Ways to Prevent Global Warming

Honda plans to launch a cheaper hybrid car to go on sale from early next year. The maker says it expects to sell 200,000 of the entry level hybrid cars a year, although we don’t know if they will be available in Australia. Honda says the cheaper hybrid will allow more people around the world to adopt cleaner motoring technology and reduce global car emissions. As well as the new affordable hybrid, Honda will build a Jazz hybrid and sporty CR-Z and Civic hybrids. read more

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Global Warming . . . the Evidence is Overwhelming and Undeniable

Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we could have as little as ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced.
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Our entire planet is in a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics, and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever known or experienced.

Britain is one of the biggest users of landfill sites in Europe but taxes have made it more expensive to bury waste while a European Union directive has reduced the amount of waste that councils can send to landfill sites. The landfill tax on waste rose to £24 a tonne last month and is set to increase to £48 by 2010, raising demand for environmentally friendly waste disposal, such as recycling. Shanks is also keen to increase the use of a natural waste treatment process, known as anaerobic digestion, in which micro-organisms digest organic waste to produce methane, which can be used as fuel to generate electricity. However, Michael Warhurst, senior waste and resources campaigner at Friends of the Earth, said waste management companies had little incentive to increase recycling while still making big profits from landfill sites. read more

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The money is part of the body’s renewable energy programme which aims to provide 1,000 villages in the country with power derived from solar, hydro, biomass and geothermal sources. The community energy centres have combined both hydro and solar energy sources, making them hybrid centres with zero carbon emission. The energy produced from is combined at an energy centre where the community can use the power in businesses and cottage industries. The increased power generation by the rural projects is also expected to bring down the high cost of energy, which reduces Kenya’s competitiveness in COMESA and other international markets. AllAfrica aggregates and indexes content from over 125 African news organizations , plus more than 200 other sources , who are responsible for their own reporting and views. read more

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Select a STNG publication or site Chicago Sun-Times The Beacon News The Courier News The SouthtownStar The Herald News Lake County News-Sun The Naperville Sun Post-Tribune YourSeason. Officials handling Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Summer Games are exploring whether parts of the collapsible stadium being built for London’s 2012 Games could be reused here. Chicago’s Olympic plans call for Washington Park on the South Side to be the site of an 80,000-seat temporary stadium that would be converted into a permanent 5,000-seat venue after the Games are done. Next month, the International Olympic Committee is to narrow seven candidate cities for the 2016 Games to four or five finalists, and Chicago is almost certain to make the cut. read more

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Campaigning out of a hybrid SUV that gets about 27 miles per gallon, Republican gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi says that when it comes to the environment, he’s more progressive than many voters might think. Rossi’s agenda calls for converting the state motor pool to hybrid and plug-in vehicles by 2015, providing a sales tax exemption on hybrid vehicles, replacing fish-killing road culverts and implementing massive congestion relief projects that he says will eliminate millions of tons of carbon emissions produced by cars stuck in traffic. Rossi can purchase a hybrid in an election year, but that token action doesn’t measure up to Governor Gregoire’s track record of fighting global warming and protecting the environment,” said Aaron Toso, spokesman for Gregoire’s campaign. Kelly Steele, a spokesman for the state Democrats, said Rossi’s gubernatorial candidacy was created “from the ground up” by the Building Industry Association of Washington — which has made opposition to Gregoire’s climate change legislation among their top priorities. Rossi said fighting congestion — one of his top campaign promises — could also help reduce carbon emissions. read more

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In line with the fair’s theme, Reading Empowers , and its objective of nurturing the reading habit among Malaysians, The Star and Popular bookstores are organising The Star -Popular ReadCycle for Charity 2008 campaign. Only children’s books, dictionaries, atlases, and encyclopaedias, all in the English language, and suitable for children 12 years old and below, will be accepted. The counter will not accept magazines, newspapers, textbooks, activity books, reference books, or comics. After the conclusion of the BookFest, the books will be distributed to selected orphanages, children’s hospital wards, primary school libraries, etc. More News Lifebookshelf Headlines Legacy of fact and fiction Touching a chord Indiana in a book Infusing words with emotion Terror’s ordinary cradle Meet the authors You’ll laugh, and cry Recycle the joy of reading Books, talks, etc Best-sellers Oz pops up Thankless gifts Melodrama castle Sappy teen romance A quick end Top 10 Manga Imaginary Pop up Not your regular fair Big book fest When the past and present collide. read more

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Nevertheless, the testers were impressed by the technological innovations introduced to cut CO2 and said five cars tested could be considered “green” despite fuel consumption – and, consequently, emissions – failing to live up to official figures. A spokesman admitted that cars may emit more CO2 under real world operating conditions but insisted that all cars had the same “industry standard” tests. But will any of those greenie tree hugging bludgers get stuck into those Car companies for promoting enviromentaly safe cars when the enviromently safe cars they promote are, well not enviromenlty safe? The carbon costs of producing and decommissioning a car are account for only 10-15% of the total carbon emissions of a car. If car manufacturers tried to seriously reduce emissions from all their cars, instead of producing one-off greenwash vehicles, we might make some headway. read more

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KEVIN Rudd is being urged today to dump mandatory renewable energy targets in Australia if an emissions trading scheme is introduced. The Productivity Commission has warned that demands Australia use more renewable energy - including solar, water and wind - will distort the operation of an emissions trading scheme that simultaneously encourages a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. In a submission to the Garnaut Climate Change Review, released today, it also warns that excluding some forms of energy – such as petrol – from any emissions scheme will make it much harder to meet the targets for reductions. In particular, the Commission concludes that continuation of the Mandatory Renewable Energy Target would not achieve any additional emission reduction benefit, but would increase abatement costs for the Australian community. For example, while there may be low-cost ways of reducing emissions in a sector, total abatement costs may be high because of high costs of measuring and verifying emissions. Michael Bodey and Angus Hohenboken AUSTRALIA’S national screen and broadcast school - the Australian Film Television and Radio School - last night launched its third life . read more

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