Video from #OccupyTokyo in Shinjoku.
It’s funny — the guy behind #OccupyTokyo is a 33 year old Brazilian.
Looks like I should do a follow-up interview with him.
Photo via the BBC.
GET THESE NEWS ROUND-UPS OFF MY LAWN: South Korea’s National Intelligence Service has been snooping around on gmail, Congress “is about to underfund the very tools that will tell them how federal money is being spent,” Japanese swimmers swim to Taiwan to deliver a thank you note, calls are being made for democratic reform in Vietnam, Pakistan’s ambassador to China writes of Pakistan-China trade relations, CFR’s Max Boot makes the case for change in Bahrain, and World Politics Review takes a look at the Turkish Navy.
Photo via.
More to come later today, but here are some news stories: someone received one vote to become Japan’s next Prime Minister last night, consumer confidence has dropped, China wants to boost secret detention powers, the demand for Italian bonds are currently weak, and Euro-zone consumer confidence has dipped.
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This Month in Green:
- The United States and Brazil signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to slash greenhouse gas emissions from tropical deforestation, one of the main drivers of global climate change.
- China Idles 40% of Windpower Turbine Output Capacity.
- …the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the largest municipal utility in the United States, is poised to pass a roughly 5 percent rate increase on electricity use. The proceeds would be earmarked for renewable energy purchases and programs, including one that would repay people or businesses that use solar panels to contribute to the power grid.
- Japan weakens climate bill, pressured by industry.
- The Future of Wind Power May Be Underground.
- New Charging Method Could Mean Exponentially Faster Recharge Times for Batteries.
- Photographs of recently extinct species in England.
- An editorial on solar energy in Texas.
- China and India join Copenhagen accord.
- Birds are shrinking.
- US to lobby for endangered species listing for polar bear.
- There are 11 fewer Siberian tigers.
- South Africa can’t meet its power needs without loan.
- Beijing and Electric Bikes.
- Carbon footprint of the UK music industry.
- Labour’s general election manifesto proposes creating community energy co-ops.
- Eco-friendly ads that disappear in the rain.
- China looks to ‘combustible ice’ as a fuel source.
- Algae to solve the Pentagon’s fuel problem.
Japanese and Russian peace envoys in Portsmouth, NH in 1905. (h/t LOC.)
