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Our Addiction to Fossil Fuels Is a Bridge to Nowhere
2015-02-10 16:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: On Saturday I joined a panel at the Munich Security Conference in Germany and talked about global security and energy security. You might be surprised to see Greenpeace at a security conference. The room was full of members of the strategic community, people who are not the crowd we normally engage with; they are the crowd we have historically challenged with our peace campaigns. However, I appreciated having the opportunity to be a dissenting voice and to talk about what I consider is the path...
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Norway: First Country in the World Dumps Fossil Fuels As Divestment Movement Heats Up
2015-02-06 20:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Back in 2012, Bill McKibben with fellow activists including Naomi Klein, Winona LaDuke, Josh Fox and Reverend Lennox Yearwood began a nationwide tour to promote fossil fuel divestmentthat is, selling off your shares in fossil fuel companiesin an effort to combat climate change. With action in Congress impossible, McKibben saw college campusesknown for being laboratories of democracyas ground zero in the campaign for divestment. With his Do the Math campaign in sold-out concert halls...
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Robert Redford: Fossil Fuels Need to Stay in the Ground, Renewable Energy Is the Future
2015-01-29 16:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Democracy Now!s Amy Goodman sat down today with Robert Redford, the Oscar-winning director, actor and longtime environmentalist, at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. In the interview, Goodman jumps right in by asking Redford, founder of Sundance Film Festival, about last weeks vote where half of the Senate refuses to formally acknowledge the existence of man-made climate change. I think the deniers of climate change are probably the people who are afraid of change. They dont...
IRENA report finds renewable power costs at parity or below fossil fuels in many parts of world
2015-01-17 18:55:27| Green Car Congress
A study urges leaving fossil fuels alone. How will it impact business?
2015-01-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: To prevent the Earth from overheating, countries must leave vast reserves of fossil fuels untouched underground. Thats the conclusion of a new report published this week in the journal Nature. Trillions of dollars of known and extractable coal, oil and gas including deposits in Canada and the Arctic cannot be burned if the global temperature rise is to be kept under the agreed-upon goal of 2C. While much of the carbon math is known about three to five times more carbon in reserve than can...
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