Archive for July 16th, 2010

The climate solution? It’s an energy [r]evolution we need, Mr Osborne

This week Greenpeace launches our vision for a European energy revolution – a practical blueprint for a renewable energy future. Using only proven technologies we can phase out fossil-fuels, cut CO2 emissions by over 90% by 2050 and ensure energy security – without a huge reduction in living standards.

"A complete conversion to renewable energy by [...]

Vote for the new face of BP

A couple of months back, we asked you to Rebrand BP by designing a logo that better suits their dirty business (‘Beyond Petroleum’? Or up to their necks in tar sands and deepwater drilling?)
To be honest, your response took us by surprise – not just in quantity (we’ve had well over 2000 entries), but in [...]

Come to the ‘Train not Plane’ party!

We’ve won a great victory against the Heathrow third runway, but there are still plans to expand aviation elsewhere around the country. The airline industry needs to take on its fair share of emissions cuts. We should be thinking about reducing, not expanding aviation. We can start with journeys which can clearly be made through [...]

Climate scientists respond to ‘climategate’ report

It’s time to abandon the black-and-white fiction that human-induced climate change is fact or conspiracy, they say

Animal pictures of the week: 16 July 2010

All creatures great and small in our popular weekly animal gallery.

Mammoth facts or woolly thinking ?

Here’s something to spice up the unseemly slanging-match that is overdignified as ‘the global warming debate’, writes Geoffrey Lean.

BP’s miracle clean-up tool: PR and lobbying

Our colleagues in the US have been blogging regularly about the ongoing disaster in the gulf and Greenpeace’s involvement in the response to the oil spill. Here, Mike Gaworecki sheds some light on the clean-up operation BP has been carrying out on its image.
There’s no way to clean up an oil spill. We’ve seen [...]

Vegie oil, fat, algae to power US aircraft

MILITARY planes go green with Pentagon slashing massive $US20 billion fuel budget as pilots praise mustard oil trial.

A bank for wind power

A last we can store vast amounts of wind energy and use it when we need it, as New Scientist reports

IEA’s U-turn on energy growth

The International Energy Agency calls for limits on growth of energy demand for the first time

 

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