• Oil Giant Shell on Trial for Nigerian Environmentalist Saro-Wiwa’s Execution : Red, Green, and Blue

  In 1995, environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed by the Nigerian military government, along with eight other Ogoni activists, for protesting against the devastation of the Niger Delta by oil companies, particularly Royal Dutch Shell.

  On May 27, 2009, Shell will stand trial for collaboration and complicity in Saro-Wiwa’s murder. 14 years after his execution, Ken Saro-Wiwa’s sons Ken and Owens Wiwa are the plaintiffs in Wiwa v Shell.

  tags: shell, Ken Saro-Wiwa, ogoni, niger delta, greenmonktv

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• Voyage to the centre of the ‘Plastic Vortex’

  A group of conservationists and scientists is due to set sail for an obscure corner of the Pacific Ocean in the coming months to explore a vast swirl of waste known as the “Plastic Vortex.”

  tags: plastic, plastic gyre, plastic vortex, greenmonktv

• US won’t speed up emissions cuts

  Domestic politics will not allow the United States to deepen it commitment for cutting carbon pollution over the next decade despite growing international pressure, Washington’s top climate negotiator said Sunday.

  tags: climate change, obama, copenhagen, greenhouse gas emissions, greenmonktv

• Worldchanging: Bright Green: Americans Green-Light Higher Fuel Efficiency Standards

  A recent Gallup Poll reveals solid majority support for higher fuel efficiency standards such as those President Obama announced Tuesday. A March poll found 80 percent of Americans in favor of higher standards

  tags: fuel efficiency, cars, mpg, greenmonktv

• Solar power could surge by 2050 in deserts: study | Green Business | Reuters

  Solar power plants in deserts using mirrors to concentrate the sun’s rays have the potential to generate up to a quarter of the world’s electricity by 2050

  tags: solar, power, csp, Concentrated solar power, greenmonktv

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• Wind Turbine Design – The Most Amazing Windmills in the World | Wind Power

  a selection of pictures and descriptions of some of the most spectacular & truly ambitious wind turbine designs of this millennium…whose scope & promise could pave the way for much greater harnessing of wind energy

  tags: wind energy, wind turbines, greenmonktv

• America’s new green guru sparks anger over climate change U-turns | Environment | The Observer

  President Obama’s energy secretary, Nobel prize-winner Steven Chu, arrives in Europe this week to discuss global warming. But his recent policy decisions on coal-fired power stations and hydrogen cars have angered many environmentalists

  tags: steven chu, energy secretary, obama, environmentalists, greenmonktv

• The World We Avoided by Protecting the Ozone Layer : Feature Articles

  The World We Avoided by Protecting the Ozone Layer

  The year is 2065. Nearly two-thirds of Earth’s ozone is gone—not just over the poles, but everywhere. The infamous ozone hole over Antarctica, first discovered in the 1980s, is a year-round fixture, with a twin over the North Pole. The ultraviolet (UV) radiation falling on mid-latitude cities like Washington, D.C., is strong enough to cause sunburn in just five minutes. DNA-mutating UV radiation is up more than 500 percent, with likely harmful effects on plants, animals, and human skin cancer rates.

  tags: ozone layer, ozone, greenmonktv

• YouTube – THE BIG LIES OF BIG COAL: DON BLANKENSHIP SPEAKS

  Scary video of Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy speaking about the myth of climate change, communists, athiests, and ‘Greeniacs’

  tags: massey energy, Don Blankenship, greeniacs, greenmonktv

• US Congress Ready to Act on Human Rights Crisis in Tech Industry Supply Chains | On Sustainability | ZDNet.com

  Despite common knowledge of serious human rights abuses relating to the mining of cassiterite in the Democratic Republic of Congo the industry has not gone far enough to guarantee ethical sourcing to satisfy increasingly concerned stakeholders. (see my post on this from March 08). As a result US Congress is now prepared to intervene with the introduction of the Brownback Durbin Feingold Congo Conflict Minerals Act.

