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Thomas L. Friedman: Stuff happens to the environment, like climate change.
With both China and India having just announced major plans to curb their carbon emissions, the sound you hear is a tipping point tipping. Heading into the United Nations climate summit meeting in Paris in December, all the world’s largest industrial economies are now taking climate change more seriously. This includes the United States — except for some of the knuckleheads running to be our next president, which is not a small problem. …

If you have time to read one book on this subject, I highly recommend the new “Big World, Small Planet,” by Johan Rockstrom, director of the Stockholm Resilience Center, and Mattias Klum, whose stunning photographs of ecosystem disruptions reinforce the urgency of the moment.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/opinion/thomas-friedman-stuff-happens-to-the-environment-like-climate-change.html &http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/-432955192434563926

Exploring Cost-Effective, Non-Polluting Enhanced Geothermal Systems
A new fracturing fluid has been created that may increase the ability to develop geothermal energy, scientists report. This advance of tapping the natural heat of Earth may improve the cost-effectiveness and cleanliness of the process.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151007084534.htm 

Renewables could supply nearly a quarter of Africa’s energy by 2030, says report
International Renewable Energy Agency report says the continent has the potential to quadruple the proportion of its energy supplied by renewables…
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/06/renewables-supply-quarter-africas-energy-2030-report &http://www.dailyclimate.org/t/2524623843131879060 

R** Wind and solar keep getting cheaper and cheaper.
A new analysis suggests that we continue to move into a world in which it makes more economic sense to draw electricity from the sun or the winds, rather than from fossil fuels
http://www.dailyclimate.org/t/7719159717658620021

Dirt-cheap catalyst may lower fuel costs for hydrogen-powered cars
‘Green’ process relies on sunlight
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/dnl-dcm100715.php

October 9, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general