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Edward Burtynsky's "Oil"
Trucker's Jamboree, Walcott, Iowa, USA, 2003. In "Oil," Edward Burtynsky's latest series of landscape photographs, there's nary a drop of the black stuff to be found. Yet he still offers a stunning portrait of how this fast-depleting resource rules our w
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How Beijing Cleans Its Air, and Fakes It Too
As savvy moves by officials in China are pushing its state-run English-language news outlets to start sounding a bit more like their Western counterparts, did a New York Times article over the weekend about improvements to air quality in Beijing bear
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Columbia Suspends Environmental Journalism Program, and Malcolm Gladwell Is Okay With That
Emissions aren't the only thing being cut by the recession. On the same day that the Times axes 100 newsroom staff, Columbia University's prestigious journalism school announces that it will be suspending its 14-year-old enviornmental
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Chinese Town's Response to Poisonous Lead Factory: Move the Town
Increasingly, concern over environmental health in cities and towns across China has led to angry public protests that have halted construction on or closed a number of factories. But after outrage over lead poisoning in a town in central China,
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Carbon Capture Is "Essential" for Developing World, And Still a Pipe Dream
Proposed GreenGen IGCC coal plant in Tianjin, China Unproven and Expensive Here's a climate conundrum. Last week, the International Energy Agency said in a report (pdf) that to avoid climate catastrophe, 2,000 carbon capture and sequestration (CSS, or
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Multinational Companies Are Breaking China's "Most Basic" Pollution Law
Top multinational and Chinese companies are not reporting what pollutants they are releasing into China's air and water, as a new law requires, according to a report by Greenpeace.
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The Best of GOOD: the Awesome GOOD 100, Hope for Copenhagen, and Abandoned Gas Stations
We continue to roll out the GOOD 100 (entries will be posted daily through October 22), our annual list of the people, projects, and ideas moving the world forward. Included this week were Dead
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World's First Drive-Through Museum Coming to China
Visitors drive their cars
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Post-Bangkok Q&A; with Antonio Hill, Oxfam's Climate Envoy: We Need a "Major Turnaround"
By the time climate talks in Bangkok wrapped up
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Did Rich Countries Leave Bangkok Climate Talks in Stalemate?
Now, the Final Stretch to Copenhagen Time to loosen those collars. After a tough mock trial and tougher words, the world's richest and poorest nations have left 11 days of climate talks in Bangkok with little to show for it, a month and a half before
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10 Ingenious DIY Designs ... By Prison Inmates
Who knew that inspiration for remaking our things -- and perhaps by extension, even our country -- could come from prisoners?
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Bangkok Showdown: China, Rich Countries Spar Over Climate Obligations
But back in the real world of climate talks in Bangkok, China lambasted developed countries for their
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Guilty! Rich Nations Slammed At Climate Change Court
Thai and Bangladeshi farmers, a Nepalese mountain climber, a Filipino fisherman and an Indonesian women's advocate testified against developed countries in a trial yesterday that found the wealthiest nations responsible for the damages caused by global
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The Best of GOOD: Foodiots, CEO Compensation, and Branding for Social Ventures
This week, we learned about a teenager in rural Africa who taught himself engineering and figured out who to generate electricity from a homemade windmill.
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Is China, Once Climate Scapegoat, Now Our "Sputnik"?
Not two years ago China was often decried as the world's environmental waste land.
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The Best of GOOD: The Future of Cities, the Gasoline Price Conundrum, the Environmental Toll of Divorce and More
This week saw the launch of a bold (and dare we say beautiful) new series about the future of cities and how we can reinvent them. Topics included energy, traffic, water,
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John Kerry on Climate Bill: "Suppose Al Gore Is Wrong"
"Suppose they're all wrong." Sen. John Kerry, a co-sponsor of the climate bill that will hit the Senate this week, was talking about Al Gore, Jim Hanson, and other climate change worriers at a discussion last Monday, "and we get
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The Best of GOOD: A Reading List for Social Entrepreneurs, Celebrating Van Jones's Departure, Which Countries Eat the Most Meat
Our intrepid business columnist Joe Ippolito recommends reading as much as you possibly can, and offers a suggested online reading list for
