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Kevin Grandia

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Michael Mann in his own words on the stolen CRU emails

Kevin Grandia | Posted November 26, 2009 | Green


With all the wild accusations flying around over the illegally obtained email correspondence from the University of East Climate Research Unit, I thought I would ask one of the scientists in the middle of the issue to provide some context.

Penn State University climate scientist, Dr. Michael Mann,...

Jessy Tolkan

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Attn Leaders: Share Your Ideas With Obama at Wednesday's Youth Clean Energy Forum

Jessy Tolkan | Posted November 25, 2009 | Green


This Thanksgiving, leaders in the youth climate movement have much more to celebrate than our tofurkey dinners. On the heels of the President's encouraging announcement that he will attend the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen on Dec. 9, dozens of us also received an invitation to the Obama...

Andrew Winston

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It Certainly Is An Impressive Hoax: Making The World's Glaciers Melt

Andrew Winston | Posted November 25, 2009 | Green


The anger and energy of the climate skeptics is at a fever pitch lately. The breaking story that the Wall Street Journal loves so much is about one climate research center in the UK that may have been unwelcoming to contrary opinions. So the conspiracy theorists are all over this...

Ari Herzog

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Building a Green School in Guatemala

Ari Herzog | Posted November 25, 2009 | Green


With a mission "to break the cycle of poverty among youth in developing communities by creating educational opportunities, cultivating civic interaction, and encouraging healthy lifestyles," the Guatemalan nonprofit organization, Long Way Home, is amid a green construction project to build a school building for the 40,000 residents of San Juan...

Andrew Kimbrell

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Give Thanks, But Not For Toxic Sewage Sludge

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted November 25, 2009 | Green


Thanksgiving is the holiday most associated with celebrating healthy and abundant food. For many, it is also be a time when we recommit ourselves to creating an organic food future that promotes, safe, local, humane, socially just and biodiverse food production.

An under-publicized and often hidden threat to this...

Nick Mabey

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Sorting Blinks From Winks In The Copenhagen End Game

Nick Mabey | Posted November 25, 2009 | Green


In the world of military intelligence, much time is spent trying to distinguish "blinks" -- unpremeditated random actions -- from "winks" -- deliberate moves designed to communicate intent and draw out a response. The climate change negotiations have now entered a phase where a team of tame "spooks" is needed...

Naomi Starkman

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For The Love Of Turkeys: A Real Thanksgiving

Naomi Starkman | Posted November 25, 2009 | Green


When I moved to the country this past spring, I breathed a sigh of relief for the natural environment and abundant animal life surrounding me. Gophers are everywhere--supposedly they ran the Russians out of Sonoma County--their wild escapades are evident across the dimpled landscape of the 80-acre organic farm I...

Bradley  Whitford

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Join The Hopenhagen Ambassador Contest

Bradley Whitford | Posted November 25, 2009 | Green


(Ed Note -- This is a video blog from Bradley Whitford encouraging you to become a candidate for our Hopenhagen Ambassador contest, where we'll send one lucky winner to the Copenhagen Climate Conference, which Obama just announced he will be attending. You can enter the contest here.)

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Bill Scher

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Obama Sets The Bar For Copenhagen Success

Bill Scher | Posted November 25, 2009 | Green


President Obama announced today that he will attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, raising the stakes for himself and all participating nations.

The initial goal for Copenhagen was to forge a binding treaty. But that ambitious goal has been scaled back. With American climate protection...

Kevin Grandia

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Show me the email Morano! Climate spindoctors throwing stones in glass houses

Kevin Grandia | Posted November 24, 2009 | Green


The climate conspiracy theorists are enjoying their moment of glory with the hacked emails that were made public late last week.

And who can blame them, given that many of them were relegated to the fringe years ago?

I suspect that most mainstream media will not buy the overblown...

Carl Pope

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Slouching Towards Copenhagen

Carl Pope | Posted November 24, 2009 | Green


What do we make of the prospects for global action on the climate crisis, given recent events both in the U.S. Congress and in the international conversations leading up to Copenhagen? Something very peculiar is going on. Most of the major players are moving in the right direction -- toward...

Alex Wang

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Obama In China: What Should Be Done To Build Confidence On US-China Climate Action

Alex Wang | Posted November 24, 2009 | Green


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The leaders of the world asked for an extension on climate action in Singapore this past weekend.  As Jake Schmidt points out, whether this is good or bad depends on how the leaders of the world's top emitters...

Wade Norris

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Help Send A Citizen Journalist To Copenhagen

Wade Norris | Posted November 24, 2009 | Green


Huffington Post is holding a contest to send a citizen journalist to Copenhagen as part of its Hopenhagen platform. This contest will provide a unique insight on Copenhagen, and will be a chance for the concerns of the people to be heard.

The most important humanitarian crisis of the...

Rebecca Solnit

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Remembering People Power In Seattle In 1999 And Berlin In 1989

Rebecca Solnit | Posted November 24, 2009 | Green


Next month, at the climate change summit in Copenhagen, the wealthy nations that produce most of the excess carbon in our atmosphere will almost certainly fail to embrace measures adequate to ward off the devastation of our planet by heat and chaotic weather.  Their leaders will probably promise us teaspoons...

Keith Addis

Ocean Issues Are Profoundly Important, Though Mostly Invisible

Keith Addis | Posted November 24, 2009 | Green


The following is a speech I gave last week for Oceana's 16th annual Partner Award event honoring Arianna Huffington and Deepak Chopra

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How many of you here tonight get at least five fundraiser invitations a month? How many get ten? Fifteen?

This is the stack of them that...

S. Jacob Scherr

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Reviving Rainforests: Your Help is Needed

S. Jacob Scherr | Posted November 24, 2009 | Impact


Protecting and restoring the world's rainforests is critical to preserve biodiversity. Tropical forests are teeming with life -- covering just about 6 percent of the earth's surface they are home to between half and three quarters of all plant and animal species in the world.

Last year, NRDC launched its...

Jeff Bocan

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The Midwest Is Going Off The Grid ... One Turbine At A Time

Jeff Bocan | Posted November 24, 2009 | Business


As a Midwest-based venture capitalist, I focus on rapid growth sectors for the Midwest (particularly in Michigan), and one sector I have recently fallen in love with is wind energy. Okay, maybe not love, but certainly lust.

It is lust not solely for the wind industry's rapid rate of...

Bharati Chaturvedi

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Dismantling India's E-Waste: Potential for Green Jobs?

Bharati Chaturvedi | Posted November 24, 2009 | Green


An abiding image of contemporary India is the high-tech call center. A less known one is the wire-strewn electronic waste recycling yard.

India's 300 million-strong middle class is buying more and more electronic goods; televisions are no longer a novelty and computers are de rigueur for children. Cell phones have...

Chauncey Zalkin

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The Forest For The Trees: 2 Women Leading Biomimicry In Design

Chauncey Zalkin | Posted November 24, 2009 | Green


When I was in the thick of my New York life and not taking many vacations out in the greenery, I was invited to go white water rafting. My main occupation at the time was observing...

Frances Beinecke

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Obama's Meeting With India's Prime Minister: Another Chance To Advance Clean Energy

Frances Beinecke | Posted November 24, 2009 | Green


 With the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen just weeks away, Obama has a chance to push real, concrete action forward by making clean energy and climate solutions a central part of his meetings with India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

As the world’s fourth largest emitter of greenhouse gases, India will be...

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