Archive for the ‘Business & Politics’ Category

• “Goodbye from world’s biggest polluter”

  Daniel Mittler, political advisor to Greenpeace International, said this when he was about to leave the G8 Summit in Toyako, Japan: There are a lot empty water bottles and even more coffee cups lying around the International Media Centre at …

• White House refuses to open EPA emails on global warming

  The White House has apparently refused to open an email from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with a proposed rule that would limit greenhouse-gas emissions from new vehicles. And what is more surprising (!?) is that they managed to get …

• Japan arrests environment blogger for exposing a whale meat scandal

  Japanese police have arrested two Greenpeace activists, Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki, for exposing a whale meat scandal in Japans government-sponsored whaling programme last month. According to the police the activists are “being investigated for allegedly stealing a box of …

• Al Gore endorses Barack Obama

  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. Al Gore has just sent out this email: “A few hours from now I will …

• Protesters stops coal train in Britain

  Image shows activists shoveling down coal from the train. The dirty coal-plant Drax can be seen in the distant. Photo: Climate Camp. Today activists from Climate Camp stopped a train carrying coal to Britain’s biggest coal-power station. Armed with a …

• “We would like the rest of the world to follow you”

  Nidhi Jamwa from the Centre for Science and Environment India asks in the organisations journal Down to Earth “why green projects in India are hot favourite of international NGOs?” Nidhi Jamwa focuses on a recently started green Sierra Club initiative …

• Are you sure you know all the reasons why shopping destroys the environment?

  Shopping can be a really refreshing habit that has been proved to make the purchasers feel happier. It also satisfies basic human needs. Thus, it would be a pie in the sky to say that shopping should be stopped. But …

• “The consequences of failure are unimaginable”

  Mohan Munasinghe, vice-president of the intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC), said during a lecture at Cambridge University that climate change will lead to a “fortress world in which the rich lock themselves away in gated communities and the poor …

• Angry kids against the grownups inaction

  The older generation is partly to be blamed for this climate change mess we have gotten our self into. They sit on the power and the money. They decide yours, mine and your children’s future. And from the looks of …

• Buy Nikon’s COOLPIX S52 and become carbon neutral for a month

  In a move to attract consumers during Earth Day, Ritz Camera, the largest retail camera and photo chain in the United States, have started a partnership (PDF) with Carbonfund.org featuring the Nikon COOLPIX S52. This partnership lets you buy a …