New York is one of the most glittering places in the United States, not just for its opulence, but for the glowing lights as well. What is hurting though is the large chunk of energy consumed on a daily basis to power those lights. With the judicious use of energy becoming a priority to help cool the earth it is mandatory to think of greener solutions in the Big Apple.

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The agreement reached at the recent summit of the Group of Eight industrial nations (the G8) held in Italy to limit global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) could help a post-Kyoto Protocol treaty materialize in December 2009.

According to Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission (EC), an agreement on the global temperature target, especially by the developing economies like the United States, could form the global benchmark and catalyst for the crucial negotiations on climate change to be held in Copenhagen in Denmark in December 2009.

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United States President Barack Obama has named genome project leader Dr Francis S Collins as head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The National Institutes of Health, which is a part of the US Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary federal agency responsible for conducting and supporting medical research.  It was Dr Collins, 59, the geneticist, who discovered the causes of half a dozen diseases and supervised the US government’s efforts to map the human genome.

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Bicycles have long been touted as the green secret for an individual who commutes a short distance on a daily basis. It sure saves fuel and and doesn’t affect the environment. But it’s hard to convince people into using bikes on a regular note, since we have cars because you have to make them familiar with the quality iteration. That’s exactly what the Dutch Master Bike from Core 77 — also known as the super-duper limited edition bike.

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El Nino is back.

US government scientists are saying that the periodic warming of water in the tropical Pacific Ocean, otherwise known as El Nino, which can affect weather all over the world, is back!

The Pacific was in a neutral state, however, forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say the sea surface temps are up about 1 degree C above normal. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center also said temperatures in other tropical regions are also above normal. The readings are warmer than usual as much as 975 feet below the ocean surface.

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In China, more than 10,000 homes have been destroyed as a result of an earthquake that struck in southwest China.

The quake left more than 300 people injured when it hit Yunnan province in southwest China Thursday evening. The quake was a 6.0-magnitude according to Xinhua. The U.S. Geological Survey gave a figure of 5.7. (more…)

The summit of the Group of Eight industrial nations – the G8 – being held in Italy has agreed to try limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) and also cut greenhouse-gas emissions in the member-nations by 80%.

The goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius was adopted, for the first time, by the United States, Russia, Japan and Canada. This target had already been agreed on in 1996 by the European Union and its G8 member-countries, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy.

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The United Kingdom, France and Italy have called upon major developing economies such as India and China to sign up for the goal of halving the world’s greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050, from 1990 levels.

Foreign Minister Franco Frattini

At the summit of the G8 (Group of Eight industrialized nations) held in Italy, some developed nations like the United States and Japan have asked for a more recent base year, which would make cuts of greenhouse-gas emissions less difficult.

However, the United Kingdom and France urged industrial countries to aim even higher and set a goal of 80% cuts in their emissions of greenhouse-gases by 2050.

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General Motors (GM) is set to launch a plug-in sport-utility vehicle (SUV) in 2011 notwithstanding having recently canceled its Saturn brand.

Tom Stephens, Vice Chairman of General Motors, said in an interview that that the company also could consider launching an all-electric small car for crowded cities. This plan will, according to Stephens, mark GM’s return to a technology that it had abandoned in 2003.

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While  papa Obama was signing deals with the Russians to make the world a little less safe by reducing the stock piles of nuclear weapons, 11-year old Malia Obama was doing her part to spread the message of peace – beatnick, hippie-style.

Malia Obama's peacenik t-shirt

The T-shirt is an anti-nuclear message with its famous logo from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

Now, if that nuclear power was being used for energy purposes and to reduce our global dependence on fossil fuels. All the better. I wonder how that idea would be represented on a T-shirt?