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A Big Breakthrough on Green Jobs

Billy Parish | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Climate, Green Jobs, Clean Energy, Bipartisan, New York, Republican, Cap, Energy Efficiency, Working Families Party, Trade, Climate Change, Weatherization, David Patterson, Aces, Carbon Credits, Bipartisanship, Green News
Billy Parish

The New York State Senate and Assembly rose above petty politics last week to pass legislation on climate and energy, setting a precedent for bipartisanship and a sensible cap and trade system.

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Study: Climate Bill's Benefits Far Outweigh Costs

Wall Street Journal | Keith Johnson | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Waxman-Markey Bill, Waxman-Markey, Cost of Climate Change, Politics, Epa, Climate, Carbon Footprint, Green, Green Energy, Institute for Policy Integrity, Environment, Economic Benefits, Greenhouse Gases, Emissions, Nyu, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Energy, H.R. 2454, Economy, Climate Bill, Politics News

So much of the wailing and gnashing of teeth around the climate bill in Congress revolves around the costs of curbing greenhouse-gas emissions. What a...

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The Food-Climate-Atrazine Connection Explained

Grist.org | Tom Philpott | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Atrazine, Roundup, Sustainable Food, Climate, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas, Food Politics, Environment, Food, Global Warming, Green News

By Tom Philpott. This post originally appeared at grist.org. In the ongoing debate about whether sustainable agriculture can "feed the world," it's i...

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Barbara Boxer And Colleagues Feel The Heat On Cap And Trade

blog.newsweek.com | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade Legislation, Cap and Trade, Barbara Boxer, Environmentalists, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Bill, Green News

Later today, more than 320 environmental and energy groups plan to deliver a letter to Calif. Sen. Barbara Boxer and her colleagues on the Senate Envi...

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Dramatic Iceberg Collapses (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 09.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Green, Icebergs Melting, Climate Change, Video, Green Living, Global Warming, Iceberg, Climate, Greenland, Environment, Video Slideshow, Slideshow, Slidepoll, Green News

What could be more shocking then to see an iceberg melt before your eyes? We here at HuffPost Green realized that our story on Rick Sanchez's video o...

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Water Tops Climate Change as Global Priority

J. Carl Ganter | Posted 08.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate, Water, United Nations, United Nations Climate Change Conference, Water Crisis, Circle of Blue, Globescan, Green News
J. Carl Ganter

According to our new Circle of Blue GlobeScan public opinion survey, WaterViews, we now know that people globally care most about water.

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Climate Change Protesters Superglue Themselves Together

Telegraph | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Wind Turbine, Green Living, Reuseable Energy, Super Glue, Climate, Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Environment, Green, Climate Crisis, Wind Turbines, Global Warming, Green News

A group of climate change activists were arrested after supergluing themselves together outside a Government department in support of workers staging ...

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Seven Ways to Fight Dirty (Energy)

Billy Parish | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Civil Disobedience, Climate, Climate Change, Transition Towns, Aces, Copenhagen, Green, Tom Perriello, Clean Energy, Healthcare Reform, Green Energy, Beyond Talk, Healthcare, 1sky, Green News
Billy Parish

It's time we step up the effort and fight the dirty industries that pollute our communities and jeopardize our children and grandchildren's future. Here are seven ways to do it.

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Who Lost the Earth?

John Kerry | Posted 08.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Clean Energy, Climate Change, Foreign Affairs, China, John Kerry, Copenhagen 2009, Climate, Climate Crisis, Copenhagen, Green News
John Kerry

192 nations will gather this December to hammer out a new global climate treaty. Two will set the tone. Can America and China forge a partnership that will prevent a climate catastrophe?

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Thank You Sarah Palin

Bill Scher | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Clean Energy, Green Jobs, Climate, Global Warming, Waxman-Markey, Green News
Bill Scher

Do we want to follow President Barack Obama's vision to cap carbon emissions, create green jobs and make clean energy affordable and accessible? Or do we want to follow Sarah Palin's vision of costly, irresponsible inaction based on ignorance and dishonesty?

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Earth to G8: Limit Global Warming Emissions!

Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: G8, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Climate, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Climate Bill, Politics News
Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte

At the outset of WWII, we didn't set a goal of keeping German occupied territory to some "upper limit"; we set the goal of making as many airplanes and artillery as possible, and mobilizing troops.

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Stripping in Rome

Avaaz.org | Avaaz.org | Posted 08.09.2009 | Home

Read More: Avaaz, Avaaz Action Factory, Climate, Climate Crisis, Flash Mob, G8, Global Warming, Italy, Strip Mob, Video, Rome-Italy, Italy, Home News

On July 8th Italian Avaaz volunteers and members of the Avaaz European climate action factory -- a rapid response group of youth climate activists su...

