Word: carbone
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...will low-carbon enterprises be abandoned as capital floods to safer, established industries and the heat goes off global warming, or is it, as Brenninkmeijer still insists, "the business of the century"? The signs from Abu Dhabi say we could see both. For all the excitement generated here by President Barack Obama, who pledged in his inaugural speech to "harness the sun and the winds and the soil," the short-term outlook for renewables is as grim as it is for other capital-intensive industries, if not more so. (See the 50 best inventions...
...course, that depends on international will to reduce carbon emissions - and its easy to see how fears of economic pain today could trump climate risks that many people now alive won't be around to see, especially for politicians hired and fired on election cycles. Brave leaders will have to think ahead, as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said in the summit's closing speech. "It's right now, at the instant when our thoughts are centered on the economic challenge, that we must not set to one side the challenge of global warming, but instead resolve to meet...
...hope is that a bill to provide universal access, as promised during the campaign, will nudge its way through Congress by next fall. Also coming in the first half of the year will be a comprehensive environmental policy, including some tough decisions on how to go about reducing carbon emissions. If Obama can accomplish any one of these, he will surprise a great many Washington skeptics...
...kind of techno-environmentalism that would be all but unrecognizable to the crunchy nature lovers who once dominated the green movement. A walk through the summit's cavernous exhibition area, where models push mini-wind turbines, reveals booths dedicated to thin-film solar arrays, geothermal pumps and carbon-trading consultancies. There's little about trees or wildlife, nothing about environmental sacrifice - this is about the business of getting the carbon out of our energy supply as quickly as possible. And even in the middle of a worldwide financial crisis, it's a potentially lucrative business, one with the opportunity...
...Masdar and the WFES aren't about simplicity - they're about silicon and solar and the power of technology to free us from carbon without calling for uncomfortable sacrifices. "You can have your lifestyle and your business here," says Masdar's Awad. And though it may make old-school greens shake in their Birkenstocks, this carbon-free city next to a very unsustainable desert metropolis - where watering keeps the lawns green in the dry winter and everything is air-conditioned - represents at least one future of environmentalism, a future that embraces new technology to remedy the ills of old technology...