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
In a new analysis conducted by The Nature Conservancy, scientists predict that the states that will experience the greatest impacts of rising temperatures are not entirely coastal, as most generally assume. Instead, states like Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska will apparently see the biggest increase in overall temperatures, an unexpected consequence that could be potentially disastrous [...]
Filed under: Environment, News on August 28th, 2009 @ 1:02 pm
Tagged with: agriculture, analysis, climate change, economy, farming, global warming, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, President Obama, Waxman-Markey Act
‘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.