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Polar Bear Arrest
EPA, Los Angeles Times
Greenpeace activist Tom Wetterer dressed in polar bear costume is arrested by US Park Police officials outside the US. Department of the Interior Building in Washington, DC, USA on January 31, 2008. Wetterer, protesting the Bush administration’s delay on issuing a final Endangered Species Act listing for the polar bear due to global warming, was on a paddleboat in a pond adjacent to the Interior Department building before his arrest.
(EPA)
(4 February 2008)
See original for photo. Related from LA Times: U.S. close to decision on polar bears: “It could be the first species to be listed as threatened with extinction primarily because of global warming.”
Cooling It! No Hair Shirt Solutions to Global Warming
Gar W. Lipow, No Hair Shirts
Cooling It: No Hair Shirt Solutions to Global Warming” an optimistic book about a gloomy subject – the need to reduce fossil fuel use to fight global warming – is now available as a free download at www.nohairshirst.com. It argues that we have technological substitutes available for oil, gas and coal now – at market prices comparable to those we currently pay. Neither cost nor technical barriers prevent drastic and speedy reductions in greenhouse emissions; slowing global warming is a structural, institutional, social, and political — not a technical one.
Leading experts such as Patrick Mazza (Reseach Director for Climate Solutions), Dr. Joseph Romm, (Executive Director of The Center for Energy & Climate Solutions), Eric Heitz, (President of The Energy Foundation) all recommend this book for its careful research, technical detail and compelling writing. Michael Perelman and Patrick Bond like it as well. If you want to know how we can increase efficiency enough to buy more expensive renewables, and still keep overall energy costs the same, download a copy. (Print copies are available, but the files are designed to easily let you print your own.)
(4 February 2008)
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Church advocates carbon fast for Lent
Jessica Aldred, Guardian
The Church of England is urging people to cut down on carbon, rather than chocolate, for Lent this year.
Two senior bishops within the church are joining with development agency Tearfund in calling for a cut in personal carbon use for each of the 40 days of Lent, which begins tomorrow.
The Bishop of Liverpool, James Jones, who is also vice-president of Tearfund, and the Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, have launched the “carbon fast” in response to what they say is an “urgent need” to reduce carbon emissions, and to protect poor communities around the world that are “already suffering from the ravages of climate change”.
The 40-day plan lists simple energy-saving actions that can lead towards a lighter carbon footprint, including snubbing plastic bags, giving the dishwasher a day off, insulating the hot-water tank and checking the house for drafts.
Participants are asked to begin the carbon fast by removing one light bulb from a prominent place in the home and live without it for 40 days, as a constant visual reminder during Lent of the need to cut energy. On the final day of the fast, people are encouraged to replace the missing bulb with an energy-saving bulb.
(5 February 2008)
CEO: CO2 Control Leads To Better Business (Video)
Northern Virginia Tech Council, Energy Policy TV
Sudhakar Kesavan, Chairman & CEO, ICF International, says that companies that decide to reduce carbon emissions, especially those with ambitious programs to become carbon neutral, will experience “an improvement in employee retention and morale and the
bottom line.”
(30 January 2008)
