Press Release
This is
the birth announcement of Endow-Bio, Inc., the First National Endowment for
Biodiversity. Please help us to
publicize our brand new, all-volunteer, 501(c)(3) public charity. Endow-Bio, Inc. operates wholly within the
U.S.
Our current crises of nature, conservation and culture call
for an audaciously hopeful response in the form of this new public
charity. Our mission is to further
conservation of biodiversity of native species and their habitats in the U.S.,
to expose the full breadth of our environmental problems, to show there are
good-hearted people working to solve these problems who would benefit from more
support, and to provide a simple and inexpensive social mechanism to provide
such support. Our essential goal is to
increase public participation in conservation here in the U.S., in the broadest
sense. Currently, about 2% of charitable
giving in the U.S. supports conservation. We think this level of funding should much higher and we are doing
something about it. ...
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Tuesday,11 December, 2012 | Hits: 675
For the first six months of 2012, California generated one fifth of its electricity from renewable sources. The California Public Utilities Commission just released its first/second quarter 2012 renewable energy progress report to the Legislature, and it claims that 20.6% of the state's power demand was met with wind, solar, geothermal, and other non-nuclear clean energy sources.That's quite the hallmark. According to CPUC:California in 2011 saw the greatest year-to-year increase in renewable generation achieving commercial operation since the beginning of the state’s renewable energy program. The state’s investor-owned utilities served 20.6 percent of their electricity with renewable energy in 2011 (up from 17 percent in 2010). In 2011, Pacific Gas and Electric Company served 20.1 percent of its retail sales with renewable energy, Southern California Edison with 21.1 percent, and San Diego Gas & Electric with 20.8 percent.The ever-growing share of renewables in the state's energy menu continues to expand thanks primarily to California's ambitious Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), which requires utilities to produce 33% of their power from clean sources by 2020. The law is working precisely as intended—analysts expect to see an even bigger jump in the second half of this year.The report notes that "More than 300 MW of new renewable capacity came online in the first two quarters of 2012, and another 2,740 MW is scheduled to come online before the end of the calendar year."Another tool that's helping to speed the growth of clean power is California's fledgling feed-in tariff program, which rewards homeowners, individuals, and businesses for installing small-scale renewable projects like rooftop solar—the utility pays a slightly higher rate to buy power from those sources and feed it directly into the grid. The FIT has been immensely successful in Germany, which gets way less sun than the Golden State.And I can assure you that those incentives are resonating in California—I just got back from visiting family there, and both my parents and my grandparents have newly installed solar panels on their roofs. They live in a pretty conservative area, and their friends are installing arrays, too. Indeed, the program enjoys bipartisan support, and innovative companies like Sungevity are cashing in by offering popular solar leasing schemes.Renewable energy continues to be a bright spot in an economy still wracked by unemployment; good jobs, cleaner power, additional income for consumers—California has, on this front, built a successful model well worth emulating. ...
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Monday,06 August, 2012 | Hits: 96
WASHINGTON— Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced plans on Wednesday to revise the national offshore oil-drilling plan that, while protecting areas off Florida and the Atlantic seaboard, would leave drilling in polar bear critical habitat off Alaska on the table. The new proposed plan, covering the years 2012-2017, is virtually the same as the Bush administration’s 2007-2012 plan, which was struck down as unlawful by the courts. Secretary Salazar also announced he was moving forward with plans to allow Shell to drill off the coast of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge next summer.
“While protecting the fragile coasts of Florida and the Atlantic is important, there is no excuse for continuing to consider drilling in polar bear critical habitat off the coast of Alaska,” said Brendan Cummings, senior counsel at the Center for Biological Diversity. “If the risk of an oil spill is too great for Florida, it is also certainly too great for Alaska.”
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Saturday,11 December, 2010 | Hits: 122
Currently, China's wind power installed capacity has reached 30 million KWs and it is expected to increase to 135 million KWs in 5 years and 513 million KWs in 20 years. This means in the next 20 years, China will add an average of about 25 million KWs of wind power installed capacity and invest more than 25 billion Euros in the wind power market every year. The land-based wind energy resource in Xinjiang accounts for 37% of the national total. By the end of 2015, Xinjiang's wind power installed capacity will reach 60 million KWs.
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Saturday,11 December, 2010 | Hits: 157
Bangkok, Thailand, November 12, 2010 – At the 22nd annual meeting of the Montreal Protocol in Bangkok, a growing number of parties—expected to soon surpass a majority-- supported a proposal to use the ozone treaty to address super greenhouse gases known as hydrofluorocarbons or HFCs.
Earlier this year the Federated States of Micronesia along with other vulnerable island countries proposed a formal amendment to the ozone treaty to phase down the production and use of HFCs. Once agreed, the amendment would ensure climate mitigation of up to 100 billion tonnes of CO2-equivalent by 2050, many times more than the Kyoto Protocol climate treaty. The United States, Mexico, and Canada also proposed a similar amendment.
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Saturday,13 November, 2010 | Hits: 146
290 Scientists from 32 countries have signed a petition asking the government of Tanzania choose an alternate route around the Serengeti National Park, rather than building one through it.
The petition is a reaction to the announced plans of the Tanzanian government to build a commercial route across the northern part of the Serengeti National Park.
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Tuesday,02 November, 2010 | Hits: 82
Favorite Bands of Venice, California Raise Their Voices For Spill Victims in Venice, Louisiana
VENICE, CA (September 24, 2010) Venice for Venice www.veniceforvenice.com, the community campaign to aid families in Venice, Louisiana recovering from the oil spill that has devastated their town, brought together some of Venice, California's hottest bands for a benefit concert this week at Air Conditioned Supper Club. Guests rocked and rallied around Venice's namesake city to help deliver timely aid to the people harmed by the catastrophic spill.
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Wednesday,27 October, 2010 | Hits: 149
New Delhi/ 25/9/2010: Amidst several crises faced by Commonwealth Games, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is spraying synthetic pyrethroids, potent lipophilic insecticides for mosquito control at the Commonwealth Games sites due to the dengue scare, unmindful of exposure due to inhalation of ambient air that is also possible after these compounds have been used.
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Wednesday,27 October, 2010 | Hits: 167
International Network Is Helping Bridge Gap
Washington, DC, September 21, 2010 – Environmental governance, including implementation and compliance with national laws, is a significant challenge facing countries trying to meet their commitments under the Rio Conventions, according to a new study released last week by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
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Wednesday,06 October, 2010 | Hits: 176
Proyecto Mirador, LLC, a fuel-efficient stove project in rural Honduras that has been registered by the Gold Standard, is pleased to announce that The Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, Boston, Massachusetts, and Overlook International Foundation, San Francisco, California, have provided matching US$ 1.0 million donations to expand Proyecto Mirador’s operations.
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Friday,24 September, 2010 | Hits: 128
