Green news for the day:
Grand sale, grand sale, grand sale.* Solar panel manufacturers will be slashing prices this year, reports Worldchanging. With a recent increase in investment in the production of silicon, the price of solar photovoltaics could fall between 30-40%.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the cost of installing solar panels in the US [...]
Today’s green news:
Greens go hard on ETS. The Greens plan to play “hardball” on emissions trading in the Senate, says today’s Oz:
“We have always said that an inadequate target is worse than nothing,” Senator Brown told ABC television’s Lateline program last night.
He said if Australia locked in a scheme with a 5 per cent cut [...]
News from planet Earth:
Brazil’s coffee under threat from climate change? Nooooo: rising temperatures are reducing the amount of land in Brazil suitable for growing coffee beans, according to USAToday. Concerning for those of us for whom coffee is an integral part of our day-to-day existence.
Too much space junk in your trunk. The other week, Crikey [...]
A mixed bag of green news for the day:
Economists agree on climate change. Don’t believe the media hype: there is a consensus amongst economists that man-made climate change is real, says Eric Pooley in Slate’s The Big Money:
There is an emerging economic consensus about the cost of climate action, but most journalists have failed to [...]
As the Victorian bushfires continue to rage, so to does the debate over just who is at fault for the fires.
In today’s SMH, the always delightful Miranda Devine declares: “… it is not arsonists who should be hanging from lamp-posts but greenies.” ‘Greenies’ bare the responsibility, she argues, for stopping the clearing of vegetation which [...]
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 Antarctic [...]
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 take [...]
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 Earth. The [...]
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 in Southeast [...]
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 here is [...]
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