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http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-06-05/pine-beetles-chew-up-forests-local-economies-in-western-u-dot-s Photograph by Brian Howell/USFS Rocky Mountain Region Colorado’s Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest The western U.S., already suffering an historic drought, is also battling another Old Testament-worthy plague: a tiny insect with a monster appetite. Pine beetles, each the size of a grain of rice, are obliterating forests, ravaging towns, draining city budgets, and threatening …
Blog: kevinanderson.info Comment on climate June 2014: A response to the US draft mandate to cut carbon emissions from its power sector by 30% by 2030 (c.f. 2005) by Kevin Anderson1 and Dr. Maria Sharmina2 Professor of energy and climate change Deputy director of the Tyndall Centre for climate change research Research Associate Tyndall Centre for …
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“Leila Project”, billed as a ‘library of things’, has proved so popular it has spawned similar initiatives across the country. By Philip Ottermann – The Guardian Nikolai Wolfert, who started the Leila ‘borrowing shop’ in Berlin, says drills are among the most popular items. Photograph: Christian Jungeblodt The most popular items in Berlin’s first “borrowing …
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Why collapse and salvation are hard to distinguish from each other. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian- 28th May 2014 Let us imagine that in 3030BC the total possessions of the people of Egypt filled one cubic metre. Let us propose that these possessions grew by 4.5% a year. How big would that stash …
By Laurie Guevara-Stone- April 27, 2014 (at http://www.popularresistance.org/solar-cooperatives-are-on-the-rise/) While many people associate cooperatives with a place for hippies to buy organic food, the cooperative movement has actually grown far and wide, creating sustainable enterprises that generate jobs and strengthen local economies. Today, there are nearly 30,000 cooperatives in the U.S., with more than 100 million …
By Kiley Kroh – Published in Climate Progress- April 14, 2014 On a recent Washington, DC evening, a few hundred people gathered to catch a sneak peak of Showtime’s new star-studded series on climate change. The surprisingly action-packed first episode of “Years Of Living Dangerously” featured big names doing bigger things: In one scene, Harrison …
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By Brandon Baker, published in Ecowatch News Report on April 16, 2014 Because natural gas has less carbon than dirty coal, gas producers and even the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have applauded it as a cleaner alternative. Hopefully, a joint study from researchers at two universities will change that. Purdue and Cornell …
(photo by Scott Myers; the following information was published by the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, April 13, 2014) On April 9, 2014, the Grand County Council Public Lands Working Committee identified three alternative proposals, along with maps, for long term designations of public lands in Grand County, as part of Representative Rob Bishop’s proposed “Land …
By Philip Ross, Published in International Business Times , April 12, 2014 (see http://www.ibtimes.com/greenland-ice-sheet-samples-show-us-clean-air-act-had-dramatic-impact-air-pollution-1570931) The Greenland ice sheet covers roughly 80 percent of the surface of the island. C ore samples of its ice can provide clues about changes in the chemical makeup of Earth’s atmosphere. Greenland’s ice sheet is like a time capsule that …
By JUSTIN GILLIS – published in the NY Times, March 30, 2014 YOKOHAMA, Japan — Climate change is already having sweeping effects on every continent and throughout the world’s oceans, scientists reported Monday, and they warned that the problem is likely to grow substantially worse unless greenhouse emissions are brought under control. The report by …
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