published October 9, 2011 and has No Comments
The climate activism community is now firmly in the Occupy Wall Street fight. 350.org joined in the tens of thousands in the streets of the New York last week; and now Bill McKibben has starkly laid out the links between climate change, the corporations blocking climate action, and the rank effect of the oil industry corrupting the
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published September 15, 2011 and has No Comments
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Enough Climate Denial! 24 Hours of Climate Reality Starts Tonight! (WATCH NOW)
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published September 5, 2011 and has No Comments
Two weeks of sustained protest concluded outside the White House yesterday. Over that time, over 1,250 people were arrested in order to send a single, simple message to the Obama administration: Do not approve the Keystone XL pipeline. The pipeline, currently pending approval, would carry the exceptionally dirty tar sands oil 1,700 miles from Alberta, Canada to American refineries along ...
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published August 5, 2011 and has No Comments
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Trent Lott Calls for a Higher Gas Tax (Video)
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published July 15, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo credit: Rennett Stowe via Flickr /CC BY Put simply, it's just really dumb that we're sending streams of waste to the landfill in 2011. Smart companies -- and some smart governments -- have figured out that it's much better to reuse that stuff, or prevent the waste from building up in the first place. Hence, nations like Denmark ...
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published July 13, 2011 and has No Comments
President Obama is getting ready to kick his reelection campaign into high gear. As such, it's an opportune time to take a look back at his achievements in the environmental arena thus far -- and that's precisely what Slate's Green Lantern has done here , serving the president an environmental report card for his first term. Go see how ...
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published June 10, 2011 and has No Comments
The Environmental Defense Fund says that 20 of the nation's 25 dirties coal plants are located between 50-100 miles of some of the nation's largest cities. Head over to Climate Progress to find out if you live close enough to one to be breathing in its asthma-inducing mercury emissions! ... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published June 7, 2011 and has No Comments
Image: Screenshot, Ecosia.org Green search engine Ecosia was already making waves at its first birthday, by which point it had contributed $160,000 to WWF's Jureuena rainforest project in Brazil. Now, six months later, the search engine (which is powered by Bing) has raised $334,202.63 for the rainforest, and that number keeps climbing.... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published June 2, 2011 and has No Comments
Mountain top removal project from satellite view, 2009. Image credit:NASA via Mongobay . (from Satellite Photos Reveal How Mountaintop Removal Is Scarring Appalachia .) The Charleston Daily Mail reports that "U.S. Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., says President Barack Obama agrees that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should analyze the potential economic impacts of its decisions before making them ...
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published May 16, 2011 and has No Comments
This post is an installment in a series about the current state of American climate skepticism. I'll be expanding upon the ideas put forward in my recent Slate piece, Do Climate Skeptics Change Their Minds? , so read that first. True climate skeptics rarely change their minds. If they do so publicly, it's often the cause of a minor ...
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