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7/1/09 - Lawmaker wants investigation into EPA over climate change report

Greenpeace climbers hung a banner on Mount Rushmore challenging President Obama to show real leadership on global warming. The banner, measuring sixty-five feet high by thirty-five feet wide, features an unfinished portrait of Obama with the message, \"America honors leaders not politicians: Stop Global Warming.\" You Can Take Action Too. Petition Obama for Real Solutions to the Climate Crisis: http://gpeace.convio.net/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=472&s_src=yt The demonstration comes as President Obama meets other G8 leaders in L\'Aquila, Italy today to discuss the global warming crisis in the lead-up to UN climate treaty negotiations in Copenhagen this December. [More] [Less]

EnviroMission Limited (www.enviromission.com.au) produced this 5 minute video on the pilot plant in Spain. It is an older video (2000) but gives a decent understanding of the solar tower concept. EnviroMission, Ltd. (US Market: EVOMY, Australian Exchange: EVM) is a renewable energy developer of sustainable \"green\" energy solutions for the energy market. EnviroMission aims to be one of Australia\'s leading producers of clean renewable energy. EnviroMission holds the proprietary rights to Solar Tower technology, a large-scale renewable energy technology based on simple fundamentals of physics -- hot air rises. Solar Tower technology has the potential to offer competitive renewable energy with equal reliability to fossil fuel generators. A single 200MW Solar Tower power station will provide enough electricity to power around 400,000 households. The energy output will represent an annual saving of more than 1,960,000 tonnes of greenhouse CO2 gases from entering the environment when compared to brown coal emissions in Victoria. The greenhouse savings equate to the removal of approximately 500,000 cars from the road. The Australian Solar Tower project consists of six distinct phases, the first two of which (project optimization and pre-feasibility commercialization) have already been completed. The third phase (final feasibility), paving the way for the implementation of the next three phases (final design, construction, and commercial operation). [More] [Less]

A wide-ranging hour-long conversation with author Michael Crichton. His latest book is \"Next\". ... global warming genetics

Scientist David Archibald explains in detail the phenomonen that sunspots have more to do with the earths climate than other factors

The founder of The Weather Channel speaks out against global warming. See coverage of the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change in The New American magazine: http://thenewamerican.com/node/7933 http://thenewamerican.com/node/7523

\"The Most Terrifying Video You\'ll Ever See\" has over 7,200,000 views, but this sequel makes the better argument. And now even this 7-hour series has been trumped by the book: \"What\'s the Worst That Could Happen? A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate.\" Available from Amazon and others through the links at www.gregcraven.org. Author Bill McKibben said \"This book trumps most of our accounts of the global warming crisis,\" the former Commander-in-Chief of U.S. CENTCOM Gen. Anthony Zinni called it \"innovative and intelligent.... superbly crafted.... A must read,\" and the New Scientist said \"If Craven could get everybody who has weighed in on this debate to go through the exercises in the book, Al Gore should share his Nobel peace prize.\" On Amazon: http://snurl.com/kjpvp Trailer for the book: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e10ZNpogv4 What the critics are saying: http://www.gregcraven.org/en/the-book/endorsements-and-criticisms Download a 25-page preview: http://www.gregcraven.org/en/the-book/download-preview-of-whats-the-worst-that-could-happen In the press: http://www.gregcraven.org/en/the-book/press-coverage-for-the-book ---------- \"How It All Ends\" Expansion Pack: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=92EE5DBE2987982F [More] [Less]

Lowe Bull Johannesburg walked off with a Bronze Pencil at the 34th annual One Show at the Frederick P. Rose Hall at Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York, on Wednesday night, 6 May 2009. Commercials Director, Anton Visser, has directed an ad for Food and Trees for Africa with Lowe Bull that has won bronze at the One Show. The ad is an impactful idea reflecting how printing unnecessarily has the potential to deplete our forests. View it on www.trees.co.za Grey South Africa has won a bronze award for direct mail at the annual Clio Awards held in Las Vegas for their \"Little Book of How to Save Trees\" for Food and Trees for Africa in the direct mail category. The \"Little Book of How to Save Trees\" gives tips on how to save paper. In partnership with www.globalcarbonexchange.com and www.greenpoll.com [More] [Less]

Scientist David Archibald explains in detail the phenomonen that sunspots have more to do with the earths climate than other factors

