The Green Files: May 2009 Archives

The Green Files > May 30, 2009

FT.com | FT Energy Source | Peak oil professor challenges IEA figures

[FT Energy Source] Kjell Aleklett, a Swedish physics professor and president of ASPO, the main peak oil association, is taking on the IEA over future liquid hydrocarbon supply.

Peak Oil News - Top six tips for surviving post-peak oil gas-archy

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

Posted at 03:04 PM

May 30, 2009

FT.com | FT Energy Source | Peak oil professor challenges IEA figures

[FT Energy Source] Kjell Aleklett, a Swedish physics professor and president of ASPO, the main peak oil association, is taking on the IEA over future liquid hydrocarbon supply.

Posted at 03:05 PM

Peak Oil News - Top six tips for surviving post-peak oil gas-archy

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

Posted at 03:04 PM

May 29, 2009

Good News: Most Ecosystems Can Recover in One Lifetime from Human ...

[TreeHugger] As to what this all means, Oswald Schmitz, professor of ecology at Yale and report co-author, says that this analysis shows that an increased effort to restore damaged ecosystems is justified, and that:

Posted at 03:03 PM

t r u t h o u t | Yale Study: Damaged Ecosystems Can Recover Rapidly

[Truthout - All Articles] A recent study by Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies reports that if humans commit to the restoration effort, most ecosystems can recover from very major disruption within decades to half-centuries. The study was written by Holly P.

Posted at 03:02 PM

May 28, 2009

Greenpeace protests Sobeys - Peterborough Examiner - Ontario, CA

[Peterborough Examiner] The stop in Peterborough is part of a campaign in Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia to stop supermarkets from selling seafood species that Greenpeace ranks as the most threatened by over harvesting.

Posted at 03:05 PM

Greenpeace Putting Pressure on IT Industry to Walk the Climate ...

[TreeHugger] Casey Harrell, a Greenpeace International Campaigner helping to head up this report, notes that while Greenpeace recognizes that the IT industry's footprint is smaller and more well managed than other industries like the auto industry, the group feels that the focus needs to fall with IT because this industry is the future, while autos and other industries are going to be part of the past. He states, “We need climate leadership.

Posted at 03:03 PM

May 27, 2009

Global Warming: a Controversial Bill, And a Game of Roulette ...

[Popular Science] Popsci Authors: Stuart FoxPosted 5.26.09 at 11:11 am 10 CommentsA strict emissions bill makes it out of committee, and a new paper predicts dire consequences for inactionRelated Articles Setting: Show teaser image in related articles.

Posted at 02:35 PM

Worldchanging: Bright Green: Why Global Warming Means Killer ...

[Worldchanging: Bright Green] You should be ashamed of posting scare pieces like this, and I hope you know that in the long run, writing things like this will lead to the loss of credibility for global warming advocates, not the implementation of policies that they would like to see. You may scare some into your thinking, but there are many educated posters who will question your assumptions, and when they turn out to be false, you will be the boy who cried wolf once to often.

Posted at 02:34 PM

May 26, 2009

Brutally Honest: Busting 10 global warming myths

[Brutally Honest] "A team of Australian scientists has detailed for the first time how a phenomenon known as the Indian Ocean Dipole - a variable and irregular cycle of warming and cooling of ocean water - dictates whether moisture-bearing winds are carried across the southern half of Australia."

Posted at 02:35 PM

Evasive tactics on global warming won't help Obama | Washington ...

[Beltway Confidential] The Obama administration prides itself on not dumbing things down for voters. President Obama's political counselor David Axelrod has argued that whether it is a pestilent preacher, stimulus worries or blowback over changes to his terror policy, the president can talk frankly and at great length about issues and that average Americans can understand and follow along.

Posted at 02:34 PM

May 25, 2009

Inhabitat » WIN LOYALE'S ECO BIKINI FEATURED IN VOGUE!

