The Last Frost

A small micro-brewery in Greenland is producing a beer with some of the purest water available. The water comes from the melting greenland ice cap and is said to be completely free of contaminants and at least 2,000 years old. 

It's good to know that someone's putting that melt water to good use. 

A positive effect of global warming: The world's purest beer » [The Beerist]

Gov. George Pataki has signed a bill that prohibits gasoline distributers from requiring 'exclusivity' contracts with their customers. Until now, gas station owners have been bound by contracts requiring them to buy their gas only from one distributer. If a gas station wanted to offer alternative fuels but their distributer didn't sell them they would be out of luck. Now gas stations across New York State will have a choice to offer fuel from whatever distributer they like. 

The idea is that this will promote gas stations to offer more fueling options at the pump such as E85, Biodiesel, Hydrogen, and/or natural gas.

"To have the distribution, we have to have gas stations that want to sell it" [George Pataki, Democrat & Chronicle]

Renewable-fuels bill is signed » [Democrat & Chronicle]

A solar trough power plant like the one we discussed about two weeks ago has been dedicated in Arizona. These solar trough power plants are comparable in cost with traditional fossil fuel power generation. 

Solar Powered Thermal Parabolic Trough Power Plant Dedicated » [The Chief Engineer]

Tony Blair and Arnold Schwarzenegger have agreed to a vollunatary partnership to share ideas on climate change. Without consulting with the White House, they agreed to work together to come up with a strategy to curb carbon emissions. 

"We see that there is not great leadership from the federal government when it comes to protecting the environment," Schwarzenegger said. "We know there is global warming, so we should stop it." [SFGate.com]

Also…

"California will not wait for our federal government to take strong action on global warming," Schwarzenegger said. "Today, we are taking an unprecedented step by signing an agreement between California and the United Kingdom. [CBS2.com]

Britain, California unite against global warming » [SFGate.com]

The record label that originally signed Nirvana, has become the first record label to offset it's power costs with renewable energy. They purchased enough Green Tags to cover their impact on the climate through their power usage. The president of the label had this to say:

"I was, quite frankly, shocked by how easy it is to support renewable energy. Green Tags are a simple way for anyone to choose wind energy, which, in turn, lowers dependence on burning fossils fuels for energy" [Jambase]

Anyone can purchase Green Tags to greenify their power usage. Just visit http://www.GreenTagsUSA.org

You can purchase tags in 99% Wind / 1% Solar for $20, or 90% Wind / 10% Solar for $24 USD. 

SUB POP GOES GREEN » [Jambase]

When I was in high school I took a class called Environmental Science. About 2/3rds through the year my teacher asked each of us 6 students whether we were optimists or pessimists when it came to the future of our environment. I tend to sway more towards the pessimistic side but deep down I know there's still hope for us. There are still many people on this planet that want to live on it as long as humanly possible. 

Anyway, that is why I love this article for it's near perfect representation of what I believe we must do to curb climate change. It may be slightly pessimistic, it may be realistic, or it may be a bit over the top, the only way to know for sure is to wait and see what happens. None-the-less it's a good read.

Rationing could be key to war on climate change » [Physorg.com]