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Don’t forget to recycle and buy recycled products. Saturday, Nov. 15 is America Recycles Day created by the National Recycling Coalition. The “Recycling” holiday (as I like to call it) is designed to promote the social, environmental and economic benefits of recycling.

A new report says that global warming could cost the Californian economy billions of dollars each year, through a combination of rising sea levels, and the increased frequency of wild fires and extreme weather events. The comprehensive study (PDF), published by researcher’s at UC Berkeley, also claims that $2.5 trillion of Californian real estate assets are at risk.

Since NERC's (North American Electric Reliability Corporation) jurisdiction extends to a number of Canadian provinces, this new report detailing the impacts of climate change initiatives on the North American power grid system is particularly relevant. Some points to note:1) Coal is not the future.

Last year I had the opportunity to visit South Africa and take a firsthand look at the consumer debt situation. There was no doubt even when I was there that there was going to be a huge explosion of consumer debt problems.

Long Cao and Ken Caldeira from the Carnegie Institution at Stanford have a new paper in Geophysical Research Letters on atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) stabilization and ocean acidification, a critical topic for current marine science and public policy.

The following is my presentation at the International Symposium on Slopes in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is an invited paper on the topic of landslides in Asia in relation to climate change and other environmental pressures.

The number of large multinational firms releasing corporate responsibility data either in stand alone reports, or as part of their annual financial reports has increased significantly in the last three years, according to a new survey from accountancy giant KPMG.

Author: Shiro Armstrong The current global economic crisis presents an opportunity for reaching a global agreement on climate change next year in Copenhagen, according to Nicholas Stern, author of the Stern Report.  The global financial crisis has highlighted the risks of ignoring problems in the financial system over the past two decades.

Author: Shiro Armstrong The current global economic crisis presents an opportunity for reaching a global agreement on climate change next year in Copenhagen, according to Nicholas Stern, author of the Stern Report.  The global financial crisis has highlighted the risks of ignoring problems in the financial system over the past two decades.

There’s big trouble at the top of the world according to a report released this month by US government scientists. The Arctic Report Card is produced annually by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and this year the state of the climate in the arctic got an alarming F.