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Easing Off the Gas
WorldChanging Team, 2 Jul 09 by Roger Valdez Northwesterners are using less gasoline. For our latest research report, we looked at gasoline consumption data in the Northwest for 2008 and found some significant drops. In fact, total gasoline consumption saw the biggest drop since 1980...
Tackling Climate Change by Saving Forests
Joe Romm, 30 Jun 09 My guest blogger, Glenn Hurowitz, is Washington Director of Avoided Deforestation Partners. This post is excerpted from a piece first published here. One of the little-known ingredients of the American Clean Energy and Security Act, H.R. 2454 is a breakthrough...
Camping at Tällberg – Episode 5: Cold Water Cooking
Alan AtKisson, 29 Jun 09 John Elkington is leading a very lively discussion on aid and entrepreneurism. “Does aid work?” says a young Kenyan entrepreneur, whose name I missed (he is a late addition to the program). His answer is a clear no, backing...
Camping at Tällberg; Episode 4: Stop Talking, Start Planting
Alan AtKisson, 29 Jun 09 Morning again. Somehow folks crawled out of bed after dancing and drinking past midnight, and made their way to the big tent by 8:30 (it is full when I get there) to experience the climate change negotiations game run...
China Recruits Algae to Combat Climate Change
WorldChanging Team, 29 Jun 09 by Jonathan Watts The garish gunk coursing through a greenhouse filled with transparent pipes appears to belong on the set of a particularly slimy episode of Star Trek. Multiplying rapidly as it flows through tubes, stacked 14 high in four...
