Reuters: French oil and gas giant Total (TOTF.PA: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) is targeting nuclear energy to drive growth long after oil and gas output peak, a top executive said on Monday. "In the future, energy demand will be constrained by tight supply," Arnaud Chaperon, Total’s senior vice president for electricity and new energies, said in a presentation to a nuclear energy conference in Qatar. "Oil and gas will still play a big role in the energy balance. But in the …

Time Magazine: Energy — and results — is something that the campaign to create political action on climate change in the U.S. has often lacked. Over the past few years there has been a grassroots groundswell on global warming, but the focus has been on personal action, small behavioral changes individuals can make — or more often, buy — to reduce their impact on the Earth. It’s the light bulb theory — switch your wasteful incandescent lights for more energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs, and …

Agence France-Presse: Environmental group Greenpeace said Monday it had stopped several palm oil shipments from leaving Indonesia and called for an end to forests and peatlands being destroyed to make way for plantations. The ships were about to leave from Dumai, Indonesia’s main oil export port, to Europe. "Greenpeace activists painted the words ‘Forest Crime’ and ‘Climate Crime’ on the hull of three palm oil tankers and a barge full of rainforest timber," Greenpeace Southeast Asia Forest …

San Francisco Chronicle: California officials, who have battled the Bush administration for years over the state’s attempt to set the nation’s toughest regulations on greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks, are counting on a much warmer reception for their climate policies under an Obama administration. Obama plans US terror trials to replace Guantanamo 11.10.08 CSU plan would turn away thousands of students 11.10.08 California betting on Obama embracing state’s climate policies 11.10.08 Google CEO’s …

Bloomberg: Greenpeace International said it stopped a vessel carrying 27,000 metric tons of palm oil owned by Wilmar International Ltd. from leaving a port in Indonesia. A port official denied the incident. A member of the environmentalist group was chained to the anchor of the vessel bound for Europe since 1 p.m. today in Indonesia, to pressure Wilmar and the Indonesian government to support its call for a moratorium on deforestation, Bustar Maitar, Greenpeace forest campaigner in Southeast …

Environment News Service: The Australian Alps, encompassing Australia’s highest mainland peaks and most spectacular mountain scenery, have been awarded the country’s highest heritage honor with their inclusion Friday in the National Heritage List. Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts Peter Garrett said the Australian Alps National Parks is the largest and most complex National Heritage assessment to date. They stretch across 1.6 million hectares of national parks and reserves including 11 …

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Ecological Internet’s latest offering focuses upon truthfully knowing global ecological crises in order to effectively develop and implement ecologically sufficient solutions

By Earth’s Newsdesk, a project of Ecological Internet
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(Seattle, WA) — Ecological Internet, the world’s leading provider of on-line environmental portals and action opportunities, is pleased to announce New Earth Rising, a new fiercely biocentric online magazine (e-zine), committed to thought and action to achieve global ecological sustainability. It launches today at http://www.newearthrising.org/ .

The inaugural issue, entitled Ecological Truth and Transformative Action, features original and diverse green essays that seek to more fully know Earth’s crises — including climate change, water scarcity and forest diminishment — in order to achieve ecologically sufficient solutions. New Earth Rising links what is known regarding global ecological crises with specific personal and social transformations necessary for shared survival and to sustain being.

Cowra Guardian: IN ONE of the first big agricultural moves driven by climate change and a lack of irrigation water in the Murray-Darling Basin, the rice industry is looking north. With the world hungry for more rice and the Riverina rice bowl in south-western NSW parched by years of drought, about 30 farmers on the North Coast are about to plant rice for the first time. The 600-hectare planting could represent the birth of a commercial rice-growing region that can be sustained by subtropical …

ScienceDaily: If climate disasters are to be averted, atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) must be reduced below the levels that already exist today, according to a study published in Open Atmospheric Science Journal by a group of 10 scientists from the United States, the United Kingdom and France. The authors, who include two Yale scientists, assert that to maintain a planet similar to that on which civilization developed, an optimum CO2 level would be less than 350 ppm — a dramatic change from most …

St. Petersburg Times: If climatologists are right, Florida’s future could be a thirsty one: Climate change, blamed for eating away at Florida’s coastline, is also quietly encroaching on the state’s drinking water. Much of the damage to Florida’s water supply will take place out of sight, in the underground aquifers that provide most of the state’s drinking water. As rising seas nibble at the state’s coastline, saltwater intrusion will also creep steadily inland. "We used to assume that we could use …