Archive for January, 2009

• Spain to open world’s biggest solar power tower

  Photo credit: afloresm The Guardian reports that in the Andalucian deserts, 20 miles outside Seville, the Spanish company Abengoa will soon open up the world biggest solar power tower. Over 1,000 mirrors, each “about half the size of a tennis …

• Obama’s Environmental Policy a Beauty

  Photo credit: jurvetson Advocates for safety in cosmetics have long been hoping for some good news on the regulation of cosmetics by the U.S. government.  With standards in the U.S. being very loose and under regulated as compared to those …

• Watch: Celebrities thank Obama, talks about energy and global warming

  Some celebrities from the entertainment industry in the US got together in this video from the Sierra Club, America’s oldest grassroots environmental organization, to thank President-Elect Obama “for the extraordinary leadership he has already demonstrated on environmental issues”. The celebrities, …

• Greenpeace, celebrities and politicians buy Heathrow land to delay third runway

  In a genius attempt to stop the construction of a third runway at the Heathrow airport in the UK the TV impressionist Alastair McGowan has bought a piece of the Heathrow third runway site along with Emma Thompson, Zac Goldsmith …

• Top German scientist warns that climate change is accelerating

  Photo credit: azrainman Top German scientist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber warns that climate change is now happening much more quickly than anyone thought was possible. In an interview with Saarbruecker Zeitung newspaper Schellnhuber, who heads the Potsdam Institute for Research on …

• Good and Bad Climate News

  Australia and the World are acutely threatened by man-made climate change and it may already be too late to stop catastrophe – however there is GOOD NEWS as well as BAD NEWS. The BAD NEWS is that top UK climate …

• From Madrid to Salamanca, Eco-Friendly Pest Control and Ideas I Thought I had left Behind in the US

  From Madrid to Salamanca The trip has been pretty uneventful, nothing too eco/energy related to remark on except the usual thing about how trains are amazing ways to get around. But I did notice this as an East Coaster. The …

• Raise awareness for climate change with beautiful themes on your computer and iPhone

  Thanks to Customize.org, one of the most prominent and well-established desktop customization sites on the web, and their Gaia project you can raise awareness for climate change with beautiful styles and themes for your computer desktop, iPhone, music player and …

• 2008 ends up being the tenth warmest year due to man-made climate change

  The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has in a preliminary report has concluded that last year the global mean temperature was 14.3 °C which makes 2008 “the tenth warmest year on a record that dates back to 1850.” “The ten warmest …

• Coal Ash Dump Disaster Strikes East Tennessee

  Just days after Al Gore and a bunch of environmental organisations launched a “Reality Coalition” campaign to tell the American public that there is no “clean coal” they might have gotten their best advertisement, ever. Last month a coal ash …