http://www.greenfiles.org/ Environmentalism, Climate Protection and Pollution Control en 2008-07-23T14:35:19+00:00 http://www.greenfiles.org/south_africas_van_schalkwyk_paints_grim_picture_of_climate_change-archive.html  [Carbon-Based] AllAfrica.com, via Business Day (South Africa): The longer the delay in taking action on climate change, the greater the costs would be for everyone to minimise its effects and adapt to them, Environment and Tourism Minister Marthinus .

]]> Climate admin 2008-07-23T14:35:19+00:00 http://www.greenfiles.org/climate_change_in_kansas_city_a_guest_weblog_by_dr_lynwood_yarbrough-archive.html  [Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News] Several years ago I began reading the literature on climate change that was appearing in Science, Nature, and other peer-reviewed journals.  I did so because I was concerned at the alarmism I was seeing in the media regarding “global warming” and the dire predictions of some in the scientific literature.  I consider myself a scientific skeptic and want to be convinced by the data before I accept something as “true”

]]> Climate admin 2008-07-23T14:33:56+00:00 http://www.greenfiles.org/peak_oil-archive.html  [davidkramer.DK] Take this guy Boone Pickens for example .He has made his money with investment in oil for the last 60 some years.

]]> Entry admin 2008-07-21T12:34:06+00:00 http://www.greenfiles.org/peak_oil_the_end_of_ferry_services_between_japan_and_taiwan-archive.html  [TreeHugger] Hikawa-Maru-Yokohama-Japan.JPG Before air travel, how on earth did people get around the globe? For a brief moment in history, there were steam ships and then diesel ferries.

]]> Entry admin 2008-07-21T12:32:04+00:00 http://www.greenfiles.org/epa_report_details_climate_change_risks-archive.html  [Global Warming News] Climate change will pose "substantial" threats to human health in the coming decades, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday - issuing its warnings about heat waves, hurricanes and pathogens just .

]]> Climate admin 2008-07-19T15:03:25+00:00 http://www.greenfiles.org/desperate_climate_change_skeptics_misread_the_news-archive.html  [Millard Fillmore's Bathtub] Society, we kick off a debate concerning one of the main conclusions of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN body which, together with Al Gore, recently won the Nobel Prize for its work concerning climate change research. There is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not agree with the IPCC conclusion that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are very probably likely to be primarily responsible for the global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution.

]]> Climate admin 2008-07-19T15:02:18+00:00 http://www.greenfiles.org/review_urban_ecosystems_and_the_north_american_carbon_cycle-archive.html  [drive-thru lies - the truth about the industry's greenwash] whole ecosystem mass and energy flow. Here, we review the state of our understanding of urban areas as whole ecosystems with regard to carbon balance, including both drivers of fossil fuel emissions and carbon cycling in urban plants .

]]> Entry admin 2008-07-18T15:02:59+00:00 http://www.greenfiles.org/global_warming_may_threaten_ecosystems_and_water_reserves_in_-archive.html  [Forests.org: Forest Protection Portal] A new study has determined that global warming could lead to larger changes in snowmelt in the western United States than was previously thought, possibly increasing wildfire risk and creating new water management challenges for agriculture, ecosystems and urban populations.

]]> Warming admin 2008-07-18T15:01:56+00:00 http://www.greenfiles.org/ecobutton_cuts_energy_use_makes_you_glow_green_inside-archive.html  [Gizmodo UK] after a few minutes of idleness is detected but, why do anything that sensible when you can buy a gadget to do it for you. Meet Eco-Button, a green USB device that, when plugged in, allows you to put the PC into eco-mode at a singe tap.

]]> Entry admin 2008-07-17T15:02:11+00:00 http://www.greenfiles.org/interview_with_jason_schultz_ecosafe-archive.html  [Inside Sustainable Packaging] Sure, we have a certified WordPress blog plugin that lets people use the eco-safe delivery methods right from their WordPress powered blog. Also we are finishing up a FireFox extension to give users a button on their browser which will allow them to download, email, or save a PDF version of that given web page.

]]> Entry admin 2008-07-17T15:01:50+00:00 http://www.greenfiles.org/oil_falls_sharply_as_economic_gloom_spreads-archive.html  [Peak Oil News] The darkening gloom that hangs over the U.S. economy spread to the oil markets Tuesday, sending the cost of crude tumbling $6.44 a barrel in the largest one-day plunge since 1991. In a wild day of trading, the cost of light, sweet crude oil for August delivery closed at $138.74 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

]]> Entry admin 2008-07-16T14:34:41+00:00 http://www.greenfiles.org/future_forecasts_the_price_of_oil_and_peak_oil-archive.html [Evolution Shift - Futurist Blog] The third part of this prediction has yet to be manifested.  When two of the three major Presidential candidates think it is a smart idea to suspend the gasoline tax for the summer, it is clear that we have a long way to go.  Congressional outrage and investigations into speculation in the petroleum futures market also shows a complete lack of wanting to face the real issue.  There is no more than 5-10% of speculation in this market.  The upward price is driven by the realities of Peak Oil.   What politicians are facing is the huge reaction and behavioral changes brought about by $4 a gallon gasoline  Pain at the pump will be manifested in the voting booth.

]]> Entry admin 2008-07-16T14:33:55+00:00 http://www.greenfiles.org/peak_oil_in_the_commonwealth_parliament-archive.html [Riot 4 Austerity] Few people in the House will be unaware of the theory of peak oil””that there is simply not enough undiscovered oil on the planet to keep up with ever-increasing global demand and that we are therefore destined to suffer from reducing supplies and skyrocketing prices.

]]> Entry admin 2008-07-15T14:34:13+00:00 http://www.greenfiles.org/peak_oil_time_to_start_worrying-archive.html  [Alonline] These would very quickly allow most transport to move to an oil free fuel supply (air transport would need a radical rethink in order to be able to use fuel cells, but all other modes of transport could be converted relatively simply). Hydrogen fuel cells would also allow us to change the way we look at our power supplies as well, as it may be more cost effective for businesses and larger properties to move to generating their own supply via a fuel cell rather than relying on commercial supply.

]]> Entry admin 2008-07-15T14:33:30+00:00 http://www.greenfiles.org/eco_design_startups-archive.html [Re-Creating The Existing] The 38 year old London-based designer wasn't always involved in eco-fashion. Like most students looking to make their creative mark on the world, she went down the conceptual high fashion route during her days at the prestigious Central St Martins.

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