Archive for July 2013

White Paper - Oil Spills in Arctic Waters

July 31, 2013 Add Comment Edit

This White Paper is a compilation of research on oil spills in ice-covered Arctic waters and it offers suggestions for future study. It is subtitled, "An Introduction and Inventory of Research Activities and USARC Recommendations." The authors identify research entities in governmental, nongovernmental,...

Sweden is a Model of Sustainable Waste Management

July 31, 2013 Add Comment Edit

Sweden has a garbage problem, but unlike the US and many other places in the world, Sweden's problem is not that there is too much trash, it is that there is too little. Thanks to Sweden's highly efficient recycling habits only four percent of the nations waste ends up in landfills. This is in stark...

Fossil Fuels are making the Planet Uninhabitable

July 31, 2013 Add Comment Edit

We risk an unprecedented global catastrophe if we continue to burn the earth's remaining fossil fuel resources. According to research conducted by former NASA climate scientist James Hansen and co-authors, our current trajectory of fossil fuel exploitation puts us on track to create a "practically...

July 30, 2013 Add Comment Edit

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More Evidence that Arctic Warming is an Economic and Ecological Time Bomb

July 30, 2013 Add Comment Edit

Although our understanding of the Arctic is far from complete, there is a growing body of evidence that suggests melting Arctic ice will free massive deposits of methane locked in the permafrost of the far north. This represents an unprecedented danger both economically and ecologically. The latest...

List of Climate Deniers in the US Congress

July 30, 2013 Add Comment Edit

A 2010 study showed that 40 percent of Americans do not know that their is a scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change. This should come as no surprise considering that the vast majority of Republican leaders eschew the science to this day. While the number of climate deniers are...

July 29, 2013 Add Comment Edit

Here is an infographic from TckTckTck that shows just how dangerous it is to move oil. From March 11 to April 11, 2013, the global oil industry had 13 spills on three continents. In North and South America alone, they spilled more than a million gallons of oil and toxic chemicals during this period.Related...

Obama Refutes the Keystone XL's Economic and Jobs Benefits

July 29, 2013 Add Comment Edit

On Saturday July 27, US President Barack Obama said the number of permanent jobs created by the Keystone XL pipeline would be between 50 and 100. That is far less than the tens of thousands touted by supporters of the pipeline. If it goes forward the Keystone XL which would ferry tar sands oil from...

Unstoppable Oil Leak at a Tar Sands Production Site in Alberta

July 29, 2013 Add Comment Edit

On June 27, an oil spill occurred at Canadian Natural Resources Limited's (CNRL) Primrose operations 75km east of Lac la Biche. The spill happened on the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range (CLAWR). DeSmog.ca reported a release of bitumen emulsion, which is a mixture of heavy tar sands crude and water from...

July 28, 2013 Add Comment Edit

The Responsible Business Forum will take place on November 18-19, 2013 in Singapore. The event is being organized by Global initiatives, Eco-Business, WBCSD, WWF International, and the TEEB Business Coalition. More than 500 regional business leaders, NGOs and policy-makers will be in attendance. Tracks...

Event - The Future of Sustainability Reporting 2013

July 28, 2013 Add Comment Edit

This event will take place on 6th of September 2013, 10.00 to 18.00, at the Conference Center of the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, Schumannstrasse 8, 10117 Berlin. It will be in German with simultaneous translation of the plenary parts English-German and German-English. It is being presented by BSD and...