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Benno Hansen

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development

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    Graphics galore.
Benno Hansen

Solar, Wind-Power Plans Stir Conflict - WSJ.com - 0 views

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energy

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  • some residents are fighting proposals to build vast solar-energy plants in the Mojave Desert, one of the most remote and reliably sunny spots in the U.S.
  • Up and down the East Coast, meanwhile, residents are opposing plans for wind farms, fearing they will mar views and lower property values.
Benno Hansen

We Are All Madoffs - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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sustainability economy

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    The global economy is a pyramid scheme exploiting Earth, bound to collapse under us all
Benno Hansen

Climate change disinformation scheme of the US oil lobby exposed - 0 views

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greenpeace oil disinformation climate change energy lobbyism pdf

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  • Benno Hansen on 19 Aug 09
     
    Greenpeace discloses oil lobby climate change disinformation document. Asks "American Petrol Institute" how come several of its members publicly support climate legislation.
Benno Hansen

British coal industry flack pushes geo-engineering "ploy" to give politicians... - 0 views

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geoengineering spin climate change Bjørn Lomborg

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  • The geo-engineering option provides the needed viable reason to do nothing about AGW now….
  • “The ‘geo-engineering’ approaches considered so far appear to be afflicted with some combination of high costs, low leverage, and a high likelihood of serious side effects.“
  • they simply omit the costs of many of the potential negative aspects of producing a stratospheric cloud to block out sunlight or cloud brightening
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  • That the second author works for the American Enterprise Institute, a lobbying group that has been a leading global warming denier, is not surprising, except that now they are in favor of a solution to a problem they have claimed for years does not exist.
  • The American Meteorological Society (AMS) has just issued a policy statement on geoengineering, which urges cautious consideration, more research, and appropriate restrictions.
  • ignore the effects of ocean acidification from continued CO2 emissions
  • do not even mention several potential negative effects of SRM, including getting rid of blue skies, huge reductions in solar power from systems using direct solar radiation, or ruining terrestrial optical astronomy
  • cloud brightening would mainly cool the oceans and not affect land temperature much
  • cloud brightening over the South Atlantic would produce severe drought over the Amazon, destroying the tropical forest
  • Whose hand would be on the global thermostat? Who would trust military aircraft or a multi-national geoengineering company to have the interests of the people of the planet foremost?
  • threat to the water supply for agriculture and other human uses
  • benefits from SRM, including increased plant productivity and an enhanced CO2 sink from vegetation that grows more when subject to diffuse radiation
  • The real consensus, as expressed at the National Academy conference and in the AMS statement, is that mitigation needs to be our first and overwhelming response to global warming, and that whether geoengineering can even be considered as an emergency measure in the future should climate change become too dangerous is not now known.
Benno Hansen

Learning From Past Civilizations : TreeHugger - 0 views

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jared diamond collapse sustainability

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  • our early twenty-first century civilization is not the first to face the prospect of environmentally induced economic decline. The question is how we will respond.
  • Today, our successes and problems flow from the extraordinary growth in the world economy over the last century.
  • While the economy is growing exponentially, the earth’s natural capacities, such as its ability to supply fresh water, forest products, and seafood, have not increased. Humanity’s collective demands first surpassed the earth’s regenerative capacity around 1980. Today, global demands on natural systems exceed their sustainable yield capacity by nearly 30 percent. We are meeting current demands by consuming the earth’s natural assets, setting the stage for decline and collapse.
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  • In our modern high-tech civilization, it is easy to forget that the economy, indeed our existence, is wholly dependent on the earth’s natural systems and resources.
  • the carbon stored in the Amazon’s trees equals roughly 15 years of human-induced carbon emissions in the atmosphere
  • we will either mobilize together to save our global civilization, or we will all be potential victims of its disintegration
Benno Hansen

The end is not necessarily nigh - V3.co.uk - 0 views

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jared diamond collapse sociology business sustainability

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  • these underlying environmental factors that inevitably prompted societal collapse
  • societal collapse is often avoidable – a message that is painfully pertinent given the ecologically unsustainable nature of many modern societies
  • there are many reasons why societies make disastrous decisions, including a lack of foresight; poor governance that ensures people can get away with doing things that are in their personal interest but not in the interest of the society; a lack of flexibility that leaves societies that no longer work in a changing environment; and perhaps most importantly a refusal to acknowledge a problem even exists
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  • state of psychological denial that characterises many people's refusal to accept the hazards posed by climate change and other environmental threats
  • numerous commercial reasons for responsible behaviour, including mitigating the risk of high profile and costly accidents, future regulations, and opposition from local communities, and increasing the chance of winning contracts from increasingly environmentally conscious customers
Benno Hansen

FT.com / Columnists / Lunch with the FT - Lunch with the FT: Jared Diamond - 0 views

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jared diamond sustainability

