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Ecosystems

How Do You Say "Gone"?

Avital Binshtock | Posted 07.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Geography, Livestock, Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Environment, Land, Endangered Species, Rainforests, Animals, Agrigulture, Green News
Avital Binshtock

Next time you travel somewhere exotic, don't be surprised if you see fewer kinds of animals and hear fewer dialects

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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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Recycled Light Has Never Been So Beautiful...

Hillary Newman | Posted 01.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Green Living, Sculpture, Art, Environmental, Recycled Art, Green, Ecosystems, Environment, Eco-Friendly, Environmentalism, Light Fixtures, Plastic Bottles, Green News
Hillary Newman

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Why Obama's Pick for NOAA Matters: Jane Lubchenco

Janet Ritz | Posted 01.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Ecosystem Degradation, Jane Lubchenco, NOAA Fisheries, Economy, Noaa, Ecosystems, Science, Obama Transition, Fishing, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Climate Change, Dick Cheney, Oregon, Green News
Janet Ritz

As reported in The Environmentalist last April, the Chinook salmon run in the Sacramento River has collapsed.

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Growing the Wealth of the World's Poor

Jonathan Lash | Posted 12.23.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Ecosystems, Ecosystem Degradation, Poverty, United Nations, Sustainability, Green News
Jonathan Lash

Today, two billion people live on $2 a day or less, the same number that did two decades ago. By 2050, the world's population will grow to nine billion, and climate change will intensify the challenges pervading daily life for the rural poor.

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From Floods of Hope to Rebuilding With Resilience

Graham Hill | Posted 04.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Ecosystems, Climate Change, Ecosystem Degradation, Resilience, Resilience Psychology, New Green Deal, Green Energy Economy, Green News
Graham Hill

All of us in the green movement who woke up Wednesday to the flood of hopeful feeling cascading through the country (and the world) in the wake of Bar...

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Subprime Development: the Mother of All Collapses

Janet Ranganathan | Posted 11.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Poverty, Ocean Dead Zones, Dead Zone, Ecosystems, Environment, Wetlands, Climate Change, Amazon, Green News
Janet Ranganathan

Of the two billion people living on less than $2 a day, three quarters live in rural communities that depend on natural ecosystems for sustenance and livelihoods. If subprime development persists, many will pay: first with their livelihoods, and then with their lives.

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How Did Things Get so Bad So Quickly? (Sustainability Primer Part 1)

Matthew Stein | Posted 08.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Population, Ecology, Overpopulation, Environment, Sustainability, Ecosystems, Collapse, Lester Brown, Green News
Matthew Stein

"The bottom line is that the world is in what ecologists call an "overshoot-and-collapse" mode. Demand has exceeded the sustainable yield of natural s...

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The Web of the North

Carl Pope | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ecosystems, Invasive Species, Lake Superior, Wisconsin, Global Warming, Politics News
Carl Pope

Many ecological challenges could have been avoided. In fact, many could still be tamed -- but it will require thinking about their interconnection, not just solving each in the cheapest fashion.

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Biofuels Deemed A Greenhouse Threat

New York Post | ELISABETH ROSENTHAL | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Science, Fuel, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Ecosystems, Environmental Cost, Environmental Footprint, Green Fuels, Greenhouse Gases, Biofuels, Business News

Almost all biofuels used today cause more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional fuels if the full emissions costs of producing these "green" fuel...

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