Wikio - Environment

Environment: Boris Johnson announces plans to soak up rainwater (The Guardian)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:06:46 GMT

Mayor announces adaptation strategy to prepare London for the effects of climate change

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Class struggle and ecology (SOCIALIST UNITY)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:36:39 GMT

“the genuine and serious risks of severe ecological degradation and climate change caused by the capitalist economic model as factors … will shape socialist politics in the coming decades.” Liam from Socialist Resistance has produced a short document Class Struggle and Ecology. It is well worth a look. A number of us in different political organisations are putting [...]

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Explore : Climate Change, Meteorology, Science

No release to environment after plutonium accident in IAEA lab (The Earth Times Online Newspaper)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:04:22 GMT

Vienna - No radioactivity was released outside the International Atomic Energy Agency's laboratory after a small plutonium container burst in early August, the IAEA reported Friday, citing independent analysis. On August 3, less than one gram of plut...

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US, China, Wealthy Nations Should Bear the Costs of Reducing Carbon Emissions: Stockholm Environment Institute (Treehugger)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:13:07 GMT

Not that the principle of this is new, but in an effort to push forward a new global treaty on greenhouse gas emission reduction, the Stockholm Environment Institute has said that the United States, China, and other wealthy nations should be responsible for the majority of the costs of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Bloomberg reports. Wealthy Would Have to Pay For Poor Nations' Reductions Under...

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Manufacturers and Retailers Balance Tires and the Environment (Environmental Protection Agency)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:59:51 GMT

(Washington, D.C. - Aug. 29, 2008) Tire companies, big box stores, and the government are putting the brakes on the use of lead wheel weights

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Hamzah & Yeang : Ecology of the Sky (The Millennium Series) (full and free download)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:18:01 GMT

Images Publishing Group (October 2001) / ISBN 1864700955 / 248 pages / PDF / Ecology of the Sky, covers the most familiar ground of the two and deals exclusively with Yeang's generic concept of the 'bio-climatic skyscraper'. Ranging from the earliest, relatively conventional-looking towers in Kuala Lumpur to the more recent and exotic, free form creations in Singapore, Mecca, Frankfurt, London...

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Ecology: A Matter Of Timing (Complexity digest 2008.03)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:43:56 GMT

Climate change is causing shifts in the distribution and phenology of many plants and animals. Birds have played a key role in detecting these changes, because long-term data are available on the distribution, migration, and breeding of many species. Studies of the timing of egg laying--a key trait with extensive records dating back half a century for some species--are providing crucial insights...

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Ecology: Toward A Global Biodiversity Observing System (Complexity digest 2008.03)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:43:56 GMT

Biodiversity is a composite term used to embrace the variety of types, forms, spatial arrangements, processes, and interactions of biological systems at all scales and levels of organization, from genes to species and ecosystems (1), along with the evolutionary history that led to their existence (2). In part because of this complexity, universally applicable measures of biodiversity have proven...

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The Ecology Center Receives City Permit (openPR.com Newsfeed)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:24:00 GMT

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, CA – August 12th marks a celebratory and defining moment for The Ecology Center, in which founder Evan Marks and colleagues were granted their Conditional Use Permit (CUP) by ... read more

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Soil Association chief suggests abandoning the term 'organic' (The Guardian)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:06:46 GMT

Former Gardeners World presenter, Monty Don, aims to tackle perceptions of organic food

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India: Up to 2,000 feared dead in Bihar floods (The Guardian)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:00:10 GMT

Official death toll at 65, but aid agencies say thousands more are missing

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Weekend chuckle: the US Democratic Convention (Re-cycle of Life)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:51:10 GMT

Some views from America on the Democratic convention:

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Can Gafcon convert its gaffe? (Re-cycle of Life)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:48:44 GMT

If you want to be taken seriously as a global organisation, you need to employ someone with a schoolboy sense of humour. That would be one of my first rules, were I to write a guide to starting a successful business, because the juvenile and puerile are most likely to spot all the embarrassing jokes that can be made from your group's name. Recent history is littered with examples of august and well-meaning...

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Palin denies global warming is man-made.» (Vox Verax)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:43:00 GMT

ThinkProgress In an interview released today by Newsmax, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) — Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) newly minted running mate — was asked for her “take on global warming and how is it affecting our country.” “A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location,” Palin said, adding, “I’m not one though who would attribute it to being man-made.” DeSmogBlog...

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Video: Monty Don talks about Britain's relationship with gardening and food (The Guardian)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:45:34 GMT

The TV gardener talks about food, gardening and his plans to help Britain care more about them both

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Mexico to Phase Out Dirty "Vochos," or VW Beetles (Treehugger)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:12:50 GMT

The ubiquitous green and white Volkswagen bugs that serve as cheap taxis for millions of Mexico City residents while damaging their lungs by spewing ultra fine particulate matter and other pollutants will be phased out by 2012, according to the Spanish news agency Efe . The cars, known fondly as "vochos," proliferated in Mexico decades after Volkswagen began manufacturing them in the city of Puebla....

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McCain VP Palin is a global-warming-denying, polar-bear-dissing, Pat Buchanan acolyte (Climate Progress)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:50:34 GMT

Did I mention she’s a hard-core denier? Q: What is your take on global warming and how is it affecting our country? A: A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I’m not one though who would attribute it to being man-made. That would be McCain’s VP [...]

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Focus Earth with Bob Woodruff: the Gulf Coast, Katrina and the DNC (Treehugger)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Image source: Planet Green Focus Earth with Bob Woodruff looks at US environmental challenges of the past and what we can hope for in the future. With tropical storm Gustav on a collision course for the Gulf of Mexico, is New Orleans ready for another Katrina ? On the third anniversary of Katrina, and after watching Gustav rip through Haiti and Cuba, leaving several casualties in its wake, Bob Woodruff...

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Palin is a Skeptic of Man-Made Global Warming (Framing Science)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:34:26 GMT

From an interview this month with NewsMax: What is your take on global warming and how is it affecting our country? A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made. Read the comments on this post...

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Sarah Palin, ex-Mayor of Wasilla, running for White House (Re-cycle of Life)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:47:53 GMT

Full coverage of the US Election 2008 There are different ways of looking at the Sarah Palin pick. It could be seen as a bold, mould-breaking, reform-seeking move. Or it could be seen as appointing the former Mayor of Wasilla (pop 9,236), a suburb of Anchorage no less, to run for the White House. Until her election as governor in 2006 that was Palin's job, albeit for two terms. M...

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