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Royal Dutch Shell’s Global Business Environment executive Jeremy Bentham and team addressed and fielded questions from the press regarding the company’s “Energy Scenarios to 2050” research and analysis during the first of a planned series of live Shell Dialogues web chats earlier today, May 15.
3 Hard Truths
Broadly speaking, “Three Hard Truths” underlie and are driving developments in the global energy industry, according to Shell’s analysis. Emerging nations have been increasingly participating in globalization for the past ten years and more and will continue to do so, creating a significant “discontinuity” on the demand side of the global energy production and distribution system, Bentham noted during the web chat - one that conventional energy suppliers, as well as governments and international agencies, have failed to adjust and adapt to in timely fashion, much less foresee, he might have added.
The World Social Forum takes place annually to provide a meeting ground for civil society organisations, networks and individuals to...[read more]
food riots and the causes behind high food prices.[read more]
The main mission of the Urban Alliance for Sustainability is inherent in its very name. “Our goal is to integrate and...[read more]
Today, a dozen companies will reveal plans to implement business expertise, including the use of their technology and innovations to...[read more]
Lately our news feeds about the business sector, government and development activities in Latin America have painted a stark picture;...[read more]
The UN’s Kyoto Protocol and Clean Development Mechanism, cap-and-trade greenhouse gas emissions trading systems—nothing but a con and the latest gambit by the international - predominantly Western - political, corporate and media elite to further enrich and secure themselves while doing less than nothing to address environmental degradation and climate change, claims New Delhi’s Centre for Science and Environment.[read more]
Not so long ago the thinking was “drive ‘till you qualify” – but it’s a brave new world, with a barrel...[read more]
Two significant and contrasting news items related to climate change and energy appear in the April 23 edition of the International Herald Tribune: Europe will increasingly rely on coal to meet its growing electricity needs while two US VCs team up with Norway’s ThinkGlobal to manufacture recyclable, emissions-free electric vehicles in California.[read more]
The second highest imperative for life as we know it, conflicts over water resources and management are coming into sharp relief, exacerbated by growing population, land use, climate change and a surge of investment.[read more]
If you are one of those people out there who thinks a green car means you have to own...[read more]
The DoE's National Renewable Energy Lab announced MoU's for two public-private partnerships in the past two days: one on the Hawaiian island of Maui where it will work with UPC to research and develop wind energy resources in line with Gov. Lingle's Clean Energy Initiative, and a second with Conoco-Phillips and Iowa State U. to develop biomass-to-fuel conversion technologies making use of corn stalks, hardy grasses, fast growing trees and other non-food vegetable organic matter.[read more]
Israel’s southernmost Eilot region is a special place in several respects. For one, the desert blooms here, thanks to an aquifer that has turned it into an agricultural center. It also holds a unique place in the hearts and minds of the world’s birds, ornithologists and birding enthusiasts, as it in the migratory route for hundreds of species making their way north to Eurasia and their breeding grounds. It’s also a budding center of entrepreneurial spirit and renewable energy, home to the Arava Power Co., which is hatching plans to build a 500 kWhr solar farm on Kibbutz Ketura.[read more]
Public skepticism and mistrust of businesses’ efforts to “go green” not only pose problems for corporations making honest, substantive efforts to do so, they pose significant obstacles for the type of local-to-globally coordinated efforts necessary to mitigate climate change and enhance energy security. Bridging this credibility gap was the subject of a recent GreenPepper “Eco-Concerns” survey. [read more]
Looking to draw attention and redress the staggering fact that some 49% of the world's population lack access to basic sanitation and safe, sustainable water sources, the UN has launched a global financing mechanism, the Global Sanitation Fund, and is organizing World Sanitation Day events in Geneva and New York.[read more]
The potential environment, health and safety risks of nano-engineered materials are increasingly coming under scrutiny as growing numbers of these new and unique materials find their way into everything from high-tech electronics to food. While public interest groups are pushing for new, stronger and separate approval and regulation, governments continue to believe that existing legal statutes and regulatory structures are sufficient.[read more]
Back in November I commented on an Atlantic Monthly article about the hardest hit areas of the sub-prime mortgage meltdown: the large-lot “McMansion” subdivisions...[read more]
Lots of activity at WIREC 2008 (the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference), including more than 100 uni-, bi- and multi-lateral pledges from some 40 countries to increase renewable energy development and use.[read more]
Green certification programs such as the Green Council’s EPEAT are an effective means of getting past organizational greenwash…Even more importantly, they’re making an increasing, positive impact on electronics recycling volumes and practices. Individual consumers need to help shoulder the burden, however, and OEMs can do more to make it easier to recycle and reuse products and parts.[read more]
Last week I participated in a ritual that's becoming increasingly common these days: replacing a (mostly) functional cell phone....[read more]
Researchers at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute of Integrated Circuits, are developing new thermoelectric generators that tap into the temperature differences between the human body and the external environment to generate low voltage currents that can power small electronic devices.[read more]
At the invitation of the U.S. government, public and private sector leaders will be gathering in Washington D.C. early March for WIREC 2008, the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference. The third such event, organizers are busy lining up voluntary pledges from participants to promote and foster renewable energy, which are to be collected and publicly released as the Washington International Action Plan.[read more]
Greenwash is a new addition to the English lexicon and a practice that offers businesses a potentially quick and high return. Those are likely to turn out to be ephemeral, and even damaging, not only to practitioners but to other organizations intent on making honest efforts to address greenhouse gas emissions, climate change and environmental degradation.[read more]
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