Leading Automaker Toyota Motor Europe Joins UNEP's Climate Neutral ...
[United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)] Toyota Motor Europe has already cut average energy consumption per-vehicle in the production process by 44 per cent since 2001. The company's Five-Year Environmental Action Plan calls for further cuts in energy consumption and CO2 emissions, and all of its logistics partners now have to report their CO2 emissions in accordance with Toyota's Green Purchasing Guidelines.
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August 18, 2008
Environment Ministry launches ‘Haritha Gammanaâ€♠Project
[Powered by Department of Government Information-Sri Lanka] (Green Villages), a program organized by the Stable Environment Unit of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, was launched on August 14 at the Ministry complex, under the patronage of Minister of Trade, Marketing Development, Co-operative and Consumer Affairs, Mr. Bandula Gunawardena with the participation of Senior Advisor to the President Mr.
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Posted at 12:31 PM
August 15, 2008
Eco Houses in Estonia Built from Straw
[Digg / Environment / upcoming] Tigerprises.com: Estonian company UNITe that engineers and builds environment friendly module houses has set up approximately ten straw houses in Estonia. As the green way of thinking is spreading, this promises to be only the beginning.
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Posted at 03:04 PM
Hope for China's air even after polluters reopen
[Digg / Environment / upcoming] There's a huge amount happening on the environmental front related to China's sense of what it means to be a developed nation, and part of being developed is to have a pleasant and healthy environment. Better pollution mapping and stricter monitoring of emissions will last long after the Olympic Games.
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Posted at 03:03 PM
August 07, 2008
Will Paris Hilton’s energy plan work?
[Environment] While the statistics used to calculate how quickly more efficient cars could affect the market look correct, the statistics used to attack opening up drilling seem selective and incorrect. First of all even if all that could be produced is 100,000 barrels a day, that is a half a percent of the current 20 million barrels a day used and almost a full percent of the 12 million barrels a day if the cars were more efficient.
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Posted at 03:03 PM
New Journals: Environment and Planning
[Untitled] The aim of our blog is to keep the DCU community up-to-date with all library developments including, new resources, new services, events, general updates and more... We welcome feedback and suggestions, so please post your comments!
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Posted at 03:02 PM
July 30, 2008
Newly Discovered Primate Species Is Threatened with Extinction
[Yale Environment 360] A new species of Tanzanian monkey discovered less than three years ago is already at risk for extinction, according to a study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). DNA analysis in 2006 showed that the .
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Posted at 02:32 PM
Are Hybrid Cars Too Quiet to Be Safe for Pedestrians?
[Digg / Environment / upcoming] People love their hybrid automobiles because, above all, they sip rather than guzzle now pricey gasoline. But as the owner of a standard minivan, I also covet a less touted benefit of electric engines: they are delightfully quiet.
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Posted at 02:30 PM
July 29, 2008
The Design Environment
[Web Design Articles | WPDFD.com] Imagery: We have all seen web pages with the cheerful customer service woman, or the close-up of the two hands shaking - "closing the deal." This is clutter, just like the faded Matisse prints we hung on our walls in college with scotch tape. Imagery (photos, illustrations, icons) should enhance an environment by promoting a message or feeling.
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Posted at 02:32 PM
Coal-rich South Africa Announces Plans to Reduce Emissions
[Yale Environment 360] Van Schalkwyk said he foresaw South Africa’s overall carbon emissions unavoidably rising by about 20 percent until about 2025, after which they would begin a steady decline. This announcement is significant because South Africa generates about 90 percent of its electricity from coal, has some of the world's largest proven coal reserves, and has long promoted itself as a destination for energy-intensive industry.
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Posted at 02:32 PM
June 27, 2008
Architecture of Change - Sustainability and Humanity in the Built ...
[Untitled] Sustainability in a general sense means to keep something the way it is. That makes a conscious contradiction in the title —
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Posted at 03:05 PM
Global TV Campaign on Public Transport and Climate Change Awarded ...
[United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)] The TV advertising campaign conducted by the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) and the United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP) won a prestigious award from the European Association of Communications Agencies(EACA). The award was handed out yesterday evening at the European Parliament in Brussels.
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Posted at 03:03 PM
June 12, 2008
Getting FSC/SFI Chain of Custody Certified - Part Two
[WhatTheyThink Environment & Sustainability Section] Note: There are a number of consultants and auditors for several certifying bodies, WhatTheyThink does not endorse or recommend service professionals. Details in these two articles are based on Vic’s experience as a consultant and auditor for FSC certification;
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Posted at 03:01 PM
Politics is the Art of Controlling Your Environment
[blog] Anybody who thinks that "it doesn't matter who's President" has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid War on the other side of the World -- or been beaten and gassed by Police for trespassing on public property -- or been hounded by the IRS for purely political reasons -- or locked up in the Cook County Jail with a broken nose and no phone access and twelve perverts wanting to stomp your ass in the shower.
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Posted at 03:01 PM
June 11, 2008
Dolphin deaths: Expert suggests 'mass suicide' | Environment ...
[Fluxtumblr] Dolphin deaths: Expert suggests 'mass suicide' | Environment | guardian.co.uk: Via Balk.
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Posted at 02:32 PM
Environmental Change Re-Draws Atlas of Africa
[United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)] Johannesburg/Nairobi/London, 10 June 2008-Africa's rapidly changing environmental landscape, from the disappearance of glaciers in Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains to the loss of Cape Town's unique "fynbos" vegetation, is presented today to the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment(AMCEN).
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Posted at 02:31 PM
June 09, 2008
IDA Pro Development Environment
[RCE Messageboard's Regroupment] In IDA Pro 4.xx (I forget the exact version I have, I'm at work right now, will check when I get home) is there a way to actually alter the hex of the program...">Patching with IDA Pro
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Posted at 12:38 PM
President Obama on the Environment
[Celsias] But getting something significant done about climate change under a President Obama is in reach. And it is as much about leadership as it is about policy.
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Posted at 12:37 PM
May 27, 2008
G8 ministers braced for environment talks
[Climate Change] G8 environment ministers are in Kobe, Japan, this weekend to pave the way for a full G8 summit in July.
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Posted at 02:36 PM
Global environmental volunteering gets a boost ahead of World ...
[World Scouting News] The new relationship announced today in Australia by the Australian Parliamentary Secretary for Social Inclusion and the Volunteering Sector, Senator Ursula Stephens, Clean Up the World Chairman and Founder Ian Kiernan AO* and Scouts Australia Chief Commissioner John Ravenhall AM*, will add substantial volunteering power to Clean Up the World, already mobilising an estimated 35 million people each year.
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Posted at 02:35 PM
May 17, 2008
Green Economics: How Do You Value the Environment?
[WSJ.com: Environmental Capital - WSJ.com] br /Strange as it sounds, especially when the Republican presidential candidate is offering climate-change stump speeches that appear cribbed from an environmental economics syllabus, that debate is rattling around politics, academia and the blogosphere these days. The gist of the argument boils down to this:
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Posted at 03:04 PM
Bush admin on perchlorate in drinking water: we'll get to it ...
[ScienceBlogs Channel : Environment] Benjamin Grumbles, the EPA's assistant administrator for water, said the EPA will decide by the end of the year whether to regulate perchlorate. Scientific studies have shown the chemical blocks iodide and suppresses thyroid hormones, which are necessary for the normal brain development of a fetus or infant.
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