Archive for 'Carbon Markets'
Cool Green Morning: Monday, November 9
That’s not lice causing that scratching on your head (at least, we hope not) — it’s just a lot of head scratchers in today’s hot green news roundup. Stop the itch of curiosity right here!
Now here’s a question that’s been keeping millions up at night! Which is greener: Going into the refrigerator for a bottle [...]
Posted: November 9th, 2009 under Animals, Carbon Markets, Climate Change, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Green Living, Policy, Science, United States, Water Conservation.
Tags: Ask Pablo, Bright Green Blog, carbon emissions, carbon price, CleanTechnica, Climate Change, climate change denial, climate change denier, Columbia University, communicating climate change, Copenhagen climate, energy conservation, greenhouse gases, Institute for Policy Integrity, Jeremy Hance, Mongabay, Obama, Obama endangered species, ozone hole, Richard Black, The Psychology of Climate Change Communication, Treehugger, Water conservation
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Cool Green Morning: Thursday, October 15
Marijuana causes drought, endangered species are expensive, and wetlands store carbon… who knew? Now you do, thanks to this morning’s round-up of Cool Green News links.
New data suggest that wetlands could store six times more carbon per acre than forests, leading some scientists and companies to consider wetlands restoration as the next shining hope for carbon offsets.
How much [...]
Posted: October 15th, 2009 under Animals, Carbon Markets, Climate Change, Conservation Issues, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Fish, Green Living, United States, Water Conservation.
Tags: California drought, carbon offsets, carbon sink, Chinook salmon, conservation spending, endangered species, gas leaks, say no to phonebooks, Terry Gosney, USFWS, wetlands restoration
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Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, October 13
Good morning, Cool Green News addicts! We know you missed us yesterday, but we’re back with some hot links to get your day started. Dams are coming down, a literary classic offers lessons in the climate change debate and a note of hope emerges around the U.S. climate change bill currently stalled in the Senate. Read [...]
Posted: October 13th, 2009 under Carbon Markets, Climate Change, Conservation Issues, Cool Green Morning, Forest Trade, Forests, Media, Oceans & Coasts, Policy, The Nature Conservancy, United States.
Tags: Associated Press, climate change legislation, community-owned forest, Conservation Magazine, dam breaching, Indonesia, Jakarta Post, John Kerry, Lindsey Graham, Los Angeles Times, Maldives, New York Times, Oregon dam, Rogue River dam, sea level rise, underwater Parliamanet
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Chronicles of Borneo: Seeing the Forest for the Trees
“The forest is our supermarket,” says Bang Liling, the deputy chief of Long Oking village inside the Berau district of Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of Borneo.
It tells you something that that’s a common phrase heard in this part of the world, which I visited earlier this fall.
“We get all of our medicine from the forest,” [...]
Posted: October 8th, 2009 under Asia Pacific, Carbon Markets, Climate Change, Forest Trade, Forests, Indigenous Communities, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: Berau, deforestation, Indonesia, reduced-impact logging
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A Clarion Call: Fight Climate Change by Protecting Forests
Mark Tercek is president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy.
Over the last few months, I have been participating in a bipartisan commission — The Commission on Climate and Tropical Forests — that is focused on the connections between climate policy here in the United States and protecting tropical forests. The commission comprises some of the [...]
Posted: October 7th, 2009 under Asia Pacific, Business, Carbon Markets, Climate Change, Forests, Policy, Rainforests, South America, United States.
Tags: Berau, Berau forest, Bolivia, Bolivia climate, Brazil, Brazil deforestation, cap-and-trade, carbon emissions, Climate Change, climate forest, Commission on Climate and Tropical Forests, Congress climate, Copenhagen, deforestation, forest biodiversity, forest protection, Indonesia climate, Indonesia deforestation, John Podesta climate, Lincoln Chafee climate, Mark Tercek, Mato Grasso, Noel Kempff, Para, REDD, REDD pilot, REDD project, United States protect forest, US protect forest
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Can We Solve Climate Change? Wrapup on Governors Global Climate Summit
Are practical solutions to climate change within reach? Based on what I saw at the Governors’ Global Climate Summit, yes we can.
