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50 minutes of wonky goodness
Below the fold is a 50-minute video of an interview Al Gore did with The Guardian.
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No month is complete without it
For those of you who missed a remarkable discovery earlier this summer: a snake of a different color."The discovery of the 'chameleon' snake exposes one of nature's best kept secrets deep in the heart of Borneo," WWF's Stuart Chapman said in a press release. "Its ability to change color has kept it hidden from science until now. I guess it just picked the wrong color that day."
Indeed. I have hopes that its habitat does not one day become a biofuel farm.
As predicted, producers of palm oil are already running out of land.
"There's just not enough land to plant in Malaysia ... At the end of the day, there's no other way but to expand overseas."
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From Malibu to MARTA
The OMG Environmental degradation threatens some of the world’s most fascinating creatures in their native habitats. The Amazon rainforest. The Arctic. The coastal waters of Indonesia. Malibu, Calif. This last one, home of Americanus celebritus, is of particular concern. Won’t you find it in your hearts to help? Photo: John Sciulli / WireImage.com Blew in […]
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Here’s how
The following is a guest essay by Jan Lundberg, who, in search of depaving opportunities, lives in San Francisco with no car. He founded Culturechange.org and organizes Petrocollapse Conferences. He can be reached emailE=('jan@' + 'culturechange.org') document.write('' + 'via email' + '') . The essay may find its way into his forthcoming book.-----
As a petroleum industry analyst who gave up material security for a career as an activist against petroleum industry expansion, I've developed a unique understanding of the global peak in oil extraction. Questioning society's energy needs has always been my tendency. But I gained further understanding of our culture by giving up affluence and many conveniences. This was an attempt to get closer to nature and live by my wits with the support of activists and my growing community of friends far and wide.
In 2004 I hit the road (the rails, usually) to spread the word about the plastic plague, petrocollapse, and the positive future that culture change will present. It was fitting that the nonprofit organization I founded in 1988, Fossil Fuels Policy Action, eventually became known as Culture Change. I was delighted to learn last year that geologist M. King Hubbert, who discovered peak oil, identified the fact that we do not have an energy crisis but a culture crisis:
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I Know What You Did With That Last Hummer
Schwarzenegger sells his Hummers, pals around with NYC Mayor Bloomberg [See correction below.] Had your doubts that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) was walking his green talk? Oh, he’s walking all right — the guv has sold his eight Hummers. It was Schwarzenegger who originally convinced then-manufacturer AM General to make a version of the […]
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Terry Troth
California campaigner spreading carbon-cap gospel to other states Terry Tamminen is restyling himself as the “Johnny Appleseed” of carbon caps. Formerly environmental adviser and cabinet secretary for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R), he’s now working to spread California’s climate policy to other states, and eventually, he hopes, to the country as a whole. First he’ll focus […]
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Johnson Resists Lobbying of Special-Interest “Science” Groups
EPA chief spurns scientific advice, rejects stricter particulate controls Yesterday, U.S. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson — rejecting the near-unanimous recommendation of his agency’s own scientific advisory council, as well as the pleas of health and environmental advocates — failed to strengthen the Clean Air Act’s standards for maximum annual soot-particle levels. Johnson did strengthen the […]
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Is Monsanto playing fast and loose with Roundup Ready Soybeans in Argentina?
Crying not for Argentina but for lost patent fees, Monsanto’s legal hacks are in European courts suing to block millions of tons of Argentine soybean meal from docking on the continent. Bean there, sprayed that. Photo: iStockphoto Monsanto says that much of the meal crossing the Atlantic to feed Europe’s cows and pigs contains traces […]
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The Al Gore way
It's called moral leadership. Maybe you remember it from last century.
Sir Richard said his new commitment grew out of a visit to his London home a few months ago by former Vice President Al Gore ...
"You are in a position maybe to make a difference," Sir Richard said Mr. Gore told him. "If you can make a giant step forward other people will follow."Update [2006-9-22 9:59:46 by David Roberts]: ThinkProgress has footage of Gore and Branson discussing the issue on ABC.
