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After 25 years impact of Bhopal leak lingers
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
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Controversy still surrounds one of the worlds worst industrial accidents 25 years after an estimated 8,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of a toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India. At around midnight on December 3, 1984, a leak at a Union Carbide plant of methyl isocyanate gas -- a chemical compound used ...1 day ago -
Optimistic or pessimistic about the Copenhagen climate talks?
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by Grist The COP15 climate conference starts next week in Copenhagen, and our panel of experts is optimistic … ish. We asked them, “What’s the mood as Copenhagen approaches?” Many say they draw inspiration from the fast-growing, increasingly diverse, grassroots global climate movement. But they aren’t ...1 day ago -
The Copenhagen Conundrum
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By Eugene Robinson Climate-change skeptics are barking up the wrong smokestack. The shell game being played isn’t with the science, it’s with the solutions. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries November 30, 2009 Larry’s List: Cyber Monday Edition November 30, 2009 Don’t Look to D.C. to Help ...2 days ago -
Lab-Grown Pig Even Vegetarians Can Eat
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Dutch scientists are doing their bit to address the food crisis, the climate crisis and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals by growing pork meat from muscle cells harvested from a live pig. Their hope is to turn the cells from one animal into the meat from a million without killing any. Right now, you ...2 days ago -
George and me
Chris Tindal —
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Chris Tindal and Mardi Tindal with George Monbiot in Toronto. To the left of the frame, John Ralston Saul and R.H. Thompson may have gotten a bit shoved out of the way. I went to hear George Monbiot speak on Saturday in Toronto, and was excited to see that he was there in person. Monbiot is one of the best (and ...2 days ago -
Is there any real chance of averting the climate crisis?
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Inhofe trashes generals who advocate for bipartisan clean energy legislation: They crave “the limelight.”
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The national security threat posed by unrestricted greenhouse gas emissions is great (see “ NYT: Climate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. Security ” and “ Veterans Day, 2029 “). The threat is so clearcut that even the Bush Administration’s top intelligence experts were raising the alarm (see “ The moving ...3 days ago -
Comfortable conservation and global warming
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
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-- John Kemp is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own -- Energy efficiency will have to make the single most-important contribution if policymakers are serious about limiting greenhouse gas emissions and dampening growing demand for fossil fuels. Energy efficiency will not remove the need to invest ...5 days ago -
Book Review: Our Choice — Al Gore’s Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com —
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Al Gore hasn’t been resting on his laurels since An Inconvenient Truth . His substantial new book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis has grown out of the more than 30 lengthy and intensive “Solution Summits” he has organised to enable leading experts from round the world to share their ...6 days ago -
Giving thanks for high-profile environmental threats
California League of Conservation Voters Blog —
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It’s almost Thanksgiving, and in the spirit of the holiday, I wanted to thank Meg Whitman for her alarming statements about California’s pioneering global warming law. In case anyone missed it: in her September 16th opinion piece in the San Jose Mercury News , Meg Whitman said the following about California’s ...1 week ago -
New Kind of Power Plant Gets Energy From Salt Water
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A Norwegian company thinks it can squeeze enough electricity out of the natural phenomenon of osmosis to power China. Right now the company’s plant can barely heat a tea kettle, but officials hope to power a village in a few years, and a lot more after that. It works by separating seawater and freshwater with a ...1 week ago -
Blog Action Day 2009
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Guest post by Robin Beck, Blog Action DayThis is Robin Beck here from Blog Action Day central, and I want to thank Rick and the Blogger team for helping support Blog Action Day 2009. For those of you who don’t know, Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15th where bloggers across [...]1 week ago -
Giving Thanks to Inspiration – Review of “The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community”
The End of Capitalism —
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“We stand at a critical moment in Earth’s history, a time when humanity must choose its future. As the world becomes increasingly interdependent and fragile, the future at once holds great peril and great promise. To move forward we must recognize that in the midst of a magnificent diversity of cultures and life ...1 week ago -
Climategate–The Political Scam, Investment Fraud, and Science Scandal of The Century Exposed–The Progressive Radical Socialist’s Big Lie And Con That Man Is The Cause Of Global Warming Was In Fact Nothing More Than Politicians, Investment Bankers, and Gov
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Rush Limbaugh Nov 24 2009 Morning Update Glenn Beck Show – November 24, 2009 – Pt 5 of 7 – Climate-Gate CLIMATEGATE! Fox RIPS Global Warming Advocate! 1000’s of Emails / Documents Reveal FRAUD! Climate Gate Scientists Would Rather Change Facts Than Their Theories! ...1 week ago -
Naomi Klein on Climate Debt: Why Rich Countries Should Pay Reparations To Poor Countries For The Climate Crisis.
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Amy Goodman:---Let’s begin with the issue of climate change and as you put it, climate rage. Tell us what is happening. Naomi Klein: That piece in Rolling Stone is looking at a growing demand for the repayment of climate debt. This is really a relatively new framing for the climate crisis and is becoming ...1 week ago -
International Call Against Cop15 United Nations Climate Change Copenhagen meeting
Void Network —
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International Call Against Cop15 United Nations Climate Change meeting The catastrophe is real and climate change is one of its many symptoms. ...1 week ago -
Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
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There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...1 week ago -
Refuse Allegiance to Coal
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By Chris Hedges There are some 614 coal-fired power plants in the United States, and it is up to us to shut them down. No one in the White House will do it. No one in Congress will do it. And no one at the coming U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen will do it. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries ...1 week ago -
Al Gore Goes Rogue: "Im Just Going To Start Acting Crazy" (video)
HOWIEINSEATTLE —
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SNL-NBC, with video (03:42): This week on Saturday Night Live, Al Gore appeared with Seth Meyers on Weekend Update for a hilarious segment for NBCs Green Week. He announces that hes come up with a new tactic for getting people to care about green issues, which is to start acting crazy. One idea he has is to tape ...1 week ago -
Al Gore Receives Global Humanitarian Award in Silicon Valley
Triple Pundit —
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Nobel Laureate and former Vice President Al Gore received the 2009 James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award this evening for his successful efforts to raise awareness about climate change. The award was inspired by Applied Materials Chairman Emeritus James Morgan’s belief that technology can be a tool to turn ideas ...1 week ago

