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Organic Farming Could Stop Global Climate Change
Organic soils such as those seen here could sequester 40% of global carbon emissions. Image source: Rodale Institute stock. Global Climate Change Chaos We've overshot sustainability. Three hundred fifty parts per million (350 ppm) is the recommended
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Greyhound Australia Donates $12,000 Solar Panel Under Travel Green Program
We knew that bus travel was a much more sound means of transit than flying, but who knew it could also pay off so handsomely. One lucky family who travelled on Greyhound buses in Australia have scored themselves a free 1 kW solar panel system, worth
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5 Green Fights For The Future of British Columbia
British Columbia (BC) is a fabulous place to live. The province's largest city, Vancouver, is consistently rated as one of the most livable cities in the world, and a visit to the fertile Fraser Valley and Gulf
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We Believe Global Warming is Happening, Just Not Necessarily to Us
A survey of 2,164 adults by George Mason University and the Yale Project on Climate Change discovered some of the distressing ways in which we
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Why Your Brain May Not Be Green
In the New York Times Sunday Magazine, author Jon Gertner theorizes why, despite pretty good information available to us all, we generally continue as a species making decisions that are fairly bad for the planet's environment, and generally unable to
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Sweden Says No to Nuclear Negativity
Just a year before it reached the original deadline to phase out its nuclear power (in 2010), Sweden instead reversed its decades-old dismantling policy and instead will now keep the 10 nuclear reactors it currently has, and lift bans on both new nuclear
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CarbonFlow Gets Leg Up from VCs, Will Give Let Up to Carbon Market
Though the economy flags, there are more eyes than ever on clean tech and climate change. That is why CarbonFlow, a software company working to bring transparency to the emerging carbon market, just gained a nice fat check from venture capitalists.
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Renew Magazine: Solar Lawn Mowers and Community Wind Farms
Renew magazine has, for well over 25 years, been the digest that Australians have turned to when they wanted detailed how-to information for living a more sustainable life. A large part of its appeal has been its down-to-earth persona. This is no
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Barack Obama Faces Environmental Clean Up After Two Centuries of Bingeing: Bill McKibben
Barack Obama comes to office having to deal with the most difficult circumstances since Franklin D. Roosevelt. Perhaps even more difficult, since the environmental bill from 200 years of unchecked of fossil fuel
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Carbon Tax, Not More Financial Engineering, Best Way to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Jeffrey Sachs
Both Barack Obama and John McCain think implementing a cap-and-trade system is the best way to decrease carbon emissions. On that one bit of policy, both candidates are in near
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Why Pricing Carbon Isn't Enough
The successful auction of 12.5 million permits by 10 U.S. Northeastern states brought the cap-and-trade system to the limelight this week.
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The TH Interview: Mark Tercek—An Investment Golden Boy Heads for the NGO World
As the world’s largest investment bank, Goldman Sachs raised some bushy eyebrows when it began putting its weight behind green investments. Spearheading the bank’s Environmental Markets Initiative was Mark Tercek, a managing director and longtime
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The TH Interview: Stephanie Meeks of The Nature Conservancy (Part Two)
It's not just any old organization that can set a goal like this: protect 10% of every ecosystem type on Earth by 2015, effectively doubling the headway of the conservation movement over the last century. But The Nature Conservancy can. Acting
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The TH Interview: Stephanie Meeks of The Nature Conservancy (Part One)
Immersed in the nifty slickness of "environmentalism 2.0" it's sometimes easy to forget about the patient progress of the groups like The Nature Conservancy. At 56-years old, The Nature Conservancy is a granddaddy eco-org, and was doing its leafy
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From Fortune 500 to CLIMACT, Offsetting At The End Of The Line
Those following the carbon offset market closely might be wondering about the differences in missions and motives between providers who are in it for profit,
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Low-Impact Avatar Man
An entire world is thriving in the virtual online community Second Life. With TreeHuggers in the game, elements of environmentalism are slowly seeping into play.
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Through the Jungle of Non-Profit Carbon Offset Providers
Wildly varying prices, questions of accountability, and the carbon neutral myth, TreeHuggers everywhere we can imagine, are trying to make sense of the carbon offset business.
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London Drivers to Pay $49 USD/Day Carbon Charge
London's mayor, Ken Livingstone is a man who knows how to grasp the nettle, to make the hard decisions and act on them. If his revolutionary £8 per day Congestion Charge for car entering central London had people aghast at his audacity, they'd
