Spurred on by last week’s ambivalence at the climate summit in Thailand, mega-billionaire George Soros took it upon himself to invest $1 billion towards clean energy research. Soros, most known through his powerhouse hedge fund, Soros Fund Management L.L.C., said he was attempting to address the political problem of climate change by making this investment.
He [...]
Filed under: Business, Environment on October 16th, 2009 @ 11:28 am
Tagged with: carbon dioxide, clean energy, Climate Policy Initiative, environmental policy, George Soros, global warming, green business, green technology
Permafrost, a popular buzzword in the current discussion of global warming, is the layer of ice that exists beneath the surface of soil in Arctic regions. It appeared on the national radar during the last year’s presidential campaign, and stuck due to the negative connotations that it carries – once the ice begins to thaw as [...]
Filed under: Environment, News on August 4th, 2009 @ 4:00 pm
Tagged with: carbon dioxide, climate change, communication, Community, discussion, effective, global, methane, permafrost, the economist
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.