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University of Edinburgh recommended to divest from coal and tar sands
Posted by Blue and Green: Charlotte Malone on April 15th, 2015
Blue and Green: The University of Edinburgh’s central management group has received a recommendation for the educational institution to divest from companies involved coal and tar sands extraction. The divestment campaign is calling on the university to go further and cut out all fossil fuels.
A Fossil Fuel Review Group was established following a public consultation, in which the majority of respondents supported divestment from fossil fuels and arms. The coal and tar sands divestment recommendation will be...
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UH says TMT will be last project, plans shut down telescopes
Posted by Sun Times: None Given on April 15th, 2015
Sun Times: The University of Hawaii has made some big promises about the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea, which is stalled over growing concerns about the project. The university, which manages observatory activity on the mountain, says this will be the last project for the area, KHON 2 News reported. “This is the last new site that will be developed,” Gunther Hasinger, director of the university’s Institute of Astronomy, told the news station. In the years to come,...
Scott Walker slammed climate change denier
Posted by Capital Times: Mike Ivey on April 15th, 2015
Capital Times: Billionaire hedge fund manager and green power advocate Tom Steyer is taking Gov. Scott Walker to task, accusing the Republican presidential hopeful of being a pawn for fossil fuel interests and a climate change denier. In a full page ad running in the Wisconsin State Journal Tuesday, Steyer’s group NextGen Climate blasts the state’s GOP leadership for promoting a “war on science” by banning work on climate change. The group calls out Walker specifically for staying silent on the issue and for...
California drought renews thirst for desalination plants
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 15th, 2015
Reuters: California's 3-year-old drought has thrust seawater desalination into the spotlight as San Diego County, Santa Barbara and other cities push ahead with treatment plants that will soon turn the Pacific Ocean into a source of drinking water.
Desalination has emerged as a newly promising technology in California in the face of a record dry spell that has forced tough new conservation measures, depleted reservoirs and raised the costs of importing fresh water from elsewhere.
But experts warn that...