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San Diego Solar Power Companies – Sullivan Solar Power

bestgreensandiego — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:19:41 +0000

The time has arrived to think something different. The human civilization can’t continue to binge on power, as he is doing now. People have think about the alternative power source, if they want to survive without compromising power usage.

The growing demand for the power is the main cause of global warming. People are now using power more than ever before. They are not moving a step without troubling the fuel-guzzling vehicle and they are now using more electronic appliances than ever before. To run all these luxury items, they are requiring power in a huge quantity.

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Green Events – The Clean Business Investment Summit 2012

bestgreensandiego — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:16:55 +0000

The Clean Business Investment Summit is an annual event that was launched in 2009 in Santa Barbra, California. The summit takes place at the corwin Pavilion at the University of California.

Clean Business can be defined as the type of business that prioritizes preservation of the environment and reduction of harmful emissions to the same, as well as affiliated business segments that contribute to these two target goals.

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Global Warming will Hit Chocolate Lovers

bestgreensandiego — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:51:04 +0000

Not only kids but even octogenarians also love to have a bite of rich chocolate, but in future, there will be only few people left, who could afford a rich-in-cocoa chocolate. Yes, the global warming is going to show its impact on the price of the chocolate. Sooner or later, only people with deep pockets can afford chocolate, not common man.

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Green News & Climate Change: Some Desert Birds Less Affected By Wildfires and Climate Change

bestgreensandiego — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:40:55 +0000

Some Desert Birds Less Affected By Wildfires and Climate Change
Source: Baylor University

Newswise — A new Baylor University study has found that some bird species in the desert southwest are less affected, and in some cases positively influenced, by widespread fire through their habitat. In fact, the Baylor researchers say that fire actually helps some bird species because of the habitat that is formed after a fire is positive for the bird’s prey needs.

The study found that three specific bird species in the Chihuahuan Desert – scaled Quail, Loggerhead Shrike and Rock Wren – will be less affected by current and future wildfires because climate change will dry out the landscape, changing pine forests to uplands without trees and grasses, which provides fuel for wildfires. With the drying out of grasslands, the researchers say, the likelihood of widespread and intense wildfires will decrease over the next 50 years, as wildfires naturally occur and use up the current fuel base. The Baylor researchers also found that as the grasslands dry out, the birds will be able to forage for prey much easier.

“The results were somewhat surprising because the collective thought is that fire and climate change will have only negative effects on animals, but we found that is not the case with these bird species now or in the future around this area, ” said study co-author Dr. Joseph White, professor of biology at Baylor who is a fire management expert. “Climate change affects the environment’s processes and those processes affect different animals in different ways. In the case of these bird species, our predictive modeling shows it will affect them less than other animals, and we believe in some cases actually help them prosper.”

To conduct the study, the Baylor researchers observed the birds over three years in their habitat at more than 70 locations in west Texas and eastern New Mexico as natural weather and climate patterns occurred. The researchers then used that data and combined it with satellite imagery and used a predictive model to calculate what will happen to the bird species over the next 50 years.

The results of the study appear on-line in the journalConservation Biology.

Read full article: http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/578784/?sc=dwhp

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Green News: You Can’t Kill a Planet and Live on It, Too

bestgreensandiego — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:25:34 +0000

You Can’t Kill a Planet and Live on It, Too

by: Frank Joseph Smecker and Derrick Jensen, Truthout | Op-Ed

Let’s expose the structure of violence that keeps the world economy running.

With an entire planet being slaughtered before our eyes, it’s terrifying to watch the very culture responsible for this – the culture of industrial civilization, fueled by a finite source of fossil fuels, primarily a dwindling supply of oil – thrust forward wantonly to fuel its insatiable appetite for “growth.”

Deluded by myths of progress and suffering from the psychosis of technomania complicated by addiction to depleting oil reserves, industrial society leaves a crescendo of atrocities in its wake.

A very partial list would include the Bhopal chemical disaster, numerous oil spills, the illegal depleted uranium-spewing occupations of Iraq, Afghanistan, mountaintop removal, the nuclear meltdown of Fukushima, the permanent removal of 95 percent of the large fish from the oceans (not to mention full-on systemic collapse of those oceans), indigenous communities replacement by oil wells, the mining of coltan for cell phones and Playstations along the Democratic Republic of the Congo/Rwanda border – resulting in tribal warfare and the near-extinction of the Eastern Lowland gorilla.

As though 200 species going extinct each day were not enough, climate change, a direct result of burning fossil fuels, has proved not only to be as unpredictable as it is real, but as destructive as it is unpredictable. The erratic and lethal characteristics of a changing planet and its shifting atmosphere are becoming the norm of the 21st century, their impact accelerating at an alarming pace, bringing this planet closer, sooner than later, to a point of uninhabitable ghastliness. And yet, collective apathy, ignorance and self-imposed denial in the face of all this sadistic exploitation and violence marches this culture closer to self-annihilation.

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Global Warming News: Fast-Shrinking Glacier Also Experienced Rapid Growth

bestgreensandiego — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:03:35 +0000

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Fast-Shrinking Glacier Also Experienced Rapid Growth

Source: University at Buffalo

Newswise — BUFFALO, N.Y. — Large, marine-calving glaciers have the ability not only to shrink rapidly in response to global warming, but to grow at a remarkable pace during periods of global cooling, according to University at Buffalo geologists working in Greenland.

The conclusion stems from new research on Jakobshavn Isbrae, a tongue of ice extending out to sea from Greenland’s west coast. Through an analysis of adjacent lake sediments and plant fossils, the UB team determined that the glacier, which retreated about 40 kilometers inland between 1850 and 2010, expanded outward at a similar pace about 200 years ago, during a time of cooler temperatures known as the Little Ice Age.

