A wind turbine next to the Finish nuclear power plant Olkiluoto. Photo credit: Green Blog By guest contributor Green Blog In June, the parliament in Finland passed a new climate change act […]
Finland promises to cut emissions with 80% by 2050
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World Water Week – energy, water and climate impacts
Opening plenary at the World Water Week 2014. Photo credit: World Water Week. By Anders Lorenzen World leaders, scientists and experts have been gathering this week for the 24th World Water Week […]
Greenpeace pictures show the environmental destruction caused by giant illegal Chinese coal mine
By Anders Lorenzen Photo credits: © Wu Haitao/Greenpeace A Greenpeace investigation has found that a Chinese coal mine is encroaching onto the third largest river in Asia, the Yellow River. Greenpeace found […]
Churches at the frontline of climate action
Photo credit: Alexander Neureuter, http://www.neureuters.de. By guest contributor Melanie Mattauch Johannes Kapelle has been playing the organ in the Protestant church of Proschim since he was 14. The 78-year-old is actively involved […]
Wildfires rage in California as the worst drought in decades has no end in sight
Photo credit: Reuters / Robert Galbraith. By Anders Lorenzen Firefighters were the latest victims in California’s ongoing drought that has now lasted for over four years and appear to have no end […]
Video: Leonardo DiCaprio narrates new climate short miniseries
Leonardo DiCaprio with former US Vice President Al Gore. Photo credit: Jeff Pulver via Flickr. Green World Rising – a new short climate miniseries narrated by Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio and a […]
U.S. joins Canada and oil industry’s lobbying offensive to keep Europe open to oilsands imports
By guest contributor Derek Leahy For five long years the federal government and the oil industry have lobbied against the European Union labeling oilsands (also called tar sands) bitumen as ‘dirty oil’ […]
UK: Your potatoes could soon be produced using wind power
Photo credit: Katherine (chatirygirl) via Flickr. By Anders Lorenzen If you live in the UK and you get your potatoes from the company Greenvale, then they could soon be produced using wind […]
Emma Thompson: Without the ice the earth will fall
Photo credit: Greenpeace / Nick Cobbing. Esteemed British actress Emma Thompson has following a Greenpeace trip in the Arctic on their ship the Esperanza released a powerful poem stating that we need […]
Sustainable buildings do not cost more, finds report
By guest contributor Ruth Lumley Sustainable buildings are not necessarily more costly to construct, according to new research. Sweett Group, the property and infrastructure company, used data from real building projects – […]
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