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Money Invested In Conservation Yields Enormous Returns

BBC NEWS | Posted 11.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Forests, Coral Reefs, Environmental Conservation, Un Climate Summit, Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity Study, Environment, Conservation, Green News

Money invested in protecting nature can bring huge financial returns, according to a major investigation into the costs and benefits of the natural wo...

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Cocaine, Spices, Hormones Found in Drinking Water

news.nationalgeographic.com | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Runoff, Water Pollution, Water, Green News

For instance, thyme and sage spike during Thanksgiving, cinnamon surges all winter, chocolate and vanilla show up during weekends (presumably from par...

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The Movie Chevron Doesn't Want You to See

Tracy L. Barnett | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Ecuador, Oil Industry, Human Rights, Chevron, Joe Berlinger, Rainforest, Crude, Environment, Texaco, Amazon, Pablo Fajardo, Green News
Tracy L. Barnett

Many have heard of Chevron-Texaco's contamination of the Amazonian rainforests. Joe Berlinger's film, Crude, brings the battle to bring them to justice to life in a way words cannot.

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Do We Really Know How Much It Costs to Shoe a Horse?

Gov. Dick Lamm | Posted 11.12.2009 | Denver

Read More: Immigration, Economic Growth, Environment, Sustainability, Immigration Reform, Population Growth, National Parks, Denver News
Gov. Dick Lamm

Does immigration help our health care system? Will doubling our population help us build a more fair and just America? Do you want an America of one billion people?

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Paul Nicklen's Polar Obsession Photos

Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Photography, Leopard Seal, Slidepoll, Antarctica, National Geographic, Penguin, Polar Bear, Animals, Canada, Arctic, Narwhals, Norway, Paul Nicklen, Polar Obsession, Polar Ice Caps, Polar Bears, Bull Walrus, Environment, Green News

Renowned National Geographic extreme photojournalist Paul Nicklen has released a new book titled Polar Obsession, which chronicles his expedition unde...

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Protecting New York City's Water Supply from Gas Companies

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 11.12.2009 | New York

Read More: Water Quality, Fracking Fluid, Fracking, Contamination, Water, Environment, Natural Gas Drilling, Water Supply, New York, New York News
Alison Rose Levy

New Yorkers were out in force last Tuesday to protect the purity of their legendary water. A public event focused on drilling in a vast Upstate reservoir of natural gas that developers are seeking to exploit.

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Colorado's Black Bears: Coming to a Dumpster Near You

Lise Waring | Posted 11.12.2009 | Denver

Read More: Black Bears, Telluride, Aspen, Environment, Trash, Bears, Colorado DIvision of WIldlife, Wildlife, Colorado, Michael Phelps, Denver News
Lise Waring

The nature of the tight box canyon that cradles Telluride means that it's only a few blocks to the edge of civilization. Black bears wander through town in search of snacks -- especially this time of year.

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Expanding Islands of Trash

nytimes.com | LINDSEY HOSHAW | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Plastics, Toxic Chemicals, Trash-Island, Trash, Sustainability, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Oceans, Pacific Ocean, Garbage, Garbage Vortex, Environment, Green News

Light bulbs, bottle caps, toothbrushes, Popsicle sticks and tiny pieces of plastic, each the size of a grain of rice, inhabit the Pacific garbage patc...

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Leonardo DiCaprio: Actor And Animal Advocate

Wendy Diamond | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Pets, Activism, Ifaw Video, Animal-Protection, Environment, Celebrity, Leonardo Dicaprio, Ifaw, Www.AnimalFair.Com, Wendy Diamond, Animal Fair Magazine, Celebrities, Living News
Wendy Diamond

On October 4, 2009, International Fund for Animal Welfare and Leonardo announced a program that will protect animals and their habitats around around the globe.

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The True Cost of Cheap Foam Packaging

Richard W. Feldman | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Fresh Food, Fresh Produce, Foam Trays, Green News
Richard W. Feldman

Look around your supermarket and you'll see fresh meat and produce all packaged on the ubiquitous foam tray. It's designed to keep low-shelf-life food fresh, but it lasts forever. Where the sense in that?

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Botanists Debate the Benefits of Assisted Plant Migration

nytimes.com | ANNE RAVER | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Climate Change, Plants, Green News

We recognize that climate change is likely to be very rapid and that seeds only disperse a few hundred yards, half a mile at most, naturally, said Kay...

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Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Clearcutting, Coal, Center for Public Integrity, West Virginia, Campaign, Coal Industry, Climate, Grassroots, Coal River Mountain, Climate Change, Virginia, Coal Lobby, Mountaintop Removal, Unions, Environmentalism, JP Morgan Chase, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Wto, Mother Jones, Labor, Clean Energy, Congress, Green, Global Warming, Government, Mountains, Epa, Harlan County, Mines, Bush Administration, Blair Mountain, Tennessee, Climate Action Partnership, President Obama, Washington, Obama, Coal Czar, Bush, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Naacp, Appalachia, Workers, Climate Justice, Office of Surface Mining, Civil Disobedience, Kentucky, Henry Waxman, Forests, Department of the Interior, Dirty Coal, Green Jobs, Wall Street, Astroturfing, Coal Mining, Duke Energy, Green News, Mining, Water, Clean Coal, Osr, Appalachian Mountains, Activism, Protest, Massey Energy, Green News
Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.

