Friday, September 25, 2009

MPs unaware of new build eco-targets | News | Ocean Media
Most MPs do not know that all new homes are supposed to be zero carbon by 2016, new research has found.

A poll by ComRes found that 72 per cent of MPs were unaware of the target, which is the most ambitious attempt the government has made to limit housing’s impact on global warming.
Hot Air » Blog Archive » NYT/CBS poll shows Obama losing ground on health care, Afghanistan
And here’s an indicator that the Hope and Change has begun to wear off: a majority (56%) believe Obama will break his campaign promise not to raise taxes on the middle class.
Chamber of Commerce Departures Continue - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
Don Brown, a PNM representative, said in a statement that PNM would not renew its membership in the Chamber when it expires at the end of this year. PNM, he said, [unlike the public] views climate change as “the most pressing environmental and economic issue of our time.
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“We have over three million members, and we don’t comment on the comings and goings of our membership,” Eric Wohlschlegel, a spokesman for the chamber, told The Times earlier this week in response to PG&E’s announcement.
Profit From The COP15 UN Climate Change [Hoax] Conference | Green Stocks Central
The COP15 Climate Change conference in Denmark will provide extraordinary profit opportunities in what venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers said “could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st century.”

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