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How Can We Protect Environment When All We're Told is Growth, Growth, Growth?
photo: Wikipedia WWF is 50 years old. Woo hoo! And at their celebration in Zurich, Archbishop Desmond Tutu was in attendance and focused his remarks on how greed and consumerism are at the root of many of our planet's current environmental problems.
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Why We Must Learn From The Biosphere To Build Green Economies
Interested in ecological economics? (And if you call yourself an environmentalist or are even minimally concerned about green issues, you should be.) Then here are two important pieces you should be paying attention to
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Obama Makes Same Energy Mistakes As Every President Back to Nixon: Won't Tax Properly
We weren't big fans of Obama's energy speech of a couple weeks back, given its general lack of vision and tired similarity to energy speeches by the last eight presidents in focusing on US energy independence. There's another similarity between Obama
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US Income Inequality, Corporate Tax Dodging, Military Over-Spending Are Green Issues, Too
With all the proposed and actual US budget cuts aimed at gutting the EPA and NOAA's efforts to monitor the state of our climate, it's worth pointing out even if it's perhaps obvious that the record (and growing)
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Both India & China Enacting Carbon Trading Programs
A laborer is seen working at a deisel powered crusher infont of a wind turbine. This is a 17.5 MW wind project, consisting of eighteen wind farm sites in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Karnataka. The eighteen sites have been
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Survey Reveals French are the Saddest People on Earth
If you are feeling very sad about the coming year, you are probably French. If the thought of the new year fills you with hope and optimism then you may be from Nigeria, Vietnam or even Kosovo.
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With Climate Change Looming, We Are The Ghosts Of Christmas Yet To Come
Image credit:Wikipedia (copyright expired) - an excerpt.
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Better Than A Smoke Detector: An Add-On Sprinkler
In our Big Steps in Building series, I advocated for sprinklers in every housing unit, not just for fire safety, but so that we could also get rid of all those flame retardants that are building
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Starbucks Shareholders Reject Recycling Initiative
The idea that Starbucks seems to be the last to jump onto the recycling bandwagon sort of blows my mind. Especially when their contribution to the problem is so massive. Currently, 3 billion of their paper coffee cups sold each year in
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CITES Votes No on Bluefin Tuna Ban: Japanese Embassy Serves the Endangered Delicacy at a Pre-Convention Reception
Even though the World Wildlife Fund recently warned that Atlantic bluefin tuna will be wiped out completely by 2012 if we don't halt the overfishing of it, we still can't seem to protect the species. By some accounts, eating the
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Mr. Klein Incomprehensibly Launders Your Unmentionables
We often roll our eyes at some of the impractical or impossible design ideas seen on Yanko, but there are always some that are provocative. Yoon Kisang's Mr. Klein is designed for underwear, and perhaps it makes some sense to have a tiny machine that
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Bush Presidential Library May Get LEED Platinum, But Is It "Dog-Whistle" Architecture?
Although some may assign credit for "W's" Presidential Center Platinum LEED application to the project architect, Robert A.M. Stern, who is simply a following a trend, I'm giving President George W Bush and wife Laura benefit of the doubt. Their
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Biggest Dam Removal Project In History Will Restore Health of Klamath River
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
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Scary Aquatic Pollution Bill Almost Passes in Tennessee and This May Only Be Round 1
A close call in the Tennessee legislature last week would have meant the release of more selenium into Tennessee streams. This scary bit of legislation was stridently attacked by Rep. Mike McDonald who said the measure was intended to
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In My Prius video by Casual Mafia - LMAO!!
Green isn't always serious business. The newest video out by Casual Mafia called In My Prius makes fun of the Prius which is, well, really funny! With the looming GM bankruptcy, a few laughs, were cars are involved, is
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Absolutely Greener, Relatively Speaking: A Closer Look at CSR Reporting
I was recently exchanging e-mails with a dear friend, Melissa, who works in the CSR , or corporate social responsibility, department of a major US corporation. We were talking about traditional national and global economic growth rates (which, of
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Quote of the Day: The New Survivalists On the Job
TreeHugger Alan bravely struggles to his computer to let us know that Portland, Oregon is absolutely buried under five inches of snow. Electrical power is intermittent, so the new survivalists are stocking up with supplies. Overheard at the 7-11- a
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Unilever Cutting Ink Colors to Save Millions and Reduce Waste
Reducing the number of colors used in printing packaging for a sliver of their products is going to save Unilever millions of dollars every year, and could save the industry as much as $5 billion annually if other
