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Conservation, Politics, Videos & Documentaries, Jul 22nd, 2010,
The Economist recently featured an interview with ‘green economist’ Pavan Sukhdev on their regular segment ‘Tea with The Economist’. Pavan Sukhdev is a study leader for The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity study (TEEB), a report commissioned by the G8+5 and funded by the European Union. He is special advisor and head of the UN Environment Program’s (UNEP) Green Economy Initiative, also funded by the EU/EC and Norway. In the following video interview, Sukhdev discusses natural capital and economic as well as political solutions to preserving and encouraging biodiversity an environmentally conscious business practices. Pavan Sukhdev on the green economy…
Tags: biodiversity, capital, Economist, economy, environmental, Green, initiative, natural, Pavan, Sukhdev, TEEB, UN, UNEP
Green living, Science & Technology, Jul 2nd, 2010,
The air travel industry wants more efficient – and thereby greener – airplanes in order to boost profits and improve its image in an increasingly environmentally conscious world. According to a piece in the Economist on new, more efficient designs for jet engines, jets are now roughly twice as fuel efficient as they were in the 1960s and 80% quieter. The new designs discussed in the piece – made by small Israeli firm R-Jet – have not yet been picked up by any major player in the airline industry, though R-Jet claims their engines could cut fuel use by a…
Tags: air travel, airplanes, battery, Economist, efficient, electric, fuel, Green, jet, planes, R-Jet
Science & Technology, Videos & Documentaries, Weird Stuff, Jun 20th, 2010,
Several American technological companies are developing methods of wireless energy transference, as was once envisioned by legendary inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla. The details the firms are using in their various methods of delivering wireless power differ from Tesla’s ideas, particularly in terms of the amount of power and the distance it travels. WiTricity has demonstrated the ability to send enough energy across a room to run a flat-screen television using its approach, called “resonant magnetic coupling”. This is different from Tesla’s approach, but the firm’s founders have acknowledged his pioneering work. –Economist Similarly, Computer giant Intel is working…
Tags: Economist, electricity, energy, Intel, Nikola, power, Tesla, wireless, WiTricity
Climate Change, Politics, Mar 11th, 2010,
China’s soaring greenhouse gas emissions are significantly fueled by Western consumerism. That is the conclusion of a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). According to an article in Time magazine, ’22.5% of the carbon emitted in China is actually exported to other countries’. So in a way, unofficial ‘carbon markets’ are already well in place – with China creating more emissions by manufacturing products for export to richer, more developed nations. The rich nations effectively outsource their own greenhouse emissions via having China or other developing countries make their cars, toys and clothes,…
Tags: carbon, China, Economist, emissions, Europe, export, footprint, greenhouse, magazine, Time, trade, U.S., Western
Climate Change, Politics, Feb 26th, 2010,
Economic recession, ‘Climategate’ and other ensuing scandals may have shaken both the public’s faith in – and concern about – the realities of man made climate change. Yet a fickle media or confused citizenry have not been enough for most political establishments to break from some kind of platform that takes climate change and other environmental issues into account. Contemporary politics are still strongly influenced by what has become the zeitgeist of the day – and the parties of the future will no doubt be judged in part on how they are now reacting to environmental concerns. For the moment,…
Tags: climate, Climate change, copenhagen, Economist, environment, environmental, european union, Green, greener, Left, party, political, Politics, Right, Rising Tide
Green living, Nature, Politics, Feb 6th, 2010,
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' src='http://gf2.statico.be/wp-content/themes/greenfudge/thumbnails/6943.jpg' alt='economist-pavan-sukhdev-on-natural-capital-and-the-green-economy' class='art-teaser' width='95' height='95' /> The green economy is the only sustaining economy. It is one that values its natural resources properly and uses them sparingly and for the right intent. In the spirit of the earlier post on ‘new economics’ or non consumption-based economic ideas that include green issues, here is a bit more on models for economic development that don’t depend on standard GDP growth: In an interview with The Ecologist, Deutsche Bank economist Pavan Sukhdev explains economic ideas that factor in conservation, climate change, biodiversity and the concept of ‘natural capital’. Proposed and existing models of carbon trading schemes put a negative…
Tags: biodiversity, ecologist, economics, Economist, economy, ecosystems, Green, growth, natural, natural capital, Pavan, resources, Sukhdev
Climate Change, Green living, Feb 3rd, 2010,
Will 2010 be the year when we all shed our fossil fuel addiction, become vegans and take to the streets in silent, shiny new plug-in electric cars while Enya lilts – at a reasonable volume, of course – through the vehicles’ stereo systems? I doubt it, but there is certainly an electric buzz about this new decade and it’s not just coming from all those new wind farms which seem to be popping up all over place, destroying rich people’s views. According to an article in the Christian Science Monitor, more and more Americans want plug-in hybrids, like the Chevy…
Tags: car, Christian Science Monitor, Economist, electric, electric cars, hybrid, Nissan Leaf, plug-in, plug-in hybrid, Volt
Nature, Wildlife & Flora, Jan 20th, 2010,
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' src='http://gf1.statico.be/wp-content/themes/greenfudge/thumbnails/5473.jpg' alt='chinas-chongming-island-development-wants-development-gets' class='art-teaser' width='95' height='95' /> A recent article in the Economist highlights concerns over the development of Chongming Island, a bucolic, green oasis within China’s Shanghai municipality. Chongming is the largest alluvial island in the world and features large wetlands, which are popular with migratory birds – and now tourists, thanks to a new bridge and tunnel linking the island with the mainland. ‘In the bridge’s first two weeks, Chongming received more than 600,000 visitors—more than half its annual total. Local media reported that eighty thousand people visited one of its wetland reserves in a single day. They scared away the birds and dumped loads…
Tags: China, Chongming, Chongqing, development, ECO, Economist, Green, island, Shanghai, wetland
Nature, Wildlife & Flora, Jan 4th, 2010,
In the battle of man versus carp, man seems thoroughly outmatched. –The Economist It might sound absurd, but Asian carp – the same family of fish species as the domestic goldfish – are considered a dangerous invasive species in some parts of the United States. Originally imported to eat algae in Arkansas fish farms, the carp multiplied, spread and prospered, with little or no competition from native species. It is feared that carp will harm the valuable fishing industry of Lake Michigan and upset the local ecosystem if allowed to advance that far. The problem is so multifarious that it…
Tags: Asian carp, carp, Chicago, common carp, Economist, goldfish, invasive, Lake Michigan
