Jeremy Elton Jacquot
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Is Buying Up the Country's Clunkers Smart, Eco-Friendly Policy?
I admit upfront that I'm no economic whiz -- in fact, far from it -- so you'll have to take my "analysis" of Alan Blinder's national "Cash for Clunkers" policy with a (heavy) grain of salt. Put simply, it seems like a great
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Climate Change Will Cost U.S. States Billions of Dollars
In one of the first attempts to attach a dollar figure to the impacts of climate change, researchers from the University of Maryland's Center for Integrative Environmental Research have tallied up the long-term financial and
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Surprise, Surprise: Report Finds Bush Administration's Voluntary Pollution-Reduction Programs Not Faring Well
The key word here being "voluntary," of course. Methinks the EPA's inspector general may have been a bit too charitable in even saying they have "limited potential" -- though I guess the term may be appropriate for describing the
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Massive Saharan Solar Project Could Power $71 Billion EU Supergrid
Sometimes called the Saudi Arabia of solar energy, the Sahara could soon be home to dozens of huge solar farms under a new EU supergrid initiative to supply the continent's electricity needs with renewable energy. The Guardian's
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Los Angeles City Council Votes to Ban Plastic Shopping Bags by July 2010 (Maybe)
Better late than never, I suppose -- though LA's planned 2010 citywide ban still seems downright meek given that San Francisco, Australia and, yes, even China have already or are in the process of implementing a ban. And, of course, it's important to
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Destruction of Wetlands Could Unleash a "Carbon Bomb"
It may seem hard to believe, but the planet's wetlands, which comprise 6% of its land surface area, contain 771 billion tons of carbon dioxide -- 20% of the Earth's carbon supply and roughly the same amount that is currently in the
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A Green New Deal: 100 Months to Save the World from Climate Change
We've waxed poetic before about the need for a bold New Green Deal to help bring our economy out of the doldrums and into the next renewable Industrial Age. A new organization, appropriately named the Green New Deal Group,
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Planting Switchgrass Could Improve Soil Quality
Tally up one more reason why planting switchgrass may be a good idea. According to a study conducted by Kristine Nichols, a microbiologist with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory, soils planted with native
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Gray Wolves Are Back on the Endangered List... For Now
Thanks to a last minute injunction by a federal judge in Montana, the gray wolf will be returned to its endangered species status, reports the LAT's Tami Abdollah. U.S. District Court Judge Donald Molloy didn't mince his words in
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Corals Exposed to Navy Explosives Found to be in Surprisingly Good Shape
Bombed out reefs might not immediately come to mind as areas that could harbor large aggregations of healthy corals. Yet that's exactly what Bernhard Riegl, a scientist at Florida's Nova Southeastern University, found in the
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Hundreds of Dead Baby Penguins Wash Up on Rio de Janeiro's Beaches
It is difficult to imagine what must have been going through the heads of Rio de Janeiro beachgoers in recent months as they have seen hundreds of baby penguins wash up onshore dead. At last count, more than 400 penguins, swept from
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Sierra Snowpack Melting Likely to Be Faster than Previously Expected
While the world (understandably) remains focused on the melting Arctic ice caps, those of us living in California have been worrying about a melting of a different sort. And, according to a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters,
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Fuel Cell Cars Still 15 Years Away Says Government Study
Though a few lucky Californians may already be leasing the Honda FCX Clarity, one of the first-generation fuel cell cars, a National Research Council report predicts that it will be another 15 years until they comprise a significant
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The G8 Summit: Cutting Through the Spin
Given the Bush administration's involvement -- or "non"-involvement, if you prefer -- it was no big surprise to see the latest G8 summit fail to make any real progress on the issue of GHG emission targets. Sure, Japanese Prime
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Could a Century's Worth of Carbon Emissions Be Stored Within the Juan de Fuca Plate?
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences makes the case that 208-250 billion tons of carbon dioxide -- roughly equivalent to a century's worth of future emissions (122-147 years, to be exact) --
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UN Report: The Future Could be Swell... But We're Blowing It
Time for another round of good news, bad news. First, the good: According to a weighty new UN report (it's 6,300 pages long and includes submissions from 2,500 experts) uncovered by The Independent, the world stands poised to enter a
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Global Fisheries Hit by Climate Change and Overfishing
It's bad enough fish already have to deal with the consequences of overfishing; now, according to a new study authored by a team of UBC fisheries scientists, dozens will be faced with the prospect of extinction by 2050. Even
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The TH Interview: Peter Barnes, Senior Fellow at the Tomales Bay Institute
Peter Barnes is no dyed-in-the-wool environmentalist. A successful entrepreneur, writer and now senior fellow at the Point Reyes Station, Calif.-based Tomales Bay Institute, Peter has co-founded and led several companies, including Working Assets (with
