Stop blaming the poor. It's the wally yachters who are burning the planet | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian

So where are the movements protesting about the stinking rich destroying our living systems? Where is the direct action against super-yachts and private jets? Where's Class War when you need it?

It's time we had the guts to name the problem. It's not sex; it's money. It's not the poor; it's the rich.

Even in Capitalists’ Bad Times, Europe’s Socialists Suffer - NYTimes.com

PARIS — A specter is haunting Europe — the specter of Socialism’s slow collapse.

Update: A zoomed look at the broken hockey stick « Watts Up With That?

Steve McIntyre published an update tonight showing the last 200 years of the Yamal tree ring data versus the archived CRU tree ring data used to make the famous hockey stick.

How Mobile Can Enable a Low Carbon Economy

Spurred by the new report Carbon Connections: Quantifying mobile's role in tackling climate change, Vodafone and Ethical Corporation have teamed up to host this online "Live Debate" on the important topic of mobile telephony and tackling climate change.

Pen Hadow, Martin Hartley and Ann Daniels; Explorers - Heroes of the Environment 2009 - TIME

Crossing the hostile Arctic terrain took a heavy physical toll on the team. Hartley shed 35 lb. (16 kg), and almost lost a big toe to frostbite. Hadow and Daniel's feet and hands suffered temporary nerve damage from the cold.