coalSwarm Wiki, from SourceWatch
This SourceWatch wiki has become information central for advocates of a total moratorium on building new coal-fired electricity plants -- an idea that seems to be gathering adherents every day.
NetNow Linkblog: What we're reading today at NRDC
Ian Wilker's Links Tagged "carbon"
Carbon Neutral web sites/apps
The host of the "web2.0 show," a popular podcast about emerging web technologies, wonders if the Internet industry can go "carbon neutral." (In general, I've found technologists to be very receptive to greening their business practices. )
Offset Your Carbon Footprint to Reduce Global Warming--BeGreen Now
From Green Mountain Energy -- a large retailer of cleaner electricity -- BeGreen has a lot of information about reducing your carbon "footprint." There's a guide to carbon-neutral gifts, and BeGreen is doing a video contest on MySpace.
WorldChanging Austin: Whole Foods Market + Green Mountain Energy - Carbon
Jon Lebkowsky blogs for WorldChanging, among many other things, and tipped me to this Whole Foods initiative -- for Earth Day, the company is presenting its customers with a whole slate of ideas for reducing one's carbon footprint. Cool.
OnEarth Podcasts -- A Talk with Writer and Global Warming Activist Bill McKibben
McKibben talks with OnEarth about StepItUp 2007, his seat-of-the-pants campaign that's knitting together -- very quickly -- a mass movement of global warming warriors. A really interesting conversation.
The New Yorker : "High Costs," on the UK Govt's Report on Economics of Global Warming
Authored by Sir Nicholas Stern (former World Bank chief economist; current head of the UK Gov'ts Economic Service), the landmark "Stern Review" concludes that the benefits of strong early action far outweigh the costs of ignoring it. The NYer summarizes.
Seed: State of the Planet
SEED magazine (which is great) uses beautiful visualizations of data to tell a grim story.
The Oil Drum | A Community Discussion about Peak Oil
"the petroleum economy [is] the fundamental linchpin of our present democratic society [and] cheap oil/energy/gas [is] quietly fading into history. We are here to talk about ideas; we want to bring brain power to bear."
- Ian Wilker
- NRDC alumnus
- Asheville, NC
- I was website managing editor at NRDC for six years, through the end of 2006....
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