Here are some upcoming environmental conferences around the world, most of them courtesy of Going To Meet.
The Financial Times and the International Finance Corporation
London, England
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Ethanol 2007 Australia
Melbourne, Australia
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2007 Annual ForestLeadership Conference
Vancouver, Canada
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Now here’s an interesting animated series. The Unsustainables by SustainLean is all about a family trying harder to live a greener lifestyle.
The Unsustainables depicts the lives of a blended family in a modern urban environment. Each segment centers around our characters who, like many of us, stumble towards the [...]
The importance of this development is extremely significant. As you may suspect, coal is the cheapest source of electricity and because of its abundance, it can easily be justifiable when the call for additional power is there. That is true of course, if you exclude the environmental costs that accompany [...]
Beer drinkers have something to fear. With the rise in demand for crops that can be converted as biofuels, farmers are converting land to these crops, taking away precious supply of grains like barley. The effect is an increase in price, bad news for breweries.
According to Jean-Francois van Boxmeer, the [...]
A new mandate is being proposed by senators from Missouri supporting the expanded use of biofuels, particularly ethanol and biodiesel. According to this article from Columbia Tribune, a bill from Senator Bill Stouffer, would apply a 5 percent biodiesel mandate to Missouri-sold diesel fuel beginning in April 2009 as [...]
Yes, as in Fidel Castro the Cuban leader. He’s just raised some pretty interesting questions about ethanol production and the environment in an essay, which you can read over at Counterpunch.
Via Eco-Chick
[...]The Fairmont Hamilton Princess Hotel in the Bermuda has kicked off an environmental campaign in their area–and is letting schoolchildren get involved as well.
Kindergarten students at Francis Patton School have planted a Bermuda Cedar tree on their school grounds to confirm the start of an environmental-care partnership [...]
A company in Pakistan is urging the government to pay more attention to the growing problem of plastic waste in the country. GreenEarth, said to be the only project in South Asia dealing with this issue, is trying to ease the problem by recycling used polyethylene bags.
It has [...]
If you are a fan of old rock, you might recognize John Hall from his “Orleans” days (Dance with me, I want to be your partner can’t you see). Right now, John is the Democratic Representative of the 19th District of New York. His newfound passion: Wind. And his current [...]
What can you do with $100 M? Before you start thinking about fast cars, mansions, and talking to Robert Leech, consider that the $100M that is being offered by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is for research that will encourage policies that shall address global warming.
I think this [...]
