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Prop 23: Green Jobs vs. Dirty Energy
In our moments of hope, we look to and count on our elected officials to make the right decision. In our moments of cynicism, we fear that they will instead make wrong decisions in order to make nebulously defined “special interests” happy. So when our elected officials take bold action on critical issues, it’s important […]
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Conserving and rebuilding soils in the U.S. and around the world
Shelterbelts, strip cropping, and no-till practices are helping to keep American soil from blowing away, and African countries and China are planting "green walls" to keep the desert at bay. But overgrazing is going to be a problem.
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How air-conditioning is baking our world
Q & A: Stan Cox explains in his new book, Losing Our Cool, how AC is a big driver of global warming and unsustainable development.
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The polluters' newfound concern for the poor
Oil companies think they will deliver the masses from poverty and the World Bank seems to agree. But do their projects actually support the poor?
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Peabody Coal's Plan to Save the World…Or Itself?
The coal industry is a filthy business, but that doesn’t stop the industry from spending a fortune on PR consultants to try and distract attention away from the costs it imposes on Americans every day. With labels like “clean coal” and “green coal,” the coal industry’s spinmeisters spend a lot of time and money trying […]
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Coal Is King In China, And Top Priority For Engineers Determined To Lower Climate Risks
TIANJIN, China – This industrious nation’s allegiance to construction projects of massive scale are as familiar to the world as the 2,500-year-old, 5,500-mile Great Wall of China, which protected the country’s northern frontier, and as imposing as the wide moats and towering red stone walls of the 600-year-old Forbidden City at the heart of Beijing. […]
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Is it time to be philosophical about climate change?
With apologies to another ancient Mediterranean civilization, is it useful — when in Greece – to do as the Greeks might have when it comes to addressing climate change? In other words, with a crisis that demands such urgent and widespread human action, do we have time to be philosophical? Dr. Ole Faergeman, a renowned […]
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Designer Bruce Mau on the suburbs, the mall, and the automobile [AUDIO]
Jeanne Park of PBS's Need to Know speaks with Mau about his love of the suburbs, cup holders, and the challenge of rebranding climate change.
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In Tianjin, China and the U.S. Similarities Overshadow Differences
On opposite sides of the Pacific, leaders of the world’s two biggest economies and carbon polluters are plainly thinking about clean energy to power up their economies and cool the climate. In Washington, the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced their intention to extend vehicle efficiency standards that went into […]
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Appalachia rises: Let's do the same
Media reports of the massive and important One Nation Working Together demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial yesterday reported on its diversity, the mix of cultures, and issues represented. Indeed, when compared to the Tea Party/Glenn Beck, virtually-all-white event on August 28, the contrast is striking. This isn’t surprising, of course, given that the Tea Party […]
