published April 12, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: london.gov Oh to be a fly on the wall for the real conversation between former Governor Arnie, the Terminator, Schwarzenegger and Boris Johnson, Mayor of London. Ostensibly they got together to discuss fitness programmes for youth. But a few years ago Arnie had called Johnson's speaking style 'fumbling' and in return the Mayor called him a 'monosyllabic Austrian ...
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published April 11, 2011 and has No Comments
Zoe Weil , TEDx speaker and president of the Institute for Humane Education, interviews the Sustainable Living Roadshow in this exclusive interview at Green Festival in San Francisco. The Sustaina... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published April 8, 2011 and has No Comments
Many Gulf Coast residents' lives have been changed by the BP spill -- whether through lost jobs, health woes, marred property values, or otherwise. And while a cumbersome system has been put in place to pay out claims made by impacted residents, it by no means will right all the wrongs imparted upon the region over the course of the ...
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published April 1, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo credit: ^riza^ via Flickr / CC BY Oh politics. How inane thou art. Take this fun pack o' lies that keeps cropping up like clockwork every few years when gas prices rise: That if we'd just open up all of that sweet, sweet American coastline and heartland for drilling, prices at the pump would come tumbling down! Politicians ...
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published March 29, 2011 and has No Comments
Above, you will find a very reasonable conservative politician discussing climate policy. I'm posting this video to invite you all on a nostalgic journey back to the halcyon days of the American climate debate in politics -- way back in 2008. Way back before even acknowledging that the existence of climate science was taboo in conservative political circles. Back before ...
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published March 29, 2011 and has No Comments
Mortality risks associate with major categories of electrical power generation. Image credit: New Scientist Every nuclear power plant failure, regardless of resulting mortality, breathes new life into the dread the whole world shared during the Cold War. Iranian government chest-thumping and political fear mongering about dirty bomb dangers have infected new generations with the dread. Coal is more dangerous, ...
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published March 25, 2011 and has No Comments
From upper left: Conservative Stephen Harper, Liberal Michael Ignatieff, NDP Jack Layton, Green Party Elizabeth May Canada follows the British parliamentary system, where the government must have the confidence of the majority of House of Commons. Prime Minister Stephen Harper had a minority government, so the big question was, would any of the opposition prop him up? The Opposition ...
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published March 25, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo credit: Sharon Smith This guest post was written by Sharon Smith, author of The Young Activist's Guide to Building a Green Movement . Alec Loorz first saw Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth when he was twelve years old. Inspired by the message, Alec applied to be a presenter with Gore's The Climate Project, but was turned down ...
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published March 25, 2011 and has No Comments
Gretchen Dahlkemper-Alfonso (right) speaks to a crowd in Philadelphia about the importance of EPA's mercury safeguards. Photo credit: Sierra Club Gretchen Dahlkemper-Alfonso is a mother of a toddler and is eight-months pregnant with her second child. When it comes to protecting her children and taking precautions on their behalf, she doesn't skip anything. "I do not ignore the facts. ...
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published March 24, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo credit: Klobetime / Creative Commons In 1994, I wrote an article in World Watch magazine entitled "Who Will Feed China?" that was later expanded into a book of the same title. When the article was published in late August, the press conference generated only moderate coverage. But when it was reprinted that weekend on the front of the ...
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