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Clean Energy Jobs Vote in Conrgress Threatened - MoveOn.org Commercial (Video)
Clean American Dream Ad from MoveOn.org Last week, the Obama administration offshore regulations for energy production were announced and during an Earth Day speech, President Obama held forth on the virtues of renewables (and clean coal?). Well a
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Green Hard Hats Descend on State Department Today
If you happen to be passing by the State Department today around 12:45pm-1:30pm, or after reading this decide to intentionally stop by to lend your voice, you'll be greeted by a sea of green-hardhat-wearing campaigners calling for a environmentally
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Adventures on Earth Day with TreeHugger's Writers (Slideshow)
TreeHugger loves having voices from all over the globe, especially on big green days like Earth Day, when a bunch of us can chime in and give perspectives from all over the planet. We gathered up a few from earlier this week -- Earth Day and the Green
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Organic Compost Delivered To USDA Headquarters
The USDA ain't what it used to be. Ever since Earl Butz was charged with creating a highly efficient ag sector under Nixon and Ford the USDA has been about production of cheap calories through industrial agriculture. Enter the
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17 Federal Policy Initiatives Could Save 50 Percent Of U.S. GHG emissions In 10 years
With all the hype surrounding the recently unveiled American Clean Energy and Security Act, it seems appropriate to reflect upon the policy framework Amory Lovins and his colleagues at the Rocky Mountain Institute put together a few months ago.
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Historic Day For Protection: President Obama Signs Wild and Scenic Rivers Act Expansion
Today, President Obama signed into law the second largest Wild and Scenic Rivers package in history. Today's law expands the National Wild and Scenic
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SEC Announces LEED-Certified Child Development Center
There's something of an irony in this press release from the US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), explaining that "the child development center at its headquarters has been awarded a Gold-level Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED )
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Cut Your Carbon Emissions in Half Overnight: Move to the City
While cities certainly use a lot of energy in a concentrated area, the per capita emissions of their residents are often well below national averages, a
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"Filthy Fifteen" Fly-Ash Producing US States Named By Natural Resources Defense Council
Natural Resources Defense Council has done some sleuthing to help USEPA get a fast start on regulating coal-plant generated fly ash, especially the fly ash "stored" in open impoundments. The NRDC website has a clear explanation of need: looking beyond
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Environmental Film Festival Underway in DC
The 17th annual Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital kicked off yesterday and will continue through March 22 with 136 eco-themed documentary, feature, animated, archival, experimental and
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Brad Pitt Visits Congress with a Green House Agenda
While his wife was busy at work, Brad Pitt headed to the Mall. When the actor showed up on Capitol Hill, Congress seized the opportunity to hold a press
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Powershift09 Conference Brings Thousands of Activists to DC Demanding Clean Energy
Powershift 09 Rally on Lawn of the Capitol photo from Fritz Meyr's flickr page Powershift 2009 was an energetic and informative conference that culminated with a march of 3,000 plus young (and young at heart) people demanding clean energy and green
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What If You Organized a Pro-Coal Rally and Nobody Came?
For the answer to that question, you're going to have to ask someone at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (the same people behind CO2: We Call It Life and EnjoyBottledWater.org).
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Why Bill McKibben is Willing to Get Arrested to Stop the Burning of Coal
Writer, environmentalist and scholar in residence at Middlebury College, Bill McKibben's name pops up fairly frequently on TreeHugger (he even gets his own tag!). Well,
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American U's Film School Creates Code of Best Practices for Sustainable Filmmaking
Films, especially American blockbusters, are known for generating lots of dough and lots of waste. From the free food, to the creation of entire faux villages - all of the people, all of the costumes, all of the travel
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Wyclef Jean, TreeHugger's Graham Hill and Recycle Runway Rock the First Green Inaugural Ball
The nation's capital is the place to be this long weekend, as festivities for President-Elect Barack Obama's inauguration kicked off and hundreds of thousands of visitors swarm the city for the big event. Green is a prominent theme this year, as we
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(Some) People Have Spoken, and They Want an Organic Garden on Obama's Lawn
Democracy can be a tricky thing. Take the results of recent voting at Change.org and OnDay1.org. These two social network sites let users express concerns to bring to the Obama Administration and then vote on their own
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Five Ways Obama's Inauguration Festivities Will Be Green
Let's just say up front that nobody claims the Inauguration will be deep green - events like this, by their very nature, require a huge amount of car and plane travel, entailing a corresponding belch
