The State of Victoria, Australia, is the worst polluting state in Australia which in turn is one of the worst countries in the world for annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution. However the new ultra-conservative government of Victoria is trying to increase greenhouse gas pollution in all kinds of ways and has just announced its intention to scrap an existing plan for “20% off GHG pollution by 2020″. At the end of March, The Age On-line reported that the Baillieu...
Great piece by the NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) Switchboard blog on efforts afoot in Latin America to step up on green in anticipation of Rio+20, which will be held here in the region this June. The goals and standards being contemplated, however, fall far too short. They’re too green-as-usual. First, the focus is disproportionately on energy, in a region that houses the Amazon and other priceless biodiversity resources, which should therefore place the reversal of...
Regular readers of Climate & Capitalism know that David Attenborough, in addition to making nature films, is a patron of Optimum Population Trust, a British outfit that, using the name Population Matters , promotes birth control for poor people and immigration restrictions to keep those same people out of Britain. Last year we reported a talk he gave to a posh gathering in London, chaired by no less a personage than Prince Phillip, in which he said only “flat earthers”...
The 2012 Olympics have been hyped for some time with officials promising some major green changes for the event. However, these promises may not be realized unless corporate sponsors are willing to step up to the plate and go green, as well. Locog , the organizing committee for the Olympics, originally claimed that the 2012 event would be the “greenest games ever.” Promises were made that were contingent on the support and participation of Locog’s 55 sponsors, but not...
Today a French court fined the largely state-owned energy giant EDF for €1,5 million for spying on Greenpeace campaigners. The French court found that EDF, which is hoping to build four nuclear reactors in the UK, had hired the security firm Kargus to spy on Greenpeace when they campaigned against new reactors in France in 2006 . Besides the 1.5 million fine the court also sent two Kargus employees to jail and ordered EDF to pay €500,000 in damages to Greenpeace. Greenpeace...
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Police Confiscate Generators, Occupy Wall Street Switches to Bike Power...
zugaldia /via With the untimely passing of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs earlier this month, the internet has been abuzz with tributes and retrospectives on the rise of what is now the world’s most popular tech company. But long before the words ‘Apple’ and ‘Macintosh’ became synonymous with Jobs’s keen sense of design and innovation, there was John McIntosh, a lowly farmer who turned out to be a revolutionary in his own right — with, you...
tobo / CC BY 2.0 Susan Corbett wants Americans to remember how serious the post-tsunami Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan was…and still is…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Nuclear Power Still Blocks Clean Energy...
Steve Parker / CC BY 1.0 Estimating the amount of energy the Internet uses is no small task. We have to take into account everything — from the embodied energy of Internet-connected devices like smart phones, laptops, e-readers, desktops, cables and wires and of course the servers themselves, as well as the energy consumption of the servers and devices and more. It’s a huge task, but two researchers from University of California, Berkeley, Justin Ma and Barath Raghavan,...
