Environmental Newsletter 11/05/2008

 

 Media

Second HGTV Green Home Giveaway Set for Spring 2009 (BusinessWire, Nov. 3)

Meet The Game-Changing Green Entrepreneurs [Excerpt from Joel Makower's new book, "Strategies for the Green Economy."] (GreenBiz, Nov. 3)

The green media biz is all the buzz (AZBiz/InsideTucsonBusiness, Nov. 1)

 

 Green Living & Social Trends

At Specialty Garage, Making Hybrids Even Greener (N.Y. Times, Nov. 4) Free site registration required

Green prisons farm, recycle to save energy, money (Yahoo!/AP, Nov. 1)

Efficiency’s Mark: City Glitters a Little Less (N.Y. Times, Nov. 1) Free site registration required

Budgets Squeezed, Some Families Bypass Organics (N.Y. Times, Oct. 31) Free site registration required

Guide Profiles 60+ Green MBA Programs (GreenBiz, Oct. 31)

How do you know what's green and what's not? (ENN/Triple Pundit, Oct. 31)

top storyWaste not, want not [Precycling.] (Guardian UK, Oct. 30)

Will LEDs replace compact fluorescent bulbs? (Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 30)

 

 Business & Economy

Economy Shifts, and the Ethanol Industry Reels (N.Y. Times, Nov. 5) Free site registration required

Little Orange People and Carbon Capture Subsidies (N.Y. Times, Nov. 4) Free site registration required

Green Jobs and Illegal Immigration (N.Y. Times, Nov. 3) Free site registration required

Credit Crisis May Halt Pickins' Largest Wind Farm in the World (ENN/TriplePundit, Nov. 3)

top storyProfits to the Planet [IUCN launches Earth Profits Fund.] (eMagazine, Nov. 2)

Report: Zero Carbon Global Economy Possible by 2090 (GreenBiz/BusinessGreen, Oct. 31)

World Bank Trys To Keep Global Warming On Agenda (TerraDaily/AFP, Oct. 31)

GE Seeks Federal Approval for Greener Refrigerant (GreenBiz, Oct. 30)

Global Business Backs UN Climate Change Deal (TerraDaily/AFP, Oct. 29)

 

 Commentary

So Little Time, So Much Damage (N.Y. Times, Nov. 3) Free site registration required

Election Update: Last Days are an Environmental Issue (Red, Green and Blue, Nov. 3)

Why It’s Time for a ‘Green New Deal’ (Newsweek, Nov. 1)

 

 Ecosystems & Biodiversity

top storyCoral Reefs Found Growing In Cold, Deep Ocean (ScienceDaily, Nov. 5)

Authorities Hope Beetle Invasion Can Be Ground to a Halt [New England forests.] (Washington Post, Nov. 5) Free site registration required

Tropical farms 'aid biodiversity' (BBC News, Nov. 4)

Saving Wild Salmon, in Hopes of Saving the Orca (N.Y. Times, Nov. 4) Free site registration required

A Monk's Life [Endangered Mediterranean monk seals.] (Zoogoer, Nov./Dec. 2008)

Global Warming Is Killing Frogs And Salamanders In Yellowstone Park (TerraDaily/SPX, Oct. 31)

Giant bat makes comeback in Tanzania (Yahoo!/Reuters, Oct. 30)

Warning as seabird breeding fails (BBC News, Oct. 30)

World's Fish Catches Being Wasted As Animal Feed (TerraDaily/SPX, Oct. 30)

Study Traces Frog Population Decline To Weed Killer [Atrazine.] (NPR, Oct. 29)

 

 Technology

A Fuel-Sipping Engine (Technology Review, Nov. 3)

New Model Predicts A Glacier's Life (ScienceDaily, Oct. 31)

Air Cars: A New Wind for America's Roads? (Yahoo!/Kiplinger, Oct. 30)

 

 Pollution

Greenwatch: US court reinstates Bhopal water pollution case (Guardian UK, Nov. 4)

Unveiling a Museum, a Pennsylvania Town Remembers the Smog That Killed 20 [Galvanized support for laws such 1970 federal Clean Air Act.] (N.Y. Times, Nov. 1) Free site registration required

 

 Public Opinion & Surveys

California votes against green power initiatives (New Scientist, Nov. 5)

top storyMost Consumers Can't Name a Green Brand (GreenBiz, Oct. 31)

 

 Green Building

Homeowners go greener with do-it-yourself jobs (San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 3)

Home Buying Experts Receive 'Green' Certification [Real estate.] (MarketWatch, Oct. 30)

 

 U.S. & Government

Bush Wants Environmental Changes (redOrbit, Nov. 3)

NY's Plans For Eco-Friendly Taxis Halted (redOrbit, Nov. 2)

Dreaming Green [Green Party.] (InTheseTimes, Nov. 2)

top storyObama's green jobs revolution (Independent UK, Nov. 2)

EPA curbs factory farm pollution (PhysOrg, Nov. 1)

A Splash of Green for the Rust Belt (N.Y. Times, Nov. 1)

 

 International

Growing slums 'face water crisis' (BBC News, Nov. 4)

Prince calls for rainforest bills (BBC News, Nov. 3)

A green lesson from Iceland [Geothermal & hydro power.](Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 2)

Gulf States to invest in Britain's renewable energy in 'green deal' (Independent UK, Nov. 2)

Mud eruption 'caused by drilling' (BBC News, Nov. 1)

EU scientists team up on clean energy research (EurActiv, Oct. 31)

Royal Society to research potential of geo-engineering to limit global warming (Guardian UK, Oct. 30)

Africa's anti-desert 'green wall' starts small in Senegal (TerraDaily/AFP, Oct. 29)

 

 Climate Change

Dried mushrooms slow climate warming in Northern forests (PhysOrg, Nov. 3)

Drought land 'will be abandoned': Climate change will cause 'economic deserts' even in rich countries, warns UN environment chief (Guardian/Observer, Nov. 2)

Chilean glacier will vanish in 50 years: study [70% of Santiago's water supply.] (TerraDaily/AFP, Nov. 1)

Climate change at the poles IS man-made (Independent UK, Oct. 31)

'Living Fossil' Tree Contains Genetic Imprints Of Rain Forests Under Climate Change (ScienceDaily, Oct. 31)

Global Methane Levels On The Rise Again (TerraDaily/SPX, Oct. 30)

 

 Energy

Treated Wastewater for Thirsty Power Plants (N.Y. Times, Nov. 4) Free site registration required

Tree fungus could provide green transport fuel (Guardian UK, Nov. 4)

Solar Power Game-changer: 'Near Perfect' Absorption Of Sunlight, From All Angles (ScienceDaily, Nov. 4)

How Clean Coal Could Power the Future (Yahoo!/LiveScience, Nov. 3)

Nukenomics No Longer Add Up - Expert [Nuclear energy.] (Yahoo!/OneWorld, Oct. 31)

 

 


Compiled by Cathy Hunter and Michael Jourdan.