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- Creating Fossil Free, Renewable Energy Infrastructure
A major challenge in production of solar and other renewable energies [search] with the optimal environmental benefit is manufacture of equipment without using fossil fuels. Indeed, there is some question whether there exists enough materials and energy to construct a global renewable energy infrastructure. Scientific American reports on a new method [ark] to produce solar photovoltaics without pe...
Source: - added 2 years ago - New Earth Rising: Call for Submissions of Original Green Writing
PRESS RELEASEBy Ecological Internet, http://www.ecologicalinternet.org/(The Earth) -- Ecological Internet, the world's leading provider of environmental portals including http://www.ClimateArk.org/ and http://Forests.org/, will soon launch a new Internet e-zine entitled "New Earth Rising". The publication will be committed to biocentric thought, and promote sufficient ecological sustainability sol...
Source: - added 2 years ago - Time to Prepare for Abrupt 4°C Warming
Bob Watson [search], former IPCC chief and leading climate scientist, has advised the UK government to start preparing [ark] for massive 4°C in warming. While not backing away from urgent policies to limit warming to 2°C warming, the sheer momentum of warming trends makes flood protection, agriculture and coastal erosion adaptations necessary. Chances for abrupt, run-away warming [search] have tra...
Source: - added 2 years ago - Untouched Natural Forests Store Three Times More Carbon
An important new Australian study finds that "untouched natural forests store three times more carbon dioxide [ark] than previously estimated and 60 percent more than plantation forests" and that first-time "logging resulted in more than a 40 percent reduction in long-term carbon compared with unlogged forests." They conclude that "in Australia and probably globally the carbon carrying capacity of...
Source: - added 2 years ago - Ups and Downs of Protecting Rainforests
Societies not recognizing their ecological foundation cannot long stand. After decades Brazil begrudgingly accepts [ark | moreark] with outstretched cupped hand the mighty Amazon's key role in climate protection [seach], yet continues with damming and other industrial development. Greenpeace heralds as news Africa's European rainforest loggers avoiding taxes [ark]. Yet similar practices were well-...
Source: - added 2 years ago - Solar Energy Progresses Technologically, Fails Politically
For the eighth time the U.S. Republican Party -- the party of big oil and climate change -- has held future green energy hostage [ark] in the Senate to an insistence upon drilling every last bit of oil in every last wildernesses' intact ecosystems first. Given an American addiction to cheap fossil fuels necessary to power climate changing conspicuous consumption [ark] as the meaning of life, the p...
Source: - added 2 years ago - Tar Sands and Oil Shale will Destroy the Climate to Save a Couple Bucks at the Pump
A new report from WWF-UK warns exploitation of North America’s tar sands [search] and oil shale [search] could increase atmospheric CO2 levels by up to 15%. They release as much as eight times as much carbon as petroleum. Over-reaction to gasoline prices [search] going up a couple bucks in the rich world may lead to the catastrophic embrace of these unconventional and highly-polluting fossil fuels...
Source: - added 2 years ago - ALERT: War of the Woods II Returns to Clayoquot Sound, Canada
Clayoquot Sound, Canada's Ancient Temperate Rainforest Valleys to Again Fall to Logging. These ancient forests must be fully protected and all industrial development ended to preserve biodiversity and ecosystem health, focusing upon employment from standing trees and fully intact ecosystems, and failure to do will lead to a renewed "War of the Woods" and global anti-B.C. markets campaignTAKE ACTIO...
Source: - added 2 years ago - Amazon River Found to Be Key to Tropical Ocean Carbon Sink
Interesting new findings suggest the Amazon River powers tropical ocean's carbon sinks [ark | moreark] by transporting nutrients well beyond the continental shelf, pushing carbon capture into the deep ocean. Fed from river transported iron and phosphorus, organisms called diazotrophs pull nitrogen and carbon from the air and make organic solids that sink to the ocean floor. This major river fed tr...
Source: - added 2 years ago - ALERT: Biofuels to Turn Kenya's Rich Tana Delta Wetlands into Ecological Wasteland
Let the Kenyan government know destroying ecosystems for toxic sugar monocultures is unethical, and ask them to please follow their own environmental laws, and permanently cancel the projectTAKE ACTION! Kenya has recently approved plans to destroy some 20,000 acres of the globally important and ecologically sensitive Tana Delta for sugar and biofuel production [search]. Covering 130,000 hectares, ...
Source: - added 2 years ago