Climate Change is Already Damaging Global Economy
Updated: 2012-09-29 13:02:00
Guardian: Climate change is already contributing to the deaths of nearly 400,000 people a year and costing the world more than $1.2 trillion, wiping 1.6 percent annually from global GDP, according to a new study. The impacts are being felt most keenly in developing countries, according to the research, where damage to agricultural production from extreme weather linked to climate change is contributing to deaths from malnutrition, poverty, and their associated diseases. Air pollution caused by the use of...
LA Times: No matter who wins the 2012 election, the next president will take office as the United States faces vast new opportunities in energy production and profound challenges to environmental protection.
After decades of growing dependence on imported oil, the U.S. is moving to energy self-sufficiency, thanks to greater domestic supplies of oil and natural gas and reduced demand. Coal, which once fired most American power plants, is being edged out by natural gas, renewable energy and stricter efforts...
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Guardian: Barack Obama has revoked a Chinese company's acquisition of four wind farms, citing national security for the first time in two decades against a foreign investor.
The executive order from the White House on Friday, against the privately held Ralls Corporation, follows accusations from Mitt Romney that Obama has failed to stand up to Chinese businesses.
The president said in the executive order he had "credible evidence" that Ralls "might take action that threatens to impair the national security...
Putting fish and plants together in a closed loop (that's organic by necessity) strikes me as a brilliant use of biomimicry... or, at least the notion that "waste equals food" in the natural world. But can a backyard tinkerer put together an aquaponics system on the cheap?
SciDevNet: More Asia--Pacific countries need to embrace renewable energy and follow the first tentative steps of some governments, says Crispin Maslog.
The South-East Asia and Pacific region is blessed with abundant sources of 'green' energy -- including sun, wind, water, biomass and geothermal -- but governments are still not doing enough to harness them.
The 30 countries in this part of the world are sitting just a few degrees below and above the equator, and enjoy an estimated 300 days of sunshine...
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Clean Technica: A 50-MW solar power plant is in the planning stages for Garissa in the northern region of Kenya. It will be one of the largest grid-connected solar power plants in Africa.
It will be curious to see how many homes in the local area it can power. In the United States, a megawatt has been estimated to be enough to power 500 to 1,000 homes. In Kenya, the average home may use quite a bit less electricity.
The city of Garissa has about 65,000 residents. Just for the sake of example, say there are...
Guardian: With the UK government expected to give the go-ahead for shale gas exploitation "soon", it's a good time to re-enter the smoke and mirrors world of fracking.
There are plenty of people bubbling with excitement at the prospect of the drilling beginning. They argue that shale gas has been the biggest cause of carbon dioxide emission cuts in the US recently, thanks to the replacement of coal. It's cheap too, they say, again pointing again to the US, and there's a vast amount under our feet here in...
New York Times: As I report in the real estate section of The Times, many would-be buyers are deferring purchases of second homes in upstate New York out of concern that hydraulic fracturing might be allowed nearby. For now, no one knows whether Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo`s administration will allow this controversial natural gas drilling process to go forward.
So far, officials in the Cuomo administration have indicated that the drilling might initially be limited to five New York counties above the Pennsylvania state...
ThinkProgress: A report from Oxfam warns that global warming and extreme weather will combine to create devastating food price shocks in the coming decades.
Oxfam had previously warned that corn or maize would see a 177% rise in price by 2030 due to climate change and other factors (see Oxfam: Extreme Weather Has Helped Push Tens of Millions into “Hunger and Poverty” in “Grim Foretaste” of Warmed World).
Further modeling the impact of warming-driven extreme weather shocks leads Oxfam to conclude corn prices...
Sol Systems’ CEO, Yuri Horwitz, and Dan Yonkin, Director of Regulatory Affairs, were published in the September 2012 issue of the Novogradac Journal of Tax Credits. In the article, New Markets: Tax Credit Equity and Solar Energy Development, Horwitz and Yonkin detail the tremendous investment opportunity that solar energy can provide for tax credit investors. [...]
Braving comparisons to the bankrupted Solyndra, SoloPower is going forward with the production of thin-film solar panels.
Friends of the Earth: As the first debates approach, President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney have remained virtually silent on the most urgent global threat to the American dream: fossil-fueled climate change. Today, an aggressive social media campaign launches to mobilize Americans to demand that the candidates tell voters where they stand on climate change and how they would address it. ClimateSilence.org, a project of Forecast the Facts and Friends of the Earth Action, urges voters to sign a petition to Obama...
redOrbit: With only 6 days separating us from the third-hottest summer on record, the warnings of climate scientists are increasingly being taken with more than just a grain of salt. Many climate scientists are of the opinion that if we haven’t passed a tipping point already, then that time is rapidly approaching.
Carbon dioxide, one of the most prevalent of our greenhouse gases, acts as a sort of blanket in our atmosphere by trapping in the Earth’s heat. As carbon dioxide accumulates, it has the ability...
Environmental Leader: Climate change is already stripping 1.6 percent annually from global GDP, amounting to $1.2 trillion, a figure that will double to 3.2 percent by 2030 as temperatures escalate and carbon-related pollution continues, according to a DARA report.
The Spain-based NGO`s report, "Climate Vulnerability Monitor: A Guide to the Cold Calculus of a Hot Planet," estimates climate change causes 400,000 deaths on average each year, primarily due to hunger and communicable diseases. Separately, fossil fuels...
