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7/4/2013
Tom Steyer is a man at odds with himself. He made his fortune by founding a hedge fund with a keen interest in the energy sector, including leading oil, pipeline and mining companies. The firm also gobbled up stock in BP a year after its ...
7/2/2013
Jimmy Strickland can tell you exactly how much money rising sea levels have cost his business. In 1989, he opened his accounting firm in a one-story brick building near Norfolk’s historic cobblestoned Hague district, which surrounds one of this ...
11/1/2013
Climate change is already affecting how Americans live and work, and evidence is mounting that the burning of fossil fuels has roughly doubled the probability of extreme heat waves, the Obama administration said Friday."Sea level is ...
6/11/2012
The small makeup room off the main floor of KUSI`s studios, in a suburban canyon on the north end of San Diego, has seen better days. The carpet is stained; the couch sags. John Coleman, KUSI`s weatherman, pulls off the brown sweatshirt he has ...
1/11/2012
The invitation to the White House in the spring of 2009 struck Barack Obama's allies in the environmental movement as a big moment: a clear sign that
climate change was on his radar and that the president was eager to get to work.
The ...
4/6/2012
It's been a tough few weeks for the forces of
climate change denial.
First came the giant billboard with Unabomber Ted Kacynzki's face plastered across it: "I Still Believe in Global Warming. Do You?" Sponsored by the Heartland ...
31/5/2012
Transactions of voluntary carbon credits grew to $576m last year, defying the sluggish economy by reaching the highest level since 2008, with corporate buyers making up the vast majority of purchases.
Companies comprised over 92 per cent ...
26/4/2012
Three out of four U.S. voters favor regulating carbon dioxide as a greenhouse-gas pollutant, and a majority think global warming should be a priority for the president and Congress, a survey of American attitudes on
climate and energy reported on ...
31/3/2012
When a landmark UN conference on sustainable development kicks off in Brazil in mid-June, more than 120 world leaders are expected to participate in the much-ballyhooed talkfest on the future of the global environment.
“But yet we ...
21/2/2012
SAs governments bicker over who should do what to slow the pace of global warming, the U.N.'s
climate chief is increasingly looking to business leaders to show the way forward to a low-carbon future.
Christiana Figueres told The ...
16/2/2012
Former U.S. Vice President and Current TV Chairman and Co-Founder Al
Gore speaks during the panel for Current TV's "Politically Direct" at the Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena, California on January 13, 2012. ...
16/2/2012
Former U.S. Vice President Al
Gore said investors in oil and gas companies who ignore the cost of emitting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are making a mistake similar to those who invested in subprime mortgages.
"The value of ...
4/2/2012
A service provider for the green consumer says it is revolutionizing the way people approach sustainability, and the key to that revolution, it says, is games.
Recyclebank, a Philadelphia-based startup-turned international service ...
21/9/2011
Global financial institutions are recommending raising money to fight
climate change by trimming subsidies for fossil fuels, putting a price tag of $25 per ton on carbon emissions and collecting a surcharge on aviation and shipping ...
12/9/2011
Local scientists and the Ashland Conservation Commission hope to rekindle interest in global warming and what residents can do to conserve natural resources during a
Climate Reality Project on Wednesday.
The series of presentations will ...
5/8/2011
'Bullshit!` Al
Gore calls out
climate change deniers
“They pay pseudo-scientists to pretend to be scientists to put out the message: ‘This
climate thing, it’s nonsense,’” an impassioned Al
Gore told attendees at the Aspen Institute ...
24/6/2011
David Suzuki and Bill McKibben call on Canadians and Americans to risk arrest this August in order to halt construction of the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta's tar sands to Texas refineries.
A Call for Civil Disobedience on the ...
23/6/2011
Al
Gore takes some shots at President Obama in a new Rolling Stone essay, grumbling that he has “thus far failed to use the bully pulpit to make the case for bold action on
climate change.” Wait: Isn’t that Al
Gore’s job? The president’s job is ...
2/5/2011
Good old Donald Trump. We all know there is no way he will ever be President of the U.S. and I think he knows it too. But that doesn’t mean he can’t use his media smarts to grow his brand. Mr. Trump managed to briefly make a media storm out of ...
24/2/2011
UCLA Hammer Museum hosted a "Global Creative Forum" on February 22, bringing together United Nations representatives, environmental experts and entertainment industry leaders to brainstorm on the critical role Hollywood can play to communicate ...
19/2/2011
Yesterday I attended the symposium "Forests at Risk:
Climate Change and the Future of the American West," organized by the non-profit For the Forest in Aspen, Colorado.
The educational symposium included distinguished scientists from ...
20/1/2011
Flawed science A
climate change study that projected a 2.4°C increase in temperature and massive worldwide food shortages in the next decade was seriously flawed, say scientists.
The study was posted Tuesday on EurekAlert , an ...
21/11/2010
Global warming, an offshoot of the
climate change phenomenon, is being gradually transformed from a threat of environmental doom to a promise of financial boom, thanks to the emerging universal trade in carbon credit, which analysts say is now ...
22/10/2010
"What are you going to do about this damn cup?" A story of Starbucks and the limits of corporate sustainability. Enlarge
Trash Talking: "Recycling in the stores is only part of the solution," says Jim Hanna, Starbucks's director of ...
21/10/2010
To one side of the fence, a herd of bison grazes against a backdrop of low mountain peaks, the unmistakable landscape of America's West. To the other, a workforce in yellow construction helmets and orange safety vests is bolting solar energy ...