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CHEMICAL | USA: EverGreen Magazine launched to spotlight green procurement and sustainable environmental practices |
Consorta, a leading healthcare group purchasing and resource management organization is launching a magazine focusing on green procurement and sustainable environmental practices. The bi-monthly magazines will reach over 50,000 healthcare executives. The first edition of the magazine, EverGreen will be launched in May 2008. | |
CONSTRUCTION | USA: city of Pasadena greenlights the Pasadena EcoHouse |
(ENN) The Pasadena EcoHouse is a step closer to reality today, after the City of Pasadena approved the homeowners' hillside building permit at a recent meeting. When completed, The Pasadena EcoHouse will be the first single-family, structural concrete insulated panel (SCIP) home in the nation to earn the coveted Platinum certification by the US Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Homes Green Building Rating System(TM), as well as the first LEED Platinum home in Pasadena. | |
ENERGY | See separate round up |
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE | USA: food inflation parallels 70s on ethanol boom |
| (Reuters) Rising US food inflation, now a 25 year high, is reminiscent of the 1970s and will continue for the next five years due to growing world economies, increased food demand and a sharp expansion of corn-based ethanol production, a top food economist said on Friday. Full story | |
ASIA: grow more food in cities, UN agency tells Asia | |
(Reuters) Asian nations, many at risk from climate change, must invest more in urban and indoor farming to help feed the hundreds of millions of people in their growing cities, the World Meteorological Organisation said on Wednesday. Of the 10 countries most affected by extreme weather in 2006, seven were Asian -- Afghanistan, China, India, Indonesia, North Korea, the Philippines and Vietnam, said the WMO, the U.N. agency looking at weather, climate and water problems. | |
FORESTRY AND WOOD PRODUCTS | INTERNATIONAL: World Bank launches forest defence scheme |
The World Bank has launched a financing scheme to help developing countries reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation. IIt aims to provide forest-rich countries with incentives to discourage illegal logging and forest clearance for agriculture. | |
METALS AND MINING | USA: North American steelmakers endorse global approach to addressing climate change |
(ENN) Responding to the International Iron and Steel Institute's (IISI) address on climate change delivered during the UNFCCC COP-13 in Bali, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) endorsed the global sectoral approach to address climate change, agreeing that "this type of global approach is required if a future emissions regulatory regime is to deliver meaningful reductions in greenhouse gas emissions worldwide." | |
TRANSPORTATION | See separate round up. |
