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Costa Rica Aims for Carbon Neutrality by 2030
"Carbon neutral" was the word of the year in 2006, and the goal of a variety of business entities. On Friday, Costa Rica announced it's plans to become the world's first carbon neutral country by 2030. According to ENN, Environment Minister Roberto
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House Committee Hears Arguments for Green Collar Jobs
One doesn't have to dig deeply these days to see that green business is hot: from Fortune 500 companies to the smallest of start-ups, the business world increasingly recognizes that the urgent need to tackle climate change and other environmental
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Coburn Vows to Block Senate Resolution Honoring Rachel Carson
This coming Sunday would've been Silent Spring author and environmental hero Rachel Carson's 100th birthday. In recognition of Carson's contributions to the creation of the modern environmental movement, Sen. Benjanmin L. Cardin (D-MD) has announced his
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Forest Service Takes Aim at Nature Deficit Disorder
A few weeks ago, Jasmin took note of the National Wildlife Federation's new effort to battle nature deficit disorder in kids. Now, the US Forest Service is getting involved with the launch of its $1.5 million "Kids in the Woods" program. Yesterday,
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ENERGY STAR Launches New Version of ENERGY STAR@Home
Last year, we took a close look at both the summer and winter versions of ENERGY STAR's new ENERGY STAR@Home interactive tool, and liked what we saw. ES@Home provides users with an animated layout of a typical American home, and incorporates energy
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Oceans around Antarctica Absorbing Less CO2
While the potential direct effects of climate change are often frightening enough, the possibility of feedback loops, in which these changes end up causing, and even reinforcing, others, are more worrisome over the long term. According to National
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Australian Firm Presents Solar Thermal Storage Concept
On Friday, CNET published an article outlining the promises and challenges of solar thermal power plants like Nevada Solar One. Writer Michael Kanellos noted that solar concentrator technology has the potential to produce electricity at a rate
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Illinois State University Approves Renewable Energy Degree Program
Following in the footsteps of schools ranging from Arizona State to Canton College, Illinois State University's Board of Trustees approved a new bachelor's degree program in renewable energy. If given the green light by the state's Board of Higher
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Wal-Mart, Manufacturers to Lower Mercury Content in CFLs
When it comes to affordable energy-efficient lighting solutions, compact fluorescent bulbs clearly shine. The recent uptick in debate about their mercury content, even when overblown, may have dimmed the enthusiasm of some consumers, however. On
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Cost of Mitigating Global Warming: $10/Person?
Last week's report by Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claimed that the cost of stabilizing CO2 emissions would be .12% of the annual gross domestic product. On it's face, that doesn't sound like much, but what
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Mark Morford on the "Honeybee Apocalypse"
We've written about "colony collapse disorder" and the massive decline in honeybee populations a number of times here at Treehugger. Yesterday, SFGate.com and San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford offered his two cents on this disturbing
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Bringing Up Baby: E/The Environmental Magazine, May-June
Bringing up a baby can be tough for treehugging parents in our mass-produced, disposable world, so the latest issue of E/The Environmental Magazine features a cover story on "Raising a Healthy Child in a TOXIC World." Writer Brita Belli's approach goes
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Mushroom Spores: The Newest Green Insulation Material
Materials ranging from hemp to recycled paper to used denim are all in use as alternatives to traditional fiberglass and foam building insulation. Now Eben Bayer, who will graduate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on May 19th, has added another
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Video: The Moral Dimensions of Climate Change
Is climate change a moral issue? We know that Al Gore thinks so. Former Clinton administration climate negotiator Don Brown expanded upon this idea at a panel on ethics at the UN Commission on Sustainable Development sponsored by the Baha'i faith. In
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Cool Heads Tackle Global Warming: Sierra, May-June
After reading a New York Review of Books essay by NASA scientist James Hansen that criticized the media's giving air time or print space to "fringe contrarians" on climate science, writer Marilyn Berlin Snell imagined bringing together a group of
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British Hospital Going Wind-Powered
A healthy body and a healthy environment would seem to go hand-in-hand, so it's not surprising that a number of health care facilities around the world are adopting greener principles and practices for construction, facility management and patient care.
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EBSQ Announces Recycled Art Show Winners
In March, we announced EBSQ's "Repurposed: Art from Recycled Materials," an online art show to benefit Environmental Defense. Just over a month later, the submissions are all in, and I, the jury, went through them and chose winners and honorable mentions
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India Considering Off-Grid Renewable Options for Rural Electrication
With all of the discussion of India's economic growth (and growing carbon emissions), it's sometimes easy to forget that this nation of over one billion citizens is still developing. According to an article from yesterday's Financial Express, a 2001
