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[RFA - Renewable Fuels Association] Committee on Transportation and Housing California State Senate ...: market forces”¦is fraught with a host of ethical and pragmatic difficulties.” 4. But rather than engaging in this high-level debate today, this testimony focuses largely on the technical shortcomings of ARB’s analysis, ..... infrastructure; cultivated an investment base and created financial networks; advocated policies that create market certainty; and, more generally, raised the nation’s collective experience level related to introducing renewable fuels into a ...

[Susty] Global demand for xaté palm threatens Belize’s forests | Susty: Guatemalan xatéros have depleted their country’s xaté and so cross the border into Belize to cut xaté in the Columbia River Forest Reserve and Bladen Nature Reserve. The xateros can often be armed and dangerous, .

[Forest Policy Research] Alaska: Senators introduce same old bill giving away 80000 acres ...: I would like to support environmental protections for the Tongass, but the Nature Conservancy, Audubon, SEACC et al seem to be waffling a lot, and its hard to tell whether these repeated Sealaska notices are sincere or just for the purpose of making sure that the TFR gets to negotiate the settlement rather than Congress. There just don’t seem to be many environmental groups that have much credibility anymore - all the grassroots activists seem to have been replaced by used car salesmen.

[Comments for Larvatus Prodeo] Senate calling: what do you think about climate change? at ...: In that model, one chooses stabilisation at safe levels, with a high enough likelihood (applying the precautionary principle) to avoid dangerous outcomes. I don’t think we know enough to get a target within ±50 ppm of what’s safe (being conservative, think this uncertainty is much larger), and anyhow that target is centuries in the future.

[ClimateChangeCorp - Main] News digest 21 March - 6 April 2009 - ClimateChangeCorp.com: Energy generated by offshore renewable projects took a firm step toward inclusion in the UK’s national grid today, as the Department of Energy and Climate Change and Ofgem offered a final opportunity to comment on the competitive tender framework .Earlier this month, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination issued a statement criticising Indonesia for disregarding the rights of indigenous people by converting forests into plantations.

[Climate Change Blog] Climate Change Blog: EARTH MEANDERS: Light REDD: The Looming ...: There must be no incentives to promote, or tolerance of, replacing natural forests with monocultural tree farms. Demand for forest products can be met from rigorously ecologically certified native, non-toxic tree plantations and delicate management of maturing secondary forests.

[BE Daily Blog] Business Examiner > Blog: . The Nonprofit Center, itself a tax-exempt nonprofit organization, works with other nonprofits throughout the South Puget Sound region to assist in the development of management and leadership skills. The Center presents more than twenty seminars on nonprofit management each year, and they host the Washington State Nonprofit Governance Conference, the only conference in the state focused solely for nonprofit board members. The Center also provides financial management and general consulting services to other nonprofits.

[The Big Biofuels Blog] Fuel independence not fuel autonomy (The Big Biofuels Blog): Today, heating and cooling of homes accounts for about 20% of U.S. energy use, according to federal estimates, and the movement towards greener homes is likely to help curb the country's emission of greenhouse gases, experts say. And a survey last year by McGraw-Hill Construction found that for the first time, a majority of U.S. builders said they planned to use green features in at least 16% of their homes by 2007 -- in what NAHB officials call "a tipping point" in builders going green.

[Mariann Fischer Boel's Blog - Agriculture and rural development] Mariann Fischer Boel’s Blog - Agriculture and rural development ...: “Europe’s approach to alternative fuel sources like biofuels has been to promote them regardless of whether or not they’re good for the environment”, said Jos Dings of T&E. “EU leaders should scrap the biofuel target and instead go for the lifecycle greenhouse gas approach the Commission has proposed in its January review of the Fuel Quality Directive.”

[The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss] The Unusual ROI of Going Green: From Saving to Eco-Friendly Index ...: I agree most will not change easily unless the “Joneses” start giving up their God awful Hummers and the neighbors follow suit and prices for green improvements go down for the common man. I am hopeful for our future and still do my part by using Terra Pass to offset my Hyundai’s [carbon] footprint.”

[Jennifer Marohasy] Jennifer Marohasy: Switch to Concrete Railway Sleepers, Negates ...: If using concrete sleepers is negating a large part of the impact of Victorias windfarms on CO2 emissions, all that's really saying is that windfarm's haven't had much effect. Victoria's electricity base load (ie, coal fired) generation is running at about 4500 MW.

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