Tag: Newspapers
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How Yoga Can Harmonize the Body & Planet
While the NYT article offers an exaggerated cautionary tale, its alarm-ism can lead many to throw the beautiful practice of yoga asanas (postures) out with the bathwater.
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Bloomberg News Launches Sustainability Section
The goal is to uncover what businesses are doing, or what they need to be doing, to thrive as global competition intensifies for strategic resources.
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Egypt's Endangered Species in Media Spotlight
Amid all the upheaval in Egypt, one local newspaper is working to keep the fate of the country's natural resources from falling off the radar.
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Wind Turbines May Blow Earth Out of Orbit, Coal Lobby Warns: The Onion (Video)
This Onion spoof on the fossil fuel industry's attacks on clean energy made the rounds a few months ago, but it somehow eluded my radar. Usually, in these cases, I'd simply curse the blog-gods, and let it join the graveyard of viral videos that have
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Breakdown of Solyndra Media Coverage Shows Everyone Ignored More Important Stories
Since its eruption in late August, the Solyndra scandal has been a lightning rod for political and ideological debates over everything from the role of government in business to the debate on global
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Did News of the World Hack into Climate Scientists' Emails?
The scandal du jour is unquestionably the phone-hacking debacle surrounding Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid -- which, until it was canned due to allegations of myriad criminal deeds, was England's top-selling
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Presenting: The New York Times' Best Paragraph of Climate Reportage in Recent Memory
Earlier today, I wrote about a New York Times article that described Chicago's ongoing efforts to prepare for and adapt to a warming climate. I'd like to revisit that article for a second, as it just so
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The Best Of TreeHugger Delivered To Your Inbox Daily or Weekly
Is keeping up with TreeHugger too much work? Let us help with our newsletters. We have a daily, edited by me, and a weekly, edited by Warren McLaren. Today I muse about how Amazon is Now Selling More Digital Kindle Books Than Print Books. Have a look
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Goodbye Yellow Pages, Hello Local Search
Remember the Yellow Pages Association? They represent the folks who print phone books. They've fought some efforts by cities to ban phone book distribution, and
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Andy Revkin of the New York Times on Global Population Explosions (podcast)
We've reported before on Andy Revkin's assertion that "climate change is not the story of our time," as well as his sometimes provocative thoughts on geoengineering and other subjects (Rush Limbaugh once suggested the journalist kill himself to save the
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We're Officially Reading More Online News Than Newspapers
Image: allaboutgeorge, Flickr, CC BY The Digital Migration Continues to Change the Face of Consumption A new study from the Ponyter Institute reveals that by the end of 2010, more people were reading their news online than in traditional newspapers. 34%
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News Corporation Announces New Sustainability Targets for 2015 and Beyond
News Corporation, parent company of Fox, the Wall Street Journal, and most recently of The Daily for the iPad, was the first global media company to commit to and then achieve the goal of becoming carbon neutral.
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How Climate Change Threatens the American Farmer
Too often, the conversation about climate change gets framed as a culturo-political debate: with liberals and scientists calling for action on one side, and conservatives and free market fundamentalists arguing against it
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90-Year-Old Newspaper House Still Standing Strong
If you think that using creatively recycled materials to build a house is something new, think again. Almost 90 years ago, inventor and engineer Ellis Stenman of Rockport, Massachusetts set out to construct a summer home with thousands
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Dispatch from the Front Lines of a War on Science
You may have heard of Simon Singh long before his name rose to the top of the list of those championing sound science: He'd written two bestselling books, Fermat's Enigma and the Big Bang. Despite the wide
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"Millions of Barrels of Oil Safely Reach Port in Major Environmental Catastrophe": Onion
Yes, the Onion, America's finest news source, is consistently hilarious. But even it is rarely this biting, this trenchant -- and this right on. Check out its lead story today, about the massive disaster that occurred when
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NYT Spotlights Yoga for Seniors, Not Just the Svelte
Amen! As an expert stepping ever more deeply into the often
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Journalists Covering BP Spill Now Face Felonies, $40K Fines
There's been much discussion over how BP has been obstructing media coverage of the Gulf spill, and rightly so. Thus far, impediments to coverage have
