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1.27.2013

AVERTING ECOCIDE blog 01.27.13 Tracking Plan B - WAR ROOM

Tracking Plan B - WAR ROOM 01.27.13

  •     San Francisco on track to become zero-waste city. pbs
  •     HUGE: V3Solar Spin Cell = 8 Cents/kWh (CleanTechnica Exclusive)
  •     33% Of All Global PV Shipments Ended Up In China In The 4th Quarter. CleanTechnica
  •     Due to Criminal US Apathy: China and Australia top list of 'carbon bomb' projects. Guardian
  •     Australian coal mining #2 Threat of Ecocide.
  •     How high could the tide go? NYT
  •     Ecocide: Former Met Office chief says 2°C climate target missed.
  •     vids - Clean Energy Revolution Is Critical, Do-Able, & Good For Jobs & The Economy
  •     Mountaintop Removal Mining Proves Hard to Stop. EP Magazine
  •     Smart Grid - $2 trillion or so in Efficiency Gains
  •     Obama advisers call for halt to Arctic oil exploration. Guardian
  •     China going Nuclear Power - Big. Economist
  •     Sandy, is the Future. SF Chronicle
  •     Soot, Carbon 1/3 of Warming's Cause [Diesel, Cooking Fuels]? Economist
Posted: 26 Jan 2013 03:28 PM PST
San Francisco on track to become zero-waste city. San Francisco is trying to become the first city with zero waste. By requiring residents and businesses to separate compostable items such as food scraps, as well as recyclable items, the city has already reduced a huge amount of garbage from ending up in landfills, NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels reports.
Posted: 26 Jan 2013 03:14 PM PST
HUGE: V3Solar Spin Cell = 8 Cents/kWh (CleanTechnica Exclusive) Posted: 24 Jan 2013 02:04 PM PST Quite frankly, if the company’s numbers are correct, this could be the biggest solar news of the decade, or even a greater timespan. (And CleanTechnica got the inside scoop — due to our sincere passion for helping the world, and probably also our status as the top cleantech or clean
Posted: 26 Jan 2013 02:52 PM PST
33% Of All Global PV Shipments Ended Up In China In The 4th Quarter Posted: 23 Jan 2013 07:00 AM PST According to new research from the NPD Solarbuzz Quarterly report, the Chinese end-market received 33% of global solar photovoltaic (PV) shipments in the fourth quarter of 2012.
Posted: 26 Jan 2013 02:23 PM PST
China and Australia top list of 'carbon bomb' projects. China and Australia top a global list of planned oil, gas and coal projects that will act as "carbon bombs" and push the planet towards catastrophic climate change, a Greenpeace report warned on Tuesday. The Guardian
Posted: 26 Jan 2013 02:21 PM PST
Australian coal mining threatens CO2 target. The forecast expansion of Australian coal mining and exports would be the world's second-largest contributor of new carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels if fully realised, research by Greenpeace International has found. Melbourne Age
Posted: 26 Jan 2013 02:19 PM PST
How high could the tide go? The question of just how high the oceans might rise in a warmer world has taken on new urgency in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, which caused coastal flooding that scientists say was almost certainly worsened by the modest rise of sea level over the past century. New York Times
Posted: 26 Jan 2013 01:56 PM PST
Former Met Office chief says 2°C climate target missedResponding to Climate ChangeA former head of the UK's Met Office has dismissed any possibility of the world limiting global warming to 2°C. Speaking at the GLOBE International summit ...
Posted: 26 Jan 2013 12:56 PM PST
Connie Hedegaard: Clean Energy Revolution Is Critical, Do-Able, & Good For Jobs & The Economy (VIDEOS) Posted: 20 Jan 2013 06:45 AM PST Connie Hedegaard, the European Commissioner for Climate Action in the European Commission since February 2010, gave a great keynote speech at the World Future Energy Summit (part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week) a few days ago. Below are two videos
Posted: 26 Jan 2013 12:45 PM PST
Mountaintop Removal Mining Proves Hard to StopEP MagazineMountaintop removal is a form of surface mining used extensively throughout Appalachia that uses explosives to remove the summits of mountains to expose coal seams. Excess rock and soil laden with toxic mining byproducts are often dumped into nearby ...See all stories on this topic »
Posted: 26 Jan 2013 12:39 PM PST
Is smart grid worth it? How does a $2 trillion efficiency benefit sound?Smart Grid NewsEvenly spread across the various grids? Or do the improvements help just ERCOT and PJM? $1 Trillion is a lot of savings, $2 Trillion is enough to buy more than a few StarBuck coffees -- it would really be interesting to here more and how the estimated ...See all stories on this topic »
Posted: 26 Jan 2013 07:07 AM PST
Obama advisers call for halt to oil exploration. The entire future of Shell's drilling plans in the Arctic was put in doubt on Friday after two of Barack Obama's most trusted advisers called for a permanent halt to oil exploration. The Guardian
Posted: 26 Jan 2013 07:03 AM PST
Nuclear power: Back on the front burner. China wants more nuclear plants than anyone else. Will it build them safely? There are now more nuclear projects underway in China than in any other country. The sheer number raises worries about safety. Economist
Posted: 26 Jan 2013 07:01 AM PST
Is rebuilding in hurricane zones wise? Sandy is the future. As carbon dioxide emissions blast past worst-case scenarios, rising sea levels and storm surges will reshape every U.S. coastline. But it is only beginning to dawn on Americans, half of whom live on the coasts, that their future is a battle against the sea.
Posted: 26 Jan 2013 06:59 AM PST
The new black. For years the institutions that focus on climate policy have played down the role of pollutants such as black carbon that stay in the atmosphere for a short time, and concentrated on carbon dioxide, which, once generated, tends to remain there. That may soon change. Economist


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