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Beiträge zum Stichwort ‘ environment ’


Green Guide to Electronics Is Disputed, but Influential

4. Februar 2010 | Von atsil | Kategorie: Live Green n Clean, extension3

There is little question that the Greenpeace guide has become an influential fixture on the consumer electronics scene…



GoodGuide

11. Januar 2010 | Von atsil | Kategorie: Live Green n Clean, extension2

Simply by scanning the barcode with an iPhone, consumers can find out the nitty-gritty details of their favorite personal care, household chemical, toy and food product, on the store location.



The Vibrating Side of Green

17. November 2009 | Von atsil | Kategorie: Live Green n Clean, extension4

How does one go green when it comes to sex life?



Lawsuits against Shell and Chevron

1. Juni 2009 | Von atsil2 | Kategorie: English, extension, news2

Lawsuits against oil giants should come along with or be subsequently followed by indictments against ferocious dictators, power-obsessed militaries, corrupt officials, irresponsible national companies and mercenary individuals.
But who dares to throw the first stone?!



Save the environment – eat kangaroo, groups say

4. Februar 2009 | Von atsil | Kategorie: English, Read the World

A growing body of academics say that giving up beef and lamb for kangaroo would reduce Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions and ease pressure on a drought-stricken land.



An environmentalist’s nightmare

23. Juli 2008 | Von atsil | Kategorie: Biofuel

The high cost of oil is driving the public and politicians to adopt policies that the environmentalist movement has opposed for the past 40 years.
Paul Kennedy is listing the multiple global reversals in reaction to global warming and even despite of it:

The major return of many governments to nuclear power – with dozens of new [...]



The coming population bust

25. Juni 2008 | Von atsil | Kategorie: English, Read the World

By Jeff Jacoby (International Herald Tribune)
MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2008
The belief that human population growth leads to hunger, shortages, and a ravaged environment resists evidence to the contrary



Portrait of a ‘green’ coal baron

22. Juni 2008 | Von atsil | Kategorie: English, Read the World

By Clive Thompson (The New York Times)
FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 2008
Jim Rogers, chief executive of Duke Energy, runs one of the biggest U.S. producers of carbon emissions. He is also a committed environmentalist, but now he finds himself fighting a carbon cap bill he championed.



Recycling can benefit the atmosphere as well as the Earth

12. Juni 2008 | Von atsil | Kategorie: English, Read the World

By Elisabeth Rosenthal (International Herald Tribune)
TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 2008
Trash can be a larger environmental problem: If it goes to a landfill to decompose, it releases methane, a potent greenhouse gas



Skeptics of human-caused global warming point to cold spell

4. März 2008 | Von atsil | Kategorie: English, Read the World

By Andrew C. Revkin (The New York Times)
SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 2008
Scientists caution people on both sides of the environmental argument to not focus on short-term weather patterns but to look at the big picture.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/02/healthscience/cold.php



Lights, Camera, Action!

6. November 2006 | Von atsil | Kategorie: English, Read the World

In early October, Al Gore premiered his film, “An Inconvenient Truth” in Germany. While the film itself was very good and is clearly based on scientific facts, the premieres were badly attended and the film has not had such a large audience in Germany, one of the “greener” and more environmentally conscious countries in [...]