[INHABITAT] Who wants a free ticket to Greener Gadgets 2009?The Greener Gadgets Conference is just 2 weeks away now and we are getting excited! So excited,

Posted at 12:34 PM

Global Voices Online » Japan: A brief review of the eco-technologies

[Global Voices Online] In mid May the Japanese Government has launched a stimulus package to boost the demand for energy efficient household appliances with a new eco-points system, details of which will be made clear in the next month after the Diet's .

Posted at 12:32 PM

May 23, 2009

Do The Green Thing: Save natural resources by b...

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Posted at 03:05 PM

Natural Disaster Resources | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

[Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...] I'm Larry Ferlazzo and here you will catch me talking about websites that will help you teach ELL, ESL and EFL!

Posted at 03:04 PM

May 22, 2009

Eco-Beat, 5/21 - Green Daily

[Green Daily] For the second time, conservationist and climate crusader Laurie David finds herself in the crosshairs of the Chilmark Conservation Commission for building on a piece of her property that has been declared protected wetlands. Oops!

Posted at 03:09 PM

16 Dazzling Eco Paper Products at the 2009 National Stationery ...

[TreeHugger] Photo credit: National Stationery Show The National Stationery Show, which took place this week at New York City's cavernous Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, was a sea of green, with a barrage of eco-friendly paper goodies that were .

Posted at 03:03 PM

May 21, 2009

New Study Shows Lobbying on Climate Change Is Intensifying - The ...

[The Caucus] The latest on President Obama, Congress and other political news from Washington and around the nation from the staff of The New York Times.

Posted at 03:14 PM

Re: CAFE and Climate Change -- Nada - Iain Murray - The Corner on ...

[The Corner] * This clears the way for EPA action on stationary sources, which is where the real economic hammer blow lands

Posted at 03:11 PM

May 20, 2009

The White House - Blog Post - A Culture Change on Climate Change

[White House.gov Press Office Feed] Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, who helped spearhead what she called "an incredible step forward for our country"; EPA Administrator Lisa P.

Posted at 02:34 PM

Environmental Economics: The AEA gets busy on climate change

[Environmental Economics] From the inbox (AEAweb eTOC for Journal of Economic Perspectives Vol. 23, Issue 2 -- Spring 2009 ): Market-Based Policy Options to Control US Greenhouse Gas Emissions (pp: 5 - 27) Gilbert E.

Posted at 02:33 PM

May 19, 2009

Dirty Mouse » Blog Archive » Greenpeace / DDB Paris

[Dirty Mouse] Dirty Mouse is an inspirational design blog, updated several times a day. Dirty Mouse aims to provide designers' mice with enough visual food from the worlds of graphic design, web design, illustration, photography, interior and product .

Posted at 02:34 PM

The Climate Pragmatists: Romm and Krugman vs. Greenpeace | The ...

[Discover Magazine | RSS] After months of intensive research I have become convinced that the Earth is not warming up–in fact, it’s cooling off. This carbon cap nonsense will spell the doom of many a political hack as the US experiences brownouts and blackouts due to a lack of energy production and crumbling infrastructure.

Posted at 02:32 PM

May 18, 2009

The Macho Response : Environmentalism: Empty-Headed Nonsense

[â™† The Macho Response â™†] Environmentalism: Empty-Headed Nonsense. "Gaia is mysticism, pure and simple, an anti-human concept that really suggests that our existence is no more worthy than that of any other living thing.

Posted at 12:36 PM

Where: A New Urban Environmentalism?

[Where] I think this last paragraph, wherein the author notes the being-within-capital of both environment and equity in Jones' agenda, raises a difficult and interesting point. Regardless of the fact that Jones' work is laudable (and there is little doubt that his goals are), there is a presumtion that with the proper (rational?) arrangements, social and environmental justice are achievable from within a voluntaristic capitalist system.

Posted at 12:34 PM

May 16, 2009

Surveillance Guide News, Issue #020 - Resources on Natural ...

[Home Surveillance Guide Blog] While nothing can be done to prevent the occurrence of Natural Disasters, there is probably quite a lot of cautionary prevention steps that can and should be done to avoid the most tragic consequences caused by such occurrences.

