GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week:
- Nuclear power news wrap:
- Turkey is industrializing and modernizing at the expense of the environment. Nuclear plants and dams are in the works.
- While Turkey is building nuclear plants, industrialized countries are stepping away from them.
- Germany is stepping past its dirty economy and has made the pledge to phase out all nuclear plants by 2020.
- Chevron is constantly being attacked by activist groups, and it may be paying off. Now, investors in Chevron are asking the company to re-examine its stance on its ongoing case in Ecuador. If you don’t know much about Chevron’s lawsuit in Ecuador I suggest you read up.
- Grist.org provides a list of victories over Big Coal around the world.
- GreenChoices.org has a great interactive page for learning about environmental labels. Learn what those eco labels really mean.
- Environmental regulation can end environmental externalities, and the result is cleaner air and more jobs in the environmental sector. (For more on externalities read this paper by Dr. U. Sankar)
- A lesser known effect of climate change is the acidification of our oceans. The global pollution of our water and air feeds into the oceans and swirl into a mixture of human-driven change.
- Check out this interactive map of coal fired power plants in the US. See if there is one near you and notice that most of the plants are along the Mississippi river.
- Large corporations are finally trying to clean-up and green-up their supply chain. This basically means that they are going to start harassing the companies they source parts and products from to become more environmental.
- Nike is drinking the environmental Kool-Aid and diving into a business model focused on the idea that sustainability is profitable.
- More on the advancement of the electric car; reducing the price of the battery.
- A couple of years ago, some vehicles starting to be equipped with a shock system that turned the bumps of the road into electricity for the car, now a company is trying to do the same thing for the heat created by a regular combustion engine.