A paper detailing the results is in press and available online in Quaternary Science Reviews, a top peer-reviewed journal in the field.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379111001636)

“We know that Jakobshavn Isbrae has retreated at this incredible rate in recent years, and our study suggests that it advanced that fast, also,” said Jason Briner, the associate professor of geology who led the research. His team included master’s and PhD students from UB and Brown University.

“Our results support growing evidence that calving glaciers are particularly sensitive to climate change,” Briner added.

Jakobshavn Isbrae has been the focus of intense scientific interest because it is one of the world’s fastest-flowing glacier, releasing enormous quantities of Greenland’s ice into the ocean. Changes in the rate at which icebergs calve off from the glacier could influence global sea level rise.

The decline of Jakobshavn Isbrae between 1850 and 2010 has been well-documented through aerial photographs and satellite photographs by UB Associate Professor of Geology Bea Csatho, which show the ice shrinking rapidly from west to east along a narrow fjord.

To reconstruct the glacier’s advance from east to west during earlier, cooler years, Briner and his colleagues examined sediment samples from Glacial Lake Morten and Iceboom Lake, two glacier-fed lakes that sit along the glacier’s path of expansion.

As Jakobshavn Isbrae expanded seaward, it reached Glacial Lake Morten first, damming one side of the lake with ice and filling the basin, previously a tundra-covered valley, with meltwater.

To pinpoint the time in history when this happened, the researchers counted annual layers of overlying glacial sediments and used radiocarbon dating to analyze plant fossils at the lake bottom (the last vestiges of the old tundra). The team’s conclusion: Glacial Lake Morten formed between 1795 and 1800.

An analysis of sediment layers from the bottom of Iceboom Lake showed that Jakobshavn Isbrae reached Iceboom lake about 20 or 25 years later, around 1820.
Jakobshavn Isbrae’s rate of expansion from Glacial Lake Morten to Iceboom Lake, as documented by the UB team, matched the glacier’s rate of retreat between those two points. (Aerial imagery shows Iceboom Lake draining around 1965 and Glacial Lake Morten draining between 1986 and 1991.)

The University at Buffalo is a premier research-intensive public university, a flagship institution in the State University of New York system and its largest and most comprehensive campus. UB’s more than 28,000 students pursue their academic interests through more than 300 undergraduate, graduate and professional degree programs. Founded in 1846, the University at Buffalo is a member of the Association of American Universities.

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Green San Diego: Global Temperatures Continue to Rise

bestgreensandiego — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:09:48 +0000

Global Temperatures Continue to Rise

Source: University of Alabama Huntsville

Global Temperature Report: June 2011

Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decade

June temperatures (preliminary)

Global composite temp.: +0.31 C (about 0.56 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for June.

Northern Hemisphere: +0.38 C (about 0.68 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for June.

Southern Hemisphere: +0.25 C (about 0.45 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for June.

Tropics: +0.24 C (about 0.43 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for June.

May temperatures (revised):
Global Composite: +0.13 C above 30-year average
Northern Hemisphere: +0.15 C above 30-year average
Southern Hemisphere: +0.12 C above 30-year average
Tropics: -0.04 C below 30-year average

(All temperature anomalies are based on a 30-year average (1981-2010) for the month reported.)

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As part of an ongoing joint project between UAHuntsville, NOAA and NASA, Dr. John Christy, a professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center (ESSC) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, and Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist in the ESSC, use data gathered by advanced microwave sounding units on NOAA and NASA satellites to get accurate temperature readings for almost all regions of the Earth. This includes remote desert, ocean and rain forest areas where reliable climate data are not otherwise available.

The satellite-based instruments measure the temperature of the atmosphere from the surface up to an altitude of about eight kilometers above sea level. Once the monthly temperature data is collected and processed, it is placed in a “public” computer file for immediate access by atmospheric scientists in the U.S. and abroad.

Neither Christy nor Spencer receives any research support or funding from oil, coal or industrial companies or organizations, or from any private or special interest groups. All of their climate research funding comes from federal and state grants or contracts.

(UAHuntsville)

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Canadian Waste & Recycling Expo 2011

bestgreensandiego — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 02:36:57 +0000

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Canadian Waste & Recycling Expo

The Canadian Waste & Recycling Expo 2011 will be held this year in the magnificent city of Montreal, Canada, on9th and 10th of November. Professionals and organizations relating to the field of Collection, Hauling, Disposal and Construction & Demolition will be attending the expo. Other than that people representing Federal, Provincial and Municipal Governments, Landfill Management & Operations, Recycling, Public Works, Airport & Road Management, ICI, Transportation & Fleet Maintenance, Property Management, Engineering and Waste Management will also be there at the expo.

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The ECO LIFE – ECO TECH Expo Focuses on the Environment – Romania 2011

bestgreensandiego — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 02:35:28 +0000

The ECO LIFE – ECO TECH Expo Focuses on the Environment – Romania

The ECO LIFE – ECO TECH trade show specializes in environmental protection and will be located in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. It goes from October 12, through October 16 at the Expo Transylvania. It is a show of environment industry and will be a good place to learn about green news. There will be thousands of industry leaders from Romania and from around the world. Companies will be showing their new products and services to vistitors that are interested in Green Technology.

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Waste and Recycling Expo in Mexico

bestgreensandiego — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 02:33:31 +0000

Waste and Recycling Expo in Mexico

This September from the 27th to the 29th 2011, the Waste and Recycling Trade Show will be in Mexico City this year, which will promote new energy and green technology for the city of Mexico. This event will be attracting buyers and employers alike from many companies. So far, there will be about 6,000 visitors from both the public and private sectors attending this event, coming face to face with green news, green technology and new energy.
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