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• Technology Treading Lightly : The Rise of AV Power and Green TV

  Detailed thought-provoking blog post on the power consumption of various in-home av setups

  tags: tv, energy star, xbox, pvr, blu ray, vcr, lcd

• NASA – NASA-Funded Carbon Dioxide Map of U.S. Released on Google Earth

  Interactive maps that detail carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion are now available on the popular Google Earth platform. The maps, funded by NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy through the joint North American Carbon Program, can display fossil fuel emissions by the hour, geographic region, and fuel type.

  tags: nasa, google earth, co2, co2 emissions, carbon emissions, carbon dioxide

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• America’s future wind web? | csmonitor.com

  Wind power could feed 20 percent of the US energy diet. But first, the country needs a new energy network.

  tags: dakota, wind energy, hv, hvdc, transmission, smart grid

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• James Hansen: Coal-fired power plants are death factories. Close them | Comment is free | The Observer

  The government is expected to give the go-ahead to the coal-burning Kingsnorth power plant. Here, one of the world’s foremost climate experts launches an excoriating attack on Britain’s long love affair with the most polluting fossil fuel of all

  tags: coal, coal burning, co2, james hansen

• Poor Brazilians rejoice as loggers return to pillage the rainforest | Environment | The Observer

  Twelve months ago, troops and police drove illegal loggers out of the Amazon in an effort to halt deforestation. A year later, the sawmills are starting to reopen – and unemployed locals couldn’t be happier. Tom Phillips reports from Tailândia

  tags: brazil, logging, deforestation

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• Is America Ready to Quit Coal? – NYTimes.com

  With concerns over climate change intensifying, electricity generation from coal, once reliably cheap, looks increasingly expensive in the face of the all-but-certain prospect of regulations that would impose significant costs on companies that emit large amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

  tags: coal, co2 emissions, carbon capture

• Cutting Costs With Solar Walls – Green Inc. Blog – NYTimes.com

  Amidst the general gloom in the renewable energy sector, one Toronto-based energy company is discovering a renewed appetite for a low-cost, low-tech solar air heating system based on one of the immutable laws of physics: hot air rises.

  tags: passive solar, solar wall, conserval

• Cheap food damages the environment, says Waitrose boss | Environment | guardian.co.uk

  Cheap food damages the environment, says Waitrose boss

  tags: waitrose, tesco, asda

• Saving on fuel and safeguarding the environment with smart driving

  GreenDrive advises the driver on the most economical driving style to use, when to accelerate, when to break, and when to keep the speed. This is done on mobile phones and personal navigation devices.

  tags: greendrive, satellite navigation, gps

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• Software Enabled Earth : Microsoft Helps Businesses Manage Their Carbon Footprint and Identify Cost-Saving Opportunities

  Microsoft Corp. today announced the general availability of the Environmental Sustainability Dashboard for Microsoft Dynamics AX. The new toolset, available to Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 customers at no additional charge, will enable midsize businesses to capture data needed to measure key indicators related to energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions as part of everyday business processes from within their enterprise resource planning solution, helping them pinpoint ways to cut their energy consumption and costs.

  tags: microsoft, dynamics, energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, gri

• Best practice sharing: Supplier engagement in Brazil – CSR in Europe, Middle East and Africa

  ArcelorMittal, a global leading steel company, participated in a supplier engagement programme in Brazil with a focus on sustainability and environmental issues and presented lately first results: Of the participating suppliers

  tags: sustainability, hp, ArcelorMittal, brazil, csr

• Op-Ed Columnist – Yes, They Could. So They Did. – NYTimes.com

  “Hey, Mr. Friedman,” they say, “would you like to take a little spin around New Delhi in our car?”

  Oh, I say, I’ve heard that line before. Ah, they say, but you haven’t seen this car before. It’s a plug-in electric car that is also powered by rooftop solar panels — and the two young women, recent Yale grads, had just driven it all over India in a “climate caravan” to highlight the solutions to global warming being developed by Indian companies, communities, campuses and innovators, as well as to inspire others to take action.

  tags: tom friedman, new delhi, india, china, us

• European Commission says CSR can help withstand the downturn – Business in the Community

  For the first time, the European Commission has backed the business case for corporate social responsibility.

  tags: csr, corporate social responsibility, eu

• Will the Children of Today Be Living in a World Powered by Renewable Energy by 2050? – Renewable Energy World

  The world needs a one-off switch-over to renewable energy — and this could be largely accomplished in just forty years time, slashing energy costs and greenhouse gases while allowing healthy economic growth, experts say.

  tags: renewable energy, 2050

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• Rechargeable Battery Power Upgraded by 50%

  South Korean researchers have developed a nano-structure that could spike the power of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, which are increasingly used in electronic devices and cars

  tags: lithium ion, rechargeable batteries, cuo, copper oxide

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• Penguins in peril as food search turns into marathon – Times Online

  Penguins from the largest colony on mainland South America are being forced to swim the equivalent of two marathons farther to find food because of the effects of climate change.

  tags: penguin, climate change, fisheries collapse

• Reducing Carbon Dioxide Through Technology And Smart Growth

  “smart growth” combined with the use of hybrid vehicle technology could reduce cities’ carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions – the principal driver of global warming – significantly by 2050.

  tags: smart growth, climate change, co2 emissions, kyoto

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• Climate on THE ENVIRONMENTALIST: Tell President Obama About Coal River Mountain

  Coal River Mountain and the Heathrow Airport runway remind me how important it is to keep our eye on the ball.

