Green Arch Design

“Over the last several decades, temperatures are up two degrees in Mali, and the rainy season has decreased by more than a month,” says Exponent’s Ebi. That means the growing season is too short for standard rice. Researchers are developing a faster-maturing variety, but that’s only a partial solution, health experts caution, since the dry season’s potato crop is starting to fail as a result of increased heat. The economic system of the whole country could collapse, says Ebi. “In the village I’m working with, the elders know they are on the edge.” – excerpt from the July 17, 2006 issue of BusinessWeek Magazine.

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Business on a Warmer Planet

“People who worry about global warming and want the United States to do more to reduce greenhouse gas emissions received some very good news over the weekend from a very unlikely source. As part of an ambitious buyout deal, TXU, a Texas utility that has long been a target of environmentalists, will abandon plans to build eight old-style coal-burning power plants, which would have dumped huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere”. – Excerpt from the editorial page of the February 28, 2007 edition of The New York TImes.

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Coal

The following are lesson plans created by Wild Republic.

Lesson Plans 2006-2007 Topics: Surviving Migration, Migrating Blackpoll, Nesting, Reproduction, Communication, Bird Talk, Journal.

Lesson Plans 2004-2005 Topics: Animal Talk, Invertebrate, Mammals, Marine Mammals, Ponds, Snakes, Journal.

Lesson Plans 2003-2004 Topics: Birds ,Puffins

Lesson Plans 2002-2003 Topics: Birds

Lesson Plans 2001-2002 Topics: Amphibians, Reptiles, Primates,

Lesson Plans 2000. Topics: Primates, Rainforest, Geography. Scroll to bottom of page. This page contains both 2000 & 2001 lesson plans.

Wyland Ocean Challenge – Clean water curriculum

“Multi-site churches are definitely a movement that will become as mainstream in the next five years as the use of video screens did in sanctuaries in the 90′s.” – quote by Jim Tomberlin in article by Greg Ligon of the Leadership Network.

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Inside the Multi-Site Revolution

Click on the link below to view Part 3 of an interview by Tom Doyle in Faith & Insight. We could not find part 1 & 2 on their site. The article says Jim can be reached at jtomberlin@cox.net

An Interview with Jim Tomberlin

“…in Alaska, a rise of 9F in the temperature of the Yukon River since 1985 has been linked to the spread of a salmon parasite. By the time the fish make it upriver, they’re too diseased to be sold. That’s wiping out upstream fisheries and contributing to an overall decline in commercial fishing, explains Richard M. Kocan, professor of fishery sciences at the University of Washington.” – excerpt from the July 17, 2006 issue of BusinessWeek Magazine.

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Business on a Warmer Planet

 

 

 

 

 

 

Australia is banning the sale of incandescent light bulgs, saving 800,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions during the three year phase-out period, with an annual emission reduction of 4 million tonnes by 2015. 

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Banning the Bulb

“This is just the beginning.” – Excerpt from Peter Hoppe, head of Geo Risks Research at Munich Re.

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Business on a Warmer Planet

“When it comes to the big picture, the proverbial canary in the coal mine ‘is dead’.” - Excerpt from Peter K Gleick, presiden of Pacific Institue for Sudies in Develpment, Enviroment & curity in Oakland, California.

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Business on a Warmer Planet

“How do we adapt to a future of melting permafrost, less water, and more extreme weather?” – Excerpt from Robert Page, vice-president for sustainable development at TransAlta Corp. in Calgary.

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Business on a Warmer Planet

“This is not just an issue our kids will have to deal with.  It’s happening now.” – Excerpt from Allan Carroll, an insect ecologist at the Pacific Forestry Center in Victoria, B.C.

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Business on a Warmer Planet

“I think a lot of people are becoming more convinced that climate change is real.” – Excerpt from Mark Anderson

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Business on a Warmer Planet

“Hurricanes Katrina and Rita “toppled what companies perceived as a worst-case scenario.” – Excerpt from Cindy Gordon

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Business on a Warmer Planet

 

“Several years ago, (Allan)Carroll (an insect ecologist at the Pacific Forestry Center in Victoria, B.C.) predicted that warmer temperatures could flip an ecological switch, causing the loss of valuable forests of lodgepole pine to the mountain pine beetle.” – excerpt from the July 17, 2006 BusinessWeek Magazine.

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Business on a Warmer Planet

“We long ago gave up covering the skeptical antics of the Wall Street Journal or Canada’s National Post; it just got boring and repetitive. Now Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of Freakonomics does the numbers and asks: ” Does big business care about climate change as much as everyone else?  Judging from the pages of the Wall Street Journal, the answer is yes.

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Headlines

“Starting here at home, we need to make environmental sustainability a national priority.” – Excerpt from the October 30, 2006 issue of BusinessWeek Magazine.

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America’s Supersized Footprint