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G8 Deaf to Climate Change Warnings by International Energy Agency

Kelly Rigg | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Renewable Energy, G8, Climate Change, International Energy Agency, Wwf, Iea, Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Green News

When the chief economist for the International Energy Agency issues a dire warning, you'd think the world's leaders would sit up and take notice.

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New Report Takes Stock Of Planet's Health

Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Video, Natural Capital, Living Planet, World Wildlife Fund, Living Planet Report, Environment, Wwf Living Planet Report, Wwf, Ecological Footprint, Living Planet Index, Living Planet Report 2012, Wwf Report, Green News

Humans are currently using the equivalent of one and a half Earths to support our activities. This and other startling findings were revealed today wi...

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Last Javan Rhino In Vietnam Killed By Poachers, Group Says

AP | By MIKE IVES | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Vietnam Rhino, Video, Javan Rhino Vietnam, Vietnam Rhinoceros, Rhinoceros, Javan Rhinoceros, Animals, Wwf, Javan Rhino, Last Rhino, Green News

HANOI, Vietnam -- Vietnam has lost its fight to save its rare Javan rhinoceros population after poachers apparently killed the country's last animal f...

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Online Swear Jar Allows Users To Donate To Charity For Talking Sh*t Online

Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Rahm Emanuel Twitter, Video, Twitter, Charity, Peta, Kelly Oxford, Unicef, Charity Swear Box, Wwf, Online Swearing, Online Charity, Impact News

Twitter stars, such as the loose-lipped fake @MayorEmanuel and feisty Canadian mom @KellyOxford, are known for letting expletives fly on the microblo...

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Panda Bashing: Reflections on NGO-Business Partnerships

Scott Poynton | Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: International Greenwashing, World Wide Fund for Nature, WWF Controversy, Conservation, World Wildlife Fund, Wwf, NGO Partnerships, Green News

Prenuptial dances between businesses and NGOs now focus more on questions of delivery. What are you delivering? How are you doing it? Is it bringing real change in the eyes of the people that count?

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The Coolest Billboard Ever?

The Huffington Post | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Coca-Cola Plant Billboard, Coca-Cola, Billboards, Living Billboard, Advertising, Nature, Plant Billboard, Environment, Wwf, Philippines, Green News

Together with the World Wildlife Federation, on June 23 Coca-Cola unveiled a billboard in the Philippines that's actually good for the city it inhabit...

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Former WWE Star: I Was Molested As Kid

tmz.com | 19 Minutes Ago by TMZ Staff | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Sean Waltman, X-Pac Molested as Kid, Wwe, X-Pac Book, X-Pac, Sean Waltman Molested, Wwf, Sean Waltman Book, X-Pac Molested, Sports News

Former WWE wrestler X-Pac says he suffered years of sexual abuse as a child -- and he's opening up about his emotional struggle in the hopes of helpin...

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How NGOs Are Using Data Maps to Communicate Problems

Andrew Turner | Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: Wwf, Ngo, Climascope, World Wildlife Fund, World Bank Project, United Nations Environment Programme, Oceanaids, Geo-Mapping, Geo-Mapping and Ngos, Impact News

With their international reach, abundance of data, and lack of access to data scientists, NGOs can benefit greatly from being able to employ easy to use data analysis and mapping technologies.

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Remembering Randy "Macho Man" Savage

Jon Chattman | Posted 07.21.2011

Read More: Wrestling, Slim Jim, Wwe, Vince McMahon, Hulkamaniac, World Wrestling Entertainment, Foam Fingers, Roddy Piper, 1980s, Hulk Hogan, Spider-Man, Macho Man Randy Savage, Macho Man Killed, Wrestlemania, Wwf, Randy Savage, Sports News

There will never be another Savage. Without him, there would be no "Stone Cold" Steve Austin or "heels" you could root for. As a wrestler, I idolized him. As a man, I respected him.

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Wrestling Legend 'Macho Man' Randy Savage Dies

Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Wrestling, Macho Man Car Accident, Macho Man Dies, Randy Savage Dead, Randy Savage Car Accident, Randy Savage Died, Macho Man, Video, Randy Savage, Macho Man Randy Savage, Randy Savage Dies, Wwf, Macho Man Dead, Sports News

Legendary wrestler "Macho Man" Randy Savage died on Friday in a car accident near Tampa, Fla., TMZ reports. According to the accident report, Savag...

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Are We Living Out ‘The Lorax’?

