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Belgrave Trust on Carbon Offsets for the Affluent

by Neil Chambers, New York City on 10.14.09
Business & Politics

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The dirty, stinking rich! Yeah, I said it! They are always getting called-out for their imbalanced percentage of environmental destruction. For example, the average American's carbon footprint is 2000 times bigger than the average person living in Chad. The average British emits more carbon in a day than the average Kenyan emit in a year. It gets worse! Did you know that the top 20% wealthiest people contribute 80% of greenhouse gases? Or that the top 7% are responsible for half of all carbon emissions? Most people see this as a reason to loathe the affluent, but wouldn't it make more sense to see them as an enormous opportunity to create fast and dramatic change for global warming? If the 20% well-to-do offset their CO2 emssions by 50%, that would mean an overall decrease of 40%. That's huge! Jeff Stewart and Nicholas Baily, the founders of Belgrave Trust are aiming to do just that- target the luxury class with a retail carbon offset service which cleans up the environment and lets them live guilt-free! I had a chance to talk to them about their idea.

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Biggest Dam Removal Project In History Will Restore Health of Klamath River

by Rebecca Wodder, American Rivers on 10. 8.09
Business & Politics

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Iron Gate Dam on Klamath River. Image credit: American Rivers.

Last week, after years of negotiations, 28 involved parties agreed on a plan to tear down the four PacifiCorp dams on the Klamath River, which is on the California and Oregon border, by 2020. American Rivers has played a leading role in these negotiations for the past nine years.

When the Klamath dams come down it will be the biggest dam removal project the world has ever seen. It is exciting to see the momentum behind this historic river restoration effort - one that promises to not only restore the health of the river, but also boost local economies and revitalize communities. The project will help restore the river and revive its ailing salmon and steelhead runs. This will aid fishing and tribal communities who have suffered as these once abundant fish populations have dwindled over the past few decades. Farmers will also benefit from the certainty a restored river will provide them.

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Talking Green Cars with Sascha Simon, Advanced Product Planning for Mercedes-Benz USA

by Neil Chambers, New York City on 09. 1.09
Business & Politics

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Sascha Simon is responsible for strategic planning of product management for Mercedes Benz USA. Bascially, that means that he ensures that future Mercedes products give consumers what they want how they want it while Mercedes continues to produce automobiles that embodies the company's core values. He uses on market research and trend data while working with product designers in Stuttgart, Germany and Palo Alto, California to envision a better vehicle. Treehugger had a chance to talk to him about Mercedes future of green cars, the hurdles to overcome and how their cars will perform with green technologies.

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Chatting with Fisher Stevens, Producer of Film "The Cove"

by Neil Chambers, New York City on 08.11.09
Business & Politics

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On July 31, 2009 , the film The Cove opened in New York and Los Angeles. Fisher Stevens had a major part in whipping the picture into theater-shape. You may remember him from the 1986 hit Short Circuit. With the release of The Cove, he is showing everyone he's got an eye for making edgy eco-documentaries. The film is full of emotion, environmental conundrums and characters that make you want to become a full-fledged eco-activist! I had a chance to talk with Stevens about the pic and how it changed his life.

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Eco-Rally to Transverse America

by Neil Chambers, New York City on 08. 7.09
Business & Politics

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Eco-Rally USA, a grassroots transportation group, is launching a trip across the United States aimed at helping to accelerate clean energy vehicles to become the standard for automobiles rather than the exception. The tour start on Aug 10, 2009 in Time Square and then visits 10 other major cities covering more than 3,500 miles to demonstrate sustainable technologies and fuels.

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Is Healthcare in America Green?

by Neil Chambers, New York City on 07.24.09
Business & Politics

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Is there anything right about healthcare in the United States? If you judged the industry by everything politicians are saying nowadays, my guess is that you'd say no. As I've listened to the debate over the last few months, it seems so bad that I'm wonder why we're not all dropping dead in the streets. I mean, I know that we're all dying in that existential-self-realized way...but the news from the talking heads in Congress and the White House has got me thinking the outlook is, well, bleak! Not only that, it seems like all of Washington believes only they can fix the problem. So I decided to find out if there's any good news from the world of doctors and nurses. Turns out, there's more than you might think.

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With Help from Species Survival Plan, Red Wolves May Have a Future

by Neil Chambers, New York City on 07. 9.09
Business & Politics

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Red wolves are one of the rarest mammals in North America. They are a mere 100 strong in their native habitat of North Carolina’s Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge. But with the help of the Wolf Conservation Center (WCC) in South Salem, NY, the Canis rufus may grow in number…first in New York, and then in North Carolina.

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Italy's Trash Robot is a Real-Life Wall-E

by Alex Pasternack, New York, NY on 07. 9.09
Business & Politics

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In the computer generated waste land of Wall-E, a garbage-collecting robot is the last survivor on Earth, hoarding quaint treasures from the trash in a dogged attempt to find some slice of happiness amidst the ecological devastation left behind by consumerism. In real-life Italy, where a noxious mafia-run waste industry has turned some landscapes post-apocalyptic, scientists have proposed a new solution to picking up the trash: the googly-eyed Dust Cart robot.

It may not solve Italy's garbage problems, but its inventors hope it might make garbage collection cleaner and more efficient, and reduce trash pile-ups. But would it actually work? Video below.

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