  tags: drc, cassiterite, tin, lead, congo, greenmonktv, supply chain

• Climate change odds much worse than thought – MIT News Office

  The most comprehensive modeling yet carried out on the likelihood of how much hotter the Earth’s climate will get in this century shows that without rapid and massive action, the problem will be about twice as severe as previously estimated six years ago – and could be even worse than that

  tags: climate leaders, mit, global warming, environment, greenmonktv

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• BPA seeks more smart grid projects partners – Portland Business Journal:

  The Bonneville Power Administration has issued its second request for potential partners for smart grid projects that could qualify for federal stimulus money.

  tags: smart grid, ARRA

• 5 Feasible Renewable Energy Sources

  One would expect that — over time — the costs associated with renewable energy would go down. With fossil fuels, costs can only go up as the un-renewable sources dwindle and become more scarce even as demand rises. Here are 5 feasible renewable energy sources that could be developed to help meet world energy needs:

  tags: solar, wind, geothermal, water, nuclear, greenmonktv

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• Chamber under fire on warming – Lisa Lerer – POLITICO.com

  The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is taking heat from Johnson & Johnson, Nike and other corporate members over its opposition to global warming legislation pending in the House.

  tags: greenmonktv, chamber of commerce, cbi

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• Software Enabled Earth : Microsoft signs EU Code of Conduct for data centers and targets PUE of less than 1.2

  Microsoft has signed up as a participant and an endorser of the EU code of conduct for data center efficiency. Microsoft said its data centers are currently operating with an average PUE of 1.6 and that it is targeting a PUE of below 1.2.

  tags: microsoft, pue, data center, greenmonktv

• New Study: Home Energy Savings Are Made in the Shade

  Shade trees positioned near houses in Sacramento, Calif., such as those in this photo, can significantly affect electricity use. Tree cover on the west and south sides of Sacramento homes reduced average summertime electricity demand by more than 5 percent, according to a study by NIST and the USDA.

  tags: tree, trees, shade, electricity saving, greenmonktv

• Coal ash is contaminating water, damaging health in 34 states, groups say

  People in 34 states who live near 210 coal ash lagoons or landfills with inadequate lining have a higher risk of cancer and other diseases from contaminants in their drinking water, two environmental groups reported Thursday.

  tags: coal, coal ash, greenmonktv

• Scientists Surprised By Unexpected Emergence Of Periodical Cicadas — Four Years Early

  Periodical cicadas, insects best known for their 17-year long life cycle, are emerging four years early in several Atlantic states. The emergence was first noticed in Greensboro, NC, on Monday and has since been reported in Maryland.

  tags: cicadas, periodical cicadas, climate change, greenmonktv

• The Grid, Our Cars and the Net: One Idea to Link Them All | Autopia

  Robin Chase considers the future of electricity, the future of cars and the internet three terms in a single equation, even if most of us don’t yet realize they’re on the same chalkboard. Solve the equation correctly, she says, and we create a greener future where innovation thrives. Get it wrong, and our grandchildren will curse our names.

  Turn cars into nodes for mesh wifi networks

  tags: mesh, wifi, nodes, electricity 2.0, zipcar, greenmonktv

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• Climate Progress » Blog Archive » James Hansen: “Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet”

  The dirtiest trick that governments play on their citizens is the pretense that they are working on “clean coal” or that they will build power plants that are “capture ready” in case technology is ever developed to capture all pollutants….

  tags: coal, ccs, carbon capture and storage, carbon capture, hansen, nasa

• Greentech Media

  Peabody, the world’s largest coal company, highlighted some of the achievements for 2008. The company pulled a record 256 million tons out of the ground and garnered $6.6 billion in revenue.

  tags: coal, climate change, greenmonktv

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• Drug Injury Watch: The Tale Of Merck’s Fake Medical Journal As Told At A Vioxx Trial In Australia

