published March 4, 2011 and has No Comments
AT&T announced today that because of 4,200 energy efficiency projects installed at company facilities during 2010, it saved $44 million in annual energy costs. The projects included things like installing desktop power management software on 169,000 computers, a measure that generated $614,000 in savings alone, and installing LED light bulbs at over 1,100 cell sites. ... Read the full ...
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published March 3, 2011 and has No Comments
Image: Wyoming Energy News Shady dealings have been going on between oil & gas regulators and, well, the oil & gas industry, in the Bureau of Land Management's Casper, Wyoming office—and the Department of the Interior likely knew and just let them slip by. The Project on Government Oversight has the scoop on reports by the DOI Inspector General ...
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published March 2, 2011 and has No Comments
The first day of the Climate, Mind & Behavior conference at the Garrison Institute saw a parade of economists, scientists, and thinkers try to pinpoint what exactly might motivate us fickle, easily distracted humanfolk to address broad, distant-seeming threats like climate change. The event gathers 90 or so of the nation's big environmental minds -- climate scientists, authors, biologists, ...
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published March 2, 2011 and has No Comments
Image: LA Bike Plan Bike Plan Approved by City Council The Los Angeles City Council approved a new bike master plan that would potentially make the city much more bike-friendly. The plan calls for 1,680 miles of interconnected bike paths (compared to 378 miles right now), with about 200 new miles being created every five years for 35 years, ...
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published March 1, 2011 and has No Comments
For some time we've had our eyes on proposals to build a monumental wall of trees across Africa to hopefully stop or at least slow the Sahara spreading southward. Well, the Great Green Wall has been given the green light. As Mongabay reports, in total about $3.1 billion has been now promised to fund the project. The plan is ...
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published March 1, 2011 and has No Comments
Photos: Worldchanging Book, AlexSteffen.com Time flies. It's already been 5 years since WorldChanging: A User's Guide to the 21st Century came out (our review can be found here ). A lot has happened since then, so Alex Steffen (pictured above, a co-founder of WC and the editor of the book) and the WorldChanging team have updated their "user's guide ...
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published February 28, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: DesertNews Tim DeChristopher became an icon in the environmental movement in 2008, when he entered outrageously high bids for parcels of land being auctioned off for gas and oil development -- bids that he had no intention of ever paying. Now, since his deed -- and perhaps partly because of it -- that entire auction was ruled illegitimate. ...
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published February 28, 2011 and has No Comments
The Guardian reports that one of the world's most advanced rainforest restoration and research projects in the world, the Seeds of Heaven Biodiversity Research & Development Centre in the Bulang Mountains of southern China, is ablaze with 100' flames. The flames appear to have spread from the direction of a neighboring cow farm. Local officials say the spark was ...
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published February 25, 2011 and has No Comments
photo: mitwa17 / Creative Commons When money gets tight and voters feel especially uncertain about the future, legislators, wanting to look like they are doing something to help, may be tempted to halt the normal environmental rule-making steps. Here's a remarkable example from Wisconsin: Republican lawmakers have stepped in to 'help' their constituents by forbidding the big bad Department ...
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published February 25, 2011 and has No Comments
NOW Showcase Fall 2011, New York Fashion Week. Photo: Titania Inglis What's hot for Fall 2011? According to new and emerging green designers unveiling at the Now Showcase , held in the Terminal Building during New York Fashion Week , it's pleated leggings, glitzy kicks, and glittering jewels using reclaimed materials. Designer Titania Inglis stole the show with her ...
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