What’s hot today in green news.
Humans: will they ever get it? Voting Americans are concerned about climate change, yes, but they’re WAY more worried about energy prices. A broad range of opinion surveys conducted in the final months of the 2008 campaign “reaffirm that economic issues — particularly the high cost of energy — far outweigh the environment when it comes to influencing how Americans evaluate the candidates”, writes Kate Sheppard in Grist.That means, no continent is untouched by the effects of climate change. A new study, published today in Nature Geoscience, is the “first to find the fingerprints of manmade global warming on the Antarctic, where a shortage of data makes it hard to be sure”, says The Guardian.
Confirmed: global warming has spread to Antarctica.
16-year-old’s science project could help save us from the plastic bag scourge. So I pretty much love Daniel Burd right now, blogs Casey Miner. “The 16-year-old from Waterloo, Ontario, as part of a science fair project, figured out a way to break down the polymers in plastic bags—compounds that can last for over 1,000 years—in about three months. Essentially, Burd hypothesized that since the bags eventually do degrade, it must be possible to isolate and augment the degrading agents. Turns out that it’s not only possible, it’s kind of easy.”
Green your work. The ABC shows you how with its Green at Work website. Put your thorny office enviro issues to the Green Guru, like “where do green bags go to die?”
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