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Forty years after the first Earth Day, the world is in greater peril than ever. While climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, it also presents the greatest opportunity – an unprecedented opportunity to build a healthy, prosperous, clean energy economy now and for the future. Earth Day 2010 can be a turning point to advance climate policy, energy efficiency, renewable energy and green jobs. Earth Day Network is galvanizing millions who make personal commitments to sustainability. Earth Day 2010 is a pivotal opportunity for individuals, corporations and governments to join together and create a global green economy. Join the more than one billion people in 190 countries that are taking action for Earth Day.
link: geology.com - Venice, Italy - Sea Level Rise Map
Venice has long been famous for being the city that is partially under water. Sea level rise associated with global warming would have an enormous impact on that city and the surrounding region. You can use the map below to zoom in on Venice and surrounding cities to observe the potential impact of sea level rise.

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Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:18:05 -0800 Cold ironing: how to electrify (cruise) ships in port http://oddtag.posterous.com/cold-ironing-how-to-electrify-cruise-ships-in http://oddtag.posterous.com/cold-ironing-how-to-electrify-cruise-ships-in link: Italians to Electrify Cruise Ships in Port - nytimes.com txt: Cold Ironing - From Wikipedia
Cold Ironing (or AMP - Alternative Maritime Power) is the process of providing shore-side electrical power to a ship at berth while its main and auxiliary engines are turned off. Cold ironing permits emergency equipment, refrigeration, cooling, heating, lighting, and other equipment to receive continuous electrical power while the ship loads or unloads its cargo. [...] As ships traditionally were not subject to emissions control, since the days of diesel powered ships, research was largely focused on using cheaper forms of fuel to run their engines. As a result, internationally, ships have been using Heavy Furnace Oil – residual petroleum – as the optimal choice of fuel. This fuel, the reverse of gas oils (which are derived through distillation of crude oil), is high on particulate matter and studies show that one ship can pollute as much as 50 million cars annually. The fuel used by ships is called bunker fuel. Further research indicates 60,000 of cardio-pulmonary mortalities due to Particulate Matter from ship emissions. These deaths have been detected far inland due to prevailing wind conditions from seaward. Total world trading fleet stands at 50,000+ merchant ships (Lloyds data as of Jan-2008). Each ship spends approximately 100 days in port in a year. For every kilowatt-hour (kW h) electricity, about 200 grams of bunker fuel is consumed. Each 1 kilo of bunker oil =3.125 kilos of Carbon dioxide. It is assessed that globally ships use 411,223,484 tonnes of fuel annually.

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Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:55:30 -0800 Green economy in Venice http://oddtag.posterous.com/green-economy-in-venice http://oddtag.posterous.com/green-economy-in-venice txt: Green economy - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Green economy is a fast growing new economic development model in contrast to the existing 'black' economic model based on fossil fuels, such as coal, petroleum, and natural gas. The green economy is based on a knowledge of Ecological economics that aims at addressing the interdependence of human economies and natural ecosystem and the adverse impact of human economic activities on climate change and global warming. In the midst of the global economic crisis, the UNEP United Nations Environment Program called for a Global Green Deal according to which governments were encouraged to support its economic transformation to a greener economy (UNEP, October 22, 2008). Green economy includes green energy generation based on renewable energy to substitute for fossil fuels and energy conservation for efficient energy use. The green economy is considered being able to both create green jobs, ensure real, sustainable economic growth, and prevent environmental pollution, global warming, resource depletion, and environmental degradation.
link: Green Economics Institute - Miriam Kennet teaches at Venice International University , April 22nd -24th 2010

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Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:41:13 -0800 A green New Deal for Venice (and not only) http://oddtag.posterous.com/a-green-new-deal-for-venice-and-not-only http://oddtag.posterous.com/a-green-new-deal-for-venice-and-not-only txt: Per un'economia verde in una città ecologica / For a green economy in an ecological town - University Ca' Foscari Venezia
E' tempo che Venezia, da “vittima eccellente” del surriscaldamento globale, si candidi ad essere la Capitale, europea e mondiale, della lotta ai cambiamenti climatici, a partire dalla radicale conversione ecologica dell’economia locale e della stessa organizzazione della sua vita metropolitana, imperniata sul ricorso a fonti energetiche rinnovabili e ad una mobilità sostenibile. [en] It's time that Venice instead of a global warming "casualty", became an european and global capital of the fight against climate changes, starting from an ecological radical conversion of the local economy and the organization of its urban life, focused on renewable energies and sustainable mobility.
links: - A Green New Deal for Europe - Towards Green Modernization in the face of Crisis - Green European Foundation - Wuppertal Institute

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