News from around the planet today:
Disney goes green? The happiest company on Earth is planning to cut their greenhouse gas emissions in half over the next four years, but the Guardian’s Fred Pearce calls BS, asking: just how green can they be if they still rely on people travelling around the world to visit their [...]
Do you bemoan the fact that very few of our so-called “leaders” in the world of business and politics actually demonstrate true leadership?
Ask yourself this: how many of these figures make really tough decisions that are in our long-term best interests? How many have the courage to stick with those decisions? How many have the [...]
Green news for the day:
Imagine a world without water.
I’ve just returned from a few days in Melbourne, where I’d been for some meetings, a conference, and a keynote speech at the Young Water Professionals annual meeting, part of the Australian Water Association’s national conference, OzWater 2009.
Preparing for that speech got me thinking. As a climate activist, I think [...]
Today’s green news:
Drinking viagra? With a water crisis predicted as serious offshoot of climate change — a UN tome released on Wednesday, the World Water Development Report, found that “water stress, amplified by climate change, will pose a mounting security challenge”, says AP — we’re going to need to get water wise. Recycling water [...]
Sea level story a red herring? Yesterday, we noted that the first big story — or at least the one picked up by all the international press — coming out of this week’s climate conference in Copenhagen was claims that sea levels may rise by more than twice the previously expected levels.
But Island of Doubt [...]
Coverage from the Copenhagen Climate Congress (try saying that five times fast):
In The Guardian, Oliver Tickell describes the conference as “chaos” and wonders how those present can expect to save the world when they can’t even run a press conference.
TreeHugger reports on a talk by the University of Copenhagen’s Katherine Richardson, who proposed that climate [...]
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