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The ABC news is reporting Carbon credits blue gum plantation gets green light.
A blue gum plantation for carbon credits will go ahead on Kangaroo Island.
An appeal in the Environment and Resources Court has been dropped after new information from the applicant – the Japanese electronics company, NEC – about the project’s economic benefits.
The local council’s [...]

The Australian is following up on the impact global warming will have on the Australian wine industry with a story Warming forces winemaker to look south.
West Australian winemaker Peter Pratten, who has 200ha of vines in the south of the state, intends to act now to ensure the quality of his vineyards. “Global warming is [...]

Boston Bay Winery, Port Lincoln, South Australia – photo (c) Dave Sag, used with permission.
Australian wines are held in very high regard all over the world. Carbon Planet’s head office is in Adelaide, South Australia, where the wine industry is king. Mr Murdoch’s News Corp is running a story Global warming ‘threat to [...]

The BBC News is reporting Blair urges home pollution checks.
Tony Blair is urging people to measure how much global warming pollution is produced by their homes.
He told BBC Radio 1’s Newsbeat that individuals as well as governments must do their bit to tackle climate change.
Ministers were looking at making “carbon audits” of homes more [...]

BizJournals is reporting Method buys carbon credits as environmental move.
Home cleaning product maker Method Products Inc. said Thursday it bought environmental credits as a way of making up for its corporate carbon emissions.
The San Francisco company said it bought both wind energy credits and paid to support tree planting.
While I think this is generally to [...]

Malaysia’s Business Times is reporting Worldwide sees income from carbon credit sales.
WORLDWIDE Holdings Bhd plans to generate income by selling carbon credits generated by its Air Hitam sanitary landfill in Puchong, Selangor. The project is estimated to bring in €2.4 million (RM11.28 million [approx AU$4 million]) in net profits between 2007 and 2012 from the [...]

In the UK The Guardian is reporting Give up cheap flights, holidaymakers told.
Alarmed at what it sees as the government’s wilful disregard of the effects of cheap air travel on global warming, the cross-party environmental audit committee will tomorrow lay out a range of proposals to get people to pay for some of the damage [...]

In the UK, The Guardian is saying ‘Climate porn’ blamed for global warming ‘despair’.
The “apocalyptic” way in which climate change is often portrayed in the press and on government websites succeeds only in “thrilling” people while undermining practical efforts to tackle the problem, according to Labour’s favourite thinktank, the Institute for Public Policy Research.
I tend [...]

There’s an article in the latest issue of Seed Magazine explaining that Darfur may well be the first war influenced by climate change.
In recent years, increasing drought cycles and the Sahara’s southward expansion have created conflicts between nomadic and sedentary groups over shortages of water and land. This scarcity highlighted the central government’s gross neglect [...]