’s population could be facing a food crisis by the end of the century due to global warming. That’s the grim assessment of scientists who looked at projections of global warming’s impact on the average temperatures during the growing season.

Posted at 03:02 PM

January 08, 2009

The Rambling Taoist

[The Rambling Taoist] During our first year in Aberdeen (Spring 2006), we had street flooding that locals told me was far greater than anyone could ever remember. Franklin Park -- just down the street from our rented house -- is a sunken park used for rain catchment in the rainy season, October - March.

Posted at 03:11 PM

Global Warming: Prejudiced Authors Prejudiced Findings

[Global Warming - Climate is Changing] Many scientists have long suspected that the IPCC fails to select its chapter authors with balance and fairness to all viewpoints in mind. This paper very clearly demonstrates the extent of the prejudice, in two ways: first, by showing the numerous links between the clique of authors, and secondly, by showing the numerous downright errors in the au

Posted at 03:04 PM

January 07, 2009

World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

[Corporate Social Responsibility News] "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. The report includes a look at the similarities and differences among the tools, compares their strengths and weaknesses from a corporate perspective and gives an overview of their purposes, intended users and features.

Posted at 02:33 PM

Worldchanging: USDA Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets

[Worldchanging] On December 18, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer announced that there will be a new office in the USDA: the Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets. According to an official release, this office, along with a federal government-wide Conservation and Land Management Environmental Services Board, will "assist the Secretary of Agriculture in the development of new technical guidelines and science-based methods to assess environmental service benefits which will in turn promote markets for ecosystem services including carbon trading to mitigate climate change."

Posted at 02:32 PM

January 06, 2009

Riffing on modeling ecosystems | MakerLab Blog

[MakerLab Blog] The proposition to simulate ecosystems seems to best be modeled using a cellular automata approach. But since these terrains can be so large - and so self-similar - some kind of sparse matrix or spatial compression technique seems to be required. There has to be some kind of trade-off between performance ( being able to index each cell in linear time and in as few clock cycles as possible ) and scaleability ( being able to manage large datasets ).

Posted at 02:35 PM

Microsoft, Google, Apple Part 1: Digital Ecosystems | g e n Y ...

[gen Y china] So catering to your whole digital life, Microsoft, Google and Apple have each created separate digital ecosystems for you to inhabit. Whether its on your desktop, laptop, in your livingroom with your big-screen TV or out-and-about with your mobile device, these three digital giants have some product to keep you linked into their domain.

Posted at 02:34 PM

January 05, 2009

Remove Gum From Clothing the Eco-friendly Way : Planet Green

[Planet Green Articles Feed] They say clothes don't make the man, but few people are seen without them. Clothes do make the man able to walk out in public without causing a stir, but they also say something about the personality of the man or woman who is wearing those clothes.

Posted at 12:33 PM

What Makes Eco Fashion Truly Green? Tips to Spot Organic ...

[EcoSalon - The Green Gathering] What Makes Eco Fashion Truly Green? Tips to Spot Organic Sustainable Clothing and avoid greenwash.

Posted at 12:32 PM

January 03, 2009

t r u t h o u t | Climate Change Policies Failing, NASA Scientist ...

[Truthout - All Articles] Hansen wrote that there is a "profound disconnect" between public policy on climate change and the magnitude of the problem as described by the science. He praised Obama's campaign rhetoric about "a planet in peril", but said that how the new president responds in office will be crucial.

Posted at 03:04 PM

Schneier on Security: Friday Squid Blogging: Climate Change ...

[Schneier on Security] Friday Squid Blogging: Climate Change Affects Squids. No surprise, really. Posted on January 2, 2009 at 4:49 PM • 0 Comments • View Blog Reactions. To receive these entries once a month by e-mail, sign up for the Crypto-Gram Newsletter. ...

