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TVA's energy audit program is booming (at least compared to last year) thanks to a promotional program by the agency and local utilities. According to KUB spokeswoman Jennifer Fern, 3,137 customers have completed the audits January to June this year compared to 125 customers for the same period in 2007.

Australia's oil imports have collapsed under the weight of higher prices and changes in consumer behaviour.

Trade figures released yesterday show just 1.6 billion litres were imported in May, well down on the long-term average of 2 billion litres per month.

May volumes were down 28 per cent on those imported a year earlier.

The change gives heart to those who have claimed the higher prices that will flow from Australia's planned emissions trading scheme will cut greenhouse gas emissions.

VICTORIA - A majority of British Columbians oppose the B.C. Liberal government's carbon tax, a new poll reveals.

Ipsos
Reid has found that 59 per cent of those polled are against the new tax
- set to begin July 1 with a 2.4-cent-per-litre increase in the price
of gasoline - with just under half of the respondents saying they
oppose it "strongly."

Opposition to the tax is greatest in the Interior, followed by the Lower Mainland and then the rest of mainland B.C...

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Enviance, the leading provider of Internet-based, on-demand systems
for the management and automation of environmental, health and safety
(EHS) compliance activities, today announced that the U.S. Army has
implemented the first real-time greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting and
management system at the Fort Carson military base. Developed in
conjunction with National Defense Center for Energy and Environment
(NDCEE) to strengthen the environmental, energy, and transportation
management of Federal agencies, the Enviance System allows Ft. Carson

Jotun Paints, one of the world's leading producers and suppliers of paints and coatings, has celebrated ‘World Environment Day' by hosting three competitions that promoted water and energy conservation under the patronage of Dubai Municipality. As the only paint manufacturer that is a member of the Emirates Green Building Council, Jotun Paints has been advancing environmental causes through its adoption of massive waste recycling programs, which resulted in the reprocessing of 926,492 litres of waste water and 47,721 litres of waste solvents in 2007.

PARIS (AFP) — British art rockers Radiohead bring their
environmental message to continental Europe on Monday with a series of
low-carbon but sold-out shows to promote their new album, In Rainbows.

After
breaking all the music industry's rules by giving away their seventh
studio album for as much or as little as fans wanted to pay for it, the
five-piece band from Oxford have decided their latest tour will also
set new standards in green awareness.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the government will await the outcome of the Garnaut report on climate change, before it decides whether it will include petrol in its emissions trading policy.

Mr Rudd has criticised the opposition for changing its stance on the issue of a carbon trading scheme, saying it contradicts the opposition's views prior to the last election.

But its feared the introduction of petrol into an emissions trading scheme would put further pressure on petrol prices.

ELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND -- Over thousands of years of evolution, sheep, cattle and other cud chewers developed a nasty habit. They burp and break wind a lot.

That gives New Zealand a distressing gas problem.

The country's 4 million people share two islands in the South Pacific with 40 million sheep, 9 million beef and dairy cattle and more than a million farmed deer, all producing the methane that many climate scientists say is one of the worst culprits behind global warming.

Planet Earth is on a roll!
GPP is way up. NPP is way up. To the surprise of those who have been bearish on the planet, the data shows global production has been steadily climbing to record levels, ones not seen since these measurements began.

GPP is Gross Primary Production, a measure of the daily output of the global biosphere -- the amount of new plant matter on land. NPP is Net Primary Production, an annual tally of the globe's production. Biomass is booming. The planet is the greenest it's been in decades, perhaps in centuries.