Renewables

One of the world's largest Insurance companies, German based Munich Re, has called for fast action by Governments on climate change to result in a strict agreement for substantial greenhouse gas reductions.

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37 Years Fighting to Farm.

Oil Palm Conflicts get hot in Indonesia

While the world debates emissions targets and climate funding amounts for developing countries in Copenhagen, a new research centre was launched in Perth on December 3 dedicated to developing technologies designed to help establish sustainable, low-emission, geothermal cities. At the same time the Western Australian State Government is planning to double the number of coal-fired power stations at Collie.

Related: Activists plan first Camp for Climate Action

As reported in the New York Times last week, a
ground-breaking article debunking the carbon neutrality myth of biomass 
burning was published in one of the most prestigious, peer-reviewed journals in the
world, Science.Authors included researchers from Princeton University,
Environmental Defense Fund, Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, Duke 
University, University of California at Berkeley, Michigan State University, and University
of Minnesota.

The Science article, “Fixing a Critical Climate Accounting Error,” clearly states
“harvesting existing forests for electricity adds net carbon to the 
air.” An accounting error that does not count carbon
dioxide emissions from biomass burning was made in the Kyoto protocol and

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Chicago Sends President Obama Strong Climate Message on 350
International Day of Climate Action:

End Coal!  Clean Energy NOW!  350 at Copenhagen!



Mass Rally, Protest March, 8 Arrested in Blockade of Chicago Coal Plant



CHICAGO--Over 450 people braved rain and unusually cold weather
to attend Chicago's largest International Day of Climate Action event
-- a mass rally, protest march and blockade of the controversial Fisk
coal-fired power station in the Pilsen community in Chicago.



Chicago activists were determined to send a strong climate message to
President Obama from his hometown as he and the US government prepares
for the December Climate talks in Copenhagen:  End Coal!  Clean Energy

The Biketour - the project for everyone interested in do-it-yourself (”diy”) environmentalism, culture, nature, community life and the art of travelling without engines - the exact opposite of an all-inclusive flight to the beach!

Moving all our stuff by sheer pedal power, we create an eco-mobile community building up strong connections between participants coming from different cultures and groups, as well as between ourselves and our hosts.

7th of July 2009 we will start cycling from Macedonia to Croatia, crossing Albania, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. We plan to start our tour on the Belgrade-Skopje train(!), and we will reach the MuM festival in Croatia, 28th of August.

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Doubts About Meeting Cellulosic Ethanol Goals

Posted by Cindy Zimmerman - April 2nd, 2009
Experts are expressing doubts the U.S. will meet targets for cellulosic ethanol production required under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, but the need remains to make it happen as soon as possible.

The legislation calls for the production of 4.3 billion gallons by 2015, but during a House Agriculture Subcommittee hearing this week, Dr. Howard Gruenspecht with the Energy Information Administration said, "It seems unlikely to us that you would get to those kind of levels by 2015, 2016."

 
ROME, ITALY, MARCH 16 -- In a reaction to the alarming data released today in
the 2009 State of the World's Forests report by the UN Food and Agricultural
Organisation (FAO), Friends of the Earth International <http://www.foei.org>[1]
and the Global Forest Coalition <http://www.globalforestcoalition.org/>[2], two
leading networks of environmental and Indigenous Peoples' Organisations, called
on world governments to take immediate action to halt deforestation and forest
degradation.
 
Deforestation rates continue to be shockingly high in many countries despite