Pete Smith @ July 12, 2009 # 2 Comments
I’m grateful to Jim Rawles at Survivalblog.com for a link to a recent study which proposes an innovative approach to the calculation and allocation of required emissions reductions. The study, ‘Sharing global CO2 emission reductions among one billion high emitters’ was published on July 6th in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A PDF [...]
Pete Smith @ November 23, 2008 # One Comment
Environmental Photographer of the Year Award 2008, Natural World, runner up: ‘Green Steps’, Ly Hoang Long, Vietnam A scary article in last Saturday’s Guardian outlines the extent to which rich nations are flexing their financial muscles around the globe to secure their food supplies. This week, Daewoo Logistics of South Korea has announced plans to [...]
Pete Smith @ April 28, 2008 # One Comment
This post contains in its entirety an article by Sharon Astyk at The Silver Bear Cafe. I don’t usually do this, but I can’t improve on the original, and just posting a link wouldn’t do it justice either. We Regret to Inform You… Sharon Astyk When climate change and peak oil thinkers run out of [...]
Pete Smith @ March 13, 2008 # One Comment
Is it time for Alistair Darling to be put out with the trash? Criticism of his performance as Chancellor of the Exchequer began as soon as he accepted the poisoned chalice of succeeding Gordon Brown last year. Yesterday’s budget, Darling’s first, has been widely condemned for not living up to its advance billing as a [...]
Pete Smith @ March 10, 2008 # 4 Comments
Shares in AIM-listed biofuels outfit D1 Oils plc (LSE: DOO.L – news) are showing more sharp falls this morning after a 36% drop on Friday. The company said the influx of heavily subsidised US biodiesel is putting the entire EU green fuel industry at risk. The US government is promoting the production and use of [...]
Pete Smith @ December 7, 2007 # 2 Comments
Last month The Coffee House drew your attention to the Worst EU Lobbying and Greenwash Awards 2007. The winners were announced at a festive awards ceremony in the Witloof Cellar in Brussels on 4 December 2007. Winner of the Worst EU Lobbying Award 2007 BMW, Daimler and Porsche – nominated together in the worst EU [...]
Pete Smith @ December 1, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Washington has reported a fall in greenhouse gas emissions for 2006, the first year-on-year drop since 2001. The 1.5% reduction still leaves US emissions 15.1% above the key 1990 baseline. The Energy Information Administration attributed the fall to favourable weather conditions, higher energy prices and a greater use of non-fossil fuels and natural gas in [...]
Pete Smith @ December 1, 2007 # 3 Comments
The Australian reports that China is running out of fuel. (‘Chinese tiger has nothing in tank‘). Police are guarding petrol stations in several inland provinces to prevent fights, as shortages of petrol and diesel are causing huge queues of trucks, buses and cars. In Kunming, capital of the southwestern province of Yunnan, 1000 trucks are [...]
Pete Smith @ November 21, 2007 # 8 Comments
Buy Nothing Day is almost upon us once again. On November 23rd in the US and Canada, the 24th for the rest of us, thousands of people around the world are planning to mark one of the busiest shopping days of the year by not spending any money. You too can take a break from [...]
Pete Smith @ November 18, 2007 # 4 Comments
It’s official, we’re in trouble again. Or still. You’d be forgiven for thinking the latest report from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is more of the same old same old. It is. The Synthesis Report of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report is effectively a summary of three papers published earlier this year, and [...]
