Greenologist Claude William Genest hosts Regeneration: The Art of Sustainable Living on PBS. Genest has been nominated for an Emmy and his shows are also available on YouTube.
He is also involved with the Green Party of Canada
Citing dramatic declines in sea ice due to global warming, the United States yesterday declared the polar bear a “threatened” species under the Endangered Species Act.
The decision was immediately condemned by the territorial government of Nunavut as “based on misinformed public opinion which disregarded sound science and Inuit traditional knowledge.”
The announcement by the U. S. Department of Interior came within hours of a court-ordered deadline to make a decision.
Environmental groups had sought that order through a lawsuit they brought after the Department missed its own deadline in January.
“Although the population of bears has grown from a low of about 12,000 in the late 1960s to approximately 25,000 today, our scientists advise me that computer modelling projects a significant population decline by the year 2050,” Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne told a news conference yesterday. “This, in my judgment, makes the polar bear a threatened species — one likely to become in danger of extinction in the foreseeable future.”
Britain’s first Green MP?
02 May 2008
By: Lewis Hannam
A councillor has vowed to become Britain’s first Green MP after historic results in yesterday’s local elections.
Adrian Ramsay, leader of the Green Party in Norwich, helped his party become the opposition group on a council for the first time in its national history last night.
The 26-year-old has now set his sights on former Home Secretary Charles Clarke’s parliamentary seat, as he bids to take the Green Party into Westminster for the first time.
lthough such boasts are common in political circles, Ramsay’s now appear to be based on firm electoral support.
From the 13 wards up for election in Norwich City Council’s elections yesterday, the Green Party won 29 per cent of the vote - more than 10,000 votes - the highest share of the vote in the city.
Labour got 25 per cent of the vote, meaning it held control of the council, with 15 seats, as opposed to the Greens’ 13.
Ramsay said: “The results show that we are the main challenge to Charles Clarke in the Norwich South constituency.
“Residents in Norwich now know what to do if they want to see Green representation in Parliament - they can vote for it.”
Clarke’s fellow Labour MP David Lepper’s Brighton Pavilion seat is the other great Green hope for national success, with the Green Party picking up a big share of the votes there too.
Ramsay said it was the Green Party’s “positive” campaign which had helped it win a record number of seats.
He added: “With the extra seats we will be pushing for policies such as higher levels of affordable housing in new developments.
“Better and more recycling will also be a focus, as well as more support for green businesses and technology.
“We’ll also be fighting hard to stop plans for hundreds of new homes on greenfield sites around the city - something which the other parties just seem to be going along with.”
On Monday, the clamorous animal rights group PETA announced it would award $1 million to the first person to come up with a way to make commercially viable in vitro meat by 2012. The fake meat would have to be indistinguishable from the real deal, according to competition rules, and it would have to be cheap enough to succeed in the marketplace.
In theory, this seems like an excellent idea, with the potential to ease the burden on the environment from meat production, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve human health. In practice, however, the chances of anyone actually winning the prize seem slim. “No one has yet produced [in vitro meat]. No one has succeeded in coming close,” says Dr. Stig Omholt, director of Norway’s Centre for Integrative Genetics and chair of the In Vitro Meat Consortium, which held its first symposium this month. Still, Omholt says, “it seems possible to develop this technology.
By Tom Engelhardt, tomdispatch.com
Can there be any question that, since the invasion of 2003, Iraq has been unraveling? And here’s the curious thing: Despite a lack of decent information and analysis on crucial aspects of the Iraqi catastrophe, despite the way much of the Iraq story fell off newspaper front pages and out of the TV news in the last year, despite so many reports on the “success” of the President’s surge strategy, Americans sense this perfectly well. In the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll, 56% of Americans “say the United States should withdraw its military forces to avoid further casualties” and this has, as the Post notes, been a majority position since January 2007, the month that the surge was first announced. Imagine what might happen if the American public knew more about the actual state of affairs in Iraq — and of thinking in Washington. So, here, in an attempt to unravel the situation in ever-unraveling Iraq are twelve answers to questions which should be asked far more often in this country:
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