• “Birds Lost in Action”

    Updated: 2010-01-30 19:56:04
    A comparison of the birds killed annually by Danish windmills, Danish automobiles, and British cats. Taken from Sustainable Energy–without the hot air by David J.C. MacKay, who makes this book and all the graphics he prepared for it available free online.  (He notes that the number taken by cats is about the same as birds that [...]

  • Friday Insanity 2.20

    Updated: 2010-01-29 19:30:32

  • Hilary Benn Calls for Biodiversity Pricing in Policy

    Updated: 2010-01-26 14:33:40
    Hilary Benn MP, Secretary of State for the Environment, has called for world leaders to identify a way to price the impact of their decisions on biodiversity. The Guardian reports that, in a speech outlining Labour manifesto thinking, Mr Benn praised the TEEB review (the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) currently being prepared by a [...]

  • Severe Global Water Shortages Seen Taking Root in Developing Nations

    Updated: 2010-01-25 06:19:03
    The near absence of fresh water for the human population is already beginning to impact many sectors of the world, notably with the current situation in India. By the year 2020, most major Indian cities are projected to run dry, according to data from the World Bank.  Severe water shortage had already led to a growing [...]

  • M.Sc. Scholarship (Sherbrooke)

    Updated: 2010-01-23 12:51:56

  • Friday Insanity 2.19

    Updated: 2010-01-22 19:08:27

  • Friday Night at the Movies | Clean Food

    Updated: 2010-01-22 05:34:02
    Friday Night at the Movies is pleased to present the third in a series of four videos from Ethical Markets Media, an independent media company covering the emergence of a sustainable, green, more ethical and just economy worldwide. The Ethical Market Series 1. Green Building & Design 3. Clean Food 2. Renewable Energy 4. Health & Wellness Episode 3. Clean Food Concerns about the industrialization of [...]

  • Low or Zero-Carbon Sources Are Crucial for Future Energy Security: IEA

    Updated: 2010-01-20 05:48:42
    The International Energy Agency (IEA) has steadfastly confirmed the growing need for low carbon biofuels to increase global energy security and reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) relative to petroleum. “Energy needs to be used more efficiently and the carbon content of the energy we consume must be reduced, by switching to low- or zero-carbon sources,” says [...]

  • Friday Insanity 2.18

    Updated: 2010-01-15 19:20:33

  • Friday Night at the Movies | Renewable Energy

    Updated: 2010-01-15 05:16:57
    Friday Night at the Movies is pleased to present the second in a series of four videos from Ethical Markets Media, an independent media company covering the emergence of a sustainable, green, more ethical and just economy worldwide. The Ethical Market Series 1. Green Building & Design 3. Clean Food 2. Renewable Energy 4. Health & Wellness Episode 2. Renewable Energy The great transition from fossil [...]

  • Step Forward | International Year of Biodiversity

    Updated: 2010-01-14 05:15:30
    The United Nations has proclaimed 2010 The International Year of Biodiversity. At the launch ceremony in Berlin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel cautioned that the world will face “enormous costs” if no action is taken against climate change and securing biodiversity. Humans are obviously an integral part of the natural balance. Our fate is inextricably linked with [...]

  • Climate Change Causing Antarctic Glaciers to Melt More Rapidly than Previously Indicated

    Updated: 2010-01-12 05:15:16
    Antarctica’s glaciers are melting more rapidly than previously thought because of climate change, according to new information from US Geological Survey (USGS) through collaboration with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). One ice shelf, the Wordie Ice Shelf along the western coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, has completely disappeared.  Another, the Larsen Ice Shelf extending along the [...]

  • International Year of Biodiversity Launches Formally

    Updated: 2010-01-11 13:24:59
    The UN International Year of Biodiversity (IYB) was officially launched today, with an opening ceremony held in Berlin. Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and Federal Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen officially opened the IYB at 10.00am GMT. Marking the launch of the IYB with a piece on the Guardian website today is Dr Bob Bloomfield, co-ordinator for [...]

  • Friday Insanity 2.17

    Updated: 2010-01-08 21:24:14
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  • Making Biofuels More Sustainable

    Updated: 2010-01-08 10:09:57
    A report published by the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management has outlined recommendations to make the future production of biofuels more sustainable. The report concentrated on first generation biofuels, such as ethanol and sugar cane, analysing the life cycle of their production. The authors found that the way in which [...]

  • U.S. Wildlife Map

    Updated: 2010-01-04 17:53:29
    Happy New Year. Here’s a map of game in the United States from 1956.

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