Posted at 03:04 PM

Climate Change Bill Provides Funding for Natural Resources, Fish ...

[AmmoLand.com] “Chairman Waxman, Chairman Dingell and Chairman Markey have laid a strong and broad foundation for the very anecessary natural resources adaptation programs, which will ensure not just the health and vitality of our fish and wildlife resources but also the quality of life for our citizens that functioning ecosystems likewise provide,” said Gary Taylor, legislative director of the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies and working group co-chair. “We applaud their recognition of the need for dedicated funding to deliver these very vital public benefits, and look forward to continuing to work with them to report the bill out of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and on subsequent passage by the House.”

Posted at 03:02 PM

May 15, 2009

The GMO Circle of Death | War On You: Breaking Alternative News

[War On You: Breaking Alternative News] The effects of GMO experiments on unwilling human subjects is discussed, and how drug companies profit from illnesses in both humans and animals, which are directly related to GMO feed consumption. The circle of death.

Posted at 03:08 PM

GMO-Free Regions: A Growing Global Trend, Except In The United ...

[TreeHugger] Over 260 regions, more than 4500 municipalities and other local entities and tens of thousands of farmers and food producers in Europe and Japan have declared themselves “GMO-free” expressing their commitment not to allow the use of genetically modified organisms in the agriculture and food in their territories. Since 2005, the movement of GMO Free Regions in Europe holds an annual meeting.

Posted at 03:06 PM

May 14, 2009

An Englishman's Castle: Abbott and Costello on Climate Change

[An Englishman's Castle] The report, compiled by a commission of academics from University College London and published in The Lancet, warns that climate change risks huge death tolls caused by disease, food and water shortages and poor sanitation.

Posted at 03:04 PM

In need of climate change cash - Lisa Lerer - POLITICO.com

[POLITICO.com: Politics] Groups ask Waxman to include foreign aid in climate bill.

Posted at 03:02 PM

May 13, 2009

Exploring A Sense Of Place » Oak Woodlands and Neighboring Ecosystems

[Exploring A Sense Of Place] We will learn about Oak Woodlands, Chaparral, Riparian and Grassland ecosystems and some of the natural factors that lead to these different ecosystems.

Posted at 02:34 PM

Inhabitat » Ecosystems Bada Table Transforms into a Loveseat

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Posted at 02:33 PM

May 12, 2009

Greenpeace wants expert named as Environment Minister - The Slovak ...

[Slovak Spectator] Rizman said that unsuitable nominations cause harm that takes Slovakia a long time to correct and added that no legislation has been approved, projects have not been carried out, and goals have not been met under the previous government ministers. He said that Slovakia has been waiting six years for an act on environmental burdens, without which it is impossible to systematically clean up areas contaminated by dangerous chemicals, claiming that up to 250,000 people in eastern Slovakia live in an area polluted by PCB substances.

Posted at 02:35 PM

filming the environment @ Globe Hopper

[Richmond.com :: Local News] Tonight, Jenna Clarke, organizer of Richmond’s environmental film festival “The Biggest Picture,” will overview a few of the films at this weekend’s festival and how they and others .

Posted at 02:33 PM

May 11, 2009

Eco Gamers: Manage Energy in a Virtual World with Shaspa

[Earth2Tech] While in Hong Kong on a business trip recently, Oliver Goh was on his laptop playing around in a virtual world, when he realized he’d left the water running in his home back in Switzerland. He noticed this because the virtual world contained a recreation of his Swiss residence that pulled information about the home’s energy and water consumption in real time.

Posted at 12:35 PM

Inhabitat » D&A Eco-Fashion: Editors' Picks!

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Posted at 12:33 PM

May 09, 2009

Docudharma:: Book Review: Environmentalism in Popular Culture

[Docudharma - Front Page] This is a review of Noel Sturgeon's (2009) Environmentalism in Popular Culture, an interesting book of feminist cultural criticism. Environmentalism in Popular Culture offers the most readily-accessible critique of an American mythology .

