Kyoto

Considering how long they've had to do this, it's pretty freaking amazing...the Obama administration, at Change.gov, has just put up an online question asking and rating system that is, really, quite robust and useful.

The United Nations is meeting this week in Poland, trying to figure out how best to tackle Climate Change. And as they deliberate about how exactly to change their approach to climate change, and prepare for the 2009 meeting in Copenhagen, where they will replace the Kyoto Protocol (set to expire in 2012). All I can say is, Kyoto is done, we need to move on. Now.
Here are three reasons why.

Al Gore has issued a lot of challenges to us in the last few years. In recent months, he's made speeches calling for us to go carbon neutral in 10 years. In September, he encouraged civil disobedience and just last Friday at the Web 2.0 Summit, he asked us to use the web to organize a social movement to save the planet (we're already on it, Al!).

Nintendo Co.'s profit for the fiscal first quarter surged 34 percent from a year ago as sales of its hit Wii shot up, underlining the success of the video game console in attracting novice players.

The Japanese manufacturer of Super Mario and Pokémon video games reported Wednesday a 107.27 billion yen (US$996 million) profit for April-June, up from 80.25 billion yen the same period the previous year.

The big factor behind the stellar performance was the Wii and its game software, including the "Wii Fit," which has drawn the health-conscious to simple exercises like yoga and aerobics.

Remember a few years ago when Al Gore and Leo DiCaprio convinced all those Hollywood folks to show up at the Oscars in hybrid cars? The next year, they all went back to their limousines. Hopefully the Kyoto-Car, an eco-friendly limousine will be the new fad for those fickle famous people.

As they say on TV, “Coming up next: Why TVs are hazardous to the environment.”
Just when you think we are getting a handle on emissions issues…Plasma and LCD flat screen televisions are contributing to global warming, a new study has found. A gas used in the manufacturing of flat screen TVs called nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) is estimated to be 17,000 times more powerful than C02.

There's no getting around it -- we have to lead with the debacle that ended in the death of the Lieberman-Warner climate change bill this week. Yeah, the bill was flawed, but it was still a start. We expected heated debate. We didn't expect to see politics at its absolute worst.

The June issue of WIRED Magazine just landed in my mailbox, and the cover story is going to be an interesting one for EcoGeeks.
I'd had a bit of a heads-up from WIRED that this was going to be a feature, though I didn't know it was going to get the cover. And I knew from the start that I'd have a good time picking the article apart. And now the time has come.

*note* initially we didn't realize this, but WIRED published a counterpoint / rebuttal of their own story written by World Changing's Alex Steffan alongside the article in question. He makes many (though not all) of our points for us. */note*
The June issue of WIRED Magazine just landed in my mailbox, and the cover story is going to be an interesting one for EcoGeeks.

The June issue of WIRED Magazine just landed in my mailbox, and the cover story is going to be an interesting one for EcoGeeks.
I'd had a bit of a heads-up from WIRED that this was going to be a feature, though I didn't know it was going to get the cover. And I knew from the start that I'd have a good time picking the article apart. And now the time has come.