According to the Mirror.co.uk News, “the deadline for going green and and saving the planet from dangerous warming was dramatically spelled out at the Copenhagen climate conference yesterday.
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The Climate Change Conference in Cophenhagen is a two week summit. BBC News reports that Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen has described the UN climate summit in Copenhagen as an “opportunity the world cannot afford to miss”. BBC News - Copenhagen summit urged to take climate change action

The Ogiek people, East Africa’s honey-hunting forest dwellers, are about to lose their home, according to Minority Rights International (MRG). The news comes as the Kenyan government has approved plans to forcibly remove thousands of settlers from the Mau Forest, the Ogiek’s ancestral lands.

A new green building report has been released and it shows ” impressive growth during 2009, amid a brutal construction market that has decimated other segments of the construction marketplace, according to the 2009 Green Building Market & Impact Report published today by GreenerBuildings.com” as reported on GreenBiz.
The Hearst Tower in New York City was the first green building to receive a gold LEED certification for core and shell and interiors.

Do fear tactics work?
The British government produced a commercial featuring a father reading a bedtime story to his daughter about the catastrophe the world will face if CO2 levels go unchecked.  At the end of the story, flood waters pour in and a puppy is seen drowning.

Cape Wind, the first offshore wind farm proposed in the United States, has met with, and overcome many obstacles since it was proposed eight years ago, including well-funded NIMBY groups and powerful politicians.
Now two Indian tribes are trying to stop the project by having the Nantucket Sound listed on the National Register as a “Traditional Cultural Property.”
The tribes, the Mashpee Wampanoag and the Wampanoag of Gay Head, have brought their action under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) claiming that the wind farm will interfere with their view …

While there have been many stories about eco-friendly beer over the past few years, this local brewery is apparently using 100% filtered rainwater. The water is captured on-site and creates green beer. Cheers!

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Much has been written recently about the fact that sunspots are at their lowest count in over 100 years. How important are sunspots to the issue of climate change? Does an absence of sunspots signal a cooling period? Different experts have differing opinions.

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When the Altamonte Pass wind turbine farm was developed over 20 years ago, there was much concern over the wind turbines’ effect on migratory birds, raptors and bats.
The concerns, and at times outcry, of bird experts have continued but those concerns were often questioned as being misplaced or even myths.