  Coal River Mountain is the site of an absurdity. I learned about Coal River Mountain from students at Virginia Tech last fall. They were concerned about Coal River Mountain, but at that time most of them were working to support Barack Obama. They assumed Barack Obama would not allow such outrages to continue.

  tags: coal river mountain, mountain top removal, obama

• Technology Review: Cheaper Fuel Cells

  Researchers have shown that arrays of vertically grown carbon nanotubes could be used as the catalyst in fuel cells. The carbon nanotubes, which are doped with nitrogen, would be much cheaper and longer lasting than the expensive platinum catalysts used now.

  tags: platinum, nanotubes, fuel cell

• Iron Fertilization To Capture Carbon Dioxide Dealt A Blow: Plankton Stores Much Less Carbon Dioxide Than Estimated

  A possible solution to global warming may be further away than ever, according to a new report published in the journal Nature. Scientists measuring how much of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide is locked away in the deep ocean by plankton when it dies found that it was significantly less than previous estimates.

  tags: sequestration, co2, plankton

• Smart Grid & Smart Cars | AlwaysOn

  Last month one of the leaders in providing enabling technology for the smart grid, GridPoint, Inc., conducted a public demonstration of their “smart charging” software. This took place at an EV conference sponsored by the Electric Drive Transportation Association.

  tags: smart grid, v2g, gridpoint, ev, phev, electric vehicle

• America overtakes Germany as the world’s biggest wind-power market | Air force one | The Economist

  IN ONE policy area, at least, there is good news for President Barack Obama: his pledge to find alternative energy sources to wean America off its dependence on foreign oil is already being put into action. Last year America ramped up wind-power capacity to 25 gigawatts (GW), overtaking the previous leader, Germany, according to new data from the Global Wind Energy Council

  tags: wind energy, america

• Bush-era oil leases in Utah canceled – Environment- msnbc.com

  In its first action to overturn Bush administration policies on energy, the Obama administration on Wednesday said it will cancel oil drilling leases on more than 130,000 acres near two national parks and other protected areas in Utah.

  tags: bush, obama, oil, drilling, utah

• Masdar City’s driverless podcars are more shuttle than Johnny Cab – Engadget

  The future of urban transportation, a driverless taxi that will get you where you’re going without any unpleasant human interaction or labor disputes. This is the PRT (Personal Rapid Transit) podcar from Zagato, a fully electric and fully automated taxi system set to shuttle people around Masdar City, that pledges to have no carbon footprint and no real roads, leaving these to buzz along underground at a leisurely 15 mph.

  tags: masdar, zagato, podcar, taxi, driverless taxi

• Study suggests link between agricultural chemicals and frog decline

  Around the world, amphibian populations are in decline, and scientists have not been able to figure out why. Now a study of leopard frogs in Pennsylvania has identified a possible culprit, and the ramifications are troubling, according to a Penn State ecologist.

  Research conducted primarily at Penn State’s Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center at Rock Springs in the summer of 2007 — described in a recently published article in the journal Nature — suggests that chemical pollution can increase often-deadly trematode (parasitic flatworm) infections in a declining amphibian species.

  tags: amphibian, frog, agriculture, atrazine, phosphate

• Sea level rise could be worse than anticipated

  f global warming some day causes the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to collapse, as many experts believe it could, the resulting sea level rise in much of the United States and other parts of the world would be significantly higher than is currently projected, a new study concludes.

  The catastrophic increase in sea level, already projected to average between 16 and 17 feet around the world, would be almost 21 feet in such places as Washington, D.C., scientists say, putting it largely underwater. Many coastal areas would be devastated. Much of Southern Florida would disappear.

  tags: sea level rise

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• In Bolivia, Untapped Bounty Meets Nationalism – NYTimes.com

  n the rush to build the next generation of hybrid or electric cars, a sobering fact confronts both automakers and governments seeking to lower their reliance on foreign oil: almost half of the world’s lithium, the mineral needed to power the vehicles, is found here in Bolivia — a country that may not be willing to surrender it so easily.

  tags: bolivia, lithium, batteries, bev, ev

• 75 Countries Launch Clean Energy Agency – Yahoo! News

  Seventy-five nations including Germany, India, Kenya, and the United Arab Emirates launched last week the world’s first multinational organization dedicated solely to promoting renewable energy worldwide.

  tags: irena, international renewable energy agency

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• Flush hour: Oslo to run buses powered by biomethane from human sewage | Environment | guardian.co.uk

  Free, friendly and non-fossil – biomethane from human waste will soon power public transport in the capital city

  tags: oslo, human waste, biomethane

• NASA Mission to Help Unravel Key Carbon, Climate Mysteries

  NASA’s first spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide is in final preparations for a Feb. 23 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Carbon dioxide is the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in Earth’s climate.

  tags: orbiting carbon observatory, co2 emissions, co2, nasa, carbon dioxide

• Report: Some climate damage already irreversible

  Many damaging effects of climate change are already basically irreversible, researchers declared Monday, warning that even if carbon emissions can somehow be halted temperatures around the globe will remain high until at least the year 3000.

  tags: climate change, global warming, irreversible

• Heating from carbon dioxide will increase five-fold over next millennia

  Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that heating from carbon dioxide will increase five-fold over the next millennia

  tags: global warming, oceans, climate change, co2

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