Report details climate change dangers to Utah’s migratory birds.
| Report details climate change dangers to Utah’s migratory birds. A new national report highlighting climate-change dangers posed to migratory birds identified a few Utah species especially vulnerable to harm, including the sharp-tailed grouse and the salt-loving wader called Wilson’s phalarope. |
| Australian cities must transform in order to survive coming changes. While the images may sound like science fiction, architects and demographers say Australian cities must radically transform to cope with the pressures of population growth and climate change or face social unrest and urban decay. |
| Climate change threatens migratory birds. Changes in the global climate are imposing additional stress on hundreds of species of migratory birds in the United States that are already threatened by other environmental factors, according to a new Interior Department report. |
| The Superb Grid vs. the SuperGrid Please see the article by Sam Carana on how a larger and simultaneously more local grid can be implemented, to capture as much of the electricity being generated as possible. Read about how many parts of Europe already have surplus electricity and countries are linking their grids together toimprove efficiency.  |
| Minister’s ambition for future Welsh green energy. The assembly government is expected to say that Wales has the potential to generate twice its electricity needs from renewable sources within 15 years. |
| DWP ratepayers facing a bigger possible surcharge. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s political team is encouraging the Department of Water and Power to adopt a so-called carbon surcharge, one that would require ratepayers to pay more to cover the cost of renewable energy. |
| Gowanus Canal goes Superfund Last week, the Gowanus Canal, a 1.8-mile, 100-foot wide waterway in northwest Brooklyn which empties into Upper New York Bay, was added to the National Priorities List (NPL) otherwise known Superfund by the Environmental Protection Agency. The new designation means that the EPA will now move ahead to clean up this derelict canal and to compel PRP’s (principal responsible parties) to perform the cleanup or reimburse the government for EPA-led action. The EPA is now locked in to what may be a tough and perhaps a long dragged-out process of restoring the Gowanus, while forcing cooperation from PRPs and catering to often sensitive local community interests. |
| New legal panel to focus on climate change. The barristers will have a heavy workload: Testing new global warming regulations. |
| CEOs Get It: No matter how you view the science, now is the time to act Over the last couple of days, Ive heard business titans from Disneys CEO Robert Iger to legendary oilman T. Boone Pickens to coal and mining magnate Tom Albanese of Rio Tinto espousing a similar thought EUR that theyre going full steam ahead with their sustainability strategies and investments in clean energy technology because it makes [.] |
Germanium Laser is the Latest Light Technology to be Unveiled The materials in lasers can be expensive and difficult to work with. A discovery at MIT may be changing all of that much sooner than we think as germanium laser technology is here and it is very real. The beauty of this latest technology is that there isnt even a large call to change [.]Posted in: Future Energy, Inventions |
New Battery Technology Could Lead to Self-Powered Devices The advancements that are being made in battery technology are pretty mind boggling. We are seeing devices that are drawing power from just about every source that is imaginable, and now there is battery technology from researchers at Imperial College London that may actually have devices that create their own power. From cell phones [.]Posted in: Batteries, Future Energy, Inventions |