A recent article in NZ Herald News discusses the looming food crisis and how it might become the world’s biggest problem in the decades to come. “If the world doesn’t act now, it faces a catastrophic global food shortage by mid-century,” Greg…
NASA: World’s Largest Lakes are Warming
What’s one major sign the world is warming? The world’s large bodies of water are warming. In a first-of-its-kind study, NASA has now concluded that the world’s largest lakes have been steadily warming over the past 25 years. Yep, no…
Activists Who Tried to Shut Down UK Power Plant Going on Trial
114 UK activists were suspected of “conspiring to shut down Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station,” the UK’s 3rd-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, and arrested “in a night-time police raid” at a school in Nottingham in April, 2009. 20 of these activists are…
Report: Asian Megacities to Get Billions of Dollars Damage from Climate Change
A major report was released this week on the potential impacts of climate change on three major Asian cities. The news isn’t good. These three major coastal cities alone (all with populations of 10 million or more) — Bangkok, Manila,…
Water Mining and Global Warming Making Sea Levels Rise
This post is part of our participation in Blog Action Day 2010, which is on the topic of Water. We are all familiar with the fact that as our world warms, ice in the North and South melt and cause…
October Top News: Giant Penguins, Solar Planes that Fly for Years, Europe’s Clean Energy Progress, Obama’s Clean Energy Push, Peak Oil/Peak Coal/Peak Etc.
Wow, it’s harder to pick out the “must-share” news stories than I realized. Well, here are the news stories I wrote about in the past week or so that I thought it would be a crime not to mention here…
Green Business Blog Carnival #18
The Green Business Blog Carnival comes to EcoLocalizer! Following up on Green Business Blog Carnival post #17 on Cleantechnica (which featured a couple posts from EcoLocalizer), here’s the next edition of the Carnival for your reading pleasure. The first ride.. er, post…
Cancun & Travel Industry Greening Up from Climate Conference
A common criticism of major international meetings on climate change is that countless tons of carbon emissions are created by everyone flying and driving in for these meetings. I have never decided for myself if I think these meetings are…