Change begins with ONE. Jeunesse established Progreen in 1989 after extensive travel and diverse work experience. Progreen, South Africas first environmental communications and public relations company, promoted awareness of the importance of sustainable development, environmental issues and climate change and worked with local and international organisations, government and companies on a range of environmental projects and events. In 1991 Jeunesse brought Bill Mollison, founder of Permaculture, to SA to introduce Permaculture as a viable development tool for food safety and security and sustainable land use management. For the next 16 years she organised Permaculture Design Courses that enlightened hundreds of people and developed many trainers. In 1990, Jeunesse conceptualised and established Food & Trees for Africa (then Trees for Africa). She conceptualised and developed national greening, climate change and food gardening programmes and lobbied for the inclusion of urban forestry, urban agriculture and Permaculture in government policy. Jeunesse has been awarded the Mail and Guardian Green Trust Award for Established Environmentalists of SA, the Mail and Guardian Chairmans Award for Excellence, the Eskom Chairmans Award, the International Chevron Conservation Award, the Nelson Mandela Forestry Award, the United Nations Environment Programme Sasakawa Award for Climate Change and the Caroline French Morton Arbor Foundation Award. In 2008 Jeunesse joined Global Carbon Exchange (www.globalcarbonexchange.com). Jeunesse lives and works with an understanding that one can change the world! [More] [Less]

Lowe Bull Johannesburg walked off with a Bronze Pencil at the 34th annual One Show at the Frederick P. Rose Hall at Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York, on Wednesday night, 6 May 2009. Commercials Director, Anton Visser, has directed an ad for Food and Trees for Africa with Lowe Bull that has won bronze at the One Show. The ad is an impactful idea reflecting how printing unnecessarily has the potential to deplete our forests. View it on www.trees.co.za Grey South Africa has won a bronze award for direct mail at the annual Clio Awards held in Las Vegas for their \"Little Book of How to Save Trees\" for Food and Trees for Africa in the direct mail category. The \"Little Book of How to Save Trees\" gives tips on how to save paper. In partnership with www.globalcarbonexchange.com and www.greenpoll.com [More] [Less]

The Woolworths Trust, in association with SAFM and the Department of Education, launches the 2009 EduPlant programme with the roll-out of 63 free Permaculture food-gardening workshops for educators. Facilitated by programme co-ordinators, Food & Trees for Africa, these one-day workshops are exciting hands-on learning experiences held in all nine provinces from February through March. www.trees.co.za [More] [Less]

In Africa, gorillas and other apes and monkeys are hunted for their meat. The capital of Cameroon is rife with illegal bush meat traders throwing their goods off a trains to meet the market trade. Slaughtered animals from the African bush arrive in market towns across Africa every day. Although the trade is banned, markets still accept the meat for sale. Watch this clip for a dark insight into the illegal trading of the Ape Hunters. From the BBC. [More] [Less]

\"The Most Terrifying Video You\'ll Ever See\" has over 7,200,000 views, but this sequel makes the better argument. And now even this 7-hour series has been trumped by the book: \"What\'s the Worst That Could Happen? A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate.\" Available from Amazon and others through the links at www.gregcraven.org. Author Bill McKibben said \"This book trumps most of our accounts of the global warming crisis,\" the former Commander-in-Chief of U.S. CENTCOM Gen. Anthony Zinni called it \"innovative and intelligent.... superbly crafted.... A must read,\" and the New Scientist said \"If Craven could get everybody who has weighed in on this debate to go through the exercises in the book, Al Gore should share his Nobel peace prize.\" On Amazon: http://snurl.com/kjpvp Trailer for the book: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e10ZNpogv4 What the critics are saying: http://www.gregcraven.org/en/the-book/endorsements-and-criticisms Download a 25-page preview: http://www.gregcraven.org/en/the-book/download-preview-of-whats-the-worst-that-could-happen In the press: http://www.gregcraven.org/en/the-book/press-coverage-for-the-book ---------- \"How It All Ends\" Expansion Pack: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=92EE5DBE2987982F [More] [Less]

As the 21st Century begins as the Age of Drought, a look at three places--Florida, China, and Nevada--where dryness has gone big. In Florida, the world\'s most famous swamp, the Everglades, has been turning into a salt flat. In China, vast problems with water pollution have been compounded in some areas by problems of having no water. And Nevada\'s Lake Mead, once the largest reservoir in the world, now is given a 50% chance of drying up completely in the next dozen years. [More] [Less]

7/1/09 - Lawmaker wants investigation into EPA over climate change report

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How we are consuming the world

As the 21st Century begins as the Age of Drought, a look at three places--Florida, China, and Nevada--where dryness has gone big. In Florida, the world\'s most famous swamp, the Everglades, has been turning into a salt flat. In China, vast problems with water pollution have been compounded in some areas by problems of having no water. And Nevada\'s Lake Mead, once the largest reservoir in the world, now is given a 50% chance of drying up completely in the next dozen years. [More] [Less]

