Overskrift.dk - Danmarks Social Media Monitoring tjeneste
Indigenous activists challenge Shell over extreme energy operations 
Indigenous communities confront Shell on their ‘extreme energy’ operations. Courtesy of UK Tar Sands Network, 2013 Indigenous activists from around the world joined groups from across Europe this week to confront Royal Dutch Shell over its extreme energy operations. At the Shell AGM in the Netherlands on Tuesday, members of the Athabasca Chepewyan First Nation (ACFN) group from Alberta
fra TckTckTck (Organisationer) (tags: Actions Africa (incl. Seychelles) Europe News North America Pollution-Health Posts Regions Topics Types Arctic Drilling Extreme Energy Greenhouse Gas Emissions Nigeria oil spills Shell tar sands Unburnable Carbon )
Sign a petition to United Airlines CEO: stop blocking progress on airline emissions
Petition calls on the CEO of United Airlines to support regulation on airline emissions. Creative Commons: H. Michael Miley, 2012 Reposted from the SumOfUs United Airlines petition Climate change is happening — right now — before our eyes. How we choose to respond to it will be one of the most significant decisions of our time. Most of us want to meet the challenge by aggressively tack
fra TckTckTck (Organisationer) (tags: Actions Governments North America Pollution-Health Posts Regions Topics Transportation Types Actions top Airline Emissions aviation Greenhouse Gas Emissions International Civil Aviation Organization Pollution United Airlines )
Tell the U.S. Congress: time to end Big Oil?s $11 billion tax exemption
Drill ship in the Gulf of Mexico, Creative Commons: KM&G-Morris, 2011 While fossil fuel companies bear no financial responsibility for how their activities create the devastating effects of climate change , they remain highly subsidized by governments around the world – a fact highly criticized by political leaders. It should come as no surprise, then, that the oil industry made record h
fra TckTckTck (Organisationer) (tags: Actions Governments North America Posts Regions Topics Types Actions top Fossil Fuel Profits Fossil Fuel Subsidies Offshore Drilling Oil Industry U.S. Congress United States )
The exploitation of the oil sands is the primary reason Canada will fail to meet its own greenhouse gas reduction targets. >> Environment Canada
fra TckTckTck (Organisationer) (tags: Energy Facts North America Regions Topics Types Canada Emission Targets Greenhouse Gas Emissions oil sands )
Oil Sands projects already approved will exceed the emissions of 150 nations combined. >> Oil Sands Developers Group
fra TckTckTck (Organisationer) (tags: Energy Facts North America Regions Topics Types Canada Greenhouse Gas Emissions oil sands )
Annual greenhouse gas emissions from the production of oil sands more than tripled between 1990 and 2010. >> United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
fra TckTckTck (Organisationer) (tags: Energy Facts North America Regions Topics Types Canada Greenhouse Gas Emissions oil sands )
RT @NassProductions: Top 10 Vice Documentaries:
http://t.co/XMXbey05xC @joerogan @MrEddieHuang #HBO #North Korea
RT @NassProductions: Top 10 Vice Documentaries: http://t.co/XMXbey05xC @joerogan @MrEddieHuang #HBO #North Korea
fra Twitter / (Twitter) (tags: HBO North )
New alliance promises reality check for Canada?s Tar Sands
Protest against the Keystone XL Pipeline in San Francisco. Source: Tar Sands Solutions Network, 2013 Canadian tar sands oil, one of the most resource-intensive and polluting sources of energy, continues to be developed and pushed for export by Canadian political leadership despite the risks it poses. Does Canada need an oil sands reality check? That’s the question being asked by the Tar Sand
fra TckTckTck (Organisationer) (tags: Actions Energy Europe News North America Posts Regions Topics Types Actions top Canada EU First Nations oil sands tar sands Tar Sands Solutions Network United States )
Producing a barrel of oil from the oil sands produces 3.2 to 4.5 times more greenhouse gases than conventional oil produced in Canada or the United States. >> National Energy Technology Laboratory
fra TckTckTck (Organisationer) (tags: Energy Facts North America Regions Topics Types Canada Greenhouse Gas Emissions oil sands United States )
Open letter to Obama demands he turn words into bold climate action
U.S. President Barack Obama, Creative Commons: Rob Rudloff, 2008 U.S. President Obama has made it clear, from his inaugural address to his twitter feed , that he understands the consensus that human-caused climate change is a real and present danger. So far, however, his understanding of the issue has yet to translate into real, concrete action towards ambitiously cutting emissions and developing
fra TckTckTck (Organisationer) (tags: Actions Governments North America Posts Regions Topics Types 350.org Bill McKibben Climate Action CREDO US President Barack Obama )
Nyt tech-program graver dybt i smartphonen
Smartphones og tablets er populære som aldrig før, og ethvert medie bringer dagligt stof om de elektroniske enheder, der over de senere år, har ændret vores hverdag. Radiomand står bag nyt techprogram. Nu tager en af Danmarks mest erfarne IT-journalister, John G. Pedersen (tidligere Radio 3 og chefredaktør for MobilSiden.dk), livtag med smartphonen og den måde, at vi anvender den på i dagligdagen.
