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Greenhouse Gas

Carbon Storage: A Silver Bullet for Emissions?

Canada’s federal government says Carbon Capture and Storage is the key to cutting greenhouse gases Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new...

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Cuba Food and Farming Video, audio

Video: Urban Farming in Cuba

The BBC program “Around the World in 80 Gardens” (2008) shows some of the urban food gardening in Havana, Cuba. A tip of the hat to Dave Riley, host of Left Click, for bringing this video to our attention. Related reading: The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil Share:Click...

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Climate Change

Stabilizing Climate Requires Near-Zero Emissions

New scientific research shows that greenhouse gas emissions cuts must be much steeper than previously thought Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens...

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Carbon Pricing

Offsetting Democracy

By Kevin Smith The concept underpinning the whole system of carbon trading and offsetting is that a ton of carbon here is exactly the same as a ton of carbon there. That is, if it’s cheaper to reduce emissions in India than it is in the UK, then you can achieve the same climate benefit in a more...

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