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News – UK Government ‘misleading’ public on air pollution – The Ecologist
UK ranked amongst the worst polluters in Europe for airborne particles and nitrogen dioxide
Defra has come in for damning criticism for failing to tackle air pollution in a report published by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (CCJS).
The UK has repeatedly failed to meet EU air pollution targets over past decade, according to the report. This is despite the estimated 24,000 people who die prematurely every year in Britain because of air pollution.
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Your Data Center is Much too Cold | GreenerComputing.com
Most data center managers keep their facilities much too cold — as much as 15 percent too cold, according to a server expert at Intel.
In an article by Rik Myslewski published yesterday in The Register, Dylan Larson, Intel’s director of server platform technology initiatives, explained last week that keeping data centers in the low 70s and high 60s leads to a significant amount of excess cooling, and wasted energy.
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EU presses US on climate change – Yahoo! News
The European Union urged U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday to ensure the United States makes deep cuts in carbon emissions as part of negotiations to reach a new global climate change accord.
Sweden’s Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren said the 27-nation bloc, as well as the United States and other developed countries, “should deliver” on promises to cut emissions by 80 percent by 2050, from 1990 levels.
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Uranium: The new ‘foreign oil’ | MNN – Mother Nature Network
Shocking report from the Department of Energy might dampen enthusiasm for the nuclear industry. The U.S. now imports close to 60% of its uranium, and prices are skyrocketing.
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Four Ways to Hack the Smart Grid | GreenBiz.com
Worried about the security of the Smart Grid? You should be. Security researchers warn that the Smart Grid could become a hacker’s playground. As proof, here are four ways the Smart Grid can be hacked.
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Swiss cabinet proposes 20-30 pct CO2 cut by 2020
The Swiss government proposed on Wednesday a cut in carbon dioxide emissions of 20 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels, or a cut of up to 30 percent if a global climate pact is agreed in Copenhagen later this year.
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Official trailer » Crude: The Real Price of Oil
CRUDE is an award-winning documentary film that chronicles the epic battle to hold oil giant Chevron (formerly Texaco) accountable for its systematic contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon – an environmental tragedy experts call “the Rainforest Chernobyl.”
Centering on a $27 billion lawsuit filed by the indigenous people and campesinos who continue to suffer a severe public health crisis caused by Chevron’s contamination, CRUDE is a high-stakes David vs. Goliath legal drama with 30,000 Amazon rainforest dwellers facing down the 5th largest corporation on the planet.
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Carbon Trading Scheme Pushing People off Their Land
With the world’s attention focused on climate change, one of the methods suggested to reduce global carbon emissions is causing the displacement of indigenous persons as western companies rush to invest in tree-planting projects in developing countries.
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The Wheel Turns: 15 Dazzling New Directions for Bicycle Design | WebEcoist | Green Living
It is one of mankind’s best, greenest inventions. It spearheads an industry that thrives even in the depths of a global recession. And…it is undergoing a shake-up. Our healthiest, eco-friendliest mode of personal transportation is enjoying the attention of the cutting-edge of design and material technology, not to mention a good dollop of the crazily creative. All rise for the ever-changing bicycle, as we explore 15 unexpected directions our two-wheeled friends are taking us.
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China villagers riot over polluting plant: residents – Yahoo! News
Villagers in southeastern China attacked police and took local officials hostage in protests over a wastewater treatment plant they accuse of pollution, residents and state media said Tuesday.
Police had to intervene in a bid to rescue two officials taken captive in the unrest in the city of Quanzhou in coastal Fujian province, residents told AFP.
They said anger over a foul smell emitted by the plant and suspicions that it was polluting the local environment had been building for years.
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10:10: Waitrose – ‘Transport is the biggest challenge for us’ | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Waitrose is making great progress in reducing its carbon footprint. Since 2003, the company has reduced its energy consumption by 19% and so is on track to meet its target of 20% by 2010. Also for the past three years, Waitrose has sourced all its electricity from renewable sources, said its director of development, Nigel Keen
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IBM Launches First Two-Year Green Data Center Degree | GreenBiz.com
A new, two-year associate’s degree from the Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Neb., is being touted as the first of its kind to give students an intensive focus on designing and managing green data centers.
The program was launched today in cooperation with IBM, and will offer students coursework on virtualization and server consolidation, energy efficiency, security and compliance skills
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Global Pollution and Prevention News:
Carbon dioxide will soon be declared a dangerous pollutant – a move that could help propel slow-moving climate-change legislation on Capitol Hill, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson told reporters that a formal “endangerment finding,” which would trigger federal regulations on greenhouse gas emissions, probably would “happen in the next months.”
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Starbucks stores in the UK and Ireland today began serving 100% Fairtrade Certified and Starbucks™ Shared Planet™ verified coffee in all of their espresso-based beverages. Every one of the two million visitors per week can walk away with a Fairtrade Certified Cappuccino, Latte or Mocha and help support small-scale farmers and their communities in developing countries around the world.
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Dolphin Slaughter in Taiji’s ‘Cove’ Suspended : EcoWorldly
Ric O’Barry reports that the horrific annual dolphin slaughter in Taiji has been suspended due to publicity from the film, The Cove.
September 1st usually marks the first day of the year for the brutal killings, but for the first time the Japanese media has arrived in Taiji en masse, causing the local fishermen to pause while the world takes notice.
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