Archive for October 6th, 2009
Google Earth Climate Introductory Tour
Narrated by Al Gore this introduction to the Google climate chnage presentations to come, is well worth the time to view. Google has launched an interesting tool in preparation for GOP15 that allows users to explore what the world might look like if various levels of warming, sea rises, and so forth occur. You’re able [...]
Posted: October 6th, 2009 under Climate Change, Foundation News, General, Nature, Negotiations, Tipping Points.
Tags: 350ppm, activism, activist, activists, catastrophic climate change, climate negotiations, Copenhagen, global warming, icesheet loss, science, sea level rise
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PACKAGING – WHO NEEDS IT? – Making a case for Extended Producer Responsibility
When going about busy daily lives for most of us in the developed nations, we rarely give much thought to the externalities either upstream, or downstream of our consumer society. Upstream from our individual consumption, we can site the resources used by manufactures; the raw materials, the water they consume, the energy and all the [...]
Posted: October 6th, 2009 under Foundation News, General, Green Living.
Tags: Extended producer responsibility, landfill, packaging, paper waste, reduce waste, reducing waste, Unpackaged Movement, waste packaging, ZERO Waste
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Hurdles Remain on Climate Change Goals
Washington post full article click HERE Like most members of President Obama’s climate team, David Sandalow was one of President Bill Clinton’s negotiators in Kyoto. And he carries an indelible lesson from the experience of signing off on the international climate pact there 12 years ago: “Only agree abroad to what you can implement at [...]
Posted: October 6th, 2009 under Climate Change, General, Negotiations.
Tags: Climate Change, climate negotiations, Copenhagen, International negotiations, Kyoto, Obama administration
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