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• Report Shows New Buildings in London Pumping Out a Third Less Carbon

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  New development projects coming to the London Mayor’s office for approval are cutting their carbon emissions by around a third, whilst tougher targets proposed in the Mayor’s draft London plan can raise this even further, a London South Bank University report has found. The independent report, commissioned by the ...
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• How the Practice and Instruction of Engineering Must Change

  
  Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog — Authority: 417
  Chief Scientist for the Rocky Mountain Institute and MacArthur Fellow, Amory Lovins , describes how small gains in efficiency at the consumption point can trigger gains that are magnitudes larger at higher levels and discusses how engineering must be practiced and taught fundamentally different. Related: MIT Hosts ...
  16 hours ago

• Israel: Assessing Irans Nuclear Capabilities & Intents

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 700
  Amir Mizroch reacts to news about Iranian uranium enrichment: “They don’t need nuclear power for civilian energy (Iran holds the world’s third-largest proven oil reserves and the world’s second-largest natural gas reserves), they want the bomb, and they’ll stop at nothing to get it.”
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• The Copenhagen Debacle’s biggest failure?

  
  Marginal Damage — Authority: 127
  Copenhagen Fallout: Carbon Prices Fall on Weak Accord – Environmental Capital – WSJ . Suddenly, the carbon market doesn’t look like such a nice place to invest: Pundits everywhere are passing judgment on the climate-change deal reached in Copenhagen early Saturday. The market is too—and it isn’t mincing ...
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• The Green Movements People Problem

  
  Newgeography.com - Economic, demographic, and political commentary about places — Authority: 603
  The once unstoppable green machine lost its mojo at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. After all its laboring and cajoling, the movement at the end resembled not a powerful juggernaut but a forlorn lover wondering why his date never showed up. One problem is that the people of earth and their ...
  2 days ago

• After Copenhagen

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 570
  In the wake of the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Change conference, we’re starting to see some more thoughtful analyses which go beyond the proximate causes of the imbroglio to gesture to more structural factors. Robert has already cited George Monbiot’s recent blog post . I’d like to take a look at a ...
  2 days ago

• Solantern: There is no longer a reason to use kerosene for lighting

  
  Afromusing — Authority: 106
  Today at The British Council in Upper Hill Nairobi, I reconnected with a TED Global 2007 friend Joseph Nganga. He has a company called Renewable Energy Ventures (KE) and is currently a reseller for an innovative lighting solution called ‘The Solantern’. He was kind enough to give me a brief demo over lunch and I ...
  3 days ago

• Copenhagen: A Failure of Economics

  
  "Five Short Blasts" Forum — Authority: 122
  President Obama, like other world leaders, returned home from Copenhagen empty-handed.  No binding agreement to reduce carbon emissions.  Some blame Obama for not offering enough.  Others blame Chinese President Jintao for resisting verification.  Others blame developing countries for demanding too much in ...
  3 days ago

• Distributed Hydropower for Resource Exploration

  
  Hydrovolts — Authority: 117
  Hydrovolts turbines provide distributed generation from hydropower, a great benefit to those who live in remote areas where no grid exists to deliver centrally produced electricity. These people need a distributed, i.e. locally produced and used, energy generation technology which works when and where they need ...
  4 days ago

• The Fallacy of the Carbon Market

  
  Horizon of Stars — Authority: 91
  Image via Wikipedia The noise surrounding Copenhagen is deafening. Hidden within the noise and light are several elephant sized questions that everyone seems to be ignoring. Firstly, is carbon pricing really an effective market? Secondly, can a market based solution be found that doesnt involve pricing carbon? My ...
  5 days ago

• Dark Clouds - The hidden side of China’s miracle economy /...

  
  The Information Paradox — Authority: 148
  Dark Clouds - The hidden side of China’s miracle economy / Magma
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• Expanding the Use of Photo Voltaic Systems

  
  After Gutenberg — Authority: 131
  In the previous post , there was mention of three pillars brokered by China, India South Africa and the United States. The plan for immediate action focused upon mitigation , transparency and finance . This post focuses upon 2 specific mitigation strategies: 1) greater acceptance of photo voltaic power and 2) ...
  5 days ago

• SOS from the Copenhagen, Sir

  
  After Gutenberg — Authority: 131
  Subtitle: Save Our Soot… Why, what did you think it meant? This blog previously noted a concise explanation of global and regional climate changes due to black carbon : 40% of soot comes from power sources, mainly coal and oil. Quickly reducing soot could have substantial short-term effects on the rate of ...
  6 days ago

• First class of Energy Auditors graduates

  
  River Country Journal — Authority: 149
  Fourteen individuals graduated Thursday (December 17th) in the first class of Energy Auditors at Glen Oaks Community College. The Energy Auditor/Workplace Readiness training program was funded with a $100,000 grant made possible through the Kalamazoo-St. Joseph County Michigan Works! and the American Recovery and ...
  6 days ago

• Reality Check in Copenhagen – Climate Conference or Anti-Capitalism Summit?

  
  Liberally Conservative — Authority: 126
  Two, two, two reality checks in Copenhagen while world dictators decide for free people everywhere that climate change is important and Hugo Chavez is a hero. Reality Check #1: World leaders flying into Copenhagen today to discuss a solution to global warming will first face freezing weather as a blizzard dumped ...
  1 week ago

• A few things the Agriculture Secretary should consider before cheering more biofuels

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 652
  U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently told reporters that we should caution against blaming biofuels for higher food prices, stating that the food versus fuel debate is based on the assumption that where we are today remains static relative to production.Vilsack went on to say he’s convinced that within 10 ...
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• Global Warming

  
  Samuel J. Scott — Authority: 430
  Stewart Brand classifies the viewpoints on climate change into four groups: denialists, skeptics, warners, and calamatists. I fall somewhere between the second and third:SKEPTICS This group is most interested in the limitations of climate science so far: they like to examine in detail the contradictions and ...
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• Q&A: Multilateral Development Banks and Climate Negotiations

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 736
  Haruhiko Kuroda, the president of the Asian Development Bank, talks about economic development, climate change, and the Copenhagen negotiations.
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• Copenhagen, Climate Change, China, and Dessert

  
  popular logistics — Authority: 421
  Earlier today one of my friends handed me a copy of some satire published in the New York Post , an info-taiment rag, on the subject of "Climate-Gate."  At about the same time, Roger Saillant, co-author of Vapor Trails , who heads the Fowler Center for Sustainable Value at Case Western Reserve University ...
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• "The smallest minds ... selfishest souls ... and cowardliest hearts that God makes"

  
  Stephen M. Walt — Authority: 684
  Yesterday our distinguished and highly principled House of Representatives passed HR 2194, the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act (IRPSA). The new measure is the brainchild of Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA), and best one can say for it is that it is a foolish bit of political posturing.  As Lara Friedman of Americans ...
  1 week ago

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