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China: Spirituality Or Materialism?

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Iranian Dissidents, Human Brain, Mahmoud Vahidnia, China Environment, Self-Cultivation, Environment, Iran, Luddites, Changing-Values, Chinese Dissidents, David Rock, China, The Inner Life, Living News
Arthur Rosenfeld

Stripped of their cultural heritage by the brutality of the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese seem to be in a headlong rush to what they think they want and need--the material excess of the West.

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Wastewater In New York Found To Be Radioactive From Gas Drilling

ProPublica | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Fracking, Water, New York Wastewater, Dirty Energy, Environment, Natural Gas, New York Water, Natural Gas Dilling, Radioactive Wastewater, Green News

As New York gears up for a massive expansion of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, state officials have made a potentially troubling discovery about...

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EMA's: Introducing the Legacy Award

Kevin George | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Paramount Studios, Walt Disney, Big-Cats, National Geographic, Values, Gorillas, Environment, Walt Disney Company, Environmentalism, Lions, Environmental Media Association, Media, Legacy, Disney, Cheetahs, Debbie Levin, Green News
Kevin George

The Legacy Award celebrates a vision of bringing environmental messages into entertainment -- television, film and music -- to educate and motivate the public.

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Cleaning Up the Language Around Ocean Pollution

Wallace J Nichols | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Environment, Plastic, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Pollution, Ocean, Green News
Wallace J Nichols

Due to our inability and slowness to adequately describe and respond to the threat, certain areas of our coasts and oceans have become overwhelmed by plastic.

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What the CBO Isn't Telling Congress: Climate Change Threatens Million of Jobs

Brendan Smith | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Polls, Politics, Green Jobs, Environment, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Congressional Budget Office, Green Politics, Global Warming, Green News
Brendan Smith

How many epidemics and Katrinas will it take to expose the myth that the U.S. economy is somehow exempt from the threats of climate change?

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City Planning Classic Ahead Of Its Time In Environmental Efficiency (VIDEO)

Progressive Book Club | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Environmentalist, David Owen, Jane Jacobs, New York City, Environment, Urban Development, Environmental Activism, Environmental Efficiency, Urban Design, Books, Environmental Books, City Planning, Urban Planning, City Planning Books, Books News

Progressive Book Club In the annals of urban design and city planning, no book holds a higher place than The Death and Life of Great American Cities ...

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10 Shocking Products Full Of Petroleum

planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Oil, Plastic, Green Living, Petroleum, Big Oil, Products, Environment, Green News

About one quarter of the oil consumed in this country is used for industrial purposes. Plastic production is the most obvious example, as awareness gr...

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Sunset Photos

Huffington Post | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Slidepoll, Beautiful Photos, Sunsets, Nature, Environment, Green News

Here at HuffPost Green, we think there's nothing more inspiring than enjoying the beauty of nature, and sunsets are top of the list! Check out these b...

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Aziz Ansari Wants To Stop Acting In Order To Reduce His Carbon Footprint (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Parks and Recreation, Video, Grist Tv, Aziz Ansari, Grist, Aziz Ansari Video, Environment, Green Living, Green News

In this hilarious video from Grist TV, Umbra Fisk interviews Parks and Recreation's Aziz Ansari about his enviro musings, including his proposal that ...

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Saving the Lakes of Udaipur, "World's Best City"

Perry Garfinkel | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Green News, Environment, India, Rajasthan, Lakes, Green News
Perry Garfinkel

A series of beautiful lakes in Udaipur, Rajasthan are in danger. These lakes a major magnet to the city -- one of the reasons 1.2 million tourists who visited the city last year nicknamed it "Venice of the East."

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The Commonwealth and the Commons

Gary Hart | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Environment, Climate, Energy Policy, Foreign Policy, Global Warming, Politics News
Gary Hart

I've always been puzzled by our efforts to leave a private legacy for our children while neglecting our public legacy, the character and quality of our commonwealth and its resources that we also leave to our children.

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Copenhagen Climate Treaty on Death-Watch

Kevin Grandia | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Copenhagen Climate Talks, Climate Change, President Obama, Environment, Green, Sustainability, Barcelona Climate Talks, Obama Climate Change, Global Warming, Green News
Kevin Grandia

Is the Copenhagen climate change treaty dead? I'm not willing to say that yet, but it's pretty depressing here at the last pre-negotiation session und...

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Why Developing Countries Cannot Afford Failure in Copenhagen

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Politically Binding Agreement, Climate Change, Environment, Green, European Union, Sustainability, Barcelona Climate Talks, Copenhagen Climate Summit, Global Warming, G-77, Green News
Brendan DeMelle

In contrast to the developing world's clear, specific position, the E.U. seems to act as if these climate change negotiations just started, as if talks haven't been going on for years since Kyoto.

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