Friday, October 5th, 2007
EVENING TIMES – It has taken seven years to plan and build, but a new £120million water treatment plant is ready – and it has been claimed 700,000 households in west Scotland will now have the cleanest, freshest water in the world. Read More
Friday, October 5th, 2007
GOVT CANADA – The sun is supplying as much as 90 percent of the space heating in this community, and 60 percent of the water heating. Put that together with the energy efficiency that’s built into these homes, and you’ve cut greenhouse gas emissions by five tonnes a year per house. Read More
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
UNITED NATIONS — The 62nd session of the UN General Assembly wrapped up its high-level debate on Wednesday as member states urge concerted international efforts to address challenges in the fields of climate change, security, development and the reform of the United Nations. Read More
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
NEW SCIENTIST–We don’t need environmental evangelicals to tell us that sustainable development is a good idea. Yet, if that is our goal, we are heading in the wrong direction – with the exception of Cuba. So says the first study to examine the ecological impact of changing lifestyles around the globe. Read More
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
BBC – Another 10,000 baby salmon are being released into a formerly-polluted river, after evidence proved fish stocks are starting to thrive. The fish are being released into the River Churnet in Staffordshire, a river which was once one of the worst polluted in Europe. Salmon were reintroduced to the river last year and Environment
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
THE GUARDIAN – Portuguese surfers keeping an eye on the weather will be joined this month by engineers and businessmen, but they will be hoping for very different reports. The men and women behind the latest renewable energy project will be looking for a flat, calm sea. Portugal is poised to open what will be
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD– A cafe with harbour views that grows its own vegies and serves eggs laid by its own chickens, cheese from its own dairy and bread from its own bakery? This is part of the Sydney City Farm Group’s grand vision for four hectares of waterfront land in Rozelle’s Callan Park. Read More
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
UBC–Canadians are awash in toxic chemicals — and it is costing our health care system up to $9.1 billion and 1.5 million hospital days annually, according to a new study led by University of British Columbia Trudeau Scholar David Boyd. Read More
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
DENMARK.DK – Copenhagen should erase its greenhouse gas footprint by becoming a carbon dioxide-neutral city by 2025, according to Claus Bondam, the city’s deputy mayor for environmental and infrastructure issues, reports weekly newsletter Mandag Morgen. Bondam would like to present the first measures for reducing the city’s greenhouse gas emissions before the 2009 UN climate
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
HINDU BUSINESS LINE – The Department of Science and Technology (DST) intends to soon roll out a mechanism to collect real-time data on health/stress status of standing crops and to advise State Governments and other stakeholders on how best to deal with it. The real-time monitoring of crops will be an invaluable input to the