Posted at 03:04 PM

Common-Sense Environmentalism: Go Green, $ave Green

[Crosswalk.com - News] Of every religion she and her family investigated, she says that Christianity was the only one that placed a high value on caring for the earth. So she offers an unusual perspective on environmentalism through the eyes of faith.

Posted at 03:02 PM

May 08, 2009

Business Ecosystems » Blog Archive » A new Google on the horizon?

[Business Ecosystems] In my point of view Google and Alpha have different goal. Google searches for all possible information related to your searching interest, on the other hand Alpha is a very specific search tool that gives answers related to mathematic results which can bee much more efficient for a specific market niche.

Posted at 03:04 PM

Bio Topics » Carbon Balance Of Terrestrial Ecosystems In China

[Bio Topics] Read Full Story »». Tags: 1980s, 1990s, atmosphere, carbon balance, co2, conterminous united states, degradation, europe, forests, northeast china, pg, pgc, regional climate change, southern china, terrestrial ecosystems ...

Posted at 03:03 PM

May 07, 2009

Greenpeace - Making Waves: Tata and turtles - an India drama

[The Greenpeace weblog] Check out what the folks at Greenpeace India are up to. They've taken on one of the largest companies in the country - all to protect endangered Olive Ridley Sea Turtles.

Posted at 03:06 PM

More tales of nuclear insanity

[The Greenpeace weblog] Blogging the meltdown of the nuclear industry. Latest news to counter the nuclear spin.

Posted at 03:05 PM

May 06, 2009

Gallup Poll Editor: Al Gore Is Losing Global Warming Debate ...

[NewsBusters.org blogs] Newport says the economy trumps the environment right now, a strong indicator that President Obama's bid to put a cap-and-trade pollution regime into operation isn't likely to be politically popular.

Posted at 02:34 PM

Democrat leading charge against global warming bill

[Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com] Republican Sen. James Inhofe (R-KN) once called global warming the “greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.” Democrat Rick Boucher (D-VA) doesn’t agree ”” and supports reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050 ”” but he’s leading the charge to water down the first-ever legislation to control greenhouse gases.

Posted at 02:33 PM

May 05, 2009

Climate & environment - May 4 | Energy Bulletin

[Energy Bulletin -] As a card-carrying economist, I cringe when “green economy” enthusiasts insist that protecting the environment would be all gain, no pain.

Posted at 02:35 PM

Poetry for the Environment - Dialogue Between the Body and the ...

[TreeHugger] There have been numerous popular films and books about the environment and now two poets are sharing their views. One lives in England and the other in Australia, and both decided to stop flying internationally for environmental reasons.

Posted at 02:33 PM

May 04, 2009

E.O. Wilson Tells TH Environmentalism is "Fundamental" for Humans ...

[TreeHugger] Credit: Bob Sascha EO Wilson, the towering naturalist and Pulitzer-prize winning writer, hatched the idea for the Encyclopedia of Life in 2003 as a way of chronicling all of the world's species, Wikipedia-style.

Posted at 12:34 PM

Conservative Digest Weekly: Environmentalism

[Conservative Digest Weekly] Belief in the global warming scam continues to decline. Congress may soon consider a 'cap and trade' plan to raise taxes and damage the economy.

Posted at 12:32 PM

May 02, 2009

In Costa Rica, environmentalism, economic growth merge - Salt Lake ...

[Liberia Paper] Liberia, Costa Rica » Sailing down Costa Rica's Tempisque River on an eco-tour, I watched a crocodile devour a bass with one gulp. It took only a few additionals.

Posted at 03:03 PM

British court rules that environmentalism is a religion : Stop The ...

[Stop The ACLU] The head of the tribunal ruled that those views amounted to a philosophical belief under the Employment Equality (Religion and Belief) Regulations, 2003. The case is the first of its kind and could open the way for hundreds of future claims to be made in the same fashion, the newspaper reported.

