en-us Copyright Sightline Daily - all rights reserved newsfeeds@sightline.org newsfeeds@sightline.org Most recent Climate headlines from Sightline Daily, the Northwest news that matters http://daily.sightline.org Plone http://daily.sightline.org/logo.gif 427 69 With no fast food restaurants or big box stores, the bicycle and pedestrian friendly Cowichan Bay in British Columbia has become North America's first Slow City. An offshoot of the Slow Food movement, it's a quiet resistance to drive-thru homogenization. http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=09-P13-00047&segmentID=4 Climate Economy Environment Food & Farms Sprawl & Transportation Sustainable Living British Columbia 11/22/2009 Living on Earth Frozen salmon is better for the planet than fresh, because it takes so much less energy to make it to your dinner plate than catching fish and flying them to markets around the world. The findings of a study by Portland-based EcoTrust may fly against conventional assumptions that fresh is always better. http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/11/frozen_salmon_over_fresh_why_i.html Climate Environment Food & Farms Salmon Solutions Sustainable Living Alaska British Columbia US Northwest 11/22/2009 Oregonian Ocean acidification could cause fish to become "fatally attracted" to their predators, according to scientists. A team studying the effects of acidification - caused by dissolved carbon dioxide - on ocean reefs found that it leaves fish unable to smell danger. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8369453.stm Climate Environment Pollution & Toxics Water Wildlife Canada United States 11/22/2009 BBC News Since the 1997 Kyoto international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated - beyond some of the grimmest warnings made back then. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2010334012_climatechange23.html?syndication=rss Climate Environment Pollution & Toxics Canada United States 11/23/2009 Seattle Times For marketers, climate guilt isn't the easiest thing to sell. Part of the audience thinks climate change is fake, fuzzy or too far in the future to care about. And another segment of the audience believe in climate change so fervently that they're too paralyzed or resigned to respond to new messages. So can you change all these minds with an ad? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/outlook/ads/climate-change-ads.html Climate Environment Pollution & Toxics United States 11/22/2009 Washington Post Despite the worst US recession in decades, sales of organic and sustainable products have continued to grow, experts say, with shoppers willing to spend a few more dollars in a bid to become more green. http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE5AJ2HL20091120 Climate Economy Environment Pollution & Toxics Sustainable Living United States 11/22/2009 Reuters Acting on climate change is urgent, but Canada needs 40 years to succeed in its own part of a global plan to stabilize the emissions that are warming the atmosphere, the country's top environment official said. http://www.kelowna.com/2009/11/20/canada-needs-40-years-to-stabilize-greenhouse-emissions-environment-minister-jim-prentice-says/ Cap and Trade Climate Energy Environment Pollution & Toxics Canada 11/22/2009 Kelowna.com We cannot rewrite the Bush years any more than we can persuade the Chinese of the merits of a binding treaty to control greenhouse gases. What the United States can do is assume responsibility for its own emissions, and this the US Senate has manifestly failed to do. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/opinion/22sun2.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Cap and Trade Climate Economy Efficiency Energy Environment Pollution & Toxics United States 11/22/2009 New York Times Occasionally, truth be told, Al Gore's book Our Choice verges on the nerdy. Taken as a whole, however, this is the most comprehensive and well-informed survey anyone has ever done of what we need to do to get off fossil fuel, writes Bill McKibben. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091207/mckibben?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheNationEdPicks+%28The+Nation%3A+Top+Stories%29&utm_content=Google+Reader Cap and Trade Climate Economy Efficiency Energy Environment Green Jobs Green Taxes Pollution & Toxics Solutions United States 11/22/2009 The Nation