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"Just as we were all settling in front of the television to watch the baseball playoffs, two new studies about the perils of sitting have spoiled our viewing pleasure.
The research, published in separate medical journals this month, adds to a growing scientific consensus that the more time someone spends sitting, especially in front of the television, the shorter and less robust his or her life may be."
"NEW YORK — Experts warned of a "planetary emergency" due to the unforeseen global consequences of Arctic ice melt, including methane gas released from permafrost regions currently under ice."
"When forty-nine dismembered torsos were dumped for public display near Cadereyta, Mexico, in May of this year, they confirmed a grim pattern: what might be called a massacre era has been unfolding in Mexico for nearly two years now, since August 2010."
Tiffany Shlain, filmmaker and founder of the Webby Awards, talks about technology, love and connection, and how we are on our way to creating a giant web in which everyone in the world is connected. Shlain says that we are at the beginning of a "participatory revolution," in which people's ideas are able to interact, cross-pollinate, and reproduce on a global scale
As a member of the high-level group, Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, managing director and CEO of Masdar, has committed to developing renewable energy projects and encouraging clean energy innovation through Masdar-Abu Dhabi’s multifaceted renewable energy company.
HERIDAN, WY, Apr 12, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Next Fuel, Inc. (otcqb:NXFI) (pinksheets:NXFI) ("the Company"), which develops and commercializes clean energy and environmental technologies and solutions, today announced the endorsement of the Company's coal-to-gas technology by a technical panel at a symposium held in Beijing, China.
The Company's patent-pending biogenic coal-to-gas ("CTG" or "BCTG") technology converts the dirtiest fossil fuel, low-grade coal (also known as lignite), into clean-burning natural gas through the introduction of nutrients, via a low-pressure pumping system, to the wide range of microorganisms that naturally exist in coal deposits. The proprietary nutrients stimulate the microorganisms, which in turn consume carbon-containing compounds in the coal and "exhale" biogenic natural gas as a byproduct.
Last month, the Chinese government launched a renewable energy think-tank, the China National Renewable Energy Centre. It will draft industry standards and seek to boost global investment in green energy projects. The centre has already signed research and development co-operation deals with the United States, Denmark and Spain, and is also close to signing agreements with the International Renewable Energy Agency in the United Arab Emirates. More on the greening of the Middle East later.
"WASHINGTON, Mar 14, 2012 (IPS) - Wind energy developers installed a record 41,000 megawatts of electricity-generating capacity in 2011, bringing the world total to 238,000 megawatts."
MINING, OIL and GAS: the impact of these extractive industries has always raised serious social and environmental concerns. However, this report signals a wake-up call to the fact that, today, the scale, expansion and acceleration of these industries are far greater than most of us realise. We are no longer talking about isolated pockets of destruction and pollution. Nowadays, chances are that, no matter where you live on Earth, land acquisitions for mining, oil and gas might soon be at your door. This trend is now a major driver of land grabbing globally, and poses a significant threat to the world's indigenous communities, farmers and local food production systems, as well as to precious water, forests, biodiversity, critical ecosystems and climate change.
Organized by Peking University, the Solar Decathlon China 2013 is "an internationally award-winning program, challenging collegiate teams to design, build and operate solar-powered energy efficient houses. The competition will showcase cutting-edge solar energy and energy-efficiency technologies and solutions, and provide support to the new energy industry as well as energy efficient urban development."
The transition towards a sustainable society will require an energy revolution. These documentaries explore the technological revolution taking place in Australia and around the world which prove that this clean energy future is not only possible, it’s happening now.
A group of government officials from China traveled on a study tour in the United States last week. The tour, hosted by the World Resources Institute, focused on low carbon development. The delegation was led by Director General Su Wei of the Department of Climate Change from China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), who is China's chief negotiator on climate change and a key decision maker for low-carbon development initiatives.
A small group of industrialised countries had burnt fossil fuels for 100 years and built up enormous wealth. This club had to decide what it would do to cut emissions. In 1992, it was accepted that the occupied atmospheric space would need to be vacated to make room for the emerging world to grow, because emissions are an outcome of economic growth. This acceptance recognised the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities in reducing global emissions. A firewall was built to separate those countries that had to reduce emissions to make space for the rest of the world to grow. In 1998, the Kyoto Protocol set the first legal target for these countries — well below what the world knew it needed to do.
105 items | 11 visits
This is a list exploring post collapse, post corporate, post empire, post peak oil, and post many other things!
Updated on Dec 18, 15
Created on Mar 03, 11
Category: Others
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