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The university recruitment circuit is alive with environment-friendly appointments.
Candy Snelling: “Our green ideas really have an impact”. Photograph: Graham Turner.
When Mark Warner started a new job at Leeds Metropolitan University, he faced a dilemma about his commute into work. “I was offered a parking space, but turned it down because taking it would lack credibility,” he says. As the university’s sustainability officer, it wouldn’t really do to drive to campus.
At first, he travelled by bus, but even that didn’t go down too well with staff. “I was constantly asked how I could support cycling if I didn’t do it myself.” So Warner bought a bike via the Cycle to Work scheme, and now rides into work, encouraging fellow staff and students to do so, too.
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The use of geo-engineering to slow global warming may increase the risk of drought, according to a paper in Science journal.
Methods put forward include reflecting solar radiation back into space using giant mirrors or aerosol particles.
But the authors warn that such attempts to control the climate could also cause major changes in precipitation.
They want the effect on rainfall to be assessed before any action is taken.
Gabriele Hegerl of the Grant Institute at University of Edinburgh and Susan Solomon of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) at Boulder, Colorado, write that “if geo-engineering studies focus too heavily on warming, critical risks associated with such possible “cures” will not be evaluated appropriately”.
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Microsoft’s move into the energy monitoring business may sound like a stretch, but to Craig Mundie, it’s one of several natural new businesses for the software maker.
Mundie, Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer, said the company has its eye on any area that can be helped by technology and in which society is spending a lot of money and not seeing the return it would like.
Microsoft’s Hohm service lets users enter information about their home and energy use to get tips on cutting their gas and electric bills.
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Energy consumption specifically, and environmental issues more broadly, were natural areas for the company to delve into, he said, and follow Microsoft’s moves into other thorny challenges such as education and health care. On Wednesday, Microsoft is officially announcing Hohm, a free service that households can use to monitor their household energy use and get tips on how they can cut their gas and electric bills.
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Industry insiders acknowledge that the stationer’s claims about carbon-neutral paper are complex at best.
A beaming, clean-cut family with curly haired son sitting on dad’s shoulders stares wistfully into the distance from the middle of a corn field. “An initiative for the future,” reads the uplifting message on the packaging.
“All carbon emissions generated throughout the production and transportation of Report Carbon Neutral [office paper] to Europe are offset with the restoration of the Atlantic coastal rainforest.”
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This is Britain’s first “carbon neutral” office paper from high-street stationers Ryman. The Report Carbon Neutral brand won top prize at the Stationery and Office Products awards in April.
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Estimates of the carbon legacy of bringing a child into the world suggest that the green choice may be to stop at two kids.
Another mouth to feed, another gas guzzler, long-distance traveller, consumer … and future parent.
Another mouth to feed, another gas guzzler, long-distance traveller, consumer … and future parent. There are already 6.8 billion people living on this crowded planet and the figure is expected to rise to 9 billion by 2050.
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Bailiffs serve six workers still occupying Vestas plant on Isle of Wight with warrant giving them 24 hours to leave.
Police keep watch outside Vestas Wind Systems in Newport, Isle of Wight. Photograph: Chris Ison/PA
Six men who have been barricaded inside Britain’s only major wind turbine factory for more than two weeks have been warned they will be evicted tomorrow.
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US geological survey commissioned by Obama administration indicates a sharp rise in the melt rate of key American glaciers over the last 10-15 years.
A composite image showing South Cascade glacier in Washington state (year 2000, left, 2006, right). A new study today found a sharp rise in the melt rate of three key American glaciers over the last 10-15 years. Photograph: USGS
Climate change is melting America’s glaciers at the fastest rate in recorded history, exposing the country to higher risks of drought and rising sea levels, a US government study of glaciers said today.
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Research centres conceived to speed energy-related research are facing a tough battle in Congress.
A major effort to revamp research and development at the Department of Energy, which Energy Secretary Steven Chu says is critical to solving energy-related challenges, hangs in the balance as the Obama administration attempts to make its case to a skeptical Congress.
Bell’s Nobels: Steven Chu, speaking at MIT on the subject of energy innovation hubs, cited the success of Bell Laboratories at spurring invention. The inset is a slide from his talk, picturing the inventors of the transistor and the first of many Nobel Prize winners, including Chu, from Bell Labs.
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MEXICO CITY – Mexico aims to put a detailed offer to cut the growth of its own greenhouse gas emissions on the negotiating table at global climate change talks in Copenhagen this year, a senior environmental policymaker said.
“If Mexico can bring a plan for cuts through 2020 to the table with a detailed description of what will be mitigated it would set a positive precedent for the other big emerging economies,” said Adrian Fernandez, the president of the National Ecology Institute, in an interview on Monday.
The plan will likely offer significant cuts in expected emissions growth from Mexico, which currently accounts for 1.5 percent of global emissions, by proposing projects like improving efficiency of power plants or reducing deforestation.
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A one-day energy summit has been announced, open to all who care to attend. It’s titled: “Lightening the Load–Reducing the Footprint in the Expeditionary Environment – A National Security Imperative for Success.”
Here’s more info from the announcement:
The Commandant of the Corps is hosting a one day Energy Summit to elevate awareness and understanding of what the Marine Corps is doing to reduce energy consumption and reliance on fossil fuels, what we are experimenting with, and what our energy challenges are.
The topics discussed will cover operating in a expeditionary environment (lightening the load, reducing energy inefficient battlefield designs), and energy challenges at installations (attaining self sufficiency, sustainability, and reducing installation vulnerabilities).
Keynote Speakers include: National Security Advisor, Gen (ret) James L. Jones (invited), Secretary of the Navy, The Honorable Raymond Edwin Mabus, and Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen James T. Conway.
