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Copin' with Copenhagen

What is Obama’s international climate strategy? 9
Posted 4 months, 4 weeks ago
International climate negotiations often seem like some sort of cosmic science fair project -- an aquarium full of hamsters connected to rudimentary motors. There's a lot of frantic running, a lot of sweat and heat, but in the end, very little light.

Faith in the UN climate process has dimmed. Joe Romm calls it a "dead man walking." The Copenhagen talks in December are generally discussed with the same dissonant mixture of urgency ("You have to do it in Copenhagen," says UNFCCC chair Yvo de Boer) and fatalism ("There is no movement," says German environment minister Sigmar Gabriel) as the last dozen rounds of international talks.

The Obama administration knows the danger of sclerosis and is working on several fronts to regain a sense of momentum.
Wind: still enough to save the world 14
Posted 5 months ago
Back in 2008, Christina Archer and Mark Z Jacobson published data showing worldwide commercial wind potential exceeded world energy use by many times. A new peer reviewed study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences now confirms his, and further shows that this potential is not limited to a lucky few.
A walk through the week's climate news

The Climate Post: Deal or no deal 0
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
U.S. representatives may head into Independence Day recess with their climate work done for the moment.
What would Gandhi drive?

A tour through Indian energy projects suggests small is beautiful 1
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
OnEarth's story on India's environmental hurdles has the requisite bleak facts, the requisite rays of hope, and compelling evidence that local fixes could work best on Very Big Problems.
Letter from Europe

Nicholas Stern’s heresy: conceding the West’s climate burden 2
Posted 6 months ago
Breaking ranks with the West's climate talking points, Lord Nicholas Stern says the world's rich nations should shoulder some of the costs of cutting emissions in the rapidly developing world (i.e. China and India).
'Recovering from the Green Revolution'

NPR: Organic ag rises in India 0
Posted 6 months ago
India's a major player on the world stage. How disturbing, then, that its farmers are in severe crisis. A new NPR report brings a dash of hope: Indian farmers are going organic in increasing numbers.
The what revolution?

NPR: Industrial ag and India’s ‘cancer train’ 0
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Last month, NPR aired two reports on the ecological and economic upshots of industrial agriculture in India. This week, the news outlet focuses on the public-health dimensions.
On thin ice with the billionaire 5
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
The billionaire told me that the public, you and I, do not really matter when it comes to global warming. It is all about technology, he said. People will always chose the cheapest, most convenient way.
'Simple' sanitation

In India, leading a lavatory revolution 0
Posted 8 months ago
There's a lot to learn at the Sulabh International Museum of Toilets -- for starters, how one man improved the lives of millions.
Claussen in a Pickle

Does Pew Center’s Eileen Claussen get the dire nature of our climate predicament? 0
Posted 8 months ago
Nu-clearing the Way for Cooperation

India seeks to partner with U.S. on climate change 0
Posted 9 months ago
International mercury pact shows that India and China will follow our lead 3
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago
Rising sea salinates India’s Ganges 6
Posted 9 months, 4 weeks ago
MIT and NBER (and Tol and Nordhaus)—right wing deniers love your work. Ask yourselves ‘why?’ 1
Posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Studies show mono-cultures, GMOs, and globalization are problems, not solutions 3
Posted 11 months ago
Don Tyson details plans to export the U.S. meat model to global south 5
Posted 1 year ago
You Give Climate Change a Bad Name

Jon Bon Jovi will play Live Earth concert in Mumbai 0
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago
Low-carbon energy solutions in India may depend on Tata 4
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago
Random and wiggy video of the day 0
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago
Where in the World?

Brazilians and Indians are the greenest, says survey 9
Posted 1 year, 6 months ago