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Obama's Farm Team

William S. Becker | Posted 08.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Farm Bill, Climate, Crops, Water, Soils, Food, Sustainability, Obama, Agriculture Policy, Green News
William S. Becker

Obama is sowing the seeds for that new era of rural prosperity, but it will be up to rural America to bring in the harvest.

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Obama Implores Senate To Pass Climate Bill

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 07.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: House, Senate, Barack Obama, Climate, President Obama, House Passes Climate Bill, Historic Climate Bill, Obama, Climate Bill, Global Warming, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Hailing the House, President Barack Obama put pressure on senators Saturday to follow its lead and pass legislation to limit greenh...

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Climactic But Not Just Because Of The Climate

Harry Moroz | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Green Jobs, Economy, Employment, Climate, Carbon Dioxide, Energy Efficiency, Cap and Trade, Energy, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Environmental Protection Agency, Politics News
Harry Moroz

The American Clean Energy and Security Act establishes a market-based cap-and-trade system to limit emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide.

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Cap and Trade Part 4: Forests, Farms, and Offsets

Bill Chameides | Posted 07.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon, Offsets, Cap and Trade, Economics, Climate, Climate Change, Agriculture, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Ecosystems, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Forests, Global Warming, Green News
Bill Chameides

Many people have a hard time accepting that one can emit CO2 from a power plant in Ohio and offset those emissions by capturing methane on a North Carolina hog farm.

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Iowa Woman Discovers New Cloud Type

AP | MICHAEL J. CRUMB | Posted 07.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Iowa, Environment, Photography, Art, Clouds, Climate, Living News

DES MOINES, Iowa — Looking out the 11th floor window of her law office, Jane Wiggins did a double take and grabbed her camera. The dark, undulat...

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Cap and Trade Part 1: It's About the Cap, Stupid

Bill Chameides | Posted 07.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Politics, Cap and Trade, Global Economy, Climate, Climate Change, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Policy, Business, Legislation, Global Warming, Green News
Bill Chameides

Where the climate is concerned, don't be fooled: it's ultimately about the "cap" not the "and trade" part.

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Big Business Failing to Disclose Climate Change Risks

Mindy S. Lubber | Posted 07.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Business News, Sec, Alternative Energy, Climate, Investors, Business News
Mindy S. Lubber

Which U.S. companies are best positioned to lead the pack in the great green race for a low carbon future?

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Do We Have a Cap? Midwest Governors and Climate Leadership

Henry Henderson | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon, Cap and Trade, Midwest Governors Association, Illinois Governor, Minnesota, Carbon Cap, Midwest, Climate, Nrdc, Minneapolis, Governor Quinn, Clean Energy, Climate Legislation, Clean-Energy-Investments, Energy Policy, Green Energy, Green News
Henry Henderson

D.C. should take notice that the Midwest is opening the road to a reinvigorated economy and clean energy future.

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Rethinking the Rules of Engagement

Billy Parish | Posted 06.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, New Yorker, Copenhagen 2009, Edward Markey, Climate, Waxman-Markey, Waxman, Henry Waxman, Malcom Gladwell, Green News
Billy Parish

In many ways we still seem to be fighting the green battle on our opposition's terms, and right now it looks like we're losing. We need to rethink the rules of engagement.

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It Doesn't Get Bigger Than This

Fernando Henrique Cardoso | Posted 06.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Major Economies Forum, Copenhagen-Climate-Council, Climate, Brazil, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Earth Summit, Mef, Green News
Fernando Henrique Cardoso

The world has forged a seminal agreement once before on climate, in Rio. We can -- and must -- do it again in December in Copenhagen.

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Exxon Responds to Avaaz Spoof Ad: "We Don't Understand"

Ben Wikler | Posted 05.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Avaaz, Carbon Emissions, Advertising, Fossil Fuels, Climate, Exxon Mobil, Exxonmobil, Exxon, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Advocacy, Climate Bill, Green News
Ben Wikler

While ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel companies now talk a good game on climate change, they're still lobbying full-force to prevent a strong global climate treaty.

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The Route to Economic Recovery Lies in Climate Recovery

Ed Miliband | Posted 05.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Gordon Brown, Climate, Climate Change, Environmentalism, Economic Recovery, Climate Recovery, Global Warming, Barack Obama, UK Climate Change, Green News
Ed Miliband

If governments and our businesses and citizens want it enough, a global deal to prevent climate change further damaging our environment, and our economies, is within reach.

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The Last Green Taboo: Should We Try To "Engineer" Our Climate?

Johann Hari | Posted 05.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Geoengineering, Climate, Environment, Environmentalism, Climate Engineeing, Climate Change, Pollution, Global Warming, Green News
Johann Hari

'Geo-engineering' is a Messianic movement to save the world from global warming, through dust and iron and thousands of tiny mirrors in space. It is also the last green taboo.

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