http://enviro.org.au/enews.asp Includes environment, peace and green news from around the world. en-us Environment Society of Australia 2009 info@meditation.org.au info@meditation.org.au mirabyte Feed Writer Thu, 7 May 2009 12:15:59 +1000 Thu, 7 May 2009 12:16:00 +1000 http://enviro.org.au/images/logoenviro.gif http://enviro.org.au/enews.asp 144 88 The world's second biggest tea company Tetley will source all of its branded tea from Rainforest Alliance Certified farms by 2016, both groups said on Wednesday. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=995 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:47:27 +1000 Scientists have created the hottest temperature ever in the lab -- 4 trillion degrees Celsius -- hot enough to break matter down into the kind of soup that existed microseconds after the birth of the universe. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=994 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:47:27 +1000 Burning tropical forests drives global warming faster than the world's entire transport sector; there will be no solution to climate change without stopping deforestation http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=993 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:47:27 +1000 Ecologists in Guatemala see a recent ruling by Canada's Supreme Court, which ordered Canadian mining companies to carry out rigorous environmental assessments, as a positive precedent that could help improve environmental controls over the mining industry in this Central American country. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=992 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:47:27 +1000 DETROIT - General Motors Co said on Tuesday it will set up a $246 million facility backed by funding from the U.S. government to build electric motors to power hybrids and possibly pure electric vehicles. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=991 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:47:27 +1000 ROME - Italy's government will unveil a much-awaited plan for new incentives for a rapidly growing solar energy sector on Feb. 11, Economic Development Undersecretary Stefano Saglia said on Tuesday. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=990 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:47:27 +1000 California said it had approved the most aggressive energy efficiency plan among U.S. states on Thursday, earmarking $3.1 billion to retrofit homes and other programs that will cut power needs equivalent to three medium-sized power plants. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=989 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:47:27 +1000 UNITED NATIONS - Developing emissions markets to encourage farmers in poor countries to store more carbon dioxide in soil should be a key topic on the U.N. climate talks agenda, global warming activist Al Gore said. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=988 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:47:27 +1000 EVEN as a red dust storm was reminding Sydneysiders yesterday of climatic threats to life on Earth, hopeful signs of a change in the global diplomatic climate were emerging in New York. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=987 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:47:27 +1000 Western Australia's pristine Kimberley Coast is under huge development pressure and it's not just the massive liquefied natural gas processing facility proposed for James Price Point, 60 kilometres north of Broome. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=986 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:47:27 +1000 Declining industrial electricity demand and an abundance of cheap natural gas will threaten coal's status as the dominant U.S. fuel to generate electric power, even after the economic recession ends. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=985 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:47:27 +1000