http://uk.oneworld.net/article/archive/7467 en_GB_uk http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76793 from Monbiot.com: The superstores are suddenly competing to be green. Can we trust them? asks George Monbiot. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76752 from two steps forward: 'Buying offsets for an energy-wasteful home or business and calling it environmentally responsible is akin to buying a Diet Coke to go with your double bacon cheeseburger -- and calling it a weight-loss program.' Image: Running the Earth in neutral http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76750 from WBCSD: Nearly half of all measures needed in industrialised countries to fight climate change can pay for themselves, shows Swedish energy company plan. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76743 from The Scotsman: The world's largest community wind farm is to be built on Shetland, capable of generating enough power to supply a quarter of Scotland's homes. Image: Wind farm http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76741 from Treehugger: There's an important ski race but no snow so what do you do? It's a no brainer: bring in snow from higher elevations. By helicopter! Image: Helicopter transports snow so that the skiing race can run http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76739 from Oil Change: The world's leading climate sceptics claim that climate change goes in 1,500 year cycles which may have more to do with cosmic rays than fossil fuel emissions. Image: 'Business as usual' dinosaurs http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76737 from It’s Getting Hot In Here: There's a growing movement of informed students on the issues of climate change, as this report shows. Image: Global warming poster http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76700 from SciDevNet: African countries are spearheading ways to tackle climate change and have important lessons for how others can cope in future, says a soon to be released report. Image: The report shows how countries in Africa are adapting to climate change http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76699 from The Independent: Check what you're buying before you hand over your money, advises government. And there's a risk that the fashion for offsets could actually encourage people to make unnecessary journeys. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76633 from Rollingstone.com: 'The coal boom that is currently sweeping America is the atmospheric equivalent of a swan dive off a very tall building.' http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76641 from PlanetArk: 'We could not have our ambitious goals of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2020 if we can't also include other important players like China,' warns EU External Relations Commissioner. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76640 from The BBC: Experts assessing the dangers posed to civilisation have added climate change to the prospect of nuclear annihilation as the greatest threats to humankind. Image: Symbolic Doomsday Clock first established in 1947 http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76638 from The Nature Conservancy (US): What are the next big ideas in conservation when habitat and species losses are accelerating and rising global temperatures threaten to remake the natural world? Six scientists offer their views of Conservation 2.0. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76636 from TerraDaily: "We can say that 75 percent of the change is due to the emergence of greenhouse gases," claims ecology and environmental science professor. Image: Treeline in the Swedish countryside http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76635 from inside greentech: What can possibly be “green” about a huge repository of highly volatile radioactive material boiling away under pressure in a giant steam kettle? More than you'd think. Image: Nuclear power station