It's a bleak future for Britain's future leaders - Telegraph

It's a bleak future for Britain's future leaders - Telegraph:

"The Chief Executive of Forum for the Future, Peter Madden, said: 'This generation of students has a heavy burden to bear. They're the first to be fully aware of the damage that human beings are doing to the planet and the last with a chance to save it. That's quite some burden, but one that our future leaders seem confident they can carry.'"

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Developing State Solar Photovoltaic Markets

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Solar photovoltaic energy is an established technology that has proven its ability to improve our national security and boost the economy. Photovoltaics produce energy that is both domestic and emission-free, making it key to weaning the United States of our dependence on polluting fossil fuels and helping to curb the effects of global warming. Solar PV also bolsters our economic security by creating more new jobs than any other energy technology.

We’ve Got 99 Problems, But A Human-Animal Hybrid Ain’t One

A Look at the Biggest Winners and Biggest Losers Under the Bush Administration"


As President Bush’s days of power draw to a close, one thing is clear: We’ve got a lot more problems now than we did seven years ago.

Germany shows renewable fuels can provide 100% of electrical power Needs

Rich countries owe poor a huge environmental debt | Science | guardian.co.uk

"The environmental damage caused to developing nations by the world's richest countries amounts to more than the entire third world debt of $1.8 trillion, according to the first systematic global analysis of the ecological damage imposed by rich countries."

read the story "Rich countries owe poor a huge environmental debt" | Science | guardian.co.uk:

Books from the Earth Policy Institute - Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

Books from the Earth Policy Institute - Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

Table of Contents LINKS

Plan B 3.0 Team (People who have purchased 5 or more copies.)

Upcoming Lectures

Transcripts and Audio

International Publishers

Q&A with Lester Brown by Bryan Walsh of Time magazine. January 7, 2008.

Podcast Interview with Lester Brown by Ira Flatow of Science Friday. January 11, 2008.

Mobilizing the US to Save Civilization: How it can be done

Biotech groups desert international agriculture project | Environment | guardian.co.uk

"The draft report says there is a 'wide range of perspectives on the environmental, human health and economic risks and benefits of modern biotechnology, many of which are as yet unknown'. It says it is not clear whether GM crops increase yields and warns that use of the technology in the developing world could concentrate 'ownership of agricultural resources' in the hands of the companies involved, as well as causing problems with patents." Read more at Biotech groups desert international agriculture project | Environment | guardian.co.uk:

Rotten to the Core

For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets - Times Online: "The Turks and Israelis had planted “moles” in military and academic institutions which handled nuclear technology. Edmonds says there were several transactions of nuclear material every month, with the Pakistanis being among the eventual buyers. “The network appeared to be obtaining information from every nuclear agency in the United States,” she said."

Beyond the point of no return | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist

Beyond the point of no return | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist:

"The environmental establishment continues to peddle the notion that we can solve the climate problem.

We can't.

We have failed to meet nature's deadline. In the next few years, this world will experience progressively more ominous and destabilizing changes. These will happen either incrementally -- or in sudden, abrupt jumps."

High school cancels talk on climate, dividing town - International Herald Tribune

Paranoia? You do the math! Maybe he should talk about GMOs ;-> Read the International Herald article

Action of Climate Change is cheap Insurance

Bloomberg.com: News:

"Policy makers, Weitzman argued, should view spending now to slow climate change ``as an issue about how much insurance to buy to offset the small chance of a ruinous catastrophe that is difficult to compensate by ordinary saving.''

How high a probability, after all, must one have that global warming might lead to major environmental, refugee, and water and food-supply crises to see some value in taking preventative measures now?

From this perspective, even congressional skeptics who don't believe that global warming is caused by humans might be persuaded to support a carbon cap-and-trade system just on the chance that the scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are right and the skeptics are wrong. They could see it as simply taking out a little Earth insurance."

Alcoa Takes Action on Climate Change; Becomes Founding Reporter of The Climate Registry: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

Alcoa Takes Action on Climate Change; Becomes Founding Reporter of The Climate Registry: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance:

"As a company, Alcoa’s core Values include a commitment to sustainability. Alcoa had established a target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 25% below 1990 levels by 2010. This goal was achieved in 2003, seven years ahead of schedule, and those reductions have been maintained despite continuous growth."

Read more about the Climate Registry

A New Economic Engine: Energy in the 21st Century

Excellent overview that outlines the approach that American needs to address future energy needs and be part of the global warming solution not the problem. Pricing CO2 emissions to account for the risk of not changing is absolutely vital to the success.

Cap and Trade is really a band aid way to do it according to leading economists. Replacing income taxes with carbon emissions tax ultimately will have to be done one way or another as income taxes provide the wrong kind of incentives and modifying the code to provide incentives only tends to reward the status quo high carbon emission economy instead of building a new low carbon economy.

Read more about progressive growth at the

Center for American Progress

Saving the Planet, Saving the Economy | OurFuture.org

Discussion is going to heat up this year over what is ailing the economy and how we should change the past seven years of failed conservative policies. That economic discussion should not happen separately from discussion of global warming. Because how we tackle global warming directly affects, and potentially fortifies, our national and global economy. Read more

The high costs of doing nothing, part I | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist

The high costs of doing nothing, part I | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist: "A dirty little secret of climate change is that somebody wants us to pay much higher taxes and higher energy bills. But it's not the advocates of climate action. It's the other guys.

Make no mistake: The costs of switching to clean energy and an energy-efficient economy are far less than the costs of doing nothing."

Global warming 'changing world economy' - Telegraph

Global warming 'changing world economy' - Telegraph: "Global warming is forcing the world to change the way it does business, according to a new report.

A more sustainable global economy is emerging as countries and companies move to combat the challenges posed by climate change.

Huge amounts of money are pouring into clean energy projects, carbon trading and environmental and energy hedge funds, says the annual State of the World 2008 report from the Worldwatch Institute, an independent research organisation."

In Greenland, Ice and Instability

In Greenland, Ice and Instability

The changes seen in Greenland may turn out to be self-limiting in the short run; surging glaciers can flatten out and slow, for instance. Or they may be a sign that the island's ice - holding about the same volume of water as the Gulf of Mexico - is poised for a rapid discharge. Scientists are divided on that question, and on whether there is a near-term risk from a Texas-size portion of West Antarctica's ice sheet that is also showing signs of instability. This split divides those foreseeing a rise in the sea level of a couple of feet this century from water added by Greenland, West Antarctica and mountain glaciers, and a few experts who speak of a couple of yards in that time.

AlterNet: Environment: Are U.S. Cities Ready For Bike-Sharing?

AlterNet: Environment: Are U.S. Cities Ready For Bike-Sharing?

AlterNet: Environment: Are U.S. Cities Ready For Bike-Sharing?: "Copenhagen's then-new bike-sharing service. One glimpse and DeMaio was hooked. 'The idea just blew me away,' he says. 'This was it.'

DeMaio arranged to study in Denmark, where he absorbed as much about bike-sharing culture as possible. Convinced that the idea would appeal to Americans, he created MetroBike LLC, a bicycle planning and bike-sharing consulting company based in Washington D.C"

Climate change: The real New Hampshire story - Telegraph

Climate change: The real New Hampshire story - Telegraph

The press hasn't reported on it but the real story from last night's election may be how important global warming was for the voters of New Hampshire and in particular, for John McCain's turnaround win.

	Protesters signs in the snow outside the state house in Concord, New Hampshire

He's a pro-Iraq war Republican whose campaign was all but written off six months ago, but alone among the Republicans he has a passion for the climate issue and a plan to address it.

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