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While Earth Warms

David Victor | Posted 06.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Price Floors, Carbon Tax, Carbon Emissions, High Oil Prices, Greenhouse Gases, Gas Tax, Oil Prices, Climate Change, Oil Politics, Green News

Serious global warming policies require careful political engineering because they imply a radical reorganization of the energy system. Last week's vote is a reminder that those policies could be years away.

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Convert Your Car To Electric

ENN.com | Posted 06.02.2008 | Green

Read More: Diy, Hybrids, Carbon Emissions, Electric Cars, Green News

Gasoline-powered cars are perhaps the most inefficient devices that many of us use daily. The internal combustion engine is inefficient in term of pol...

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Private Jet Sharing Cuts Guilt and C02 for the Eco Rich

The Guardian | Karen McVeigh | Posted 05.29.2008 | Green

Read More: Private Jet Sharing, Eco-Rich, Private Jet Travel, Carbon Emissions, Eco-Guilt, Private Jets, c02, Green News

It's the ultimate dilemma for the seriously rich with a conscience - how to enjoy private jet travel without the guilt about carbon footprints. But no...

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From Woodstock to Rothbury: From Activism to Energy Independence

Dan Worth | Posted 05.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Environment, John Mayer, Environmentalism, Woodstock, Carbon Emissions, 1968, Dave Matthews Band, Living News

Summer of '68 In the summer of 1968, the US was experiencing post-war growing pains that sparked the birth of a social and political movement that wou...

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A Torch to Bear

August J. Pollak | Posted 04.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Environment, Olympic Torch Protests, Olympic Torch, Carbon Emissions, China Tibet, Beijing Olympics, China, Carbon Footprint, Politics News

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It's 10 AM -- Do You Know Where Your Employees Are, Mr. Administrator?

Carl Pope | Posted 03.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Stephen Johnson, Carbon Emissions, Epa, Dianne Feinstein, Environmentalism, Environmental Protection Agency, Politics News

Environmental Protection Agency staff are as upset at what administrator Stephen Johnson has instructed them to do as they are at what he has failed to do.

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Hugging an Accountant is Smarter than Hugging a Tree

Eben Esterhuizen | Posted 02.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Carbon Emissions, Short Term-Ism, Suvs, Environmental Future, Business News

Financial accounting is probably the most powerful weapon we have to tackle short-termism, the cause of our environmental problems.

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Clinton, Obama Global Warming Plans Overlook China, India

Byron Williams | Posted 02.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Global Warming, Carbon Emissions, Environment, Environmentalism, India, China, Clinton Global Warming, Global Warming, Politics News

The next president must make the argument to China and India that the manner in which they are now realizing economic growth is bad for the planet.

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The FDA's Dangerous Cloned Beef Decision

Alec Baldwin | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fast Food, Cloned Meat, Carbon Emissions, Starbucks Organic, Starbucks, Fda Approval, Beef Industry, Fda, FDA Cloned Meat, Cloning, Politics News

At a time when government agencies should be working in unison on a plan to reduce carbon emissions from as many sources as possible, the FDA's cloning decision is a bad one.

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Shellenberger & Nordhaus: Modestly Right, Not Interestingly Wrong

David Roberts | Posted 01.13.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Green, Carbon Emissions, Public Investment, Shellenberger & Nordhaus, Entertainment News

The fatal flaw in "Break Through" is the pivot from an important psychosocial insight about language to a concrete recommendation about policy.

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FTC Worries About Improper Use Of Carbon-Offset Money

New York TImes | Louise Story | Posted 01.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Volkswagon, Carbon Offset Credits, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Offsets, Ftc, Business News

Corporations and shoppers in the United States spent more than $54 million last year on carbon offset credits toward tree planting, wind farms, solar ...

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Newt Gingrich and Republican Fears Over Global Warming

Rep. Jay Inslee | Posted 01.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Carbon Emissions, Fossil Fuels, Renewable Energy, Republicans Global Warming, Ethanol, Newt Gingrich, Gingrich Global Warming, Global Warming, Politics News

Newt Gingrich may have finally gotten it partly right, but on the biggest issue of our time he is totally wrong -- again.

