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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Claire Fauset: Make your mark and ground the growth of aviation |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 6:06 am |
| Tags: Activists, Society, Comment, Environment, Travel, Travel And Transport, Green Travel, Climate Change |
| Claire Fauset: Next month's Camp for Climate Action will put Heathrow airport at the frontline of direct action on climate change. Hundreds of people, including many from the local community, will be camping there. |
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| National Trust puts 3.5m members in front line against climate change |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 5:59 am |
| Tags: Environment, Rural Affairs, Voluntary Sector, Society, Climate Change, Travel, Travel News, Heritage, Uk News |
| It controls 900-square miles of land and 710 miles of coastline and has far moremembers than the armed services, the teaching profession, the prison population, environmental groups and political parties combined. |
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| Selling indulgences for environmental sin [Effect Measure] |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 8:36 am |
| Tags: Climate Change |
| up with a new idea to sell climate change indulgences to a public increasingly worried about how today's sins will punish their grandchildren. This latest Bush administration proposal for offsetting the build-up of greenhouse gases characteristically (for them) doesn't operate on the source side -- the production of these gases -- but on the |
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| When the Facts Get Tough, the Tough Stop Fact-Gathering |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 8:29 pm |
| Tags: Climate Crisis, Bush Administration, Baghdad, Infrastructure, Iraq, Civilian Casualties |
| and floods. The Deep Space Climate Observatory, intended to observe climate factors such as solar radiation, ozone, clouds, and water vapor more comprehensively than existing satellites, also has been canceled. Sheesh. The last thing we want is "critical information" about the climate crisis, the infrastructure in post-surge Baghdad or how |
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| Komfort Pets' climate-controlled pet carrier |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 3:19 pm |
| Tags: Air Conditioned, Air Conditioning, Air Condition, Airconditioned, Airconditioning, Climate, Climate Controlled, Dog, Dog Carrier, Dogcarrier, Komfort Pets, Komfort Pets Carrier, Komfortpets, Komfortpetscarrier, Pet, Warming |
| more bearable. The firm's climate-controlled carrier not only cools Fido off when the ambient temperature reaches 72-degrees Fahrenheit, but also utilizes its patent-pending technology to heat things up if the outside air temperature dips below 65-degrees. The crate is said to be suitable for non-climate-controlled garages, and could be |
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| Why the ice caps are an endangered species [The Island of Doubt] |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 8:49 am |
| Tags: Climate |
| In this essay, NASA's top climate scientist takes the substance of a recent paper that discusses the "reticence" of some climatologists to make their fears about dangerous climate change public and gives his argument a more accessible treatment. The New Scientist version is gripping stuff, right from the first paragraph, which also appears in |
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| Is global warming wreaking havoc in Houston? |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 3:11 pm |
| Tags: Climate Change |
| There's a press conference in Houston later this afternoon on global warming to announce the release of this report by Environment Texas. I won't be there for reasons that should become clear below. Here are some snippets from the press... |
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| Sadik-Khan: Many Initiatives Are Under Way… |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 10:48 am |
| Tags: Climate Change, Congestion Pricing |
| Today's Crain's Insider, available to subscribers only, reports on the next steps for the Bloomberg Administration's broader Long-Term Sustainability Plan now that congestion pricing has cleared its first hurdle in Albany: 7.30.07 Crain's NY Business The Insider by Erik Engquist and Anne Michaud |
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| Dying to Get to Work |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 1:01 pm |
| Tags: Climate Change, Commuting, Air Quality, Transit, Public Health, Energy, Studies Amp 038 Reports |
| As New York State sets up a commission to study the costs and benefits of New York City's congestion pricing proposal, a new study by the Clean Air Task Force finds that, for many New Yorkers, the greatest exposure to dangerous and unhealthy air pollution comes during the daily commute. "Although we spend only about six percent of our day |
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| BAA denies seeking blanket ban on airport protest |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 7:03 pm |
| Tags: Environment, Travel Transport, Activists, Climate Change, Travel, The Airline Industry |
| Injunction request targets climate change activists Application opposed by Transport for London |
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| Length of European summer heat waves has doubled? |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 8:39 am |
| Tags: Climate Change |
| I know it's amusing to poke fun at Al Gore, holding concerts to fight global warming and the fact that sometimes attendance was subpar. Unfortunately, as a new study in the Journal of Geophysical Research suggests, there's a more sobering... |
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| Grist: NYC is Not One of the World’s Greenest Cities |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 11:34 am |
| Tags: Out Of Town, News, Climate Change, Air Quality, Livable Streets, Public Health |
| Grist recently produced a list of the world's 15 greenest cities. Streetsblog favorites Copenhagen, Curitiba, London, and Bogot all made the grade. StreetFilms' posterchild Portland captured the number two spot right behind geothermal-powered Reykjavik, Iceland. San Francisco and Austin were the only other U.S. cities to make the list with |
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| Edwards, Obama, Richardson and Clinton on Energy |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 4:04 pm |
| Tags: John Edwards, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, Energy, Climate, Environment, Front Paged |
| much to solve our energy and climate problems. Energy policy areaEdwardsObamaRichardsonClinton Plan detail levelMediumLowHighLow CO2 reduction goal15% by 2020, 80% by 205080% by 205020% by 2020, 80% by 2040, 90% by 2050No policy Post-KyotoYes: binding greenhouse reductions in trade agreementsAfter we take first step; help developing countries |
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| National Express quits biofuel experiment |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 6:44 pm |
| Tags: Climate Change, Business, Transport In The Uk, Front Page News, Travel, Travel News |
| Green energy source 'may do more harm than good' Coach firm underlines concerns for food crops |
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| BAA wins injunction to stop Heathrow protest |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 7:57 am |
| Tags: The Airline Industry, Uk News, Climate Change, Business, Travel News, Transport In The Uk, Travel |
| Airports operator succeeds in high court bid to ban direct action demonstration. |
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