Mongolia embarks on clean energy future with first wind farm
While in Mongolia for World Environment Day, I toured the Salkhit Wind Farm.
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US Ambassador Urges Industry to Adapt or Perish
Whaling was once the biggest employer on the East Coast. Whalers probably couldn't have imagined a different energy future either, but it finished them off anyway.
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Everything You Need to Know About Global Climate Negotiations in a Video and a Chart
Watch, look, and be up to speed.
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$29.4 Billion: Superstorm Sandy's Estimated Damages to New Jersey Alone
The final tally of damages from Superstorm Sandy may be a ways off, but the way it's going the storm is on track to be the second most-costly storm in US history.
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Removed From Office For Conflict of Interest
The buffoon Mayor will be gone in 14 days.
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Patagonia Reminds Us: Don't Buy What You Don't Need
Here's a friendly Cyber Monday reminder from our friends at Patagonia. Stand with them and take their Common Threads Initiative pledge!
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Meditation Flash Mob Sits in Middle of Mall on "Black Friday" (Video)
A surprise gathering organized over the Internet gathers to meditate in a mall on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
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Fight Against Climate Change a Casualty of European Economic Crisis
Extracting billions of tons of carbon from the Earth's crust and dumping them in the atmosphere is a very dangerous experiment, and we can't afford to mess like that with our only life-support system.
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Black Friday and Buy Nothing Day Roundup, Or Why It Should Be Jdimytai Damour Day
Is shopping so important that people have to die or get pepper sprayed?
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Photo of the Day for Buy Nothing Day
Poster on the wall says it all
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk Speaks on the Future of Energy and Transportation
It's always interesting to hear Musk speak about his vision of the future, as he's a man who knows how to get things done and make it happen.
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Why Is Black Friday Coming to Canada?
We don't have a holiday Friday and Thanksgiving was weeks ago here. What's this all about?
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Corporations Can Push a Low Carbon Economy, But They Can Only Do So Much
From GE's purchase of electric vehicles to Google's investments in clean energy, corporations are helping launch a low carbon future. But there are limits to what they can achieve.
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Does Peak Helium Mean We Should Stop With The Big Balloons Already?
We are often called wet blanket party poopers when it comes to holiday traditions, but maybe we are right.
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Giant Ontario Mega Quarry Cancelled
The fight to save thousands of acres of Ontario farmland is over.
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Sandylujah! Hurricane Sandy Says Stop Shopping: Reverend Billy
The Church of Stop Shopping takes on new life in our post-Sandy climate disaster zone.
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72% of Harvard Students Vote to Divest School Endowment From Fossil Fuels Companies
Pulling money from fossil fuels now has much greater support on campus than did the campaign to divest from apartheid South Africa.
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Did You Eat Today? Thank a Food Worker
The most under-reported and neglected aspect of the good food movement is the 20 million workers who toil every day harvesting fields, killing and cutting up animals, packing boxes, driving trucks, cooking meals, serving tables, and cleaning up the mess.
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Investors Say Climate Change is Huge Threat to Economy, Pensions
Some of the world's largest investors are once again warning that climate change could sink our economy and our pensions. So why isn't there action?