Change begins with ONE. Jeunesse established Progreen in 1989 after extensive travel and diverse work experience. Progreen, South Africas first environmental communications and public relations company, promoted awareness of the importance of sustainable development, environmental issues and climate change and worked with local and international organisations, government and companies on a range of environmental projects and events. In 1991 Jeunesse brought Bill Mollison, founder of Permaculture, to SA to introduce Permaculture as a viable development tool for food safety and security and sustainable land use management. For the next 16 years she organised Permaculture Design Courses that enlightened hundreds of people and developed many trainers. In 1990, Jeunesse conceptualised and established Food & Trees for Africa (then Trees for Africa). She conceptualised and developed national greening, climate change and food gardening programmes and lobbied for the inclusion of urban forestry, urban agriculture and Permaculture in government policy. Jeunesse has been awarded the Mail and Guardian Green Trust Award for Established Environmentalists of SA, the Mail and Guardian Chairmans Award for Excellence, the Eskom Chairmans Award, the International Chevron Conservation Award, the Nelson Mandela Forestry Award, the United Nations Environment Programme Sasakawa Award for Climate Change and the Caroline French Morton Arbor Foundation Award. In 2008 Jeunesse joined Global Carbon Exchange (www.globalcarbonexchange.com). Jeunesse lives and works with an understanding that one can change the world! [More] [Less]

Lowe Bull Johannesburg walked off with a Bronze Pencil at the 34th annual One Show at the Frederick P. Rose Hall at Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York, on Wednesday night, 6 May 2009. Commercials Director, Anton Visser, has directed an ad for Food and Trees for Africa with Lowe Bull that has won bronze at the One Show. The ad is an impactful idea reflecting how printing unnecessarily has the potential to deplete our forests. View it on www.trees.co.za Grey South Africa has won a bronze award for direct mail at the annual Clio Awards held in Las Vegas for their \"Little Book of How to Save Trees\" for Food and Trees for Africa in the direct mail category. The \"Little Book of How to Save Trees\" gives tips on how to save paper. In partnership with www.globalcarbonexchange.com and www.greenpoll.com [More] [Less]

Just to put everything into perspective

The Woolworths Trust, in association with SAFM and the Department of Education, launches the 2009 EduPlant programme with the roll-out of 63 free Permaculture food-gardening workshops for educators. Facilitated by programme co-ordinators, Food & Trees for Africa, these one-day workshops are exciting hands-on learning experiences held in all nine provinces from February through March. www.trees.co.za [More] [Less]

Lets replant the destruction

Change begins with ONE. Jeunesse established Progreen in 1989 after extensive travel and diverse work experience. Progreen, South Africas first environmental communications and public relations company, promoted awareness of the importance of sustainable development, environmental issues and climate change and worked with local and international organisations, government and companies on a range of environmental projects and events. In 1991 Jeunesse brought Bill Mollison, founder of Permaculture, to SA to introduce Permaculture as a viable development tool for food safety and security and sustainable land use management. For the next 16 years she organised Permaculture Design Courses that enlightened hundreds of people and developed many trainers. In 1990, Jeunesse conceptualised and established Food & Trees for Africa (then Trees for Africa). She conceptualised and developed national greening, climate change and food gardening programmes and lobbied for the inclusion of urban forestry, urban agriculture and Permaculture in government policy. Jeunesse has been awarded the Mail and Guardian Green Trust Award for Established Environmentalists of SA, the Mail and Guardian Chairmans Award for Excellence, the Eskom Chairmans Award, the International Chevron Conservation Award, the Nelson Mandela Forestry Award, the United Nations Environment Programme Sasakawa Award for Climate Change and the Caroline French Morton Arbor Foundation Award. In 2008 Jeunesse joined Global Carbon Exchange (www.globalcarbonexchange.com). Jeunesse lives and works with an understanding that one can change the world! [More] [Less]

Green technologies presentation at UBS Wolfsberg by Futurist keynote conference speaker Patrick Dixon. How innovation will reduce energy use and reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Business case studies for carbon capture, street lighting, wind power, solar energy, electric cars, hydrogen cars, low emission cement, energy savings in air conditioning and buildings heating systems, managing peak energy demans with smart metering, use of heat pumps, energy savings in shipping, aviation, travel, auto industry, cars, vehicles and tourism. Impact of nantotechnology on energy saving especially in manufacturing. Science of global warming - truth about claims made for global warming and climate change by environment scientists. Polar ice cap samples and hydrogen / carbon dioxide records. Business opportunities and innovations from climate change - size of markets and which innovations will succeed in winning market share. Marketing of new climate change innovations - cause-related marketing to encourage customer loyalty. Industrial processes and increasing productivity efficiency. green roofs to save energy. Kyoto targets and the Stearn Report. How national emissions targets will be met and impact on global economic growth and global GDP. Political campaigns and environmental activism on climate. New regulations on energy saving. Policy on biofuels using biowaste or food for fuel in EU and America. Future oil prices with economic recovery and impact of demographics, growth of BRICS and other emergine economies. Demand for commodities and price volatility. Sustainability and sustainable energy policies. Video of seminar at UBS Wolfsberg facilitated by Professor Prabhu Guptara. [More] [Less]

Contains images some viewers may find disturbing. BBC wildlife documentary Apes in Danger travels to Africa to see the effects of the illegal bush meat trade and viscious poachers snares at first hand.

The international community has condemned the Burmese regime for bringing new charges against the pro democracy leader Aung San suu Kyi. SBS World News Australia (15/05/09)

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