Religious Americans find moral imperatives to support environmental laws but are less inclined to relate those laws to the need for action on climate change.
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Photo credit: Señor Codo via Fotopedia/ CC BY-SA 3.0 You might have already heard that after a long and arduous political battle, Australia is on track to institute a fairly potent carbon tax . After the measure passes the upper house (where the political composition is such that it is assured to do so), the nation’s 500 largest polluters will begin … Read the full story on TreeHugger Two environmental activists took a very different approach from those who hit the White House in August to protest mining of Canada’s tar sands for oil. They interrupted an energy summit with British and Canadian officials, stripped down to their undies, covered themselves in “oil,” and made out Image: Lee Jordan via flickr Interesting news from The Guardian this week: oil giant Shell worked with the Nigerian military and with mobile police to suppress protests against its oil activities in the 1990s, according to court documents that were held secret for years. Most of the resistance came from Ogoniland in the Niger Delta, homeland of the famous activist Ken Saro-Wiwa , who was photo: Saad Akhtar / CC BY China became the largest national carbon emitter in 2007, overtaking the US. Last summer China also became the world’s largest consumer of energy . The Carbon Disclosure Project has released its latest report on the what the world’s largest public corporations are doing to reduce carbon emissions and report them. Accelerating Low Carbon Growth looked at the carbon disclosure from 396 companies and finds that 68% of them “have climate change at the heart of business strategies.” That’s up from 48% in 2010…. Read the full story on TreeHugger Image credit: Land Rover Our Planet , used under Creative Commons license. Only yesterday Matt posted a video on why replacing coal with forest-based biomass fuels is no climate solution. Image credit: Brahms Electric Vehicles I’ve argued before that electric vehicles (EVs) do not have direct “gasoline equivalents” , and that EVs are actually looking like increasingly viable every-day modes of transport for many of us. |
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