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Thailand’s Idyllic Islands under Threat

Written by Masimba Biriwasha
06/18/2008
Editor’s note: With this post we are very pleased to welcome Masimba Biriwasha to the Celsias writing team. Masimba was born in Zimbabwe and lives in Thailand where he works in public health. He also wrote “The Dream of Stones”, a children’s book that won a Zimbabwe National Award for Outstanding Children’s book in 2004. [...] Read more...

What Will It Take to Save the World?

Written by Leslie Berliant
06/17/2008
Editor’s Note: Colin Beavan, also know as No Impact Man, asked me to write a post for his site about Bill McKibben’s new campaign, 350.org, which seeks to create the political will in the U.S. to develop legislation to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million, the number our own NASA [...] Read more...

Trust Me, I’m a Spin Doctor

Written by Marc Roberts
06/17/2008
When I became BP chief executive just over a year ago, I warned that the supply and demand balance for energy was very tight. But, in common with most people, I never expected to see the oil price go quite as high, quite as rapidly, [...] Read more...

Censorship on Climate Change

Written by Jeanne Roberts
06/17/2008
They don’t want you to talk about it because it’s bad for business, and even worse for business-as-usual, but global warming – that 500-pound gorilla in the room – is pretty obvious even to the corporations and government agencies who are pretending it doesn’t exist. Call it climate change, or global warming, it’s an issue as [...] Read more...

Global Warming Causes Massive Earthquakes

Written by Eliav Bitan
06/17/2008
I used to think global warming would cause drought, storms, and rising sea levels. This June, scientists realized that global warming is also going to increase global earthquake activity. How? The answer has to do with glacier movement. Read more...

Hunger and Climate Change in Bangladesh

Written by The REAL News Network
06/17/2008
The REAL News Network is a television news and documentary network focused on providing independent and uncompromising journalism. The Real News journalists investigate, reports and debate stories that help us understand the critical issues of our time. They are member supported and do not accept advertising, government or corporate funding. Editors Note: With this post, we [...] Read more...

Falling Water Tables, Falling Harvests

Written by Lester R. Brown
06/16/2008
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute, Washington D.C., U.S.A. Scores of countries are overpumping aquifers as they struggle to satisfy their growing water needs. The drilling of millions of irrigation wells has pushed water withdrawals beyond recharge rates, in effect leading to groundwater mining. The failure of governments to limit pumping to the sustainable yield [...] Read more...

Groups Oppose World Bank Climate Investment Funds

Written by Leslie Berliant
06/16/2008
In the U.S., the U.N. is the favorite villain of right wingers, jingoists and conspiracy theorists. For international progressives, the villains of late (besides the entire Bush administration) have been the WTO, the IMF, and perhaps, the most egregious of them all, the World Bank. Now 121 organizations, including Friends of the Earth International, Greenpeace, Oil [...] Read more...

Bankers Should Rule the World

Written by Marc Roberts
06/16/2008
Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins The World Bank’s proposed Climate Investment Funds (CIF) are stirring controversy among governments and NGOs, largely because of the Bank’s record as the world’s largest multilateral lender for fossil fuels. NGOs are especially concerned that the top-down, donor-driven funds will conflict with and undermine parallel efforts under the auspices of the [...] Read more...

Japanese Company Unveils Water-Powered Car

Written by Shom Teoh
06/16/2008
Editor’s note: With this post we welcome Shom Teoh to the Celsias writing team. Shom is from Malaysia and currently lives in Kyoto, Japan where she is pursuing her MSc in Environmental Management at Kyoto University. Her specialty is Global Ecological Economics. She has also worked as a technology journalist and as a Communications Officer [...] Read more...

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