Some positive posting today: The risks of human prosperity: and some ways to avoid them... Climate change: Human designed organisms that can convert excess C02 in the atmosphere into biopolymers and new products - link & The real benefits of Carbon Trading -…

UPDATE: G8 is over and so, it seems, is any prospect of a Global agreement on environmental issues: 'Global warming is a “serious long-term challenge” requiring“resolve and urgency”, declared the Group of Eight countries on Friday... ...Simon Retallack at the…

Now that the fanfare of Live 8 has subsided those crazy G8 summit members can get right down to the business of saving the world. But maybe in amongst the expensive dinners and fancy cocktails they might reflect on what is, for all intents and purposes, the…