Tag: Global Warming Solutions - Page 12
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Bioneers 2010: How The Best Minds in Climate Change Will Rebuild Our World
"We are bloated with information but starved for wisdom" -- Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey. Photos via Jaymi Heimbuch Bioneers is a marvel of grassroots organizing. The annual conference brings together the top minds within the environmentalist
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Global Aviation Industry Aims to Cap Emissions in 2020 + Strengthens Energy Efficiency Target
With the European Union's plan to include aviation in its emission trading scheme just two years away, there's some more movement on slowing the growing carbon footprint of the airline industry. At the annual
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Existing International Law Supports States Suing One Another Over Climate Change Damages
The issue of international legal liability for damages caused by climate change has come up a number of times recently, especially as scientists have become more adept at attributing
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The Global Work Party Begins: Maldives President Finishes Solar Panel Installation
It's only 10/6 and the first 10/10/10 Global Work Party event is already over, or will soon be: President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives' new solar panels have been installed on the roof of the presidential residence. The
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Protesting Coal, Roof Painting Parties & Weatherization 'Barnraisings' - More Great 10/10/10 Action
If the White House announcing that it will be installing solar panels after all--let's not begrudge that they didn't take 350.org and Sungevity up on their offer of free new ones--hasn't inspired you to get to work this Sunday as part of the 10/10/10
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Cutting Back on Meat-Eating & Livestock Products Should Be Environmental Priority: New Study
The positive effect of vegetarian diets on the environment is pretty well documented at this point, but here's another new study detailing the high environmental costs of meat: It concludes that because of
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Three Practical Pathways By Which We Can Get To 350ppm & Avert Climate Catastrophe
With some new research on how even keeping global temperature rise to 2°C may not be enough to avoid some pretty catastrophic climate change effects, and the last round of international climate change talks prior to the
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If Genetically Modified Trees Could Help Stop Climate Change Would You Support Them?
Some new research in Bioscience outlines different ways in which genetically modifying trees and plants to help them increase their carbon sequestration potential to fight climate change--we're talking billions of
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Highlight From West Coast Green: Eric Corey Freed's Sustainability Plan
Trying to cram in three days of West Coast Green is like trying to fit a buffet table's offerings on two slices of bread. There is just so much to take in at this
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Nine Days to Go Until 350.org's Work Party on 10/10/10 - Here's Ten Top Events To Inspire Action
With just nine days left until 350.org's
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Every Argument You Ever Wanted to Have About Geoengineering
Photo via NASA, Public Domain Geoengineering a disaster? Ah, geoengineering -- the topic every climate-conscious lady or gent has a strong opinion on. It brings up all those fun questions: If things get bad enough, like if man continues to emit
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Why Can't Clean Energy Be More Like Cell Phones? (Video)
Or, Why Government and Business Are Locked in a Climate Showdown At a special session focused on energy and the environment at the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative, billionaire investor and clean energy entrepreneur Richard Branson joined Christiana
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Reflecting Sunlight Away From Earth to Cool the Planet Could Help Some Places, Really Hurt Others
Among the more high risk methods of geoengineering, methods that reflect sunlight away from the Earth to counteract temperature rise are right up there in terms of potential unintended consequences. Well, a new piece of
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US $50 Million Pledge For Cleaner Cookstoves is Big Win For Women, Forests & Climate
Today Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to announce a $50 million pledge of seed money, distributed over five years, to help the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves provide 100 million clean-burning
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World's Largest Mining Company: We Must Move Away from Coal
While we've received a healthy influx of signs that the world's heavyweights aren't planning on diversifying their energy portfolios to any radical degree in the near future -- China building a submersible to dive
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Don't Just Simmer, Get Busy Getting to 350
The dog days of summer are over. For many, it was one of the hottest summers in recent memory. Arctic ice is thinning at an alarming rate. Environmental catastrophes from dirty energy continue to happen.
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Mass Mobilization, Direct Action Needed Locally & Nationally to Stop Climate Change
Bill McKibben and friends are in a biodiesel van making the symbolic journey to the White House from the Maine college where Jimmy Carter's solar water heating panel has been residing for the past three decades, ultimately
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IPCC Did Good Work But Needs Fundamental Reforms, Review Concludes
Though the Nobel Peace Prize-winning IPCC has done good work in its past assessments of climate change science, an independent review of the way the organization operates says "fundamental reforms" are needed-- among those are shorter terms
