Earth Policy Institute Plan B 4.0 Book Byte October 7, 2009 Lester R. Brown Our mismanaged world economy today has many of the characteristics of a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme takes payments from a broad base of investors and uses these to pay off returns. It creates the illusion …
ECO – Climate Negotiations Bangkok
Some Progress: More Action Needed ECO as excited to see streamlined adaptation text emerging over the weekend, with content on almost all fundamental points. In addition, the Co-Chairs expect to have a shorter text by the end of the week. Click here to download the newsletter (PDF).
MEA Bulletin – Issue No. 77
IISD RS is pleased to announce that the newest issue of MEA Bulletin is now available. To access the 77th issue directly, visit: http://www.iisd.ca/mea-l/meabulletin77.pdf .To read past issues and to sign up to receive the PDF version, visit: http://www.iisd.ca/email/mea-l.htm The 77th issue of MEA Bulletin includes reports on the results …
The Population Myth
Posted October 2, 2009 by George Monbiot It’s no coincidence that most of those who are obsessed with population growth are post-reproductive wealthy white men: it’s about the only environmental issue for which they can’t be blamed. The brilliant earth systems scientist James Lovelock, for example, claimed last month that …
New Analysis Brings Dire Forecast Of 6.3-Degree Temperature Increase
By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, September 25, 2009 Climate researchers now predict the planet will warm by 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century even if the world’s leaders fulfill their most ambitious climate pledges, a much faster and broader scale of change than forecast …
ToYou from NewEnergyNews: October 1, 2009
NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines * TODAY’S HEADLINE: ALGAE, THE CLIMATE BILL, “CLEAN” COAL AND NEW NUCLEAR * MORE NEWS, 10-1: WIND GOING FORWARD; GOOGLE SEARCHING FOR V-2-G FIX; GEOTHERMAL GROWING FAST; NEW ENERGY TO MIDWEST FOR WATER? YESTERDAY * HEADLINE: PRESENTING THE SENATE ENERGY/CLIMATE BILL – AND ANOTHER POLITICAL DONNYBROOK * …
Conservation of world’s forests key to planet’s survival
Bangkok, Thailand, 1 October, 2009 (IUCN/TFD) – With only two months to go before a new climate deal is negotiated in Copenhagen, The Forests Dialogue calls on industrialized nations to ensure robust financial commitments for conservation and sustainable management of forests and on tropical countries to ensure that these new …
Sense in the City Newsletter — Shifting to Emerging Resilience
September Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City Today’s Integral City Sparkie for the City Body : Health … emerges from resilience — a capacity to flexibly relate to one’s environment, including relating to others in it – so that sourcing nourishment, sustaining life and reproducing may continue to …
A briefing for the Congress on Climate Change
Posted September 20, 2009 At 11AM today, there was a public briefing at the Senate Visitors’ Center with three speakers – Michelle Chan of Friends of Earth (FOE), Tyson Slocum of Public Citizen (and an advisor of sorts to the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, CFTC), and Adam White of Wall …
Science for Environment Policy, Issue 165: A service from the European Commission
Posted September 18, 2009 Comparing climate change adaptation strategies across Europe Despite efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, some degree of climate change is inevitable. A European report compares National Adaptation Strategies (NASs) across Europe. It highlights the need for countries to work together and share knowledge and provides insight …