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Naomi Klein says big green groups are more trouble than climate deniers
She argues that mainstream environmentalists are too tied to the neoliberal agenda to embrace the huge shifts needed to tackle climate change.
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Poor snowshoe hares still think they’re camouflaged even when they’re really not
They turn white whether there's snow on the ground or not -- and climate change means that it's more likely that there's not.
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Can these three billionaire superfriends save the climate?
Michael Bloomberg, Tom Steyer, and Hank Paulson are teaming up to launch a big bipartisan climate initiative next month.
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Japan played down nuclear troubles as it fought for Olympic hosting rights
Fukushima shmookushima. That's what Japanese officials said as they convinced IOC officials to let them host the 2020 Summer Olympics.
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Shell fined $1.1 million for polluting Arctic air during error-plagued drilling efforts
Not only were both of Shell's exploratory drilling rigs in the Arctic damaged in accidents last year; they both violated the Clean Air Act.
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Obama signs on to three international climate pacts in three days
The president pledged in June that he would lead global climate efforts. With these new pacts, it looks like he's actually trying.
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Europe says its own biofuels policies increase food costs 50%, drive deforestation
Two new studies that came out in Europe during the last couple of days show that biofuel mandates are causing consumers far more pocketbook pain – and contributing more to deforestation and climate pollution – than even previous studies suggested. The European Union’s own Joint Research Center found that Europe’s biofuels mandates are dramatically driving […]
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5 Barriers to and Solutions for Community Renewable Energy
Community renewable energy has significant political and economic benefits, but is often hindered by five major barriers. Read on for a summary of the five barriers, watch them in a 17-minute presentation, or check out the vividly illustrated slideshow. Barrier one is tradition. Utilities are simply used to operating a grid in a 20th century […]
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Australians elect climate denier who pledges to dump carbon tax
Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott once called climate science "absolute crap." His first order of business: Scrap the country's climate programs.
