Extreme weather in SE Asia & Climate Change
Posted by annied in campaign, climate change on 04. Oct, 2009 | Comments Off
We wanted to draw your attention to the extreme weather happening in South East Asia currently:
An Earth quake in the ocean caused a Tsunami on the American Samoa Islands, Thursday. A 7.6 magnitude Richter earthquake struck the city of Padang, Indonesia on Thursday as well. The Philippines is still experiencing extreme flooding after a “super” typhoon hit the island of Luzon. Saturday, the alternation in terrain left by the earthquake in Padang made things worse: a mudslide occurred and 4 villages were wiped out. As of Saturday night, it was estimated that more than 1,500 people had been killed.
5 Cool Carbon Entrepreneurs as seen at The Carbon Show, London
Posted by annied in climate change, greentv news on 02. Oct, 2009 | 2 Comments
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Ecodesign. Impeccably dressed with a wicked eye for design Mark Shayler. Can both reduce your products packaging and make it prettier at the same time! Like Bectel, for example, there’ll be more space for more of your product on the shelf so you’ll probably sell more on top of saving on inputs. Oh, and his [...]
One Giant Leap for Sandbag (one small step for Ed)
Posted by annied in DECC, campaign, climate change on 29. Sep, 2009 | Comments Off
“The West needs to do more or it’s an excuse for everyone else not to do more.” Though Worthington laments, “They’ll probably do it anyway just embarrass them.” She is confident about non-Western’s countries, in particular China’s ability to adjust their carbon emissions, “When China says it’s going to do something, it generally does it.”
Krakatoa: historical event is food for thought
Posted by annied in DEFRA, climate change on 28. Sep, 2009 | Comments Off
Listening to and old episode of the Dinner Party Download from APM’s Marketplace making dinner Friday night, the last day of the UN’s Climate Week. A segment of the
program told the story of the Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia. The volcanic erruption in 1883 caused alterations in global temperatures for at least five years and “red” [...]
Campaigns DO Make Change. The clock is TckTckTck-ing
Posted by annied in Oxfam, WWF, campaign on 25. Sep, 2009 | Comments Off
Our friend Erica Grigg of carbonOutreach.com has a response to our query: Too Many Climate Campaigns?
Have you met Ade?
Posted by annied in green media on 22. Sep, 2009 | Comments Off
Ade Thomas, green.tv’s founder (our very own version of George Monbiot) has a conversation with the bloggess. For a guy who runs a tv channel and a web-design firm and works in London, he’s quite the naturalist. Ade talks about his boys, growing up in Oxford, fishing, urbanization and rapacious, invasive American invaders.
5 greentech developments to be aware of
Posted by annied in greentech, greentv news on 21. Sep, 2009 | Comments Off
The non-use of technology is more important a technology story than the application of technology these days. Almost three quarters of Dutch economic activity takes place below sea-level and sea levels will rise 1 meter by the end of this century. But instead of adding mechanization and making plans that will have a carbon footprint the Dutch will create flood planes and wave breakers by adding sand offshore and expanding marshes and public spaces. Not only are they bracing for extreme weather events, they are greening their living space as well!
(Source: Ben Berkowitz, Reuters online, 4 Sep 2009)
The Environment Agency versus Panorama: Whose side are you on?
Posted by annied in Environment Agency on 18. Sep, 2009 | Comments Off
Last week Panorama reported on “Britain’s Dirty Beaches.” The Environment Agency disagrees and we’ve got their rebuttal: