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Climate science in 2009
For climate science, the year 2009 brought significant discoveries and startling controversies. Kurt Kleiner reports. Nature...

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awicaks posted a blog entry

Global warming is happening, even if it doesn't feel like it
By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor | The Independent | 6 January 2010 You might think the current weather conditions are...

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awicaks posted a blog entry

Chinese official links extreme snowstorm to global warming
Jeremy Hance | mongabay.com | January 05, 2010 Bitter cold and snow have shut down Beijing after it received 4-8 inches (10-20...

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Carlos posted a blog entry

Global benefit, local cost
Indonesia to relax forest protection on key projects | Reuters.The poster child for REDD gets nothing from everyone else,...

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Marginal Damage | Topics: Carbon..., Climate..., Economic..., Forestry

awicaks posted a blog entry

Race to prevent Chinese diesel disaster
ITN News in Youtube | 04 January 2010 More than 700 people are battling to stop a major diesel spill from reaching one of...

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awicaks posted a blog entry

Coal for Christmas
The World Bank is still subsidizing one of the world's dirtiest fuels. BY PHIL RADFORD | Foreign Poicy | DECEMBER 22, 2009 ...

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awicaks posted a blog entry

The Meaning of Copenhagen
by Richard Heinberg | Post Carbon Institute in Energy Bulleting | Jan 3 2010 It was the pivotal international conference...

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Demoting Rather than Laying-Off? How Companies are Surviving the Recession
The recession has had everyone feeling like that any day it could be possible that they may not have a job, home, car or any...

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BOOK: The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism: http://wp.me/pE2RF-1dx

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awicaks posted a blog entry

Sierra Leone cracks down on illegal logging by banning log exports
mongabay.com January 02, 2010 Sierra Leone has banned the transport and export of logs in an effort to crack down on illegal...

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awicaks posted a blog entry

Scientific illiteracy clouds climate-change politics
FRANKE WILMER | Billings Gazzette | January 2, 2010 The most disappointing thing about the small number of political leaders...

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Hamon at Periswil

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Karl Ramjohn posted a blog entry

[environmental-sustainability] Rent capture, anyone?
Does the case for offshore drilling add up in Virginia? – Environmental Capital – WSJ.We’ve recently had a look at...

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Environmental Sustainability Updates | Topics: regular, climate..., energy, markets

Carlos posted a blog entry

Rent capture, anyone?
Does the case for offshore drilling add up in Virginia? – Environmental Capital – WSJ.We’ve recently had a...

4 days ago

Marginal Damage | Topics: Climate..., Energy, Markets, Policy

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Cities in the International Marketplace: The Political Economy of Urban Development in North America and Western Europe http://ff.im/dFGvK

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awicaks posted a blog entry

83 months and counting…
Rich countries have no choice but to lead by example in setting a different, less destructive model for economic success ...

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awicaks posted a blog entry

Secretary-General confers with world leaders on climate change
UN News Centre | 30 December 2009 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on a trip to the Polar Ice Rim to see the effects of...

6 days ago

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awicaks posted a blog entry

The India Climate-Change Calculus
Aligning with China only undermines New Delhi's negotiating position and costs its people dearly By BRAHMA CHELLANEY | The...

6 days ago

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awicaks posted a blog entry

Planet B: Climate change
How the underwhelming Copenhagen accord could yet turn into a useful document The Economist | Dec 30th 2009 Faced with the...

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awicaks posted a blog entry

Copenhagen: Why the West tries to blame China and the poor for COP15 fiasco
Protest in Copenhagen. By Roy Wilkes | Socilaist Resistance in Links | December 27, 2009 Something rotten happened in...

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awicaks posted a blog entry

China's thing about numbers
How an emerging superpower dragged its feet, then dictated terms, at a draining diplomatic marathon The Economist | Dec 30th...

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awicaks posted a blog entry

Humanity's Right To Life
By Fidel Castro | Cuba.cu in CounterCurrents.org | 28 December, 2009 Climate change is already causing enormous damage and...

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awicaks posted a blog entry

The Year Food Was Totally Schizoid: Growing Local Takes Off, As Giant Agribiz Becomes More Dominant
In the battle between Big Ag and Small Food there were notable victories on either side. By Ari LeVaux, AlterNet. December 27,...

7 days ago

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awicaks posted a blog entry

We must not accept Copenhagen’s failings
World leaders must listen to the people who put them in power and quickly make amends for failing to deliver a binding climate...

7 days ago

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awicaks posted a blog entry

Economics and the environment: Down to earth index
Editorial | The Guardian, Monday 28 December 2009 How much is the planet worth? Not a jot, according to most economists'...

7 days ago

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awicaks posted a blog entry

URUGUAY: 'Dry Toilets' Provide Ecological Solution in Slums
By Inés Acosta | IPSNews.net | Dec 28, 2009 BARROS BLANCOS, Uruguay - Marisabel's modest home had no plumbing, like the rest...

7 days ago

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awicaks posted a blog entry

Get the U.N. Out of the Climate Business
The political theater in Copenhagen shows that we need realistic answers that don't require economic suicide to the challenge...

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awicaks posted a blog entry

After Copenhagen: five solutions to help melt the global trust problem
By Seth Freeman | Christian Science Monitor in Yahoo! News | Wed Dec 23 New York, N.Y. – Near the close of Copenhagen on...

8 days ago

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awicaks posted a blog entry

Excellent news from Copenhagen: Capitalist politicians exposed, foundations laid for mass movement
By Daniel Tanuro | Links | December 19, 2009 International Viewpoint -- We knew the United Nations summit in...

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awicaks posted a blog entry

Copenhagen: A turning point for the movement
By Terry Conway and Thomas Eisler | Socialist Resistance in Links | December 21, 2009 On Saturday, December 12, 100,000 people...

8 days ago

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Karl Ramjohn posted a blog entry

[environmental-sustainability] When NIMBYism isn’t
All is quiet in realm of environmental-related news – must be the COP15 hangover. Fellow environmental economics bloggers are...

8 days ago

Environmental Sustainability Updates | Topics: regular, biodiversity, carbon market, climate...

Carlos posted a blog entry

When NIMBYism isn’t
All is quiet in realm of environmental-related news – must be the COP15 hangover. Fellow environmental economics bloggers...

8 days ago

Marginal Damage | Topics: Biodiversity, Carbon Market, Climate..., Economic...

awicaks posted a blog entry

Rainforest conservation: a year in review
Rhett Butler | mongabay.com | December 27, 2009 2009 may prove to be an important turning point for tropical forests. Lead by...

9 days ago

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awicaks posted a blog entry

Copenhagen: Morales and Chavez a `smashing success' -- an insider's report from the ALBA delegation
Evo Morales. By Ron Ridenour | Links | December 23, 2009 “Nobel War Prize winner walked in and out of a secret...

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awicaks posted a blog entry

Climate Justice Now! statement: Call for `System change not climate change' unites global movement
Corrupt Copenhagen "accord" exposes gulf between peoples' demands and elite political interests By the Climate...

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awicaks posted a blog entry

Cutting carbon: What is the solution?
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awicaks posted a blog entry

The realities of carbon trading
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awicaks posted a blog entry

Does carbon trading really work?
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awicaks posted a blog entry

Alex Jones Final Report on Copenhagen
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awicaks posted a blog entry

What Really Happened in Copenhagen?
50,000 People Went to Denmark and All They Got was a Lousy 3-Page Political Agreement By BRIAN TOKAR | CounterPunch | December...

13 days ago

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awicaks posted a blog entry

Good Science, Bad Politics
Climategate' reveals a concerted effort to emphasize scientific results useful to a political agenda. By HANS VON STORCH |...

13 days ago

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awicaks posted a blog entry

The Story of Cap & Trade (2009)
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Health Care: Dear Senator Reid
Dear Senator Reid:We write to thank you again for your leadership in the Senate health reform deliberations. We greatly appreciate the important elements of fiscal sustainability that are included in the Manager’s Amendment.Among the features that...

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awicaks posted a blog entry

Climate Secretary admits Copenhagen failures
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awicaks posted a blog entry

Copenhagen Climate Conference: Obvious evident showing the global development model and the UN system fail
Arief Wicaksono Climate change convention has successfully provided us the most expensive learning curve ever. First lesson...

16 days ago

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awicaks posted a blog entry

So, what does this accord add up to? Key issues explained
The last-minute agreement is a major setback, and the world will have to regroup in its struggle to contain climate change By...

17 days ago

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awicaks posted a blog entry

The Story of Cap & Trade (2009) - Teaser
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awicaks posted a blog entry

A Copenhagen Accord it is
An agreement drawn up Friday night by leaders from the US, China, India, Brazil and South Africa has been recognized Saturday...

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awicaks posted a blog entry

World leaders deny Copenhagen 'failure'
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"This is a wake-up call for us": Greenpeace's Kumi Naidoo in Copenhagen
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