Weekly Web Roundup
Posted December 12, 2008 in The Media and the Environment
On the climate talks in Poznan:
- Delegates work to resolve differences over how to protect the world's forests and press industrial countries to drastically reduce their carbon emissions.
- Delegates divided over whether carbon capture and storage is a solution to global warming.
- Russia may not join global deal to fight global warming.
- Al Gore tells delegates that new targets are needed to fight global warming.
- Mexico pledges to halve greenhouse gas emissions from 2002 by 2050.
- Read Switchboard updates on the talks here.
In other news:
- Obama picks seasoned regulators for top environmental posts. NRDC's Frances Beinecke writes about his choices here.
- NRDC's Rob Perks blasts the coal industry's "Clean Coal Carolers" (see also Get Energy Smart, Think Progress, Treehugger and Huffington Post).
- Obama pledges to make schools and public buildings more energy efficient.
- Al Gore will host a green inaugural ball.
- Find out how to get a locally-grown Christmas tree on Sustainablog.
- Squirrels are starving as acorns disappear in several Mid-Atlantic states.
- Rising temperatures may unleash vast deposits of undersea methane.
- Treehugger interviews Frances Beinecke in a post about NRDC's partnership with Planet Green.
- Methane capture, a "sin tax" on pork and beef and other potential solutions may help reduce farm emissions.
- Andrew Revkin writes about the need to rebuild the country's intellectual infrastructure.
- The Daily Green posted a video by Zaproot about eating meat from cloned animals.
- GreenerBuildings.com features a podcast of NRDC alumnus Rob Watson talking about the 2008 Green Building Impact Report.
- The NY Times reports on how the recession has decimated the market for recyclable materials, sending some of it to landfills. Green Inc. shares a heartwarming story about a second-grade class who refused to stop recycling. NRDC's Phil Gutis wrote a related post here.
- Could waste coffee grounds be the next great biofuel?
- Los Angeles wants to add 1.3 gigawatts of solar power by 2020.
