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Blogging Begins from New Sierra Club Beyond Coal Director Mary Anne Hitt
Today I am officially turning over the blog reins to Mary Anne Hitt, the new Director of the Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign. She will now be blogging weekly on important coal and clean energy issues – so I urge you to bookmark her blog. Her first post is up now. Mary Anne has been […]
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California sacrifices farm workers in favor of strawberries
California has approved the use of methyl iodide, a powerful neurotoxic pesticide that will affect those who harvest strawberries far more than those who eat them. How does that make you feel?
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Energy Department: U.S. could store CO2 underground for the next 5,700 years
While CCS remains highly controversial and untried, partnerships are investigating areas in the U.S. and Canada for injecting billions of metric tons of greenhouse gases into underground geologic formations.
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Smart readers weigh in on behavior change
A couple weeks ago, I wrote a post on behavior change that prompted a lot of great feedback and discussion. I've picked out a few interesting bits and pieces from the thread to highlight and respond to.
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Cherry guy will do his part to keep Brooklyn bees from turning red
The owner of a maraschino cherry factory is going to do what he can to keep neighborhood bees out of the sticky-sweet corn syrup they love too much.
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I'm transparent why can't you be
This is the second in a series of video blogs from the global warming negotiations in Mexico (see the first one on the mood at the beginning of the global warming negotiations). It covers what happened in the second day of the two week negotiation session. The real sub-story from yesterday was around transparency – both […]
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The Climate Post: Scientific papers paint most accurate portrait of Earth’s future yet
Just in time for the ongoing talks in Cancun, Mexico, the U.K.'s Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research has rounded up a trove of cutting-edge scientific research that paints what may be the most accurate portrait of Earth's future to date. Plus, how to blame extreme weather on climate change (without having to apologize for doing so) and what Tea Partiers and environmentalists agree on.
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What if there had never been a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency? [SLIDESHOW]
In pictures, a dystopian view of the world we would have inherited had not President Nixon signed the EPA into law forty years ago today.
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Congress passes the school lunch bill, but there's less to it than meets the eye
The House finally joined the Senate in passing child nutrition legislation. Sustainable-food advocates are cheering, but the new law won't transform the dismal nature of school lunches.
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Jon Stewart smacks Glenn Beck over food safety bill
The Daily Show comedian praises the Senate for passing (well, almost) the food safety bill, and mocks Fox for FDA fear-mongering. I wonder, maybe Glenn Beck doesn't want the FDA poking around in his business?
