The whole world is taking about the Climate Change Report released by the Obama administration via its U.S. Global Change Research Program. The gist of the report is that a reduction in carbon emissions is crucial to mitigate the impact that global warming will have on life as we know it. And it says that [...]

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According to Ecorazzi, president-elect Barack Obama spoke on TV about his plans to green up the White House. Part of the plan is to evaluate its energy efficiency and set an example to the American people by doing so. That’s the way to go. Change has to be inspired from the top and considering Obama’s [...]

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The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has created a new government Department for Energy and Climate Change. Ed Miliband will be at the helm of the new governmental agency. The Guardian newspaper wrote that the action “signals a major rethink of the government’s environment policy and reflects the rise of climate change to the top [...]

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Two intriguing stories about unusual ways of contributing to the fight against climate change caught my attention yesterday. The first was an article in Christian Science Monitor about physicist Hashem Akbari’s formula “to determine how much heat-trapping carbon dioxide would be offset by reflecting the solar radiation back into space”. He suggested “replacing the dark [...]

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It’s been quite a week with the arrival of Sarah Palin on the national stage of the presidential elections. We have written about candidates’ stance on green issues here. So, with the arrival of Palin, green campaigners would like to know where she stands on the issue of climate change, which is a key election [...]

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