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1. Land-Based Carbon Mitigation Projects in Mexico
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2. Trees for Bush
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3. Light Rail or BRT?
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4. New Urbanists Green Israel's Periphery
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5. Video: Dolphins Playing With Bubbles
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6. Quarter Of Chinese Wind Power Unplugged Due To Bad Planning
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7. Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories
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8. Airsick: An Industrial Devolution
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9. Secret Report Threatens European BioFuels Strategy
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10. Sun Setting on UK Solar?
Land-Based Carbon Mitigation Projects in Mexico
2008-01-20 23:11
news
According to recent studies, deforestation accounts for about 20 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions. That's because trees soak up carbon dioxide when they grow and release it when they rot and burn. A UN climate conference in Bali last month agreed to launch pilot projects to grant developing countries credits for slowing deforestation under a new long-term climate pact beyond 2012. That is sure to create new incentives for projects like Rainforest2Reef , an NGO that operates in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and is working to protect the forests of the Selva Maya... 
Trees for Bush
2008-01-20 21:51
Business & Politics
The certificate presented to the President. At right, Bush's mom plants trees in Israel in the seventies. It turns out George W Bush left more than just traffic jams in the wake of his visit to Israel this month. Thirty-six new trees will adorn the landscape in Bush's honor, courtesy of the Jewish National Fund, which presented the President with a certificate in honor of the occasion.... 
Light Rail or BRT?
2008-01-20 21:48
Cars & Transportation
BRT technology (left) and light rail (right). LRT (Light Rail Transit) or BRT (Bus Rapid Transit)? That was the issue on the agenda Thursday night at a meeting of city planners, traffic engineers and activists in Tel Aviv. The question is particularly relevant in Israel as the country invests in setting up a nationwide mass transit system. ... 
New Urbanists Green Israel's Periphery
2008-01-20 21:42
Design & Architecture
Conceptual drawings created by the community. Kiryat Shmona, a small and war-weary town of about 20,000 people along Israel's northern border, is planning to transform its city hall into a green building. With natural lighting through sun-filtering windows, rainwater collection, solar ventilation chimneys and on-site water purification, the building will be the first green city hall in Israel.... 
Video: Dolphins Playing With Bubbles
2008-01-20 20:38
Travel & Nature
- Funny bloopers are a click away Douglas Adams said it best:
"It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they...
Quarter Of Chinese Wind Power Unplugged Due To Bad Planning
2008-01-20 16:54
news
A good news, bad news story about wind power in China. The Chinese government's growing romance with wind remains significantly unrequited. Many of the recently erected wind turbines remain "unplugged." Either there's no grid connection nearby or grid owners don't want the power for reasons that can only be speculated on. Good green intentions and investments are of little value without social consensus, matched infrastsructure, and market mechanisms in place. Is China just too big and complex to be serious with renewable power? China's wind power generating capacity surged to 5.6 gigawatts by the end of last year, but over a quarter of it is still not connected to the grid ...
Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories
2008-01-20 14:20
news
The New York Times covers the food vs fuel debate. "This is the other oil shock. From India to Indiana, shortages and soaring prices for palm oil, soybean oil and many other types of vegetable oils are the latest, most striking example of a developing global problem: costly food." Poor people may be able to grow their own staple foods, but they have to buy oil, and the price is skyrocketing with demand, up 70% last year. And of course, "Farmers and plantation companies are responding to the higher prices, clearing hundreds of thousands of acres of tropical forest to replant with rows of oil palms."
Airsick: An Industrial Devolution
2008-01-20 13:46
audio video
Toronto Star photographer Lucas Oleniuk shot twenty thousand images in twenty days and splced them into a single message about the issue of global warming. ::The Star Part of an entire section of meditations on the environment, with essays from Margaret Atwood on the death of Lake Erie, Christopher Dewdney on the sprawl apocalypse , 
Secret Report Threatens European BioFuels Strategy
2008-01-20 11:00
news
A report leaked from inside the Joint Research Commission, the official scientific agency of Europe's lawmakers, warns just days before the EU plans to announce its new energy plan that the anticipated commitment to a minimum of 10% biofuels use in the transport sector may be a mistake. According to Frauke Thies, Greenpeace EU energy policy campaigner for renewable energies, who has seen the leaked report: It shows that the 10% target for biofuels in transport could even undermine the overall EU target for renewable energy, since it forces the us...
Sun Setting on UK Solar?
2008-01-20 09:30
solar
It's not uncommon for TreeHugger to praise the good green goings on in the UK, such as the recent announcement that all domestic electricity could be supplied by wind by 2020. But a report in the Telegraph newspaper casts some doubt on our enthusiasm. Exploring the reasons why Britain ranks last in Europe for solar power, reporter Sarah Lonsdale puts the blame squarely at the feet of government: ... 
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