published September 15, 2010 and has No Comments
Image via the Working Families Party In what is striking many as unduly Orwellian, Pennsylvania's Homeland Security Department is actively spying on anti-drilling activists throughout the state -- and then handing that information over to the drilling company that they're protesting against. The activists have been entirely peaceful, so when the drilling company, Marcellus Shale, inadvertently revealed that it ...
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published September 10, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via Oceana Actor Ted Danson , who recently joined Morgan Freeman and Oceana to support the organization's study of oil plumes in the Gulf of Mexico, has signed on for another project: playing against type as an unsympathetic oil baron in "Everybody Loves Whales." ... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published September 10, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Humanitarian and Development Partnership Team in the Central African Republic via flickr About ten months ago a report came out claiming to link recent upsurges in African civil war to changes in climate change, and predicting that there would be 50% more conflict in the coming decades. Well, a new article in Proc... Read the full story on ...
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published September 10, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via Pandiyan, Flickr Conservation International has released a new report that spells out a bleak future for the world's freshwater turtles: A full 1/3 of the 280 known species currently face extinction . Evidently, a lucrative pet trade, hunting of turtles for food, and habitat loss are the key contributors to turtles' "catastrophic decline". The good news --what ...
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published September 10, 2010 and has No Comments
Images: Littlefly Jewelry Forget what the glossy magazines say -- even bookworms have their own sense of irrepressible style. That's what British designer Jeremy May seems to be hinting with his lovely, handcrafted jewelry pieces made from the laminated pages of recycled books. Each holds a trace of their unique literary pedigree, which is impossible to replicate. According to ...
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published September 10, 2010 and has No Comments
There's a growing body of evidence that land-use conversion in the tropics, driven in part by biofuels, negates many of their benefits. Photo: Craig Morey via flickr. The UK government's own climate advisors have recommended that current biofuel targets for transport of 10% by 2020 are too high, given concerns about their impact on tropical forests. Currently the nation ...
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published September 10, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo: Peugeot Aimed Mostly at Fleet Buyers at First Peugeot has released some details on its iOn electric car, which is based on the Mitsubishi i MiEV . In France, the leasing price will be of €499 (about $643) for five years, and this includes: the vehicle and its battery, a 5-year warranty covering the battery and electric power ...
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published September 9, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Takver via flickr Bill McKibben and friends are in a biodiesel van making the symbolic journey to the White House from the Maine college where Jimmy Carter's solar water heating panel has been residing for the past three decades, ultimately pressing the President to install donated solar PV panels , all as part of an effort to reinvigorate ...
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published September 6, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Conservative Home I've always found the assertion that all environmentalists are socialist a little hard to swallow. I know plenty of conservatives who love the natural world and abhor waste. And I know plenty of radical greens whose anti-authoritarian, DIY streak puts them in direct conflict with any "big government" solutions from the traditional left. This very ...
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published September 3, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via qmnonic Nothing like a flood of minks loose in a country's already fragile ecosystem to put environmentalists in a tough spot. Two fur farms in northern Greece were raided, the results of which saw 50,000 minks running for the hills. Fortunately for everyone (except the minks) the problem could solve itself in a short time. UPDATE: An ...
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