UXBRIDGE, Canada, Feb 17, 2011 (IPS) – Thawing permafrost is threatening to overwhelm attempts to keep the planet from getting too hot for human survival.
By Stephen Leahy
Without major reductions in the use of fossil fuels, as much as two-thirds of the world’s gigantic storehouse of frozen carbon could be released, a new study reported. That …
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Permafrost Melt Soon Irreversible Without Major Fossil Fuel Cuts
Is a U.S. Nuclear Revival Finally Underway
The first new nuclear reactor ordered in the U.S. in roughly three decades is beginning to take shape in the red clay near Augusta, Ga. Southern Co. and its partners have dug 27.5 meters down into that soil to reach bedrock and are now filling up the hole to provide a stable foundation for what …
Climate As the New Dirty Word
By Katie Fehrenbacher at Earth2Tech
A new movie on climate change, called Carbon Nation, debuts this week. It’s positioned as the anti-Al Gore climate change movie. Basically, you don’t have to believe in the science of climate change to watch the movie and want to support clean power and greener transportation.
While I’m not supporting ignoring science, there’s clearly …
More green shoots to lift renewables sector
COPENHAGEN/FRANKFURT, February 8 (Reuters) – The outlook forrenewable energy groups might be lighting up enough to give investors an opportunity to benefit from the struggle against climate change.
Danish wind turbine maker Vestas, Norwegian solar industry group Renewable Energy Corp and French renewable energy producer EDF Energies Nouvelles are set to send signs of hope for …
Coca-Cola reports 8% reduction in emissions
The Coca-Cola Company reduced its absolute emissions from manufacturing operations in developed countries by 8 percent since 2004, according to the bottling company’s newly released 2009-2010 Sustainability Review.
Coca-Cola’s sustainability report covers its 300 bottling partners’ performance on the areas of energy efficiency and climate protection, sustainable packaging and water stewardship.
According to the review, direct greenhouse gas …
Plans for 150 coal plants scrapped: Sierra Club
NEW YORK, February 4 (Reuters) – Purdue University’s decision tocancel plans for a new coal-fired plant at its Indiana campus brings the total number of abandoned plants to 150 since 2001, the environmental group Sierra Club said on Friday.
Purdue said in a release on Friday that its Board of Trustees halted plans to install the …
California hinges economy and job creation on clean energy
by Honey Garcia
California intends to implement a 33 percent renewable portfolio standard by 2020 as part of a proposed bill that aims to boost the state’s clean energy business sector and stimulate job creation.
The Clean Energy Jobs Initiative, introduced by Assembly Speaker John Pérez and Senate President Pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg on Wednesday, will require public …
Efficient appliances save $150m
by DAVID WILLIAMS
More than $150 million of electricity was saved last year by removing the worst energy-guzzling appliances from Kiwi shops.
Setting minimum energy standards for products such as whiteware, fridges and heat pumps saved 706 gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity in the year to last March 31, the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) said.
That …
Businesses ready for WindMade label, PwC analyst says
By Oliver M. Bayani
Groups behind the push for a label that will identify which products in the market were manufactured using wind energy are confident the world’s corporations are ready for the WindMade label.
On Tuesday, January 18, environment and business groups agreed to develop the first global consumer label which identifies products manufactured using wind energy …
Sputnik moment: Historic meeting between U.S. and China may spur a clean energy race
BY Lucia Green-Weiskel, Tina Gerhardt
From Jan. 19 to 21, President Obama will host Chinese President Hu Jintao for their first bilateral summit this side of the Pacific. According to former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, this “will be the most important top-level United States-Chinese encounter since Deng Xiaoping’s historic trip more than 30 years ago.” While economic …
