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Featured sites

The United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight Against Desertification website provides information, news and resources concerning action to protect the world's drylands from further deterioration and degradation.

The Corner House website makes available a series of thought-provoking reports and presentations, published by themselves and by and other organizations, on climate issues.

News of weather events and climate affairs from around the African continent.

And finally,

Brazilian artist Nele Azevedo discusses her work Melting Men, a series of installations that has been adopted as climate change art.

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About the Cyberlibrary

The Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary is a co-production of the Stockholm Environment Institute and the International Institute for Environment and Development. It is sponsored by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.

Tiempo Climate Newswatch is a weekly on-line magazine with news, features and comment on global warming, climate change, sea-level rise and development issues. The news stories carried by Newswatch are updated weekly. Comment, features, interviews and other sections of the magazine are updated on a weekly to monthly basis.

The Tiempo Climate Portal is a listing of selected websites covering climate and development and related issues.

The Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary is maintained and edited by Mick Kelly and Sarah Granich. The cartoons are created by Lawrence Moore. The site was developed by Mike Salmon and Mick Kelly.

While every effort is made to ensure that information on this site, and on other sites that are referenced here, is accurate, no liability for loss or damage resulting from use of this information can be accepted.

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Podcasts covering climate and climate-related issues — selected resources on the web
 


On the Web

Earth & Sky Radio Series
http://www.earthsky.org/rss/feed.php
Ninety-second daily science radio feature, covering all areas of science including space, astronomy, environment, earth science, oceans and sustainability.

Earthwatch Radio
http://ewradio.org/podcast/current/
Earthwatch Radio is produced by staff and students at the Sea Grant Institute and the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It gives special attention to global climate change, the Great Lakes and the oceans.

Ecoshock News
http://feeds.feedburner.com/EcoShockNews
Environment news podcast from Radio Ecoshock.

Ecotalk
http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/ecotalkblog/rss.xml
One hour programme on environmental issues, hosted by Betsy Rosenberg.

Mother Jones Radio
http://www.motherjones.com/radio/rss.xml
Mother Jones Radio on the Air America Radio Network is a fun, fast, and substantive hour of reporting and commentary inspired by stories from Mother Jones magazine.

National Environmental Trust
http://www.net.org/rss/feed.xml
The National Environmental Trust is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that works to inform citizens about environmental issues and how they affect our health and quality of life.

Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/rss/nature.xml
Each weekly show features highlights from the current issue of Nature and interviews with the people behind the science, and journalists covering the research.

Nature's Climate Podcast
http://www.nature.com/climate/podcast/rss/index.xml
News of climate science from the journal Nature.

NOAA Podcasts
http://www.podcast.noaa.gov/noaa-podcast.xml
Short reports on science and research from the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Renewable Energy World
http://renewableenergyaccess.com/rss/inside-re.xml
Regular reports on renewable energy issues.

The Watt
http://www.thewatt.com/podcast.rss
Energy news, views, issues, ideas and discussion for all types of energy from oil, to renewable energy, global warming and energy policy. In 'weekly' and 'mini' format.

World Resources Institute
http://multimedia.wri.org/podcasts/wri_podcasts.xml
World Resources Institute podcasts feature experts and partners explaining the details and relevance of their current work on the environment.

Autogenerated: 29 Aug 2010

Bright Ideas

Vietnam biofuel

A prize-winning nation-wide biogas programme takes Vietnam's human and animal waste and turns it into clean, renewable energy, improving smallholders' quality of life

Schools for Intelligent Energy Use

Schools for Intelligent Energy Use builds a bridge between intermediate vocational schools and civil societies to increase involvement in the field of energy saving and renewable energy

Hangers4Life

HANGER 4 LIFE produces a stylish range of ecofriendly, carbon-neutral adjustable garment hangers

Toronto Zoo

Toronto Zoo is deploying green roof technology, solar hot water heating and solar and geothermal energy and plans to use dung from elephants and other large animals in a biogas plant

Tokyo Electric Taxi Project

The Tokyo Electric Taxi Project is trialling battery-switch technology that could provide the optimum solution for electric vehicle fleets

EcoARK

The Far Eastern Group has built the EcoARK, a three-story exhibition hall, using 1.5 million plastic bottles (video)

SmartTrips

SmartTrips visits different Portland neighborhoods every year with activities aimed at reducing drive-alone trips and increasing biking, walking and public transit use.

Zipcar

Zipcar provides flexible car sharing, by the hour or by the day and in many cities

Hydrogen-powered buses

Hydrogen-powered buses are carrying passengers on the streets of Reykjavik, Iceland (video)

Esprimo P7000

The Esprimo P7000 Series of desktop computers from Fujitsu supports 0-Watt technology

Progressive Lighting and Energy Solutions

Progressive Lighting and Energy Solutions makes companies green, one light bulb at a time

VeggieDag

Ghent, Belgium, has declared Thursday a Veggie Day, promoting a meat-free, climate-friendly diet for one day of the week

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Tiempo Climate Newswatch
Updated: August 29th 2010