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World Contraception Day is For Women’s Rights, But It’s For the Environment, Too

September 28, 2011

Image: Lars Plougmann via flickr

The connection between increased access to family planning and greenhouse gas emissions has been covered here before, but since World Contraception Day was this week and we’re still

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China’s Per Capita Emissions May Overtake Those in US by 2017 – Now Same As Italy’s

September 28, 2011

photo: Saad Akhtar/CC BY

China became the largest national carbon emitter in 2007, overtaking the US. Last summer China also became the world’s largest consumer of energy. Currently its per capita carbon footprint (6.8 tons) is roughly similar to tha…

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Creating 1 Million Energy Efficiency Jobs is "a No-Brainer": Bill Clinton

September 26, 2011

Photo: Paul Morse, Clinton Global Initiative via Flickr

Retrofitting old buildings to make them more energy efficient is often described as the least sexy item on greens’ to-do list. True, insulating buildings and installing new windows may seem less…

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Good May Be Practical But Is It Good Enough? James Hansen Pitches Fee-and-Dividend Carbon Pricing

September 23, 2011

photo: Mrs. Gemstone/CC BY SA

With Climate Week NYC drawing to a close (there’s still the global Moving Planet action, organized by 350.org, on Saturday though…) I headed over to the New School to hear Dr James Hansen from NASA’s Goddard Institute …

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How Can This Island Nation Go 100% Carbon Neutral by 2020? (Video)

September 23, 2011

Photo: nattu via Flickr/CC BY

Interview with Dr. Waheed, Vice President of the Maldives
Yesterday, the island nation of Maldives announced that it had mandated that 60% of its energy be produced by solar power as part of its bid to go carbon neutral …

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No Impact Week is Sept 18-25 – Go On A Weekly Carbon & Waste Cleanse With YES! Magazine

September 16, 2011

In case you weren’t aware, next week starts No Impact Week–which not so coincidentally is at the same time as Climate Week NYC and ends with 350.org’s Moving Planet event on Saturday the 24th. So join YES! Magazine and the No Impact Project in going…

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Two-Thirds of World’s Biggest Businesses Now Put Climate Change at Heart of Strategy

September 14, 2011

The Carbon Disclosure Project has released its latest report on the what the world’s largest public corporations are doing to reduce carbon emissions and report them. Accelerating Low Carbon Growth looked at the carbon disclosure from 396 companies a…

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Wood Industry Opposes Biomass Power Too

September 13, 2011

Image credit: Land Rover Our Planet, used under Creative Commons license.

Only yesterday Matt posted a video on why replacing coal with forest-based biomass fuels is no climate solution. And now we hear news that the UK wood industry is raising serio…

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Replacing Coal With Biomass For Electricity Is No Climate Solution (Video)

September 12, 2011

In efforts to reduce carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants some operators are replacing coal with biomass–that is, at least some of the time, trees. Though claimed to be carbon neutral, as this video above from the NRDC shows, burning slow-g…

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Switching To Natural Gas From Coal Will Reduce Global Warming Much Less Than Hoped

September 9, 2011

photo: Daniel Boyd/CC BY

Natural gas may have lower greenhouse gas emissions when burned than coal, but widespread switching over to natural gas for electricity won’t have much of an impact on reducing global warming, a new study from the National Ce…

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