Green news from today’s papers. Street directory goes green. Map publisher UBD has begun selling what it calls Australia’s first green street directory – with strong sales apparently, according to The Sydney Morning Herald: In the 2009 Sydney directory, the standard road maps are printed on recycled paper using soy-based ink, which has a reduced [...]
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A compromise on whaling?
Bits and pieces from today’s green news: A whale of a compromise. Could the International Whaling Commission finally be nearing a compromise between the pro- and anti-factions? The Washington Post reports that a proposed “compromise” has been drafted, which would allow Japan to engage in whaling off its own shores but cut the number of [...]
READ MORERudd, Obama on green stimulus
Kevin and Barack had their first conversation yesterday. As well as discussing the G.F.C. they also discussed closer cooperation on the climate crisis and agreed both countries should work closely together in preparation for the next United Nations meeting on the post-Kyoto framework in Copenhagen later this year. There was no mention of them discussing [...]
READ MOREYour water tank could be a mosquito creche
Some news from the planet about the planet. Water tank = mosquito-birthing centre. Just when you thought you were doing the right thing, scientists from Melbourne University have found that human behaviours could help disease-carrying mosquitos to multiply, spreading scourges like dengue fever. According to The Oz, the study’s authors say that “while we predict [...]
READ MOREAussie biofuels causing environmental destruction
News from around the planet: A calculated risk? Scientists are getting into a bit of an argument over an experiment that will change the composition of oceans. Researchers plan to add about 20 tonnes of iron sulphate to a 186-square-mile area of ocean, which should result in an explosion of plankton numbers, which will consequently [...]
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Indian Youth in Solar-Electric Cars
The following post is an extract from email I received from my friend Deepa Gupta, who co-founded the Indian Youth Climate Network. She’s travelling around India with a group of Indian youth in solar-powered electric cars. I find what she’s doing so inspiring that I wanted to share it with you all. On a side [...]
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Turnbull announces new climate policy
Will Australian politics on climate change move to a situation like in the UK, where both parties are trying to out-do each other on better climate policy? Will we have a “race to the top” rather than a “race to the bottom” on how fast and efficiently Australia can reduce our emissions? The front page [...]
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Crikey’s pick of the green news for today: Buried in the Bush. Grist have a great piece on four global warming impact studies George Bush tried to bury in his final days as President. Americans cool on environment. Despite Obama’s enthusiasm for helping the environment, it’s not that important to most Americans, according to Dot [...]
READ MORECarbon market cools while Antarctica heats up
News from around the planet: European carbon market plummets. The price of EU carbon emission allowances has dropped with the falling price of oil, Nature News reports, with allowances to emit one extra tonne of CO2 selling at €11.65 (AUD$22.90) on carbon trading exchanges. Reef fish numbers sink. A growing taste for live reef fish [...]
READ MOREDispatches from the World Future Energy Summit
The World Future Energy Summit has been taking place in Abu Dhabi, with “Top government officials, heads of global organisations, leading environmentalists and the largest international investors” getting together to debate and invest in the future of the world’s energy. Despite participation by many less-than-green companies, TreeHugger are optimistic about the talks: The language spoken [...]
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