Environmental Law

In Other News (May 2)

By Dennis Pfaff and Kevin Livingston, Editors

• The Arctic and the Antarctic experience similar greenhouse gas levels and solar radiation but are responding in dramatically different ways, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which reported on a new study soon to be published in EOS, a publication of the American Geophysical Union.
• Consumers who reduce the amount of meat and dairy in their diets will do more to reduce their carbon footprint than buying all local all the time, writes Science Times, reporting on a new study of the issue.
• The United Nation's new top adviser on food is urging a freeze on investments in biofuels, reports the BBC.
• Great Britain is experiencing a boom in installations of  "green roofs" and rainwater harvesting technologies in response to a changing climate, reports The Times of London. 
• A company called OptiSolar wants to build the largest solar farm in the world about 100 miles north of Los Angeles, says a report on C-Net's news.com.
• Shell's decision to drop out of a large offshore wind project has caused an uproar in the United Kingdom, according to the Guardian.
• Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has raised $1.2 billion in two distinct funds, one of them entirely "to help speed mass-market adoption of solutions to the world's climate crisis," the San Jose Mercury News reports.  
• Hawaii's Legislature has voted to require all new homes to have solar water heaters installed starting in 2010, says the Associated Press in a story appearing in the Houston Chronicle.  
  
  
  
  
  

Full post as published by Climate Law Update on May 02, 2008 (boomark / email).