Category: Blog entry
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Typhoons, Climate Negotiations and a Reality Check
Typhoons, Climate Negotiations and a Reality Check - by Rachel Smolker, Biofuelwatch The latest round of climate negotiations are opening just as we are hearing the stories and viewing images on the news coverage of the devastation wrought on the Philippines by Typhoon Haiyan (aka Yolanda). Coincidentally, the last round of climate negotiations, COP 18 in…
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False Solutions for Forests: Biomass Energy, Sustainable Timber, and Carbon Markets
False Solutions for Forests: Biomass Energy, Sustainable Timber, and Carbon Markets - by Jeff Conant, Friends of the Earth In the landscape of global deforestation, a tension exists between policies and practices aimed at drawing a sharp halt to the exploitation of forests and forest peoples and those designed to stimulate a vaguely promised market shift toward…
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Environmental Greats Debate Nuclear Power
By Rod Adams, November 12, 2013 The energy Collective During the promotional period leading up to CNN’s initial airing of Pandora’s Promise, Michael Brune, executive direction of the Sierra Club, and Robert Stone, the director of Pandora’s Promise, engaged in a meaningful discussion about nuclear energy hosted by Kate Bolduan. During the discussion, Brune explains that the Sierra…
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hina’s Coal Problem
Christina Nunez National Geographic Published October 22, 2013 Choked with smog that shut down roads, schools, and its main airport, the city of Harbin (map) this week offered a striking reminder that China has a long way to go in addressing the hazards caused by its dependence on coal. Visibility in the northeastern city of more than 10…
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New York is getting brighter!
By: Kristofer Settle Nov 2, 2013 Source: the energy collective The streets of New York City will be a little brighter (literally) over the next few years. Last week NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announced a new effort to replace the city’s current amber streetlights for white, more energy-efficient light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs throughout the five boroughs.…
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Yosemite’s Burned Areas Are Alive
Yosemite’s Burned Areas Are Alive - by Chad Hanson, October 3, 2013. Source: Los Angeles Times It was entirely predictable. Even before the ashes have cooled on the 257,000-acre Rim fire in and around Yosemite this year, the timber industry and its allies in Congress were using the fire as an excuse for suspending environmental laws and expanding logging operations on federal land. “The Yosemite Rim…
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Commission Revises Archaeological Conditions for Hu Honua Bioenergy
Commission Revises Archaeological Conditions for Hu Honua Bioenergy - by Tom Callis, October 4, 2013. Source: Hawaii Tribune-Herald The Hu Honua Bioenergy project was back before the Windward Planning Commission briefly Thursday. Third Circuit Court Judge Greg Nakamura, who is handling the appeal of a contested case hearing regarding the 21.5‑megawatt biomass power plant under construction near…
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Biomass Injustice
Two Biomass Injustices - by Ron Saff, M.D., October 27, 2013. Source: Gainesville Sun Turkey Creek residents face two deep injustices: health risks from air pollution and noise pollution. Tons of carcinogens will soon belch from the biomass plant. In a 2009 letter to then-Sen. John Kerry, the American Lung Association stated that biomass burning releases toxic…
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Anti‑G.E. Trees Group Censored by University of Florida
Environmental group kicked off UF campus - by Jeff Schweers, October 28, 2013. Source: Gainesville Sun An environmental group that was scheduled to make a presentation on Monday at the University of Florida on genetically engineered trees was kicked off campus over the weekend and its members threatened with arrest and banned for three years. Organizers with the Global…
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October 2013) ANTI-BIOMASS CAMPAIGN CALL RECORDING & NOTES: “Debunking Wildfire Myths”
Anti-Biomass Incineration Campaign — National Conference Call Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 6pm EST TOPIC: “Debunking Wildfire Myths” RECORDING: Debunking Wildfire Myths — October 2013 We discuss how we can improve our advocacy about wildfire and forest practices and how those topics are inseparable from biomass incineration. What’s changing with our Western U.S. forest ecosystems, public budgets, and wood…