The Huffington Post | Joanna Zelman | Posted 06.29.2011

Read More: Arbor Day, Cutting Down Trees, Living Forests, Forest Degradation, Nature, Environment, Logging, The Lorax, Wwf, Arbor Day 2011, Deforestation, Green News

Every minute, we lose 36 football fields-worth of forests. Are we living out Dr. Seuss’s environmental fable, “The Lorax”? WWF recently relea...

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WWF and Leonardo Dicaprio Restructure the Year of the Tiger

Wendy Diamond | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Endangered Species, Wendy Diamond, Save the Tigers, World Wildlife Fund, Wwf, Leonardo Dicaprio, Tigers, Impact News

A hundred years ago there were 100,000 tigers in the wild. Today there are as few as 3,200.

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Davos 2011: Welcome to the World of the "G-Everybody"

Aron Cramer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt Protests, Davos 2011, Sustainability, Wind Energy, Tunisia Riots, Shared Norms, Wwf, Consumption, China, G-20, World Economic Forum, Business News

Welcome to the world where our information, perspectives and influence come from more sources than we can possibly count.

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New Eco-Friendly File Format Prevents Printing

Mother Nature Network | Siel Ju | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Email, Eco-Friendly, Green Living, Wwf, Going Green, World Wildlife Federation, Wwf Format, Unprintable File, File Prevents Printing, Wwf File Format, Green News

Don't want your e-mail attachments to get printed? Save it as a WWF file and foil attempts to put your document on paper....

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Over 1,000 Illegal Tiger Parts Seized In Past Decade

AP | DENIS D. GRAY | Posted 05.25.2011

BANGKOK — More than 1,000 parts of tigers slain by poachers across Asia have been seized over the past decade, raising fears that the big cats a...

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Russian Bears Eating Corpses

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arctic Circle, Russian Bears, Bears Eating Corpses, Wwf, World Wildlife Fund, Russian Bear Population, Russia, Bears Raiding Graveyards, Vezhnya Tchova, Corpses, Tombstone, Graveyards, World News

A scorchingly hot summer has left Russia's vast population of bears without their traditional sources of food, leading the animals to dig up human cor...

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Reading and "Wrestlemania"

Will Weaver | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kelly Kelly, Divas, John Morrison, Wwf, Wrestlemania, Wwe, Kofi Kingston, Fabio, Books News

What do books and professional wrestling have in common? A fair amount, it turns out. I just returned from "Wrestlemania" in Phoenix, which included a big reading smack-down for kids.

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Dutch Artist To Place Art Atop A Melting Iceberg (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Greenland Climate Change, World Wildlife Fund, Inuit People, Ap Verheggen Wwf, Arctic Climate Change, Ap Verheggen, Umanak Greenland, Climate Change, Ap Verheggen Climate Change, Ap Verheggen Sculptures, Wwf, Video, Green News

According to the World Wildlife Fund, nowhere are the effects of climate change more evident than in the Arctic, where its progression is twice as fas...

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Earth Hour Hopenhagen

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Earth Hour, Copenhagen 2009, Wwf, UN Climate Change, Panda, Un Climate Change Conference, Slidepoll, Green News

On December 16, 2009, thousands of Copenhageners and visitors came out to celebrate Earth Hour Hopenhagen. The special event included a lantern parade...

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Chaos and Capitulation in Copenhagen

Jerry Cope | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: COP15 Protests, 350.Org, Wwf, Copenhagen 2009, Bella-Center, Nrdc, Unfccc, Hunter Lovins, Bill Mckibben, Sierra Club, Barack Obama, Green News

If the current proposals are adopted, CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere will reach approximately 770PPM by 2100. The "safe" level of CO2 has been determined to be 350PPM.

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Green Commercials (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepoll, Commercials, Wind Energy, World Wildlife Fund, Green Ads, Advertising, Toyota Prius, Polar Bears, Environmental Ads, Animals, Wwf, Go Green, Video, Green News

We rounded up some cute, clever, and funny green-themed commercials for your viewing pleasure. Watch and tell us which commercial gets its message acr...

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Chris Dodd Confronts WWE's Linda McMahon On Her Senate Candidacy

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 05.25.2011

While Linda McMahon's announcement of her candidacy for the Senate was certainly a surprise, no one could have expected the shocking response from Senator Chris Dodd. Take a look.

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HuffPost Exclusives: R.E.M. and Cory Chisel, Plus Bruce Hornsby Interview, Big Star Box, Paolo Nutini Live, This Week's New Albums, and more...

