environment news

South African Archbishop Tutu Says Brits Emit Carbon, Africans Die (Brits are killing Africans ... With CARBON)

Both Obama and McCain Spend Huge Sums on Print Ads, No Mention of Offsetting Carbon Emissions (They have left that for Al Gore may be)

Canadian Politician Uses Carbon Tax up, Income Tax down Theory for Election Campaign (We may have something new here in the Keynesian Economics)

Los Angeles Energy Firm Aims to Reduce Carbon Footprint of Government, People and Industries (Now this is a goodie. Let's hope we have more of them)

Port of Auckland Devoted to Cuts CO2 Emissions

Sri Lanka Opens Carbon Fund, Carbon Selling at US$14 per Tonne

Chevron Worried Australia’s Emissions Scheme Will Hurt LNG Project

Environmentalists Think Australia’s Carbon Plan Too Lenient, Ask for Increase in Carbon Price

UK Plans to Make Government Computer Systems Carbon Neutral by 2020

A Canadian couple has committed to implementing green ideas around their home, every single day for an entire year. Three months in, they have done everything from build a solar cooker and buy a manual lawnmower, to making their own butter and body wash. Our Green Year can be seen at http://ourgreenyear.blogspot.com

IVERMORE, Calif. — New research suggests that ocean temperature and associated sea level increases between 1961 and 2003 were 50 percent larger than estimated in the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.

-Chris Cappuccilli

Hundreds of the nation’s most prominent scientists and economists have issued a first-ever joint statement calling on policymakers to require immediate, deep reductions in heat-trapping emissions that cause global warming.

ZIMBABWE is suffering more from the impact of global warming like most other countries in Africa signalling the burden of climate change risks to be felt more by the poor in the near future.

An environmentally themed festival will be taking place in Norwich, UK from the end of May to mid June. It will feature international writers such as Nobel prize winner JM Coetzee  and the Pulitzer prize winning poet CK Williams as well as nature writers such as Gretel Ehrlich, Richard Mabey, Adam Thorpe and Mark Cocker. They will be joined by Tony Juiper (Director of Friends of the Earth UK), Scientists from the RSPB and the renowned University of East Anglia's centre of Climate Change Study and all will take part in debates, readings, performances and workshops.

This site managed to snag some videos of the Goldman Environmental Prize recipient speeches. I went to the event and it was a moving, inspirational experience.

Colorado has introduced an initiative that would offer drivers the option of a environmentally-friendly license plate in exchange for a carbon-offsetting donation. Now your SUV can be cool as a Prius too!

Marine biologists believe seahorses could be breeding in the London's River Thames as the river becomes cleaner

If global warming is evident, that means that all nations should do a considerable effort to reverse the effects of our situation. Apparently India is not going in this direction. It has been said that a $4.2 billion coal-fired power plant is an upcoming project to respond to India’s enormous need for more and affordable electricity.

Europe's environmental news

Tomorrow night at 8:00h turn off your lights for one hour. Get as many people as you can to do the same. Earth Hour was created by WWF in Sydney, Australia in 2007, and in one year has grown from an event in one city to a global movement.

This brand-new household environmental calculator is the first of its kind — it shows not only the carbon but also energy, water, wastewater, trash, and stormwater runoff footprints of your home and lifestyle. In addition, it recommends projects based on your specific inputs that can save you money, reduce your environmental impact, or in many cases both at the same time! The Impact Calculator also calculates a score called the Low Impact Living Index™, or LILI™, that encapsulates in one number your overall environmental footprint. Please give it a test drive!

An eco-terrorism act strikes close to home, as one of ListedGreen.com's green residential listings advertised for sale takes a hit along with several others.

Even though large luxury homes can be built very green and energy efficient, it was sad to see this type of terrorism is still amongst us. ListedGreen will continue to embrace green luxury properties, because those type of homes will still be built, regardless of what most of us think, so the responsible effort lies with building  these bigger homes as green and energy efficient as possible.