Conservation

Where's My Orangutan? Why Biofuels Don't Kill Apes

Josh Tickell | Posted 07.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Orangutan, Biofuels, Alternative Energy, Sugarcane, Logging, Conservation, Malaysia, Ethanol, Deforestation, Biodiesel, Soy, Green News
Josh Tickell

The next time you eat a cookie off of your Mahogany table that was brought to you on diesel-fueled transportation, consider this: everything you touch, everything you buy and everything you eat comes at a price.

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America's Greatest Source Of Renewable Energy: Whine Power?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 07.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Lou Dobbs, Gas Prices, Energy Crisis, Conservation, Al Gore, Anwr, Offshore Oil Drilling, Energy, Green News
Kerry Trueman

We're so screwed that there's no way we can drill ourselves out of this mess. What will it take for people to accept the fact that the era of livin' large is over?

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I Got Mine

Sam Greenfield | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, George Bush Green, Emissions Reduction, Laissez-Faire, Conservation, Green Living, Cutting Back, Politics News
Sam Greenfield

Bush doesn't think Americans need to be told to conserve. He thinks they are pretty smart and will know what to do. Now THAT'S leadership.

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Big Fish Saving a Small Pond (Video)

Tom Gregory | Posted 07.17.2008 | Green

Read More: Lake Agawam, Southampton, David Bohnett, Environment, Conservation, Long Island, The American Riviera, Buffer Zone, New York, The Hamptons, Green News
Tom Gregory

Southampton's Lake Agawam is a large pond to some, and a small lake to others; but to locals, this still-beautiful body of water is suffering under the stress of overpopulation and neglect.

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East Tennessee: Conservative and Green

Kayla Webley | Posted 07.09.2008 | Home

Read More: Al Gore, George Thacker, Ronald Reagan, Green, Conservation, Conservative, Mary Sue Garrison, Tennessee Valley Authority, Republican, East Tennessee, Spring City, Watts Bar, Environment, Randy Gentry, Tva, Home News
Kayla Webley

In Republican-dominated East Tennessee conservation and environmentalism are propelled less by Al Gore-style inconvenient truths than by biblically mandated calls to stewardship.

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The New, Less Pungent Scent of Green

David Hall | Posted 07.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Eco-Warrior, Green Lifestyle, Energy Conservation, Fuel Costs, Economy, Fuel Efficiency, Green, Conservation, Green Living, Coal, Environment, Green News
David Hall

Years ago, in a time of plentiful cheap food, energy and fuel, a green lifestyle was seen as a superfluous luxury. That was then, this is now.

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Obama's Oil Opportunity

Bob Burnett | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Oil Prices, Conservation, Economy, Barack Obama, Politics News
Bob Burnett

Obama should declare unequivocally that America's problem is an addiction: we've developed an unsustainable dependence on oil. His message should be: we're all in this together, because we're a nation of petroleum addicts.

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Rocky Mountain Conservation Land Deal Tops $500 Million, Largest Of Its Kind

AP | MATT GOURAS | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Rocky Mountains, Colorado, Rocky Mountains Land Deal, Conservation, Rocky Mountain Conservation Deal, Green News

HELENA, Mont. — Some of the most prized land in the northern Rocky Mountains is being protected from development in a conservation land deal hai...

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Wall-E: Robotic Ode to Environmental Protection [SPOILER ALERT]

Jessica Jensen | Posted 06.30.2008 | Green

Read More: Wall-E, Environment, Sustainability, Conservation, Trash, Green Living, Pixar, Movies, Global Warming, Green News
Jessica Jensen

Wall-E was one of the most moving, gorgeous, and dare I say "important" movie experiences I can remember in a long, long while.

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Offshore drilling--No! Climate-friendly energy--Yes!

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 06.26.2008 | Green

Read More: Renewable Energy, Conservation, Mass Transit, Climate Change, McCain Offshore Drilling, Solar Power, Offshore Drilling, Energy, YES! Magazine, Green News
Sarah van Gelder

Proposals by presidential hopeful John McCain and Florida Governor Charlie Crist to drill for oil offshore is the wrong direction for the United State...

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The O'Brien Retort: Are The Iowa Floods An Unnatural Disaster?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 06.23.2008 | Green

Read More: Conservation, Charles Grassley, Iowa Floods, Denise O'Brien, Green News
Kerry Trueman

A growing number of environmental experts suspect that the flooding may be caused in part by agricultural practices that have severely impaired the landscape's ability to absorb excess rainwater.

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Oil or Water ... The Only Answer Is Less Consumption

Perry Yeatman | Posted 06.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Oil, U.S. Economy, Perry Yeatman, Water, Conservation, Water Conservation, Green News
Perry Yeatman

If there is a lesson we can take from once dominant US industries it is that we have to find new models for economic growth. We have to learn to do more with less.