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Renee Fleming, Kid Cudi, Sony Legacy, The Pointer Sisters, Kanye West, Brendan Benson, Scarlett Johansson, Ying Yang Twins, Rob Blackledge, Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemaekrs, Trick Daddy, Bruce Hornsby and the Range, Bobby Read, One Tree Hill, Joe Wilson, Yes, John Christian Adams, Bruce Hornsby, Vern Gosdin, Manic Street Preachers, Wbcn, John Fogerty, Muse, Goalie, Bill Medley, Columbia Records, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Robbie Robertson, William and Mary, Men at Work, Williamsburg, VIncent Moon, Flo Rida, Shudder to Think, Soccer, Donnie McClurkin, Disney, Cab Calloway, Jack DeJohnette, Medicaid, American Idol, Outloud!, 429 Records, Colin Hay, Verve Forecast, Social Security, Elliott Smith, BBC Radio, The Lovemakers, Peter Yorn, The Raconteurs, RCA Records, Ne-Yo, Something to Burn, Shadows Fall, The Band of Heathens, Uncle Kracker, Matthew Sweet, Gary Go, Dappled Cities, Grey's Anatomy, Atlantic Records, Cy Coleman, Alex Chilton, Adriel Harris, Matt Chamberlain, Ahmet Ertegun, Q-Tip, Mason Jennings, The Black Dahlia Murders, Living Colour, Michael Raphael, Stax, Beyonce, J.T. Taylor, John Mayall, Mark Knopfler, Patrick Warren, Ricky Scaggs, Boston College, The Grateful Dead, Jody Stephens, Bill Evans, Tom Russell, Golden Smog, Clive David, Jupiter One, Randy Newman, Robert Hunter, Power Pop, The Band, Bruce Springsteen, Infected Mushroom, Eurythmics, Andy Hummel, Jon Auer, Levon Helm, Christian McBride, John Sebastian, Tina Sinatra, Aiden Brown, Phish, Sony Music, Royal Bangs, John King, Grace Potter, Peter Buck, Graham Albert, My Morning Jacket, The Peace Corps, Jeremiah, Santana, G.I. Bill, Steve Winwood, Big Pun, Rob Kemp, David Sylvain, Chris Knight, Doug Derryberry, That Noise, Lyfe Jennings, Honor Society, Sonny Emory, Entertainment News, Gordon Gano, Blake Mills, Jack Lawrence, Chris Bell, Frank Sinatra, E Street Band, Jefferson Airplane, Trey Songz, Eric Clapton, The Righteous Brothers, Chip deMatteo, Thomas Newman, Jer Coons, Arnold Schoenberg, Bill Lloyd, Barry White, Keith Sykes, Nancy Sinatra, Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons, Orange, Paolo Nutini, The Beatles, Big Star, Anvil, Nashville, Air Supply, Frank Sinatra Jr., Chad Smith, Wwf, Dada Life, Porcupine Tree, Peter Bernhard, Ace Frehley, The Grates, Revolutionary War, Butterfly Boucher, The Elms, The Shawshank Redemption, Medicare, Kurt Carr, Bobby Labonte, Marie Digby, Stars of Track and Filed, Afghan Whigs, Simian Mobile Disco, Americana, The Rifles, Mary J. Blige, The 69 Eyes, Al Albert, Memphis, Savoy Brown, Dreamworks, Every Time I Die, George Jones, Nina Simone, Big Scoop, Lady GaGa, Ardent Studios, Cain's Offering, R.E.M., Moneen, Kroq, Rubik, Kittie, Cornwallis, Dodos, All-4-One, Megadeth, Sonos, Entertainment News

R.E.M. will be releasing Live At The Olympia, a 39-song, two CD set containing "working rehearsals" from 2007. I was lent a track that captures the band's energy and insightful views.

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DDB Brasil Commercial Shows Planes Crashing Into World Trade Center, New York (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Tsunami, Commercial, World Wildlife Fund, Advertising, Ddb Brasil, 9/11, World Trade Center, Wwf, Ddb Brazil, Ddb, New York News

On Tuesday, a tasteless ad that depicted September 11th happening with hundreds of planes instead of two found its way on to the Internet. The ad was...

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Emily Dickinson and the Buddha vs. the WWF

Dean Sluyter | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Advertisements for Myself, Zen, Poetry, Franny and Zooey, Meditation, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anatta, Nirvana, Donald Rumsfeld, World Wrestling Federation, Self-Inquiry, New York Review of Books, Gospel of Thomas, Norman Mailer, Buddha, Thich Nhat Hanh, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Advaita, J.D. Salinger, Wwf, Mohandas Gandhi, Jesus Christ, Eastern Wisdom, Emily Dickinson, Buddhism, Transcendentalists, Amherst, Dzogchen, Healthy Living News

When the dream of self dissolves, we awake and see that the true church is wherever we are.

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