Radical Noesis - Thinking outside the box

Earthwatch Radio covered the global Mercury market and how it makes it hard to get rid of the stuff. They also covered local food, which as you know, is very important.

The Lazy Environmentalist did a great show on sustainable design with guest David Bergman, Founder of Fire & Water Lighting & Furniture, Principal of David Bergman Architect and Lecturer on sustainable design at Parsons School of Design.

More Hip than Hippie did more about greening your holidays, including gift ideas:

* Lenox - Special ornament for the pediatric aids foundation. www.lenox.com
* Handmade soap - buy local or make your own.
* Pet gifts - hemp collar and leash, new dog bed, commit to walking your dog everyday.
* Is anyone reading this? Email jill@greenfeet.com
* Kitchen Items - Soapstone, Cast Iron, hemp napkins, potholders or oven mitts.
* For the kids - Storycards, Legos (PVC Free), Board Games, and blocks.
* Decadance - Homemade truffles or chocolate body wrap. Visit the Hershey spa.
* CPR - Consumer Packaging Reduction - help others reduce their footprint with a reusable bag, stainless steel water bottle and stainless steel coffee mug.

Living on Earth brings us the Montreal climate talks and how the U.S. factors into that equation and more about Greenland's melting ice:[quote]If all of Greenland's ice sheet should melt, sea levels around the world would rise about 23 feet, and entire portions of populated areas from South Florida to Bangladesh would disappear under water.

Recent observations by a team led by Richard Alley at Penn State University show that Greenland's ice caps are, in fact, already melting faster than expected. His findings are published in the October issue of the journal Science. [/quote]Alley says that right now we're not doing too badly, but things could get very bad very quickly:[quote]The warming that's happened so far is very small compared to the warming we expect if we go ahead and burn all the fossil fuels. So, so far the warming is something like a degree Fahrenheit, and that's taken most of a century to happen. And that's smaller than the difference between last winter and this winter and next winter, just from the bouncing noise of climate. You really sort of have to be paying attention to see that the climate is changing.

Our expectation, if we go ahead over the next centuries and get really serious about digging up all the coal in West Virginia and Pennsylvania and China and burning that, then you start looking at changes of ten degrees, 15 degrees, possibly even more depending on some things we don't quite know. And then the change starts getting big enough that you look at that big ice cube on Greenland and you get nervous.[/quote]LOE also covered Ethanol from straw, companies who are using alternative fuels, and green entrepreneurs.

Science Friday also covered the Kyoto conference in Montreal.

For more information on the Montreal conference, check out the official website.