Ecological Issues

The "Super Committee" That's Not Meeting This Week

Robert Walker | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Population, Ecological Issues, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability, Food, Rio+20, Ecological Economics, Super Committee, Green News
Robert Walker

In all probability, there will never be anything close to a global "super committee" to resolve our ecological debt crisis. We will have to rely upon a loosely-knit international framework to ward off any kind of ecological collapse. Let's hope it's enough.

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We Need to Raise the Ecological Debt Ceiling

Steve Hallett and John Wright | Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: Ecological Debt, Ecological Debt Ceiling, Climate Change Politics, Ecological Issues, Climate Change, Green News
Steve Hallett and John Wright

The recent "end-of-the-world" hysteria raised by political wrangling surrounding the U.S. government's debt ceiling -- should be a wake-up call that we all owe more than just financial debt: there is an ecological debt to pay.

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Earth Day, Every Day

Dan Goleman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Ecological Issues, Green Living, Ecological Intelligence, Ecological-Intelligence, Green News
Dan Goleman

Every day can have meaningful eco-consequences if we make shopping a vote for a better planet and use new tools, like GoodGuide.com, that tell us about the ecological impacts of a product.

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Howl if You Love Gaia: Cristina Eisenberg's The Wolf's Tooth

Elizabeth Cunningham | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gray Wolves, Wolves, Ecological Issues, Cristina Eisenberg, Jesus, Biodiversity, Books News
Elizabeth Cunningham

Cristina Eisenberg takes her reader on a breathtaking, sometimes heartbreaking tour of the planet from the Gulf of Maine to the Amazonian rain forests.

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Lambro River Oil Spill May Create 'Ecological Disaster' In Italy

AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ecological Disaster, Environmental, Ecological Issues, Monza, Oil Spill, Milan, Environment, Italy, Lambro River, World News

ROME — An oil spill that fouled a small river in northern Italy reached the Po River on Wednesday, with officials warning of an ecological disas...

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Q&A: Acclaimed Doc Director Robert Stone Reviews Our Earth Days

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environmentalism, Ecological Issues, Sundance Film Festival, Robert Stone, Zeitgeist, Population, Earth Day, Green News
Brad Balfour

"Right now, the current battle over climate change, all it is being debated by Washington lobbying organizations," said Stone, "and how much money can you put into The Left versus The Right?"

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Ten Small Steps We Can Take To Save Our Planet

David Weinberger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Environmentalism, Ecological Issues, Ecology, Humor, Global Warming, Green News
David Weinberger

To save our planet, there's no need to make big changes in our lifestyles.

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Green News Report: June 2, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ecological Issues, Roadless Rule, Green News, Climate Change, Green News Report, Green Living, Pollution, Guns, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

In Today's Audio Report: Rules of the road; Packing in the Parks; Is eco-system recovery even possible? Plus: Green News Report helps your troubles g...

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Trafigura Dumped Toxic Waste On Ivory Coast: Documents

Guardian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ecological Issues, Trafigura, Toxic Waste Dump, Oil Trader, Probo Koala, Foreign Affairs, Africa, Environment, Trafigura Ivory Coast, Ivory Coast, Trafigura Toxic Waste Dump, Toxic Waste, Advocacy, World News

Documents have emerged which detail for the first time the potentially lethal nature of toxic waste dumped by British-based oil traders in one of west...

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National Ecological Literacy Standards

Stephen H. Dinan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ecological Literacy, Ecological Issues, Education, Arne Duncan, Earth Day, Earth Day 2009, Green News
Stephen H. Dinan

What if we created national ecological literacy standards that helped to ensure that every child in the USA had the basic understandings necessary for us to become a sustainable country?

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There Aren't Enough Spidermen

Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green, Environment, Ecological Issues, Ecology, Biodiversity, Genetic Sequencing, Green News
Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle

We are spending more than $2 billion of US taxpayer money to send another rover to Mars next year, when so much of our own planet remains unexplored and unknown.

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Power Failure: McCain's Batteries Are Flat

Margaret Heffernan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green, Cars, Ecological Issues, New Technology, Mccain, Mccain Energy Policy, Mccain Battery Contest, Mccain Energy Policy 2008, Business News
Margaret Heffernan

McCain says nothing about the ecological consequences of the technology behind the car battery contest. He speaks merely of cost, wanting us all to be able to maintain our lifestyle -- just pay less.

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Solar-Powered Homes Heat Up Cool Housing Market

LA Times | Elizabeth Douglass | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Ecological Issues, Housing Market, Solar Power, Healthy Living News

With foreclosures rising and home prices diving, there is a bright spot in California's residential real estate market: Solar-powered homes are starti...

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