fra RadioAssistant.dk (Nyheder) (tags: Danmark Nyheder Carpark North Claus Holm Dan Rachlin John G. Pedersen John Strand Lau Højen MereMobil Preben meyer Samsung )
G8 leaders urged to ditch fossil fuels for renewable energy
New Global Wind Day app aims to give people the chance to call on their country?s leaders to ditch fossil fuels and focus on renewables. Creative Commons: Jeff Hayes, 2008 By Tom Rowe, reposted from ewea.org The global temperature is rising. Freak weather events are multiplying. Climate change is happening. And yet governments are giving $6 to polluting fossil fuels for every $1 dollar that goes t
fra TckTckTck (Organisationer) (tags: Actions Energy Europe Governments North America Posts Regions Topics Types Actions top Facebook Fossil Fuel Subsidies G8 Gloabl Wind Day Renewable Energy Wind Power )
Cities at risk for more heat-related deaths due to climate change
Cities suffer more during heat waves than more rural, open areas because they trap heat. Creative Commons: 2011 New research has found that heat-related deaths in cities will increase as climate change continues to worsen a global pattern of heat waves and record-setting high temperatures. Urban areas are especially vulnerable to the impacts of extreme high temperatures because their concrete envi
fra TckTckTck (Organisationer) (tags: News North America Posts Regions Topics Types Weather cities Extreme Heat Heat Waves New York City United States )
U.S. youth climate movement grows each summer at ?Sprog?
Youth at the SSC’s 2011 Northwest Sprog, Creative Commons: 2011 Young people across the United States are building a movement. They are driving change on their campuses and in their communities, taking action for clean energy, healthy communities, and social justice. For many, their activism has its roots in the Sierra Student Coalition (SSC) at their keystone annual Summer Programs , where
fra TckTckTck (Organisationer) (tags: Actions Justice North America Posts Regions Topics Types Actions top Campuses Beyond Coal Climate Action Divestment Puerto Rico Sierra Club Sierra Student Coalition Students United States Youth )
Dejlig lørdag #lovely #saturday #selfie #me #myself #and #I #thenorthface #the #north #face #sweater http://t.co/egJ8LTd9LQ
Dejlig lørdag #lovely #saturday #selfie #me #myself #and #I #thenorthface #the #north #face #sweater http://t.co/egJ8LTd9LQ
fra Twitter / MathildePrim (Twitter) (tags: lovely saturday selfie me myself and I thenorthface the north face sweater )
World?s top climate scientist lays major denier theory to rest
Professor James Hansen tells reporters that arguments that climate change has stalled are misleading. Creative Commons: 2012 Arguments that global warming has stalled are misleading and used as a ?diversionary tactic? by deniers wanting to confuse the public about climate change, according to renowned climate scientist Professor James Hansen. Since 1998, when the El Niño climate phenomenon caused
fra TckTckTck (Organisationer) (tags: Europe News North America Posts Regions Science Topics Types Climate Sensitivity Fuel Quality Directive Global Warming James Hansen NASA tar sands Temperature Increase )
Canada?s tar sands lobby tour turns sour amidst protests
Protesters met Canadian Environment Minister, Peter Kent as he arrived in Brussels asking him not to “cook the planet”. Creative Commons: Friends of the Earth Europe, 2013 As Canada?s top government officials continue to tour the world in an effort to downplay the harmful impacts of tar sands oil, they have been met with a slew of protesters enraged by the government?s attempts to inte
fra TckTckTck (Organisationer) (tags: Energy Europe Governments News North America Pollution-Health Posts Regions Topics Types Canada EU Fuel Quality Directive James Hansen Keystone pipeline Mark Jaccard Peter Kent Stephen Harper tar sands UK US )
Alaskan villagers face life as America?s first climate refugees
