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An Evening With Ernest Moniz
Cleantech Blog —
Authority: 117
by Richard T. Stuebi Last week, the MIT Club of Northeast Ohio hosted a talk at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland by Professor Ernest Moniz , the Director of the MIT Energy Initiative , and a member of the Presidents Council of Advisors on Science and Technology . Over the course of about an hour ...5 days ago -
DOPENHAGEN: Forests Fail Fast but We Move Forward
It's Getting Hot In Here —
Authority: 659
Bloodshed with REDD. Talks of saving the world’s last remaining forests and the communities who depend on them came to a grinding halt at the end of the Copenhagen Climate Negotiations. Initial agreement on a global target to reduce deforestation and other safeguards were either moved from operational part of the ...1 week ago -
Monsanto Refuses Angry Mermaid Award in DC
It's Getting Hot In Here —
Authority: 659
The seas are swirling with mermaids’ fury against Monsanto and the corporate criminals who sabotaged the Copenhagen climate process. Mermaids know no borders. They swam it all the way to DC Wednesday to share their anger with the 3 winners of the “ Angry Mermaid Awards “. We at the DC Climate Action Factory ...1 week ago -
Carbon Capture and Sequestration Could Reach $221B by 2030: Study
Seven Generational Ruminations —
Authority: 444
There are powerful forces driving the growth of the Carbon Capture and Sequestration industry. Those forces — the need to mitigate climate change, a looming price on carbon such as through a cap-and-trade system, and large amounts of government funding — could push the emerging industry to capture and store ...1 week ago -
More than half worlds science academies support call to save rainforests
Mongabay.com News —
Authority: 143
More than half worlds science academies have signed a statement supporting a plan to save tropical forests as a means to fight climate change, reports the Global Canopy Program, an initiative that has worked closely with Prince Charles to promote rainforest conservation. The statement argues that tropical forest ...1 week ago -
Company Aims to Make Jet Fuel from Coal
Green Inc. —
Authority: 734
Some of the worlds largest airlines -- including American, US Airways, Delta and Lufthansa -- have signed a memorandum of understanding to buy 500,000 barrels per month of jet fuel made from petroleum coke, a refinery waste product -- and coal.1 week ago -
The Case For Selling Cap And Trade Credits For Carbon Rich Rangelands
TechPulse 360 —
Authority: 132
Mention carbon capture and visions of large scale projects aimed at skimming CO2 from coal plant plumes and burying it deep underground come to mind. Rangeland makes up 31% of the nations land and soils holds three times more carbon as the atmosphere But there are simpler and potentially more effective ways to ...1 week ago -
Eco Tech: Human blood to help scientists develop better CO2 sequestration system
Ecofriend —
Authority: 632
Eco Factor: Synthetic enzyme to help capture CO2 from coal plant emissions. While researchers are trying to find the best places to safely store carbon dioxide underground, there are some who are working to refine the initial processes of carbon capture. New Jersey-based Carbozyme is taking help from the human ...1 week ago -
Copenhagen protesters rounded up as church bells ring – 350 times
Alan Gregory's Conservation News —
Authority: 122
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Unilever suspends palm oil contract after supplier found to be destroying rainforests
Mongabay.com News —
Authority: 143
The worlds largest user of palm oil, Unilever, has suspended its $32.6 million contract with the Indonesian group Sinar Mas after an independent audit proved that Sinar Mas is involved in the destruction of rainforest, reports Reuters. The audit was conducted early this year after a report by Greenpeace alleged that ...2 weeks ago -
REDD may miss up to 80 percent of land use change emissions
Mongabay.com News —
Authority: 143
The political definition of forest used in REDD (Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) threatens to undermine the programs objective to conserve ecosystems for their ability to sequester carbon, according to a new analysis by the Alternatives to Slash and Burn (ASB) Partnership for Tropical ...2 weeks ago -
Assessing Carbon Storage on Public Lands
Green Inc. —
Authority: 734
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, speaking at the Copenhagen climate summit, cited new research that showed the vast potential of public lands to help combat climate change.2 weeks ago -
Buried charcoal: Global warming star?
The Why Files —
Authority: 109
Buried charcoal stimulates microbes and plant growth, helping farmers on poor soil. Studies show that charcoal is stable for hundreds of years.2 weeks ago -
Soros Says He Has a Way to Unlock Climate Finance
Features —
Authority: 123
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Billionaire financier George Soros told Reuters on Thursday he had found a way to unlock a stalemate on climate finance using International Monetary Fund assets.Soros wants to invest $1 billion of a total of his own $25 billion funds in low-carbon assets.U.N. talks in Copenhagen, meant to agree ...2 weeks ago -
Obama to the fools: Duct tape will fix it
Contrarian Stock Market Investing News - Featuring Bargain Stocks —
Authority: 523
By Andrew Snyder, TodaysFinancialNews.com Baltimore — ( TFN ): Want to know when a specific trend has no legs? Simple, when the government backs it, you know its DOA. Just ask the folks that dumped millions into the biofuels industry. I have never seen an industry fall off the map as quickly as ethanol, except ...2 weeks ago -
Developed countries plan to hide emissions from logging
Mongabay.com News —
Authority: 143
While developing countries in the tropics have received a lot of attention for their deforestation emissions (one thinks of Brazil, Indonesia, and Malaysia), emissions from logging—considered forest cover change—in wealthy northern countries has been largely overlooked by the media. It seems industrialized ...2 weeks ago -
Biofuel’s indirect environmental effects
EcoTone —
Authority: 416
Biofuels hold promise for reducing the world’s consumption of unsustainable fossil fuels. But like any new technology, they come with their own host of issues and problems. One such problem is the so-called “indirect” effect of biofuels on the landscape and the atmosphere. For example, when farmlands are ...2 weeks ago -
Solar PV Could Be Standard in New European Buildings by 2020
Features —
Authority: 123
The European Union Energy Council this week reached an agreement on the new Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD). Under the agreement any new European building will have to be close to energy neutral by 2020, meaning that a very large share of energy consumption in new buildings will be provided by ...2 weeks ago -
Oceans and carbon sequestration
Robert Kyriakides's Weblog —
Authority: 127
Professor Andrew Watson has published the results of an investigation into the absorption of carbon dioxide by the world’s oceans. The study was carried out by an international team of researchers who have tried to discover a more accurate method of seeing just how much carbon is absorbed into the oceans of the ...2 weeks ago -
REDD in Madagascar
Mongabay.com News —
Authority: 143
Despite damage from ongoing illegal logging, Madagascars remaining forests are poised to benefit from the proposed REDD mechanism, a U.N.-backed scheme that would compensate tropical developing countries for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation, reports a new paper that analyzes efforts to use carbon ...2 weeks ago
