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Plugging the black hole afflicting the U.N. climate talks (and everything else)
After the stratospheric buildup and colossal letdown of last year’s major global climate talks in Copenhagen it can be tough to see the promise in this year’s Cancun round of talks. But despite the gloom of low expectations, climate advocates have found a few bright spots on which to center their hopes. One leading light […]
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Climate Change Deniers Will Go Hungry Too
Trying to get investors and policymakers to focus on things we can all agree on, such as saving energy and money or creating domestic renewable energy jobs, I have refused to engage the climate change skeptics. After all, it’s somewhat irrelevant whether global warming is caused by humans if the measures to change that trajectory […]
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Scientists fight Inhofe attack on climate fund
Climate scientists are fighting back against assertions that the threats posed by climate change are too uncertain to justify any action.
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Bicycle freight: thinking outside the box truck
Bicycles are already a major piece of the freight puzzle all over the world. Could the practice take off in U.S. cities as well?
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God Bless America
Like Native Americans in the nineteenth century, Imperial Oil must now see the Canada-U.S. border as something of a Medicine Line: On the American side, persecution; on the Canadian side, freedom. The irony, of course, is as grand as Imperial’s plan to transport hundreds of giant pieces of industrial equipment — most larger than the […]
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Six Companies Earn Gigaton Awards for Climate Leadership
The Carbon War Room and the Gigaton Throwdown on Saturday announced the winners of the first annual Gigaton Prizes, a set of awards intended to inspire and challenge businesses to lead on climate change. The prizes were awarded to: NIKE for its energy savings program aimed at reducing its global greenhouse gas emissions; Reckitt Benckiser […]
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The United States Needs to Lead on Climate Finance
This piece was co-written by Sean Sarah, National Press Desk, Alliance for Climate Protection. Today, the Alliance for Climate Protection and the Center for American Progress released a report, based on analysis by Climate Advisers and Project Catalyst, that provides a blueprint for how the United States can show leadership on climate finance, despite current […]
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Ask Umbra on living holiday trees and other options
What?s the most sustainable sapling to celebrate with? Ask Umbra?s holiday primer on live trees, cut trees, fake trees, and more will settle the score
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Jonathan Franzen on activism, compromises, overpopulation, and birds
In an exclusive interview with Grist, Jonathan Franzen talks about the environmental themes in his novel "Freedom," plus activism, population, & more.
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Friday music blogging: Girl Talk
Girl Talk is DJ Greg Gillis, who has made a name mashing up beats, melody lines, and vocals from different songs into epic, album-length party sets. All told, the albums contain hundreds of samples, far more than any mere mortal could afford to license, so the results are ... less than legal. But great! The latest is called All Day.