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BP Proves Beyond Petroleum Was Greenwashing

Joseph Romm | Posted 12.18.2007 | Business

Read More: Oil, Bp Fuel, Bp, Bp Dirty Fuel, CO2, Carbon Emissions, Greenpeace, Mike Hudema, Business News

BP, the oil company that lavished millions on advertising its move "Beyond Petroleum," announced this month it's putting $3 billion into this dirtiest of dirty fuels!

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Walking With The Dolphins: My Motive to Think Green

Paige Donner | Posted 12.18.2007 | Living

Read More: Carbon Emissions, Prius, Brad Pitt's 'Make It Right' Project, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Going Green, Make It Right, Al Gore Nobel Prize, Angelina Jolie, Environmentalism, Hollywood Goes Green, Honda Hybrid, Reproduct, Brad Pitt, Hybrid Cars, Climate Change, Al Gore Oscar, Living News

Hollywood loves a winner and this glorified high school campus of hipsters has decided that our planet's environment is not just attention-worthy but that Green is Cool, and, even better, Green is Green.

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Another Depressing Screed on Global Warming

Nicholas Brown | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics

Read More: Manhattan Sinking, India Pollution, Rising Sea Level, Carbon Emissions, Polar Bears, Reducing Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Pollution in China, Global Warming, Carbon Footprint, Politics News

My generation, our generation for those of you twenty-somethings out there, is going to be the first, by most indications, to really feel the worst effects of climate change.

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Leading the Way Towards a Clean Energy Future

Jessy Tolkan | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics

Read More: Climate Change, Congress, Clean Energy, Carbon Emissions, Global Warming, Oil Dependence, Nancy Pelosi, Politics News

It is time we stopped subsidizing dirty industries of the past and time we started investing in the future.

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When Climate Change Becomes an Issue of National Security

Ann Carlson | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: UN Bali Climate Change Conference, National Security and the Threat of Climate Change, Iraq War Funding, Bush Kyoto, Carbon Emissions, Anthony Zinni, Kyoto, Politics News

As Bush chastises the Democrats for endangering national security, the world meets to address what may be the biggest threat of all, with no leadership whatsoever from the leader of the free world.

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NYT's Tom Friedman is Wrong on Global 'Weirding'

Joseph Romm | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics

The people we are waiting for are the politican leaders. Everyone else needed to solve the global warming problem has been around for a while.

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Somebody Didn't Get the Environment vs. Economy Memo

David Roberts | Posted 11.30.2007 | Business

Read More: Climate Change, Business, Low Carbon Economy, Environment and Government, Carbon Emissions, Bali Communiqué, Green Business, Kyoto, Protecting the Environment, UN Environment, Business Leaders Helping the Environment, Business News

More than 150 companies worldwide, representing some $4 trillion in market valuation, have signed the Bali Communiqué. Can somebody forward this to the U.S. Congress?

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18 Top Brit Companies Pledge To Help Curb Carbon Emissions

New York Times | JULIA WERDIGIER | Posted 11.25.2007 | Business

Read More: Reducing Carbon Emissions, Tesco, Bp, Green Britain, Carbon Emissions, BT, British Companies, Business News

Britain's largest companies are pledging to offer greener products and invest in research and technology as part of a wider push to reduce carbon emis...

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Where's the Press?

Ann Carlson | Posted 11.21.2007 | Politics

Read More: Clinton Global Warming Plan, Meet the Press, Carbon Emissions, Fred Thompson Climate Change, Meet the Press Global Warming, Mitt Romney Climate Change, Press Coverage of Climate Change, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Global Warming, Fred Thompson Global Warming, Tim Russert, Politics News

Why is the press largely ignoring how presidential candidates would confront climate change, the most important environmental issue the world has ever faced?

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