published July 1, 2009 and has No Comments
photo: Colin via flickr Despite pledges from ExxonMobil that it would cease funding groups which question the scientific validity of global climate change, last year the company "handed over hundreds of thousands of pounds" to climate skeptic groups, The Guardian reports:...
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ExxonMobil Found to Still Fund Climate Skeptic Groups, After Pledges to Stop
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published July 1, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo via Daylife An alarming new study has found that between 2010 and 2030, the US will spend an estimated record-breaking $23 trillion on coal and oil . The report found that for the first time, the US spent over $1 trillion on fossil fuels in 2008--and the trend is only growing. By 2030, it warns there's a good ...
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published June 26, 2009 and has No Comments
image: ForestEthics Despite efforts to use carbon capture and storage as a distraction, there's no getting around the massive environmental impact of Canada's tar sands : At least 5 times the carbon emissions as conventional oil, huge water pollution problems, boreal deforestation, etc. etc. etc... Not to mention that the US has shown no inclination to take a stand ...
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published June 25, 2009 and has No Comments
Image credit: The Telegraph Conservative Newspaper Eyes Transition Movement Only recently I was writing about Leo Hickman's concerns that the Transition Movement might remain a marginalized, left-leaning throw back to hippy days . Yet evidence keeps mounting that this community-led response to peak oil and climate change is uniting folks across all kinds of political and cultural divides. Take ...
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published June 24, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo via stock.xchng by ortonesque Let’s clear up one issue: There is no such thing as local vs. organic . When it comes to consumer choice, we should be buying local and organic, though for mostly different reasons....
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There's No Such Thing as Local vs. Organic Food
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published June 22, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo via Wired You know what they say about wartime fungi and elephant dung . You can't have a--okay, so as far as I know, nobody has ever said anything about the pair. But that could change soon; people might be talking about how both can help churn out cheaper biofuels that might be able to excel where corn-based ...
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published June 19, 2009 and has No Comments
A ban on super thin plastic bags cut the use of 40 billion bags, reduced plastic bag usage by 66 percent and saved China 1.6 million tons of petroleum, according to recent government estimates, Worldwatch reports . In a byzantine federal-local system in which officials often flaunt national environmental policies, China's bag policy is widely considered to be a ...
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published June 19, 2009 and has No Comments
If you missed it yesterday, the Senate Energy & Natural Resources committee passed a new energy bill which, apart from having pitifully low renewable energy targets (15% by 2021), would open up large areas of the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling, gives another hand out to 'clean coal' and approves a n...
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published June 16, 2009 and has No Comments
With oil prices down from where they were a year ago (though rising steadily in the past few weeks) and the constant stream of project announcements in the renewable energy sector still flowing in I'll forgive you if you haven't thought about peak oil and peak fossil fuels in a while. But it's time to bring it up again. ...
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published June 9, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo via the Poor Mouth In one of the many tragic tales of environmental heroism , Ken Saro-Wiwa stood up to the oil giant Shell with peaceful demonstrations and vocal opposition—until he was executed by his own government on false charges. A legal battle was then waged for nearly 15 years, in which Saro-Wiwa's fellow Ogoni people charged Shell ...
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