Archive for the ‘Business & Politics’ Category

• The League of Conservation Voters Hails Joe Biden

  The Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama has chosen Joe Biden as his running mate and Vice President. But how green is really Joe Biden? Well, it seems he is green enough for the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) to applaud …

• South Africa’s Climate Change Plan Includes Carbon Tax

  Last week South Africa’s government unveiled an “ambitious” climate change plan that includes rigorous energy efficiency measures and a carbon tax on CO2 polluting industries. “The world faces a global climate emergency. It is now clear that only action by …

• Junk Mail Produces as Much CO2 as 9 Million Cars

  A newly released report by ForestEthics says that the junk mail in USA alone contributes to global warming as much as seven US states combined, or more than nine million cars, or the emissions generated by heating nearly 13 million …

• Obama responds to McCain: “It’s like these guys take pride in being ignorant”

  The Republican presidential contender John McCain yesterday tried to make fun of Barack Obama at a biker rally with his hard-core voters saying Obama’s new energy plan was all about inflating your tires. At the biker rally John McCain said …

• Remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  On this day, 63 years ago, USA dropped the nuclear bomb “Little Boy” on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, on August 9, USA dropped a second nuclear bomb over Nagasaki in Japan. The bombs killed as many …

• Curbing climate change won’t be costly says economist

  According to development economist Jeffrey Sachs the fight against climate change won’t cost us more than 1% of global income per year, a sum that the world can afford. “If we look seriously at mitigation, it is not too expensive,” …

• 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 …

• “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 …

• George Monbiot: “The pale green political consensus looks unlikely to hold”

  George Monbiot talks about oil-dependent countries focusing all their powers on “growth at all costs” while the world slides into recession, over at the Guardian. “If the world is sliding into recession, it’s partly because governments believed that they could …

• CFL compliments of Aspen Mountain

  It came in a little cardboard mailer. Aspen/Snowmass, the resort area to the stars, where the average price of a house is $4.2 mil, sent me a CFL today. I’ll admit, I visit Aspen annually with my family and so …