Toronto By Night On the Civic front the Mayor of the City of Toronto, David Miller, last week announced a program which will encourage public participation in diminishing their own CO2 footprints. Earlier this year the city of Toronto organized a green roof competition featuring public and private structures. A short-term pilot program - The Green Roof Incentive Pilot Program - was developed to support residential, commercial and institutional construction of a variety of types of green roofs. This new program, called ZEROFOOTPRINT is software based. A Toronto NGO, Zerofootprint has created an online calculator designed to help citizens reduce their environmental impact. its a combination of an environmental footprint calculator and a web based social network based on technology developed by a company named Business Objects. "The tool graphically illustrates the impact of every day activities," says Mayor Miller," it will help our citizens make Toronto one of the greener cities on the planet."
World Carbon EmissionsThis carbon footprint calculator is the most comprehensive and extensible I've yet seen and I expect it and other variants to become increasing common in the use of evaluating products and services for purchase as it is incorporated into more general use.The Calculator:
http://www.zerofootprintoffsets.com/calculator.asp x

Climate change and the fact that the majority of the world's people now live in cities can make calculators like this one an important tool any citizen can use to start making a change for the better.

Prof. Dr. Utz Claassen is responsible for the "energy table" of the German government. EnBW, the energy company of which Claassen is the chairman of the Board of Managment is with some six million customers the third largest energy supply company in Germany. In 2006, EnBW generated annual revenue in excess of € 13 billion with more than 21,000 employees as of December 31, 2006. The core activities of the company focus on the segments electricity, gas as well as energy and environmental services.

Jet fuel is to be made subject to tax. These tax revenues should then be disbursed for climate protection in the countries of the so-called Third World. This is the desire at least of Germany’s Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul. The politician surprised her G8 colleagues with this proposal as they attended a conference in Berlin. All G8 ministers declared their willingness to support developing countries in their ecological protection efforts to a much greater extent.

Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul
They attach particular relevance to the report of the World Bank economist Nicholas Stern, whereby it is to be feared that as a consequence of climate change 200 million people will have to flee their homelands. The affected regions are situated primarily in developing countries.

For more than three decades, Winter has researched in the field of Hydrogen. He is convinced that Hydrogen technology is the best possibility for solving energy problems in the future.
Together with 20 of his most esteemed colleagues he wrote a letter to the G8-State leaders, urging them to step forward in their support for Hydrogen. We quote here from this letter:
"The anthropogenic climate change is real. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change expects a considerable temperature rise by the century’s end. Catastrophic consequences for humans, fauna and flora, and the cultural heritage of humankind are expected, and the oligopolization of traditional fossil or nuclear primary fuel is exacerbated by being possessed by a few - not a comfortable situation for the majority of energy using nations.'Energy policy is technology politics' is exemplified by huge energy efficiency gains, by the cleaning-up of fossil fuels, by safe and non-proliferating secured nuclear energy, and by renewable energies. On top of the progress in all these areas is 'Hydrogen Energy Technologies' for the following reasons:Hydrogen Energy is an environmentally and climatically clean transport fuel,Hydrogen Energy is the storage and transportation agent of so far dormant renewable sources which, thus, will become a powerful contributor to the global energy trade.Hydrogen Energy from renewable energies is the ultimate solution; it is, however, not the precondition for entering the Hydrogen Energy Economy; environmentally compatible hydrogen could also be produced using nuclear energy, and even fossil fuels with carbon capture and storage."Tune in again next week!

 

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