published March 10, 2010 and has No Comments
photo via flickr Coal activist Ted Nace today published a must-read post in Grist on the importance of taking on coal via a variety of strategies, effectively coming at the country's Number 1 contributor to climate change from every angle possible. Nace, the man behind the indispensable Coalswarm , lays out the case for why coal has got to ...
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published March 9, 2010 and has No Comments
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Today on Planet 100: Fallujah Birth Defects (Video)
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published March 9, 2010 and has No Comments
During last year's seal hunt Brian posted about Canada's Governor General gutting a seal and eating its heart. Canada's Minister of Defence helped himself to a seal banquet as well. When it comes to seal, Solidarity Forever. But now they don't have to go to the Arctic for a traditional Inuit feast; they can just pop over to the ...
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published March 8, 2010 and has No Comments
photo via flickr Sarah Palin went to heart of Canada's oil and gas development sector this past week to congratulate Canada on finding the right balance between economic growth and energy security. She also touted her peculiar recipe for energy independence, which is, of course, Drill, Baby, Drill.... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published March 7, 2010 and has No Comments
Creating a tiered retaining wall to prevent erosion (L) and a permaculture plan for a demonstration farm (R) in Haiti. Photos via Permaculture Institute . When most people think of disaster relief efforts, meeting immediate needs -- food, clean water, blankets -- comes most readily to mind. But as Haiti continues to recover from the devastating earthquake that struck ...
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published March 6, 2010 and has No Comments
There's a rift among some of the environmental groups almost as wide as the cracks in melting Arctic sea ice caused by climate change. Some groups, in the name of progress, are advocating compromises with some of the world's worst polluters and for policies they know to be deeply flawed. Others stick to the science and their core values ...
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published March 5, 2010 and has No Comments
The Utah prairie dog. Photo by Dean Biggins, U.S. Geological Survey. Guest blogger NaturallySavvy.com is dedicated to natural and organic living. Plague once struck mortal fear in humans, but it's a thing of the past, right? Not so, according to research published in a special issue of the journal Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases , which focused solely on plague. ...
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published March 3, 2010 and has No Comments
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Today on Planet 100: Earthquake Alters Time on Earth (Video)
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published March 3, 2010 and has No Comments
Forest recovering after the B&B Complex fire in 2003 in the central Oregon Cascade Range. Photo by Garrett Meigs, Oregon State University via Flickr . Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to NaturallySavvy.com 's Naturally Green section. About half of the overstory trees were killed in the B&B Complex fire in 2003 near Canyon Creek ...
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Filipina beauty queen Miriam Quiambao speaks at a Bangkok, Thailand, rally for gender and climate justice. Photo by ~MVI~ via Flickr. It's already well known that climate change is not an equal-opportunity threat, with its impacts on food production , severe storms, and drought, among others, hitting the world's
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