It's been a day of significant contrasts at Copenhagen as the end of the first week of COP15 draws to a close.
The day started with a clear challenge at the Climate Summit "Business Day" from Yvo de Boer, the UN's chief ...READ»
This morning's espresso-fueled breakfast debate centered on "who really matters" at Copenhagen amongst 15,000 world leaders, negotiators, scientists, business chiefs, NGOs who have descended on Denmark for 2 cold weeks in December.READ»
One of the big issues being hashed out in this week's UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is how to pay for climate change-mitigating technologies in countries that don't have enough cash.READ»
Last week in Copenhagen I attended a side event in the Climate Change Conference (COP15). The topic was the importance of growing the service industries. There were two presentations from the hotel business and two ...READ»
Artist and architect Maya Lin is perhaps best known for her memorials--a series that includes the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. and the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. Her latest memorial, a multi-sited, ...READ»
Today at the COP 15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, M.I.T. students introduced the technologically advanced Copenhagen Wheel. In addition to including various sensors and Bluetooth capability, the tire stores kinetic energy ...READ»
How do you feed 5,000 people in the center of London for free? It doesn't take a miracle. Just use all the perfectly decent food that wholesalers, specialty shops, and grocery stores throw away every day. The Feeding the 5,000 ...READ»
Scientists yesterday told the Copenhagen Climate Change summit that without drastic cuts in pollution by 2020, at a cost of £150/year per person on the planet, the chances of limiting global temperature rises to the widely debated ...READ»
If a significant climate deal is struck at this month's UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen--and that's a big "if"--world economies will pay the price. The bill has been tallied: $10 trillion in investments in energy ...READ»
Government leaders, including President Obama, have officially given up on reaching a legally binding greenhouse gas treaty at next month's climate conference in Copenhagen. But Timberland is still plugging away, with its "Don't ...READ»
Barack Obama will be attending the Copenhagen climate change conference after much speculation.It is suggested that he will attend the conference on 9th December, before appearing in Oslo the following day to accept his Nobel Peace ...READ»
This December, a group of global leaders from 192 countries will converge in Copenhagen for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15), one of the most critical environmental summits in recent history. But as the U.N. ...READ»
Architecture obviously can't cure patients--but it's naive to think that good design can't at least aid in well-being. And well-being, surely, is the start point in restoring anyone's health. That simple insight helped NORD ...READ»
As the United Nations Climate Change Conference kicks off this week in Copenhagen, Denmark, most of the media's attention is rightfully focused on what will happen--more specifically, whether a binding international climate change ...READ»
