America’s Most Endangered Rivers of 2007:List and Video

AmericanRivers, national organization working for healthy rivers, since 1973, with more than 65,000 members and supporters nationwide, solicits nominations from environmental groups and organisations for the America’s Most Endangered Rivers report, each year.The list of rivers in 2007 is 1) Santa Fe River (New Mexico) 2) San Mateo Creek (California) 3) Iowa River (Iowa) 4) [...]

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“low-carbon climate pioneers” List

CNBC European Business has made a list of “low-carbon climate pioneers” based on research between June and December 2006.The top in the interesting list is James Murdoch, the 34-year-old chief executive of broadcaster BSkyB.The “Top 50 List” is inspiring. Sorce:cnbceb.com.The list is here.http://cnbceb.com/2007/01/01/the-top-50-lowcarbon-pioneers/

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“Climate, Energy and the imperatives of Equity and Growth”

I have come across this interesting slide show by Centre for Science and Environment ending with  “The message: Leapfrog Avoid the polluting pathways of others. Adopt an alternative path that is precautionary and preventive Business As Usual Alternative Path Of Progress.” Pollution Vs Per-Capita GDP Graph and  “The Kuznets Curve”

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Making The Academy Awards Event “green”

This year, the 79th Annual Academy Awards event was a carbon neutral function.The  greening initiative, for the first time, with a variety of energy saving solutions,was led by Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)  in partnership with the producers.NRDC going in for an energy audit of the activity to assess the impact on the environment, and  changes to save energy, encouraging the [...]

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International Disaster Stewardship Report 2006:by American Red Cross

American Red Cross has responded to 23 disaaters globally, making contributions of around $16 million, deploying delegates and providing relief supplies apart from providing emergency assistance to millions of affected people.Month wise the responces and disasters are January southern Africa food crisis in Africa, earth quake in Pakistan;February storms and floods inTimor-leste,mudslides inPhillipines;March Iraq humanitariancrisis [...]

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