We have long advocated supporting local businesses as a way of creating jobs and improving our cities, but over at Grist, Stacy Mitchell makes a great point about another benefit: it can fight global warming .
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With the launch of the Emerald Cities Project May 2009, Nations Technology Trust Ltd. Humans are not very good at assessing and responding to long-term dangers. Our brains aren’t wired for it. We see this again and again as we fail to build levees sufficient to protect our cities, ignore obvious signs of bubbles in … The current lull between solar cycle 23 and 24 seems alarming, but experts point out that the low sunspot numbers and duration are very normal between solar cycles. The next cycle is forecast to peak in about 2012. … Last month the climate secretary, Ed Miliband, announced that aviation, a sector with rapidlygrowing carbon emissions, would be included in carbon trading markets such as the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). … Back when the media was more obsessed with the state of global warming than the state of global lending, the environmental movement appeared completely ascendant. But with economic concerns in both Europe and North America on rise, … Look out, Oregon, for a global warming land rush by Eric Mortenson, The Oregonian Sunday October 05, 3008 The prediction caused a collective grimace among the mayors, city councilors, engineers and planners in the audience. … 12 Anyone who wants Winnipeggers to pay taxes for global warming will be forced to spend winters here without the use of toques, scarves or mittens because it’s now warm out, well they said it would be 10 years ago. … |
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