Simon Robson's film is up for an animation award, but should be up for much, much more. . .

Coalition Of The Willing from coalitionfilm on Vimeo.

Canoeing down Canal?

A design competition to envision the metropolitan areas around New York/New Jersey adapted for rising sea levels of the future opens soon at MOMA.  The five teams set out to solve the inevitable problems a 5-10 foot rise in sea water would bring to our sea-level metropolis.  Each team was given a section of New York's diverse waterfront, and tasked to birth conceptual solutions.  VIDEOS HERE of each team's work.  And more pix after the jump . . .

GREEN SHIPS! How cool! Props to . . . uh . . . History?

Ok this seems pretty innovative.  This British company is building Wind-Powered ships (imagine?) in an old ship-building district (bringing new jobs), making them out of recycled steel, firing the steel with torrefied wood (no fossil carbon), and launching them to ferry a coal-replacing fuels (biomass, torrefied wood pellets)!  I love them!  Go ships!

"Torrefied wood pellets produce more energy per unit by volume than conventional wood pellets, and can be readily co-fired with coal without the need for retrofitting or altering the ovens in any way. It has even been suggested that torrefied pellets could eventually replace coal, allowing power plants to become entirely "green power" facilities. Rather than shutting down "dirty" coal plants, operators could simply add torrefied pellets to the normal coal load, until they are able to replace coal altogether."

More on Torrefied Wood HERE

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Germany takes the lead in reducing emissions.

Following the Copenhagen clusterfuck, Germany emerges as a leader while other nations -- including ours -- fall away from promised reforms.

"Germany has a firm target that the government has even spelled out in its coalition agreement to cut its emissions by 40 percent," Schellnhuber told a news conference. "That's unconditional. Germany will continue to be a driving force."

Full article from Reuters HERE Bravo!!

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Endangered Species 2010 (the cutest and most marketable anyway)

FULL GALLERY HERE

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COP15 begins next week! Here's hoping the results are spectatular.

Quick explanation of the conference HERE

"The earth’s temperature has risen by 0.74 degrees Celsius in the last 100 years.

An increase of increase of just 2 degrees Celsius more will lead to massive loss of species, 100 million climate refugees, and other major stresses.

We need to set strict emissions restrictions by 2012 in order to avert a worldwide climate catastrophe"

Sign the HOPENHAGEN petition, and tell the world what gives you hope. (Kind of corny, but cool map tech)

and this:

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Cate Blanchett lends her voice to billions of others for Mother Earth

... and nine rings were given to the race of men, who above all else desire power.

Fun with emissions.

Visit this keen map and roll over the keys for the different renderings of clustered emission data.

"Emissions Map from the Global Climate Change Lobby"

Of particular interest: Check out how small Canada's overall emissions are, and then switch to per capita! China's overall emissions are the highest – scary until you switch again to per capita and see how insanely much EACH AMERICAN must be using. Now check out BRAZIL under each scenario! Unplug! Well, share this post and then unplug and then go for a bike ride :)