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How Green Is Your Brand?

New York Times | Posted 06.17.2008 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Going Green, Green, Environment, Sustainability, Branding, Marketing, Environmentalism, Conservation, Green Business, Green Living, Green News

Sustainable brands. A term soon to join the lexicon of perfect oxymorons, like jumbo shrimp and plastic glasses, but for now the title of a four-day a...

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NAFTA: America's Energy Solution

Diane Francis | Posted 06.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Alternative Energy, Manhattan Project for Energy, Mexico, Conservation, Obama, Mccain, Canada, U.S., Drill Bans on Federal Lands and Offshore, Democrats, Nafta, Windfall Profits Tax, Power Generation, Hybrids, Oil, Tidal Power, Fuel Efficiencies, Hydro-Electric Power, Natural Gas, Alberta, Newfoundland, Green News
Diane Francis

North America should forget a continental energy policy which will guarantee its economic pre-eminence -- but this will only work if the US imposes strict conservation and Mexico changes its oil policies immediately.

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Africa is No More "Overpopulated" Than Iraq Was a Haven for WOMD: Do the Math

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 06.13.2008 | Green

Read More: United Nations, National Geographic, Africa, Oil, Conservation, Minerals, Congo, Strategic Interests, Depopulation Politics, Green News
Georgianne Nienaber

Africa is no more the "Dark Continent" and overpopulated than Iraq was a haven for weapons of mass destruction. I just hate it when I am bamboozled...

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Greening Hollywood Gets The DL on Wind, Water and Renewable Energy for L.A.

Paige Donner | Posted 05.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Renewable Energy, Green West Expo, David Nahai, Wind Farm, Clean Energy, Dolphin Water Care, Los Angeles Convention Center, Conservation, Mayor Villaraigosa, Pine Tree, Sky Stream Energy, Ladwp, P2 Photography, Tehachapi, Green LA, Pixel Organics, Green Promos, Dream Green, Living News
Paige Donner

"We'll be very fortunate to take care of our growth both in power and water" said David Nahai, LADWP Chief Executive Officer and GeneralManager, in hi...

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Celebrate Earth Day: Support a stiff gas tax

Harold Pollack | Posted 04.22.2008 | Home

Read More: Conservation, Pigou Tax, Fossil Fuels, Earth Day, Gas Tax, Home News
Harold Pollack

Yeah I know. No one cares about this on the day of the Pennsylvania primary. But it is Earth Day. So I figured I would give it a shot. Question: What...

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Cash-Strapped Farmers Say Screw Conservation

New York Times | DAVID STREITFELD | Posted 04.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Wheat Prices, Conservation, Ethanol-Based Fuel, Corn, Conservation Programs, Conservation Reserve Program, Cropland, High Commodity Prices, Flour Prices, Business News

Out on the farm, the ducks and pheasants are losing ground. Paul Devlin works at a bakery in Tampa, Fla. The bakery's owner said the price he paid fo...

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Frankly, my dear

David Horton | Posted 11.08.2007 | Politics

Read More: Environmentalism, Conservation, Conservatism, Dave Roberts, Politics News
David Horton

Dave Roberts, in an interesting post last week, thinks that conservatives are primarily interested in tax cuts, and no regulation, and if the environm...

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Rattling the cages

David Horton | Posted 10.30.2007 | Politics

Read More: Environment, Conservation, Circus, Zoo, Politics News
David Horton

Zoos began as places of entertainment, where people curious about wild animals from foreign lands could look at them comfortably and safely while feel...

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Bombarded with Catalogs? Choose to Cut the Waste

Daniel Katz | Posted 10.24.2007 | Living

Read More: Natural Resources Defense Council, Catalogs, Mailing Lists, Junk Mail, Catalog Choice Task Force, Environment, Waste, National Wildlife Federation, Conservation, Environmentalism, Living News
Daniel Katz

As a consumer myself, I don't begrudge anyone for making a purchase from a catalog, but as a lifelong conservationist, I do find the unnecessary waste hard to digest.

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Cowboys get the blues

David Horton | Posted 09.26.2007 | Politics

Read More: Environment, Conservation, United Nations, Politics News
David Horton

Call me a hopeless old United Nations romantic if you will. Just call me an old romantic in fact, raised on a diet of Saturday afternoon movie serials...

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How George Bush Can Salvage His Presidency. Today.

Stephen Collins | Posted 09.05.2007 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Foreign Oil, Speech, Bush, Terrorism, Oil, Conservation, Oil Dependence, Politics News
Stephen Collins

George Bush can re-write his place in history and be remembered as a great president. All he has to do is give this little speech I've written for him.

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