The Governors’ Global Climate Summit wrapped up last Friday with governors and other subnational leaders from around the world signing a declaration to work together toward effective climate solutions — including creation of climate [...]
Posted: October 6th, 2009 under Asia Pacific, Carbon Markets, Climate Change, Forests, Policy, South America.
Tags: Aceh, Acre, Amazonas, Brazil, Brazil rubber climate, Climate Change, climate forest, Copenhagen, deforestation, deforestation Brazil, forest conservation, Governors Global Climate Summit, green jobs, Indonesia, Jon Hoekstra, Mato Grasso, Para, rainforest conservation, Rainforests, REDD, tropical forest
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Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, August 19
Seaweed gas that kills horses. Oil company employees rallying against climate change legislation. Wind turbines and their annoying hum. It’s not all bad news in Cool Green Morning this morning — it just looks like it (but at least we’ll always have Scotland):
Want another reason to go green with your energy? The renewable energy industry [...]
Posted: August 19th, 2009 under Carbon Markets, Climate Change, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Europe, Green Living, Green Technology, Oceans & Coasts, Policy, United States.
Tags: 60-Second Science, American Petroleum Institute, Astroturf climate, Building Green, EcoWorldly, Environmental Capital, JAMA renewable, North Sea carbon, renewable energy, renewable energy death, rooftop turbine, Scotland carbon grave, Scotland carbon sink, seaweed France, seaweed gas, The Vine, wind power, wind turbine
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Cool Green Morning: Thursday, August 13
Seen the marvelous spatuletail hummingbird? You must check him out — see video above — and read on to find out why this unusual little guy is endangered in Peru. It’s all the Cool Green News you need this morning.
A new report from the American Bird Conservancy and a South American conservation group highlights the plight of the endangered marvelous spatuletail [...]
Posted: August 13th, 2009 under Birds, Carbon Markets, Conservation Issues, Cool Green Morning, Europe, Green Living, North America, Policy, South America, United States, Water Conservation.
Tags: American Bird Conservancy, Bixi bike share, cap-and-trade, cap-and-trade skepticism, climate legislation rallies, Enviornmental Capital, India groundwater, marvelous spatuletail hummingbird, Peru, The Daily Green, The Vine, town-hall protests, Wall Street Journal
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Cool Green Morning: Thursday, July 23
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First, we hear Steven Chu has a Facebook page. Now he’s appearing on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. What next? Read on for all the latest Cool Green News on this fine Cool Green Morning.
Will farmers do better financially under the proposed Waxman-Markey [...]
Posted: July 23rd, 2009 under Carbon Markets, Climate Change, Cool Green Morning, Coral Reefs, Energy, Green Living, Green Technology, Interviews, Markets, Media, Oceans & Coasts, Policy, Rainforests, Science, The Caribbean, United States.
Tags: baseball stadiums, carbon offsets, Caribbean reefs, Climate Change, climate change mitigation, coral bleaching, Daily Show, Environmental Capital, facebook, farmers, Jon Stewart, LEED certification, Mongabay, NOAA, Red Green and Blue, save rainforests, Steven Chu, warming ocean, Waxman-Markey, wind energy
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Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, July 21
What do green jobs, trash systems and shark attacks have to do with each other? They’re all part of today’s Cool Green Morning news round-up. Intrigued? Just read on…
Green jobs skeptic Marc Gunther thinks a program modeled after Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps — which helped build state and national parks in the 1930s — could be the best [...]
Posted: July 21st, 2009 under Animals, Carbon Markets, Conservation Issues, Cool Green Morning, Green Living, Markets, Oceans & Coasts, Policy, Sustainable Livelihoods, United States.
Tags: cap-and-trade, carbon tax, Civilian Conservation Corps, finning, green jobs, Grist, Marc Gunther, MIT, NRDC, Red Green and Blue, shark attack survivor, shark conservation, Shark Conservation Act of 2009, Smarter Cities, sustainable cities, TImothy Hurst, trash system, Trash Tracker
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