Here’s the transcript of Bill’s firey speech at Power Shift 2011, the 10,000 person climate conference and training in Washington, DC. Enjoy — and please spread the word! For video, wwhttp://www.350.org/powershift-speech All right, listen up. Very few people can ever say that they are in the single most important place they could possibly be doing [...]
Barack Obama stepped into the chaotic final hours of the Copenhagen summit today saying he was convinced the world could act “boldly and decisively” on climate change. But his speech offered no indication America was ready to embrace bold measures, after world leaders had been working desperately against the clock to try to paper over [...]
(CNN) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Copenhagen early Thursday morning amid concerns that time is running out at the climate change summit for world leaders to agree a deal to combat global warming. Yvo de Boer, the U.N.’s top climate official, admitted Wednesday evening that negotiations had unexpectedly stalled and said [...]
By Aubrey Ann Parker Free Press guest blogger When it comes to wind power, Americans have all kinds of excuses not to use it. “It’s too expensive” or “Not in my backyard” (NIMBY: referencing that they don’t want a tall, skinny, white turbine obstructing their beautiful view of the ocean or the mountains.) Let me [...]
The world has arrived at a moment of decision. As long as we continue to depend on dirty fossil fuels like coal and oil to meet our energy needs, and dump 90 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere, we move closer and closer to several dangerous tipping points—points which scientists have repeatedly [...]
LOS ANGELES, Nov 18 (Reuters Life!) – Concerns over the environment and terrorism have not only affected how people lived in the past decade but also their language, with “global warming” and “9/11″ topping a list of the most used words of the 2000s. The Global Language Monitor, which uses a math formula to track [...]
“Biochar Will Save the World!” proclaims a group page on Facebook. Popular mechanics writes of an “ancient charcoal” that can “put the brakes on global warming.” More than its prospects as a carbon sink or a fuel, biochar has massive prospects for development (the economic kind) for developing countries and emerging markets. But is it really that simple?
The Maldivian President is asking nations most vulnerable to climate change to take the lead in reducing global warming. The leader of a country threatened by rising sea levels slammed rich countries at a two-day conference for doing too little to prevent climate change. Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed says countries like his that are most [...]
