mel | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 16 2007 | energy, environment, biofuel, oil, news, science
Interesting...
Quoted: It sounds counterintuitive, but burning oil and planting forests to compensate is more environmentally friendly than burning biofuel. So say scientists who have calculated the difference in net emissions between using land to produce biofuel and the alternative: fuelling cars with gasoline and replanting forests on the land instead.
- mel | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 01 2008 | environment, commerce, advertising
There are some depressing stats in here -- ones I had never heard before -- and it gets you wanting to mobilize and do your part to reverse the trend (like, say, not buying clothes for a baby who's going to outgrow them in a week?!).
redot: Doug
ShareViewed: 12 Times - mel | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 29 2007 | environment, global warming, legacies, politics
Something tells me there's not going to be much, if any, green in this President's legacy. But, hey, if the prevailing winds move him to some kind of change, have at it.
Quoted: For years, Bush bristled privately at what he considered sky-is-falling alarmism by the liberal, elitist Hollywood crowd. ... But ever so gradually, they say, Bush's views have evolved.
- mel | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 08 2007 | health, environment, research
Quoted: Deaths caused by shipping emissions are focused in Europe, Asia and the Eastern US (Image: ACS)
- mel | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 21 2007 | news, environment, global warming
Quoted: "Islands are appearing just over the fjord here" as glaciers recede, said Kim Holmen, research Director at the Norwegian Polar Institute, gesturing out across the bay. "We're already seeing adverse effects on polar bears and other species."
ShareViewed: 5 Times - mel | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 14 2006 | environment, news, science, Google
Quoted: Rampant forest destruction, retreating glaciers and explosive urban growth have been highlighted by a partnership between the United Nations and internet search giant Google.
Under the scheme, announced by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) on Wednesday, before-and-after satellite images of 100 global environmental hotspots have been integrated into Google's popular mapping program, Google Earth.
"These satellite pictures are a wake-up call to all of us to look at the sometimes devastating changes we are wreaking on our planet," UNEP chief Achim Steiner said in a statement.
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