Archive for July, 2008

• Video: Christian the Lion

  This 38-year old-video which shows a lion being reunited with his two childhood owners has already been seen by millions on video sites like YouTube. And now it has come to Green Blog (Yes, we are suckers for cute movies). …

• Teamsters reject drilling in the Arctic Wildlife National Refuge

  The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, one of the largest labor unions in USA, has announced that they no longer support President Bush’s platform for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. During a summit in California on “good jobs …

• USA is Now the World’s Largest Generator of Wind Energy

  The statistics are in for the first half of 2008 and they show that USA, for the first time, generated more wind energy than Germany. This “milestone” wasn’t expected to be reached until late 2009. Germany still has more wind …

• “This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet”

  Today the Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama spoke in front of over 200 000 people in Berlin. In the speech he talked about everything from human rights to free markets, nuclear weapons and global citizenship, and of course about the …

• What Top World Scientists Say About the Climate Emergency

  We are familiar with the notion of getting an expert second opinion when an expert medical specialist has diagnosed life threatening circumstances. However a second opinion that is a bit more optimistic simply decreases the perceived odds of death somewhat …

• Two green gold corns from our summer mailbag

  As you might have noticed by now, the summer has finally arrived for us here on Green Blog. That means the posting level will be low for another couple of days, until its starts to rain, of course. Instead of …

• Why We Live Like This

  Somebody pointed out something that at first seemed very obvious to me today, and it’s something that most environmentalists miss — something very important to the whole “green” movement. She pointed out that people aren’t going to change if they …

• Florida approves plans for the largest solar plant in USA

  Just in time for Al Gore’s major renewable energy challenge Florida’s Public Service Commission has “unanimously and enthusiastically” approved plans to build USA’s largest commercial solar-power plant (so far, we hope). Two other facilities also got the green light by …

• Al Gore Wants USA to Abandon Fossil Fuels by 2018

  DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 30JAN05 – Al Gore at the Annual Meeting 2005 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 30, 2005. Photo by Severin Nowacki. Today Al Gore issued a “major challenge” for USA where he said that Americans must …

• Solar energy videos from Ecolive.tv

  Here are some of the best Green videos of the week, collected by the Ecolive.TV community. What is the Solar Energy? This video is an amazing guide, to understand the source of the Solar energy. So why are we using …