Guardian: The government has today released its latest quarterly energy statistics, confirming that the UK's renewable energy sector is continuing to expand rapidly, while also fuelling concerns that high gas prices are forcing energy companies to switch to more polluting coal power.
The statistics from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) show renewable electricity output during the second quarter of 2012 rose 6.5 per cent year-on-year to 8.13TWh, while capacity soared 42.4 per cent to 14.2GW,...
redOrbit: A new report, conducted by humanitarian organization DARA, claims that over 100 million people will die and global economic growth will be cut by 3.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2030 if the word fails to deal with climate change.
Greenhouse gas emissions are causing global average temperatures to rise, causing planetary effects such as melting ice caps, extreme weather, drought and rising sea levels. These threaten populations and livelihoods.
The report calculated that five...
Mongabay: Agriculture is the direct driver of roughly 80 percent of tropical deforestation, while logging is the biggest single driver of forest degradation, says a new report funded by the British and Norwegian governments.
The report, authored by Gabrielle Kissinger of Lexeme Consulting in Vancouver and Martin Herold and Veronique De Sy of Wageningen University in the Netherlands, presents an overview of drivers of deforestation to inform policymakers involved in developing the REDD+ mechanism, an international...
Want to study sustainability? Environmentally-themed majors are popping up at colleges and universities around the US; these five schools, though, are among the top tier for sustainability studies.
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How do we decrease the amount of food waste we create? How can we make better use of the food that doesn't get eaten? What opportunities are we missing along the supply chain? Sounds like good topics for a discussion... so let's discuss.
Don't have yard space for a garden? You can still grow your own vegetables and flowers indoors, and these three iPhone apps can help.
With fuel prices and concerns over emissions rising, the aircraft maker is accelerating the testing of emerging technologies.
Want to build a Solarflower, the open source solar concentrator we featured a little over a year ago? Now you can: designer Daniel Connel has published tutorials for simple, cheap solar collector.
What's the main purpose of a community garden or other urban agriculture installation? Providing fresh food... often to neighborhoods without other outlets for it. Right? Yes... but community gardens are special places that do much more than provide space for growing food. Often, stronger connections between members of the community that garden serves grow along with the plants. Cintia Cabib's film A Community of Gardeners explores that dynamic in Washington, D.C.
This FREE interactive workshop, presented by ICMA through the SunShot Solar Outreach Partnership, will provide actionable information on creating a local-level solar program in Indiana. Areas of focus will include: 1) revising zoning codes and ordinances to allow for solar; 2) streamlining permitting processes to facilitate solar installations; 3) financing solar projects; and 4) installing [...]
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Lower-tech forms of shipping could open up whole worlds of economic opportunity... and with marginal environmental impact, if done right. The creators of the Greenheart Project are trying to accomplish those goals with the development of a simply-designed, solar and sail-powered ship created specifically for use by some of the world's poorest people.
For expensive manufacturing research on solar panels and 3-D printing, a new push toward shared pilot production facilities.
What gets measured gets managed, right? This longstanding business maxim gets thrown around a lot in green circles: data's a necessary element of making the case that sustainability makes sense. At Orange County, California's Davis Magnet School (which focuses on math, science, and technology), measurement's already present in the curriculum; now, it's also a part of the school's efforts to determine if efficiency retrofits make sense for the district's bottom line and the students' performance.
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Dear Indiana DG Readers: I want to share with you a fantastic article from Solar Power World that helps to put the issue of Solyndra into perspective. This article should help you as you contact your Member of Congress to express your feelings about how they voted on H.R. 6213 or the ‘No More Solyndras [...]
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George Ashton, Chief Financial Officer at Sol Systems, will moderate a session entitled “Financing with RECs” at the Maryland Clean Energy Center Summit. Financing with RECS S, O and T Recs have become an alphabet soup of incentives to drive project investment and bankability. Carve outs have been key and changes in the RPS may [...]
Original article: http://t.co/fPnaNLkv9:38 PM, Sep 16, 2012 Wind turbines are silhouetted in the morning sun near Brookston. / By Michael Heinz/J&C Written by Hayleigh Colombo Study: Wind could power the globe. Renewable energy experts aren’t holding their breath as they try to nail down what the future holds for Indiana’s wind energy projects. Between anxiety [...]
The former chief technology officer of Microsoft on why he's backing the nuclear energy startup TerraPower.
By selling inexpensive models in emerging markets, Samsung is rapidly gaining market share.
Over a year following the passage of the Distributed Generation Amendment Act of 2011, solar advocates in DC remain persistent in their efforts to make solar more affordable for District residents. Since the beginning of 2012, two new pieces of legislation have been introduced that would increase accessibility to solar. More importantly, as the demand [...]
The Sol Systems team will be in Orlando, Florida, Monday through Thursday of next week for Solar Power International (SPI) 2012. SPI is the largest solar power and trade show in North America, and thousands of solar professionals from over 100 countries across the globe will be in attendance. Sol Systems’ CEO, Yuri Horwitz, and CFO, George [...]
Yesterday, I received a message on Twitter from Tom Kimbis over at SEIA. He Tweeted, “WSJ wants to know what you think about promoting #solar. VOTE HERE!! @SEIA @SolarFred http://ow.ly/dv9o9." When I clicked on the link, it took me to a Wall Street Journal blog post where the author asked readers if solar and wind subsidies should be eliminated, in
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