Posted by at Dec 4th, 2008 in Climate Change
Filed under: Celebrities , News , Climate Change Newsweek has a new interview with Nobel Prize winning Former Vice President Al Gore , and they cover some interesting ground, including the auto industry bailout, climate change reactions around the world and the myth (it doesn’t exist!) [...]
Posted by at Dec 3rd, 2008 in Climate Change
Filed under: News , Climate Change Sure, Mondays can be rough, but in generally it’s getting over “Hump Day” on Wednesday that (supposedly) gives most people trouble. And now it looks like you have one more thing to fret over: getting struck by lightning! Thomas Bell, from [...]
Posted by at Dec 1st, 2008 in Climate Change
Filed under: Local , Climate Change Venice may not be the perfect case study for how rising sea levels might affect coastal cities around the world, but just like the tiny islands of Tuvalu , Venice’s situation has become somewhat symbolic of climate change. Torrential rains and strong winter [...]
Posted by at Nov 26th, 2008 in Climate Change
Filed under: Polit-eco , Climate Change
As anyone reading this knows, the economy is not in the greatest of conditions right now. There’s a good chance that the majority of you at least know someone affected by a job loss somewhere. This has been one of Barack Obama’s main campaign promises, as noted [...]
Posted by at Nov 26th, 2008 in Climate Change
Filed under: Polit-eco , Alternative Energy , Climate Change Way to go Pope Benedict and all of you Vatican eco-warriors! Today the Vatican is scheduled to activate their new Solar power system . This system will provide 20% of the city-state’s power by 2020. It will [...]
Posted by at Nov 25th, 2008 in Climate Change
Filed under: Green by the Numbers , Climate Change You’re probably thinking: ” oh great, another PETA-like organization , showing a bunch of skin just to promote themselves while using the environment as an excuse .” Well, this stunt is not exactly what you’d think. It turns [...]
Posted by at Nov 25th, 2008 in Climate Change
Filed under: News , Climate Change If you get freaked out by grim stories about climate change, you should just skip this article . New projections about the spread of malaria, plus dengue fever, plus huge numbers of environmental refugees in the South Pacific are simply scary. [...]
Posted by at Nov 24th, 2008 in Climate Change
Filed under: Movies, TV and Books , News , Climate Change It’s no secret that The Weather Channel’s founder is — how do I put this? — less than completely convinced that humans are having any impact on the earth’s climate. At the [...]
Posted by Editor at Nov 22nd, 2008 in Activism, Climate Change, RSS Feeds
Filed under: News , Polit-eco , Plants and Wildlife It’s that time of year. As some people hang Christmas lights and display Hanukkah candelabras others load up the grenade-tipped harpoon for another season of “whale research.” As you might imagine a few groups are upset about this. Captain Paul Watson of Sea Shepard would be [...]
Posted by Editor at Nov 22nd, 2008 in Activism, Climate Change, RSS Feeds
Filed under: News , Polit-eco At least, that’s what the Chinese government is saying. Last year when scores of animals fell sick and died as a result of melamine-tainted pet food the government said the same thing. Earlier this year authorities discovered manufacturers were still tainting pet food. But the dairy scare this year seems [...]
