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Friday Linkfest - Edition 48

Written by Alina Beloussova
06/13/2008
Come out of the closet! Welcome to the Linkfest, special Friday the 13th edition. To celebrate this unlucky occasion, we bring you bad news aplenty. But let’s start with the good: Good News San Francisco passes the most aggressive municipal solar program in the US, with an annual budget of $3 million dollars to be doled out [...] Read more...

It’s “Happening”

Written by Raegan Payne
06/13/2008
Spoiler Alert: “The Happening” You have been Warned! Read more...

‘Green’ Job Market Vibrant Despite Overall Economy

Written by Leslie Berliant
06/13/2008
Several months ago, The Apollo Alliance, along with Green for All, the Center for American Progress and the Center for Wisconsin Strategy, issued several reports on green-collar jobs including Greener Pathways (pdf) and Green Collar Jobs in America’s Cities (pdf). These studies were directed specifically at state and city policy makers and were released as [...] Read more...

Turkey Joins Kyoto

Written by Eliav Bitan
06/13/2008
Two days ago, the Commission on Environment of the Turkish Grand National Assembly approved the Kyoto Protocol on Global Warming. The Kyoto Protocol, part of the International Framework Convention on Climate Change requires 36 developed countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, while 137 developing countries monitor and report their emissions. The Turkish National Assembly is [...] Read more...

Fuel Protests Spread Like Wildfire

Written by Alexandra Smith
06/12/2008
Across the globe, protests against the rising cost of fuel have exploded in the past few days. Spanish truckers are now in their third day of protests with one picketer dead and fires breaking out amidst chaos. Another was killed in a protest in Lisbon. Because the transporting of goods has been frozen in Spain, [...] Read more...

GM Seeds, a Rape Disguised as a Courtship

Written by Jeanne Roberts
06/12/2008
Between them, agribusiness giants Monsanto, Syngenta and BASF will soon control two-thirds of the GM seeds available in the world, according to Ottowa’s ETC Group, which advocates for small and subsistence farmers. Monsanto and friends claim these “climate-ready” seeds (some still awaiting patent approval) will allow future food crops to withstand drought, flooding, seawater incursions, elevated [...] Read more...

Let Them Eat Crepes

Written by Marc Roberts
06/12/2008
Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins Securing world food security in light of the impact of climate change may be one of the biggest challenges we face in this century. An estimated 850 million people in the world today suffer from hunger. Of those, about 820 million live in developing countries, the very countries expected to be most [...] Read more...

U.S. Gas Guzzlers Paying the Price

Written by Alexandra Smith
06/12/2008
Today on my walk to work through the streets of environmentally progressive San Francisco, I couldn’t help but notice three SUVs for sale. Yesterday I saw two more. The day before, another two. All were at prices so low the surfer in me had a brief moment of “oooh that would fit a board, and [...] Read more...

Biotech Companies Try to Hijack Agreement on GM Contamination

Written by Leslie Berliant
06/12/2008
At UN talks in Bonn last month, 140 countries, including many developing nations, met to make key decisions on international rules concerning genetically modified crops and internationally recognized liability standards regarding the damage caused by the release of these biotech crops. Six major... Read more...

Celsias Show #13: Fighting for the Air We Breathe

Written by Doug Snodgrass
06/11/2008
Follow the red arrow at the bottom of this post to hear the show! In this episode: An interview with Mildred Thompson, PolicyLink Senior Director and Director of the PolicyLink Center for Health and Place, who discusses a recent report released by PolicyLink and The [...] Read more...

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