180 communities across Alaska face a choice of whether to leave their homes as their communities are threatened by climate change. Creative Commons: 807th Medical Command, 2011 Newtok, a community of 350 people living on the Ninglick River in Western Alaska, is facing the possibility of its residents becoming America’s first climate change refugees, as the entire village disappears under the
fra TckTckTck (Organisationer) (tags: Impacts Justice News North America Posts Regions Topics Types Alaska Climate Refugees erosion flooding Migration Newtok US )
Shell unveils plans to drill world?s deepest offshore oil well
An offshore oil rig | Creative Commons: L.C. Nøttaasen , 2009 Royal Dutch/Shell announced it will go ahead with the world’s deepest offshore oil and gas production project, pushing the boundaries of technology to produce from nearly 2 miles (3.2 km) down in the Gulf of Mexico. Coming three years after the Macondo oil spill disaster, Shell targets first production by 2016, demonstrating confi
fra TckTckTck (Organisationer) (tags: Energy News North America Oceans Posts Regions Topics Types Fossil Fuels Gulf of Mexico Shell Oil )
Jackson Scott ? Sandy (2013)
Jackson Scott has developed out of a weird audacity; bending spoons with apocalyptic melodies, sugared with solipsistic textures. How did the world conceive this young cosmonaut? A college dropout with a 4-track and a one-track mind. A listened and a conceiver. His voice, whether pitched up or androgynous, speaks of a still life. But painting […]
fra NEWMUSICUNITED.COM (Weblogs) (tags: 2010s 2013 Asheville Fat Possum Records Jackson Scott New Music United North Carolina Syd Barrett )
Jackson Scott ? That Awful Sound (2013)
Asheville, NC’s Jackson Scott is currently preparing his debut LP, Melbourne, for release on Fat Possum later this Summer. He recently spoke with Pitchfork about dropping out of college, Syd Barrett and getting confused with a porn star who shares his name.
fra NEWMUSICUNITED.COM (Weblogs) (tags: 2010s 2013 Asheville Fat Possum Records Jackson Scott New Music United North Carolina SoundCloud )
Encounter
A short study of the territorial responses of varying North Atlantic species – by animator Eoin Duffy .
fra LauraJul (Weblogs) (tags: Animation Illustration Animals Animator Atlantic Boat Duffy Encounter Eoin Duffy Fish North Atlantic Ocean Octopus Sea Ship Species Study Submarine )
RT @NorthStudiesVC: Interested in #Scandinavia, the #North, #Vikings & all things #Nordic or #Norse? Follow for info on the Northern St
RT @NorthStudiesVC: Interested in #Scandinavia, the #North, #Vikings & all things #Nordic or #Norse? Follow for info on the Northern St
fra Twitter / kariebookish (Twitter) (tags: Scandinavia North Vikings Nordic Norse )
U.S. media fails to connect Midwest floods to climate change
Volunteers and members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers prepare sandbags to deal with flooding in St. Louis. Creative Commons: Angie Smith, 2013 As communities recover from extreme floods in the midwestern United States , a new study reveals that the media has overwhelmingly ignored the role climate change plays in these natural disasters. A Media Matters for America analysis found that less th
fra TckTckTck (Organisationer) (tags: News North America Posts Regions Topics Types Weather Drought floods Media Matters for America Michael Oppenheimer Mississippi River Natural Disasters rain Television United States )
Lukas Graham fuldender programmet til Grøn Koncert
Gennem de sidste måneders debat på de sociale medier har Danmarks shooting star Lukas Graham været et af de mest ønskede bands til Grøn Koncert, og det er derfor en fantastisk ære for Tuborg og Muskelsvindfonden at kunne skrive dem på som sidste navn på årets program for Grøn Koncert 2013. Siden sidste års selvbetitlede [...]
fra NightOut (Kultur) (tags: Aalborg Århus Festival Koncert Nyhed Randers Carpark North Donkey Sound Soundsystem Grøn Koncert Kato Lukas Graham Mads Langer Magtens Korridorer Medina Nik & Jay )
feed