Posted at 03:02 PM

January 02, 2009

Second Thoughts: "Ecosystems of Support"

[Second Thoughts] When something like Karuna Island gets a thunderous love pat from the Lindens (and is already financed by the National Library of Medicine with the support of the Alliance Library System, how dare you say anything negative? Well, of coures, that never stops me, and when I visited the languorous tree houses on this tropical sim, taking a rickety wooden cage elevator up to the top branches in third-world versimilitude (instead of flying or TPing) I had to just...goggle.

Posted at 03:05 PM

The Green Files > January 31, 2009

Blog: 'Cracking the whip' for an inspirational environment ...

Nicholas Stern Discusses Environment And The Economy ...

January 31, 2009

Blog: 'Cracking the whip' for an inspirational environment ...

Nicholas Stern Discusses Environment And The Economy ...

January 30, 2009

Obama Tackling Climate Change and Peak Oil

The peak oil crisis: the stimulus | Energy Bulletin

January 29, 2009

TPMDC | Talking Points Memo | Bob Corker, Climate Change Rebel?

Climate Change Action

January 28, 2009

Leo Hickman on climate change: Are we between the devil and the ...

Climate change could be ”˜irreversible’ for 1000 years? Gulp ...

January 27, 2009

Ecosystems and Human Well-Being~ Volume 1~ Current State and ...

Open Left:: USGS Report: "Thresholds of Climate Change in Ecosystems"

January 26, 2009

Climate Change Fraud - Because the debate is not over - Alaska ...

Moving Up: Climate Change Forces Species to Higher Elevations ...

January 24, 2009

Economy & Jobs Top Priority, Global Warming Last on List ”¦ My How ...

JustOneMinute: Cool On Global Warming

January 23, 2009

Public Yawns At Climate Change - Environment and Energy

Climate Change Killing America's Trees at Ever Faster Rates ...

January 21, 2009

Ubuntu Mobile looks at Qt development environment

Economist's View: "Models of Bounded Rationality and the Credit ...

January 20, 2009

Nick Herbert moved to environment in Tory frontbench reshuffle ...

Terry Macalister on the environmental history lessons being ...

January 19, 2009

Heavy-Handed Politics: What Global Warming?

Frigid winter weather raises questions about global warming ...

January 17, 2009

Nokia N79 goes eco-friendly

Inhabitat » ECO FURNITURE: Santiago Morahan’s Diseno Cartonero

January 16, 2009

Hit & Run > Climate Change Teetotalers Denounce Baptists and ...

CURRY.COM » Climate Change Debunk From CNN

January 15, 2009

Group Calls for Obama to Create Department of Ecosystems : Red ...

Ecosystems are fragile « Mr. Barlow’s Blog

January 14, 2009

Treasury Department Can Help Fight Global Warming, Says Paulson

Gateway Pundit: Brrrr... Goofy Hillary Says "Global Warming May ...

January 13, 2009

A surprising idea for “solving” climate change | The Big Picture

RealClimate

January 12, 2009

Google searching not eco-friendly? - broadstuff

Peculiar Paper Sculptures - Revol-Design’s Leggy Eco Art (GALLERY)

January 10, 2009

Get the message on climate change | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Gold the Asset to Hold in Any Environment :: The Market Oracle ...

January 09, 2009

Dobbs Again Ignores Science of Global Warming

Food and Global Warming (ScienCentral)

January 08, 2009

The Rambling Taoist

Global Warming: Prejudiced Authors Prejudiced Findings

January 07, 2009

World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

Worldchanging: USDA Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets

January 06, 2009

Riffing on modeling ecosystems | MakerLab Blog

Microsoft, Google, Apple Part 1: Digital Ecosystems | g e n Y ...

January 05, 2009

Remove Gum From Clothing the Eco-friendly Way : Planet Green

What Makes Eco Fashion Truly Green? Tips to Spot Organic ...

January 03, 2009

t r u t h o u t | Climate Change Policies Failing, NASA Scientist ...

Schneier on Security: Friday Squid Blogging: Climate Change ...

January 02, 2009

Second Thoughts: "Ecosystems of Support"

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