Gil Friend’s Blog

(An idiosyncratic, non-comprehensive, more or less weekly summary of some of the action in the very active world of climate change.) Step It Up's "National Day of Climate Action" stepped up yesterday. In all 50 states, at more than 1400 iconic places across the...

Dan Yurman is tracking "poltical and economic news on nuclear energy and nonproliferation issues" at his blog Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes

The week in carbon is back after a brief hiatus. I'll do my best to keep it regular from here forward. Read it and weep The big news of the week, of course is the latest IPCC report. The second of four reports expected this year from the Intergovernmental Panel on...

Everyone's talking about food miles. (Well not everyone, of course, but more people every day. Now this from the UK, as reported by the Guardian: The government today said it would work with food producers to create a labelling system showing the environmental impact...

The US Supreme Court's 5-4 decision Monday (in Massachussets vs EPA, a landmark case brought by 12 states and most major environmental organizations) concluded that CO2 is a pollutant under the 1970 Clear Air Act -- which requires the EPA to regulate "any air...

While I don't usually blog much about personal matters, I feel a need to explain the recent decline in my posting rate. It's simply this: my dad has been quite ill, and I've been focusing on family matters (and the mighty challenge of managing the "managed care"...

Money talks, they say. Sometimes it raises the ante. Here's the word from Mindy Lubber at

"The week in carbon" is on hiatus this week, and will return next week.

Lots of action from Europe this week: First up, as Environmental Leader reports, the EU is set to ban inefficient light bulbs. There was plenty of flak thrown around when a California legislator proposed a ban recently. But the momentum is clear, now. European light...