Archive for September 24th, 2009
Isn’t it a pity – isn’t it a shame?
When listening to the writings of George Harrison and others inspired to ask why; we should ask when? When will we stop, listen and learn?
Thanks to all the great musicians who put their hearts and souls into this song and tribute to a man pure of heart who has gone but will never be forgotten.
Eric Clapton [...]
Posted: September 24th, 2009 under Foundation News.
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Why does product and packaging waste continue to increase?
Products, Packaging and US Greenhouse Gas Emissions
by Joshua Stolaroff, PhD
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This paper builds on a new report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “Opportunities to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions through Materials and Land Management Practices,” which offers new insight into the impact of products and packaging on climate change. Based on the report, non-food products [...]
Posted: September 24th, 2009 under Foundation News, Green Living.
Tags: greenhouse emissions, landfill, packaging, reduce waste, reducing emissions, waste packaging
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EU lists industries given the go ahead to pollute
In what the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation sees as a complete copout the EU has bailed on reducing its emissions for the worst case polluting industries.
Experts from the 27-member bloc agreed on a list of industries ranging from plastics manufacturing to iron and food processing that will be largely exempted from CO2 trading after 2013 for fears [...]
Posted: September 24th, 2009 under Climate Change, Foundation News, General, Negotiations, Technologies.
Tags: carbon credits, Carbon Leakage, Cement Industries, Climate Change, climate change costs, climate change emissions reductions, CO2 Emissions, coal, energy production, European Union, Industry lobbies, international agreements, major polluters, Negotiations
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Population: Overconsumption is the real problem
THERE is a pervading myth that efforts to fight climate change and other environmental perils will be to no avail unless we “do something about population growth” Even seasoned analysts talk about the threat of “exponential” population growth. But there is no exponential growth. In most of the world fertility rates are falling fast, and [...]
Posted: September 24th, 2009 under Climate Change, General, Green Living, Negotiations.
Tags: Climate Change, consumption, emissions reductions, finite resources, population, population growth, resource depletion
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LATIN AMERICA: Desertification – an Invisible Cancer
BUENOS AIRES, Sep 18 (IPS) – “Desertification is the cancer of the earth,” Argentine geographer Elena Abraham told IPS. “It is a process of degradation that does not manifest itself in spectacular ways but furtively advances, and by the time it is visible there is nothing to be done, and people have to move away, [...]
Posted: September 24th, 2009 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, Desertification, global warming, natural systems, stop climate change
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Methane mining could trigger killer gas cloud
BENEATH the shimmering surface of Africa’s Lake Kivu, a deadly time bomb awaits. A “gold rush” to extract valuable methane from the lake’s depths might trigger an outburst of gas that could wash a deadly, suffocating blanket over the 2 million people who live around Kivu’s shores.
Like Nyos, Lake Kivu is permanently stratified: a deep [...]
Posted: September 24th, 2009 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, climate change emissions reductions, global warming, methane, pollution
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Copenhagen begins in Beijing. The world waits
It could be the most crucial question we face today: just what is China’s climate change strategy?
What is China playing at on climate change? That may be the most important question in the world right now, thanks alone to its status as the world’s biggest producer of greenhouse gasses. But what Beijing is – or [...]
Posted: September 24th, 2009 under Climate Change, General, Negotiations.
Tags: Climate Change, climate change costs, climate change emissions reductions, CO2 Emissions, Copenhagen, energy production, global warming, greenhouse emissions, International negotiations, Kyoto, Negotiations, stop climate change
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