Posted on January 1st, 2010 by Green Assembly
HOPE in a Changing Climate – the groundbreaking BBC documentary that shows how ecological damage can be reversed – may provide one of the key solutions to global warming and climate change, but only if it is adopted as a matter of urgency.
The 22-minute film shows how farming and over-grazing led to soil erosion on [...]
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Posted on December 11th, 2008 by Green Assembly
TOKYO ~ The United Nations has accepted a proposal to give serious consideration to new biochar technologies that have the potential to slow down carbon emissions and reverse global climate change.
The biochar proposal to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) was submitted by the International Biochar Initiative (IBI) at a sideline event at [...]
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Posted on December 8th, 2008 by Green Assembly
BANGKOK ~ Ancient techniques pioneered by pre-Columbian Amazonian Indians are about to be pressed into service in Britain and Central America in the most serious commercial attempt yet to reverse global warming, according to an article in the UK’s Independent newspaper.
Trials are to be started early nest year (2009), backed with venture capital from Silicon [...]
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Posted on October 23rd, 2008 by Green Assembly
SINGAPORE ~ A Stanford University professor by the name of Brent Constantz says he has invented a “green cement” that could eliminate the huge amounts of CO2 spewed into the atmosphere by today’s cement manufacturers.
His vision of eliminating a large source of the world’s greenhouse gases has gained traction with investors, including venture capitalist Vinod [...]
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Posted on September 4th, 2008 by Green Assembly
A COAL-FIRED power station that does not release any CO2 into the atmosphere is due to start operating in Germany next week.
According to a report by BBC World, it will be the first coal-fired plant in the world that captures and stores its own CO2 emissions.
The station is a 5Megawat pilot project for carbon capture [...]
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Posted on September 3rd, 2008 by Green Assembly
GREENPEACE UK has put it’s full support behind carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology as part of the solution to combat climate change, the organisation said in a recent press statement.
Greenpeace had previously been firmly opposed to CCS technologies but they have now made a joint statement with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Friends of [...]
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