Posted on June 18, 2008 by fsingcaster
Another interesting article relating to global warming. This is from a 7 June 08 article, by Lawrence Solomon, executive director of Energy Probe. [Note: GPP measures the amount of new plant matter on land, while NPP is an annual tally of the globe’s production.]
According to a study that used (daily) satellite data from the last [...]
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Posted on January 24, 2007 by sdcastudent
In the BBC News today, I’ve read that that the European Commission was supposed to announce a major step this week in fighting CO2 emissions. The European Commission wanted to regulate the automobile industry that makes up more than 1/5 of the entire emissions. Furthermore, it is the only sector where CO2 emissions have drastically [...]
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Posted on January 24, 2007 by sdcastudent
In contrast to my former blogs I did not want to miss the opportunity to post at least one positive example in terms of Sustainable Development.
Therefore I had a look on different WebPages and considered the Siemens’ page very interesting. On that page I found a really comprehensive set of measures concerning Industry, Healthcare, Mobility, [...]
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Posted on January 23, 2007 by sdcastudent
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During our presentation on ExxonMobil today, we talked about an article from The Wall Street Journal discussing the recent shift in ExxonMobil’s attitude – away from denying that climate change is on its way and that it is caused by humans, especially by CO2 emissions. Now, ExxonMobil acknowledges that there is reliable information [...]
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Posted on January 23, 2007 by sdcastudent
In addition to oil companies, another type of “non sustainable business” could have been mentioned in our “good, bad and ugly” presentations.
In fact, I am not sure that anybody noticed it yet, but paper industry is really concerning too.
Paper production is the fourth source of greenhouse gases emmissions.
We do not even realise but paper [...]
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