O'Malley lobbies EPA to ease cruise ship pollution rule
Source: Baltimore Sun
Nassau :: Bahamas | updated 2013-06-15 12:35:08 -0700 | green-news
Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun Gov. Martin O'Malley has interceded with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on behalf of Carnival Cruise Lines after the company threatened to pull its business from Baltimore over a pending air-quality regulation that would require large,...
SuperGrid
Source: Forbes
Toronto :: Canada | updated 2013-06-15 12:33:30 -0700 | green-news
He is Director of the Office for Sustainability at Southern New Hampshire University, focused upon energy renewables and efficiency. He was the author of the first law in the nation (the US) for municipal aggregation for retail electric competition. His...
Solar power shines in oil-rich Saudi Arabia
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia | updated 2013-06-15 12:32:14 -0700 | green-news
ments Solar power shines in oil-rich Saudi Arabia As solar prices have fallen, and oil prices have risen, Saudi Arabia now has a strong economic incentive to push ahead with its long awaited solar plans, Peixe writes. Saudi Arabia's desire to...
Ministry rolls out plan to irrigate one million acres
Source: Daily Nation
Kano :: Nigeria | updated 2013-06-15 12:18:33 -0700 | green-news
Rating In Summary Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury Henry Rotich has also allocated Sh3.6 billion for the feasibility studies, designs and setting up water points in the next financial year, underscoring the government's intention to improve agriculture production through...
Kindaruma to inject additional 72MW into the power grid
Source: Daily Nation
Frankfurt :: Germany | updated 2013-06-15 12:18:32 -0700 | green-news
Rating In Summary Energy and Petroleum Cabinet Secretary, Mr Davis Chirchir however said his ministry is studying the different components of the electricity bill as well as the distribution infrastructure so as to establish the true cost of power. A...
Strong earthquake reported off Nicaragua coast
Source: Star Tribune
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-06-15 23:59:25 -0700 | green-news
A strong 6.5-magnitude earthquake was registered off the Pacific coast of Nicaragua around midday Saturday, the U.S...There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries after the quake, which was felt at 11:34 a.m. local time (1734 GMT)...Geological Service said...
A Climate Debate: Both Sides Showed Up!
Source: Canadian Free Press
Huntsville :: AL :: USA | updated 2013-06-15 11:29:21 -0700 | green-news
Churchville, VAI just took part in a remarkable event: a public debate over manmade global warming in which both sides appearedand the Associated Press reported on it! I have been invited to many of these events over the past six...
North Vancouver Goes Non-GMO
Posted by: Don Crothers
Vancouver :: Canada | updated 2013-06-15 11:25:40 -0700 | green-news
The city of North Vancouver, BC, Canada made a splash in the anti-GMO (genetically modified organism) world on Thursday when it voted unanimously to become a "GE-Free Zone", making it the 2nd municipality in Vancouver and the 62nd in the...
Can electric cars save Route 66?
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Boston :: MA :: USA | updated 2013-06-15 11:16:02 -0700 | green-news
US Historic Route 66 is one of the most famous highways on earth, but the interstate system effectively killed it...Historic Route 66 is one of the most famous highways in the world, but it's a mere shadow of the journey...
Landmark agenda for regional sustainable energy
Source: The Nation
New Delhi :: India | updated 2013-06-15 10:44:37 -0700 | green-news
The Ministerial Declaration on Regional Cooperation for Enhanced Energy Security and the Sustainable Use of Energy in Asia and the Pacific: Shaping the Future of Sustainable Energy in Asia and the Pacific was endorsed at the conclusion of the four-day...
Chula and Siriraj hospitals adopt new 'green' environmentally friendly faces
Source: The Nation
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-06-15 10:44:36 -0700 | green-news
The "Green Hospital In The City" project was unveiled last Wednesday at Chulalongkorn Hospital. Chulalongkorn University (CU)'s Faculty of Medicine dean and hospital director Assoc Prof Sophon Napathorn said the hospital had to build many more buildings due to the...
Va. seeks ways to guard against sea level rise
Source: SF Gate
Norfolk :: VA :: USA | updated 2013-06-15 10:13:34 -0700 | green-news
Va. (AP) The growing threat that rising sea levels pose to the Virginia coast has been well known for years, but one of the authors of a report on recurrent flooding says the state still isn't making any concerted efforts...
China Sets New Rules Aimed at Curbing Air Pollution
Source: Newyork Times
Tianjin :: China | updated 2013-06-15 10:12:13 -0700 | green-news
China s cabinet has adopted 10 measures to improve air quality in the latest move aimed at responding to the dense smog that has repeatedly enveloped Beijing and other major Chinese cities in recent years. Many of the measures had...
UN progresses towards new climate change pact
Source: NewKerala
Warsaw :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-06-15 09:55:33 -0700 | green-news
During the two-week talks in Bonn, participants focused on how to transform the world's energy systems quickly enough towards low-carbon, including renewable energy, energy efficiency and the consideration of carbon capture and storage. With the longer-term goal of a universal...
Insecticides pit trees against bees
Source: Japan Times
Nagoya :: Japan | updated 2013-06-15 09:48:50 -0700 | green-news
Organic farmer Naoki Tachikawa, 43, is standing on the edge of one of his tiny rice fields in the Shiga district of Matsumoto, central Nagano Prefecture, pointing at two low hills that embrace the upper reaches of the terraced valley...
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