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Green Notes - 22 May 09
Gov. Chris Gregoire on Thursday ordered the state to reach agreement with its single largest polluter to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by half over the next 15 years. On a day when nearly 1,000 people waving signs and banners rallied on Seattle’s waterfront in support of efforts to tackle global warming, Gregoire told state agencies to [...]
Green Notes - 18 May 09
Massachusetts is poised to receive about $200 million in federal money for energy research and efficiency programs under a sweeping climate change bill to be unveiled on Friday, according to one of the measure’s chief negotiators. Chairman Henry A. Waxman and Subcommittee Chairman Edward J. Markey introduced “H.R. 2454, The American Clean Energy and Security [...]
Green Notes - 15 May 09
Efforts by countries worldwide to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase energy security are in trouble if nothing is done to check the energy gobbled by both information and communication technologies and consumer electronics. The IEA said one solution is for governments to “urgently implement policies to make electronic devices such as televisions, laptops and [...]
Green Notes - 11 May 09
The key to a new global climate change agreement will be a deal between the United States and China, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Friday. Blair also said climate change negotiators must find a way to integrate the United States, which has fallen far behind on controlling greenhouse gas emissions, into an agreement [...]
Green Notes - 05 May 09
Asia must do more to cut poverty and take the lead in fighting global warming, the Asian Development Bank president said Monday, as the region emerges from the economic crisis with more clout on the world stage. The global turmoil suggests the era of rich Western nations having unlimited appetite for Asia’s exports “has passed,” [...]
Green Notes - 30 Apr 09
Wired Science published an article that reflects new findings, which indicate that Humans have a lot to do with climate change and the injection of CO2 in to the atmosphere. “When human injection of carbon into the atmosphere reaches 1 trillion tons, dangerous climate change with average global warming of more than 2 Celsius degrees [...]
Green Notes - 08 Apr 09
An environmental-health group is contending that the ground-up tire mulch used in the new White House playground for Sasha, Malia Obama and friends poses a health risk. "This is not a material that children should be playing on, " wrote Nancy Alderman, president of Environment and Human Health, which calls itself a "nonprofit organization composed [...]
Green Notes - 03 Apr 09
Adapting to the effects of climate change has become a hot topic on both sides of the Atlantic. The European Union has just released a white paper on the topic, one day after U.S. House Democrats unveiled a draft bill focusing on the very same issue. But is technology the answer to climate change? The [...]
Green Notes - 30 Mar 09
Once booed at international climate talks, the United States won sustained applause Sunday when President Barack Obama’s envoy pledged to “make up for lost time” in reaching a global agreement on climate change. Todd Stern, a Washington lawyer and former Clinton White House official, said at a U.N. conference in Bonn, Germany, that despite high [...]
Green Notes - 27 Mar 09
Scores of casino-hotels and other businesses and organizations on and off the Las Vegas Strip have committed to show their support for the environment by participating in “Earth Hour” on Saturday night, when they’ll dim or turn off their signs and decorative lighting for an hour to raise awareness about climate change. Climate change is [...]