  Drug Company Merck Paid Scientific Publisher Elsevier To Produce What Was Essentially A Marketing Publication For Vioxx And Fosamax in the guise of a peer reviewed journal

  tags: merck, elsevier, peer review, ethics, fraud, vioxx, greenmonktv

• Official Google Blog: Reducing our carbon footprint

  In June 2007 Google made a voluntary commitment to become carbon neutral. To honor this commitment, we calculated our global carbon footprint, purchased high-quality carbon offsets, and worked with a third party to certify our calculations and validate our offset portfolio. Through this process, we’ve neutralized all of Google’s 2007 emissions, as well as part of our 2008 emissions. We’ll continue to invest in offset projects until we reach carbon neutrality.

  tags: google, carbon neutral, greenmonktv

• BusinessCar – Vauxhall Ampera:?All you need to know

  General Motors’ Andreas Lassota speaks to Julian Rendell about the new Vauxhall Ampera, due on sale within three years, and details the brand’s plans for the electric-petrol vehicle

  Raised the possibility of poss battery buyback!

  tags: gm, ampera, vauxhall, phev, battery buyback, greenmonktv

• Breakthrough Solar Energy Technology from Israel – New Tang Dynasty Television

  One year ago professor Feiman showed us his pilot plan for an innovative solar panel based on a simple concept: Replace large areas of expensive photovoltaic cells with inexpensive glass and concentrate sunlight onto a very small area of cells.

  The Israeli startup Zenith Solar has now launched its first working power plan based on Feiman’s technology.

  tags: Concentrated solar power, zenith solar, solar, israel, greenmonktv

• DESERTEC Foundation: Concept

  In the coming decades, several global developments will create new challenges for humankind. Climate change, population growth far beyond earth’s capacities, and a striving for prosperity that is invariably connected to a continually increasing demand for energy and water are the core problems with which we are confronted.

  The DESERTEC Concept describes a way to solve these challenges.

  tags: desertec, supergrid, hvdc, eumena, greenmonktv

• The Green Bus Rush: Why Innovators Are Moving Into Transit Tech

  Transit buses may seem an unlikely sector to ever warrant the term “hot,” but a growing number of startups working on next-gen hybrid and electric vehicle technology are looking to buses as a way to weather the downturn and capitalize on shifts in the global economy. With demand for consumer vehicles in the tank, the bus market, buoyed by stimulus funds in the U.S. and a government push for electric buses in China, is one of the more attractive games for clean vehicles in town.

  tags: transit, transit tech, electric bus, greenmonktv

• McKinsey: What Matters: Time to end the multigenerational Ponzi scheme

  First, we need to trust our science. We do this every time we fly in a jet or rush to the doctor in hope of relief from illness; but now there is some cherry-picking of science going on in the various kinds of resistance to the news about climate change, and this double standard needs to be called out. The so-called climate change skeptics are now simply in denial. All science is skeptical, and the scientific community has looked at this situation and found compelling evidence for anyone with an open mind. Science is telling us that if we keep living the way we do, we will trigger an unstoppable and irreversible climate change that may de-ice the planet and acidify the oceans, causing mass extinction.

  tags: mckinsey, ponzi scheme, climate change, greenmonktv

• PHOTOS: Renault Unveils Revised Electric “Kangoo Z.E.” Prototype

  For those following the ever-expanding Renault-Nissan Alliance, here’s a glimpse of what you’ve been waiting for: the basic prototype for Renault’s upcoming electric vehicles

  tags: renault, nissan, renault nissan, kangoo, electric vehicle, greenmonktv

• Magenn Power Inc.

  MARS is a lighter-than-air tethered wind turbine that rotates about a horizontal axis in response to wind, generating electrical energy. This electrical energy is transferred down the 1000-foot tether for immediate use, or to a set of batteries for later use, or to the power grid. Helium sustains MARS and allows it to ascend to a higher altitude than traditional wind turbines.

  tags: wind energy, high altitude wind, magenn, greenmonktv

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• Engadget shreds on the Zero S all-electric motorcycle (with video!)

  It’s not the first. It’s not the fastest. It’s not the lightest, the strongest, the cheapest, or even the best looking electric motorcycle out there. It is, however, one of the very few you can order today and, when it ships next month, ride it (legally) on the highways and byways of all 50 states. Europe, too.

  tags: electric bike, electric motorbike, electric motorcycle, greenmonktv

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