http://greenlegals.com Green Law. Green Business. Green News & Views Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:35:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en California's independent budget watchdog, the Legislative Analyst's Office, predicts job losses in California due to, among other things, the state's climate change legislation, according to a report today in Reuters. In 2006, California passed a climate change law that mandates greenhouse gas emissions cutbacks to 1990 levels by the year 2020. The ... http://greenlegals.com/2010/03/california-climate-law-will-lead-to-job-losses/ Here are some of the articles that appeared this week regarding scientists defending their work on climate change. 95 per cent chance that Man is to blame for global warming, say scientists Times Online Scientists Taking Steps to Defend Work on Climate - NYTimes.com Scientists Taking Steps to Defend Work on Climate » ... http://greenlegals.com/2010/03/scientists-defend-work-man-blamed-for-climate-change/ This was the year when the Olympic organizing committee vowed to go green.  And many of those bronze, silver, and gold medals, are -- yes -- green. According to the UK's Guardian, "The gold, silver and bronze medallions slung around winning athletes' necks as they step on to the winners' podium ... http://greenlegals.com/2010/02/going-green-at-the-olympics/ Could this be the next revolution in energy?  Or are there two sides to this  story as the Christian Science Monitor suggests? Side One -- It is already in use on eBay campuses and hear what they have to say. CBS 60 Minutes showed the Bloom Box - a little ... http://greenlegals.com/2010/02/the-bloom-box-a-remarkable-new-energy-source-60-minutes-highlight/ Environmentalists and the media are enamored with the idea of renewable technology. Solar technology, in particular, has exciting possibilities. But, with a bit more research, two major problems with solar tech solutions quickly become evident. • Most of these solar energy options are too expensive without significant government subsidies. • Individual homeowners and ... http://greenlegals.com/2010/02/back-to-basics-lets-look-at-passive-solar-again/ Remember when Al Gore kept repeating the phrase, "The science is settled," while he presented his inconvenient truth on global warming?   Well, the science is now publicly - unsettled. The Daily Mail reports that Phil Jones, the climate scientist at the center of the Climategate or the"hide-the-decline" scandal admitted ... http://greenlegals.com/2010/02/global-warming-science-not-so-settled-anymore/ Eco-Friendly and Patient Friendly Are Newest Trends in Healthcare.  In this video we are remined that while hospitals make up only four percent of the country's total building population, they  consume eight percent of the energy.  Here is a solution, a hospital so green it is the platinum standard. http://greenlegals.com/2010/02/the-greening-of-healthcare-helps-hospitals-helps-patients/ The Hill is reporting on a email received from Senator Kerry (D-Mass.) today in which the Senator opined that: "The inside-the-Beltway conventional wisdom that this issue has stalled is dead wrong . . . This is not and never has been a partisan issue, and Senators Graham, Lieberman, and I will ... http://greenlegals.com/2010/02/senator-kerry-says-climate-change-bill-still-alive/ MIT's Technology Review predicts that the U.S. will surpass Germany as the world's largest market for solar power. Growth in the U.S. will likely be spurred on by the decreasing cost of solar panels and installation, and the continuing and increasing federal and state incentives. The federal stimulus package funding, for ... http://greenlegals.com/2010/02/prediction-us-solar-market-set-to-double/ Some think it's funny; some think it's the worst Super Bowl commercial of the bunch. It seems funnier the second time around. And what is that animal in the Eco checkpoint?  Some think it's an anteater. http://lotterysquirrel.com/2010/02/08/mystery-animal-in-audi-2010-green-car-super-bowl-commercial/ Update on the anteater -- [flv:http://greenlegals.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/green-police-anteater-audi.flv 500 315] Videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq58zS4_jvM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD1IIPHrDiw KJC http://greenlegals.com/2010/02/audi-2010-super-bowl-commercial/