http://www.ourfutureplanet.org/news/504-why-are-climate-scientists-ignoring-peak-oil-and-coal
Climate scientists often make assumptions about large-scale growth in resource extraction without thoroughly referring to relevant studies in other disciplines. This is partially understandable given that they are not economists or political scientists.
Yet I believe it is cause for concern.
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http://www.ourfutureplanet.org/news/503-collaboratively-consuming-everyday-things-sharing-bartering-lending-trading-renting-gifting-and-swapping-are-being-reinvented-through-network-technologies
Having dabbled in all things environmental since the 1980s, I have seen a parade of planet saving buzzwords, concepts and new approaches come and go. There have been lines of environmental gurus queuing up at different events to push their ideas about how to save the planet — soft energy pathways, factor four, natural capitalism, zero emissions, eco-restructuring — and on and on.
Image Credit: collaborativeconsumption.com
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http://www.ourfutureplanet.org/news/502-top-10-environmental-stories-of-2010-from-mongabay
Below is a quick review of some of the biggest environmental stories of 2010. Commentary by Jeremy Hance and Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com.
Photo Credit: Geri-Jean Blanchard
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http://www.ourfutureplanet.org/news/501-the-good-life-its-close-to-home-rebuilding-families-and-neighborhoods-around-the-gifts-each-of-us-offers
When family members do not work or live well together we sometimes call the family dysfunctional. We prescribe professional help for the family or advocate for social policies that would support it—child care, parental leave, extended unemployment insurance, debt forgiveness.But the real challenge to the family is that it has lost its job. The functions of the family have beenoutsourced. The problem is not dysfunction—that’s just a side effect. The problem is non-function, and this has much to do with the growth of the consumer society.
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http://www.ourfutureplanet.org/news/500-third-times-the-charm-or-three-strikes-and-youre-out-third-generation-biofuels-are-here
Ethanol from corn and sugar cane? Beyond passé at this point, with major environmental, land use, and food security concerns.Second-generation biofuels, made from non-food crops and wastes? So 2008.
The next big thing in biofuels? Algae.
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http://www.ourfutureplanet.org/news/499-the-space-between-how-do-we-close-the-gap-the-gap-that-we-believe-exists-between-you-and-i
How do we close the gap? The gap that we believe exists between you and I. What would it take for humanity to acknowledge space in a higher sense? We have all learned from birth that the space between you and me, the planets and throughout the universe is just emptiness, nothing. But is all this space truly empty, or is there a deeper understanding? What is the space between? Jason Gregory explores..
Graphic Credit: Sigurd Decroos
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http://www.ourfutureplanet.org/news/498-bottom-up-in-cancun-the-emerging-focus-on-clean-energy-deployment-may-break-the-climate-logjam
REDD agreements include pledges by rich countries to help poorer countries preserve endangered forests, so that trees can absorb carbon. REDD agreements are one of three bottom-up deployment measures seeing progress in Cancun.
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http://www.ourfutureplanet.org/news/497-the-seven-myths-of-slums-for-anyone-who-takes-an-interest-in-the-problem-of-slums-a-few-basic-facts-will-soon-become-clear
For anyone who takes an interest in the problem of slums, a few basic facts will soon become clear. Firstly, the locus of global poverty is moving from rural areas to the cities, and more than half the world population now lives in urban areas for the first time in human history. Secondly, most of the world’s urban population, most of its largest cities and most of its urban poverty is now located in Africa, Asia and Latin America – the so-called developing world. Thirdly, the growth in slums since the 1980s is both formidable and unprecedented (even though urban slums have existed in Europe since the Industrial Revolution), and the number of slum-dwellers worldwide is expected to continually increase in the decades ahead.
Photo Credit: Auro Quieroz
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http://www.ourfutureplanet.org/news/496-global-wild-seed-hunt-begins
An international project to collect seeds from the wild relatives of 23 of the world's major food crops including maize, rice, wheat and potato, has received its first funding.
Photo Credit: Michael & Christa Richert
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http://www.ourfutureplanet.org/news/495-building-peace-through-environmental-conservation
In recent decades debates about the relationship between the environment and peace have focused on how environmental problems like resource scarcity and climate change are likely to create or exacerbate conflict. The emerging discussion that links rising temperatures caused by climate change to increased incidences of conflict illustrates this tendency.
Photo credit: Michel Mayerle, rgbstock.com
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Heal the world..!!
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