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Gore urges US action to avert global warming catastrophe
Former Vice President Al Gore today told the US Congress that climate change posed "a crisis that threatens the survival of our civilisation and the habitability of the Earth''. http://snipurl.c om/1dnb9 From... ...
US Institutional Investors Call for "Green" Legislation
Dozens of institutional investors managing a combined $4 trillion in assets have signed a statement urging Congress to pass strict laws to curb greenhouse gas emissions. The agreement calls for federal... ...
Cheap Coal Threat to Global Climate
Ernest Moniz, director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is mentally counting down the narrowing window of time that remains for the US to address... ...
Whalers, North Alaskans Try to Block Oil Lease Sale
Groups in Alaska have sued the US Interior Department to block an offshore oil and gas lease sale that residents say threatens Arctic marine wildlife and the traditional Inupiat Eskimo way of life. http://www.truthout .org/issues_06/030207EB.sh tml Climate-Change... ...
The next generation of threats
Boston Globe by Ralph Kaplan & Harvey Silverglate 02/24/07 Muc h ink has been spilt extolling the latest progress made in recognizing the second- and third-most serious threats facing mankind and... ...
Virgin, the Dynamo, and the Prize
Kelpie Wilson writes, "There are two big problems with the Earth Challenge prize. First, and most important, it sends the wrong message to those who are just waking up to the true threat of climate change:... ...
US Energy Secretary Opposes Caps, Profits From Emissions
Two weeks ago, a devastating report by the world's leading climate scientists warned that global warming is no longer a threat, but is a man-made disaster that has already impacted the environment. Yet,... ...
On an Environmentally Collapsing, Poverty Racked Planet, the Disease that is Economic Growth
Earth Meanders, http://earthmean ders.blogspot.com/ By Dr. Glen Barry February 8, 2007 Environmental sustainability and abject poverty are the issues of our and all time, the resolution of which will... ...
Climate change wake up call
Dear friends, We've seen it all around us: droughts, hurricanes, weird weather and wild storms. Then last week, a major new report by over 2000 climate scientists ended all debate: climate change is... ...
In Love With the Lusty Wind
More and more people are waking up to the fact that the world is in a period of great crisis and opportunity around the issue of energy generation and use. The fossil fuels we rely on for power are poisoning... ...