October 2009 week 41 in Blogs and News

Week 41 in news and blogs

In News...

No Impact Man
Pitch Weekly
... his new eco-martyr memoir of the same name is subtitled "The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet and the Discoveries He Makes ...
IEA: Recession offers opportunity to save the planet
Business Green
The global economic downturn has resulted in steep cuts in carbon emissions and has led to the deferral of many carbon intensive investments, ...
Challenges of the electric age
Globe and Mail
Will electric vehicles save the planet? Will they save the automotive industry? Will they save Chevrolet? Will plunking a lithium-ion battery into an ...
Global climate change is not good news
Merinews
Thus the global climate change may endanger the existence of many species,including homo sapiens, on planet earth. In the name of economic progress, ...
Obama uses LA program as a model for going green
Los Angeles Times
V. John White, director of the California-based Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies, said Obama's push could enjoy greater success based ...
How Republicans Can Save the Climate Bill
Reuters
(The EPA, for instance, is said to be pulling back on programs that recognize companies for environmental leadership because senior officials want to focus ...
Setting a leadership path: Obama Executive Order on Federal Energy
Energy Collective (blog)
The Executive Order, Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance, will require agencies to set, no later than 90 days from now, ...
Climate change war roils US Chamber of Commerce
Los Angeles Times
As Forbes has noted, the Obama administration has opened a second front in the climate change wars, instructing the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions ...
Obama Should Turn to 'Cap-and-Trade' for Growth, Boxer Says
Bloomberg
... it is less costly for industry than the Environmental Protection Agency requiring firms to use less-polluting energy technologies. The EPA said Sept. ...
Political Alliances Shift in Fight Over Climate Bill
Wall Street Journal
joined the Obama administration and environmentalists in opposing an effort to bar the EPA for one year from attempting to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions ...
Global Climate Change Debate Ventures into the Courtroom
MLive.com
Already, insurers are looking at direct potential property damage related to global climate change and way to mitigate them. They may also be looking at ...
Embattled frog making last stand in Rim stream
Payson Roundup
“The whole 'canary in the coal mine' role of frogs comes from how sensitive they are to environmental change,” said Mike Srebl, leader of the Chiricahua ...
Fargo site to be part of nationwide environmental monitoring project
Minnesota Public Radio
For example, he said researchers at NDSU are interested in building better remote sensors to monitor environmental change. There won't be a permanent ...
UMCES researchers launch freshwater marsh study
EurekAlert (press release)
"Freshwater marshes are integral to the health of watersheds, but their existence is threatened by rapid environmental change," said research team leader ...
How prepared are we to face climate-induced calamities?
The Daily Star
Hundreds of grassroots organisations in Africa are taking action to cope with environmental change. Even embattled Somalia has launched a vigorous ...
Risks & Opportunities of Climate and Environmental Change Explored ...
World-Wire (press release)
... that illustrates why and how businesses everywhere are turning the risks of climate & environmental change into compelling business opportunities. ...

In Blogs...

FLICKERLAB LLC HEADS TO MIPCOM TO INTRODUCE THE WILD LIFE, THEIR ...
By Jessica Josell
Aiming to help “Save the planet one cartoon at a time™,” FlickerLab's twenty-six five-minute episodes each feature a three minute story driven cartoon introducing a theme such as the greenhouse effect, renewable energy, or power, ...
The Briefing Room - http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/briefingroom/
Pee in the shower..its saves the environment! « Life is Savage
By mcsavage
Next time you shower with your girlfriend just let rip with a number 1 and say ” look honey..im saving the planet..woo hoo”..and then blame me for posting this. A new environmental campaign, “Xixi no Bahno”, in Brazil is trying to get ...
Life is Savage - http://mcsavage.wordpress.com/
President Obama signs an Executive Order Focused on Federal ...
By admin
Demonstrating a commitment to lead by example, President Obama signed an Executive Order (attached) today that sets sustainability goals for Federal agencies and focuses on making improvements in their environmental, energy and economic ...
The Gov Monitor - http://thegovmonitor.com/
Obama Establishes Enviro, Energy Targets for Federal Government ...
By Emily Gertz
The Obama administration today ordered federal agencies to aim for aggressive targets to reduce energy use, and incorporate environmental sustainability in federal government operations. The execut...
Change.org's Stop Global Warming Blog - http://globalwarming.change.org/
The Breet Report and Accelerated Speeds of Climate Evolution | The ...
By Breet
On the issue of Global Warming/Global Climate Change, the scientific community is starting to prove their own theories to be correct - it is happening and.
The Breet Report - http://www.thebreetreport.com/
The UK Government to study future environmental migration | The ...
By admin
The Government Office for Science today begins its latest Foresight project examining how future environmental change could affect human migration in the long term around the world.
The Gov Monitor - http://thegovmonitor.com/
Climate Change Far Greater Threat to Farmers Than Climate ...
By Environmental Working Group
They claim this threat is so potentially devastating that climate change legislation should be shelved or loaded up with concessions that send more money to their agricultural constituents. But a new analysis by the Environmental ...
EWG: News - http://www.ewg.org/rss_news

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