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  • “If I was Japan’s worst enemy trying to figure out a strategy to drive it into a crisis in 10 years’ time, my strategy would be to get the Japanese to do exactly what they are doing, which is to over-harvest their main source of protein.”
  • “There is a parallel based on the same fundamental mechanisms of the economic collapse that we’re seeing now and the collapse of past civilisations such as the Maya,”
  • only those societies able to stamp out unsustainable habits – over-logging, overspending, over-extension – have the ability to survive
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  • “When people talk about the greater efficiency of dictatorships, they are forgetting that a dictatorship is no more likely than a democracy to make a wise decision,”
  • “If we continue to operate non-sustainably, then in 50 or 60 years, the US and Japan and Europe will be in bad shape. But my friends in the highlands of New Guinea will be fine. Some of my friends made stone tools when they were children and they could just go back to what their ancestors were doing for 46,000 years. New Guinea highlanders are not doomed,”
  • “The first world lifestyle will be doomed if we don’t learn to operate sustainably.”
Mark Kabbbash

Industrial Nanotech, Inc. Provides Results of 3-Year Field Trials of Recently Released ... - 0 views

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intk insulation insulating paint investing save energy

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  • Mark Kabbbash on 11 Aug 09
     
    a global leader in nanoscience energy saving solutions, provided a follow up to their earlier product announcement for Nansulate® Crystal, a clear protective roof coating for sloped roofs which provides thermal insulation, as well as resistance to UV and mold and mildew. The product successfully completed a 3-year field trial in which it was utilized on a sloped roof over asphalt shingles. The coating provided thermal insulation and energy savings as well as protection against tile degradation by UV rays and weathering. Nansulate® Crystal is a clear, nanotechnology-based coating for use on clay tile roofs, concrete or slate tile roofs and asphalt or wood shingle roofs to provide energy savings through reduction of heat transfer through the roof. Details on the product can be found
Mark Kabbbash

ECOtality and eTec Congratulate Project Partners on Successful $100 Million Proposal fo... - 0 views

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Alt Energy investing Renewable

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  • Mark Kabbbash on 10 Aug 09
     
    "Our project partners were not only instrumental in helping ECOtality's eTec secure the $99.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, they will be instrumental in implementing the largest ever transportation electrification program," said Jonathan Read, President and CEO of ECOtality. "As strategic partners on this Proposal, Idaho National Laboratory, Nissan North America, GridPoint, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and BP America will play strong roles in helping eTec create dense charge environments, ensure a seamless transition for utilities and collect and analyze critical data that will ensure the immediate success of the electric vehicle."
Mark Kabbbash

INTK Stock Profile at Stock Guru. INTK Steady Doubling of Sales While Economy Suffers :... - 0 views

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nansulate intk thermal

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    Steady Doubling of Sales While Economy Suffers We have seen steady growth in INTK. In mid June INTK announced sales in June of 2009 were $100,552.85, more than double the revenues of June of 2008, a year when annual revenues were $1,424,036.00 US. Industrial Nanotech, Inc. intends to meet or exceed their uninterrupted five year track record of approximately doubling revenues every year. I want to put this in perspective. The economy is terrible. Sacred cow companies are losing ground. Utilities have always been super steady but they are having trouble --- and yet ---- INTK keeps on doubling sales year over year.
Mark Kabbbash

WM Stock News : Waste Management and Shanghai Chengtou Holding Partner in China's Fast ... - 0 views

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alternative energy Investing Stock Trading chengtou Renewable reduce carbon footprint

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    "SC Holding and SEG are great partners for us as we venture into the growing Chinese market," said David Steiner, CEO of Waste Management. "We see waste as a resource, and we see international expansion of our waste-to-energy business through our subsidiary, Wheelabrator Technologies Inc, as a growth engine for us in the future. Wheelabrator's operational excellence coupled with SEG's market position and local expertise provides a strong competitive advantage. Through this joint venture, SEG can bring increased operating and technical efficiencies and solutions to the rapidly growing Chinese waste-to-energy market."
Benno Hansen

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Climate fixes 'pose drought risk' - 0 views

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water precipitation geoengineering climate change

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  • "if geo-engineering studies focus too heavily on warming, critical risks associated with such possible "cures" will not be evaluated appropriately"
  • climate change is about much more than changes in temperature. So using temperature alone to monitor the effects of geo-engineering could be dangerous.
  • current climate models tend to underestimate the effects on precipitation of both greenhouse gases and of volcanic eruptions
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  • The article warns that geo-engineering of this type, combined with the effects of global warming could produce reductions in regional rainfall that could rival those of past major droughts, leading to winners and losers among the human population and possible conflicts over water.
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      Benno Hansen on 09 Aug 09
       
      ecowar
  • "optimism about a geo-engineered 'easy way out' should be tempered by examination of currently observed climate changes."
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      Benno Hansen on 09 Aug 09
       
      hvorfor skulle geoengineering ikke have uforudsete bivirkninger når klimaforandringerne i sig selv er en "uforudset" (overraskende stor) bivirkning ved afbrænding af fossile brændstoffer?
Mark Kabbbash

ZAAP Stock News : Cash for Clunkers Available on ZAP Electric Car - View Message - 0 views

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electric cars

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    ZAP Answers Federal "Cash for Clunkers" Program With Its Own Trade-In Program Good on the Xebra 100% Electric Sedan, Total Value up to $4,500 and 90% Fewer Carbon Emissions
Mark Kabbbash

a sick graph!!! - A must see. People should know. - 1 views

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investing environment war waste

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  • Mark Kabbbash on 27 Feb 09
     
    These figures are in millions. The source for energy R&D expenditures is from the National Council for Science and the Environment. Take a look here:
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