Archive for October, 2009

Modified Hybrids to be Tested

CSIRO is an Australian research organization. CSIRO is working in collaboration with Victorian energy distributor SP AusNet. They both are aiming to evaluate the impact and benefits of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles on the electricity network. They are also trying to figure out how this low emission transport option could be incorporated into our [...]

Copenhagen – Voices for Change

The Copenhagen Climate Change Summit this December represents the best chance we have of reaching a deal to reverse current emissions trends in time to prevent climate chaos.
This is the first in a series of videos, Voices for Change, which talks to some of those who’re already suffering aroung the world as a result [...]

Africa: Climate Change Summit – Deal or No Deal, Continent Must March on With Home-Grown Strategies

If views expressed at a recent high-level dialogue on Climate Change in Accra were anything to go by, then Africa, and for that matter Ghana, should not place its fate in the crucial UN Summit on Climate Change scheduled for Copenhagen, Denmark in December 2009.

Confidential details of every farmer in England go missing

The confidential details of every farmer in England went missing for a year the Government has admitted.

NRDC Launches BioGem Campaign to Save Alaska’s Bristol Bay

LOS ANGELES (October 13, 2009) –The Natural Resources Defense Council announced today a new BioGem campaign to save Alaska’s Bristol Bay, the world’s most productive salmon fishery, from the development of Pebble Mine, one of the largest gold and copper mines ever proposed.

Saboteurs to employ hitech antihunt equipment such as hidden cameras

Hunt saboteurs are opening up a new front in their battle with hunt followers by using hitech monitoring equipment including telescopic lenses and hidden cameras.

PM hails EU climate fund ‘breakthrough’

Europe’s leaders will present a ?90bn plan to cut the world’s greenhouse gas emissions at the United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen. After hours of wrangling at the EU summit in Brussels this week, they gave broad backing to Gordon Brown’s calls for developed nations to put a price on tackling global warming.

US Navy plans Green Fleet

According to the Department of Defense News report, the Defense Department’s total energy costs for fiscal 2006 and 2007 was above $13 billion. In the year 2008, due to soaring rise in oil prices, their department’s energy bill was $20 billion. It is not a surprise when various defense departments are trying to use [...]

Do the tories ‘get’ climate change?

So, the top ten tory bloggers are all climate sceptics. So what? Everyone knows the internet provides a space for people to loudly declare their views in strident tones, blissfully and wilfully unaware of what have been termed ‘reality-based arguments’ – in this case the consensus weight of informed scientific opinion.

But hang on. These aren’t [...]

How maths makes the world go round

Whether you’re searching for oil the lost chord or a better kind of carrot mathematics is the key says Ian Stewart

 

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