Posted at 03:02 PM

The Green Files > May 30, 2009

FT.com | FT Energy Source | Peak oil professor challenges IEA figures

Peak Oil News - Top six tips for surviving post-peak oil gas-archy

May 30, 2009

FT.com | FT Energy Source | Peak oil professor challenges IEA figures

Peak Oil News - Top six tips for surviving post-peak oil gas-archy

May 29, 2009

Good News: Most Ecosystems Can Recover in One Lifetime from Human ...

t r u t h o u t | Yale Study: Damaged Ecosystems Can Recover Rapidly

May 28, 2009

Greenpeace protests Sobeys - Peterborough Examiner - Ontario, CA

Greenpeace Putting Pressure on IT Industry to Walk the Climate ...

May 27, 2009

Global Warming: a Controversial Bill, And a Game of Roulette ...

Worldchanging: Bright Green: Why Global Warming Means Killer ...

May 26, 2009

Brutally Honest: Busting 10 global warming myths

Evasive tactics on global warming won't help Obama | Washington ...

May 25, 2009

Inhabitat » WIN LOYALE'S ECO BIKINI FEATURED IN VOGUE!

Global Voices Online » Japan: A brief review of the eco-technologies

May 23, 2009

Do The Green Thing: Save natural resources by b...

Natural Disaster Resources | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

May 22, 2009

Eco-Beat, 5/21 - Green Daily

16 Dazzling Eco Paper Products at the 2009 National Stationery ...

May 21, 2009

New Study Shows Lobbying on Climate Change Is Intensifying - The ...

Re: CAFE and Climate Change -- Nada - Iain Murray - The Corner on ...

May 20, 2009

The White House - Blog Post - A Culture Change on Climate Change

Environmental Economics: The AEA gets busy on climate change

May 19, 2009

Dirty Mouse » Blog Archive » Greenpeace / DDB Paris

The Climate Pragmatists: Romm and Krugman vs. Greenpeace | The ...

May 18, 2009

The Macho Response : Environmentalism: Empty-Headed Nonsense

Where: A New Urban Environmentalism?

May 16, 2009

Surveillance Guide News, Issue #020 - Resources on Natural ...

Climate Change Bill Provides Funding for Natural Resources, Fish ...

May 15, 2009

The GMO Circle of Death | War On You: Breaking Alternative News

GMO-Free Regions: A Growing Global Trend, Except In The United ...

May 14, 2009

An Englishman's Castle: Abbott and Costello on Climate Change

In need of climate change cash - Lisa Lerer - POLITICO.com

May 13, 2009

Exploring A Sense Of Place » Oak Woodlands and Neighboring Ecosystems

Inhabitat » Ecosystems Bada Table Transforms into a Loveseat

May 12, 2009

Greenpeace wants expert named as Environment Minister - The Slovak ...

filming the environment @ Globe Hopper

May 11, 2009

Eco Gamers: Manage Energy in a Virtual World with Shaspa

Inhabitat » D&A Eco-Fashion: Editors' Picks!

May 09, 2009

Docudharma:: Book Review: Environmentalism in Popular Culture

Common-Sense Environmentalism: Go Green, $ave Green

May 08, 2009

Business Ecosystems » Blog Archive » A new Google on the horizon?

Bio Topics » Carbon Balance Of Terrestrial Ecosystems In China

May 07, 2009

Greenpeace - Making Waves: Tata and turtles - an India drama

More tales of nuclear insanity

May 06, 2009

Gallup Poll Editor: Al Gore Is Losing Global Warming Debate ...

Democrat leading charge against global warming bill

May 05, 2009

Climate & environment - May 4 | Energy Bulletin

Poetry for the Environment - Dialogue Between the Body and the ...

May 04, 2009

E.O. Wilson Tells TH Environmentalism is "Fundamental" for Humans ...

Conservative Digest Weekly: Environmentalism

May 02, 2009

In Costa Rica, environmentalism, economic growth merge - Salt Lake ...

British court rules that environmentalism is a religion : Stop The ...

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