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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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The Most Toxic Cities In America: Atlanta Tops The List

Huffington Post | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Atlanta Most Toxic City, Atlanta, Forbes List Most Toxic Cities, Las Vegas, Most Toxic Cities, Least Toxic City, Green News

Forbes has put out a list evaluating the toxicity of the 40 largest US metropolitan areas. The results may surprise you. Atlanta topped the list for m...

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Obama Year One: United by Change, Divided by Reform

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Environment, Health Care Reform, Automaker Bailout, TARP Money, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election, One Year Later, Politics News
Jeffrey Feldman

If Obama fails to grasp soon why his idea of reform has alienated key parts of his base -- and if he fails to do something to bridge that divide -- the result could be a full scale mutiny by 2010.

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Al Gore's Our Choice: Progressive Book Club Review

Progressive Book Club | Bill McKibben | Posted 11.03.2009 | Books

Read More: Progressive Book Club, Al Gore, Book Reviews, An Inconvenient Truth, Green, Global Warming, Gore Solutions Summit, Pollution, Al Gore an Inconvenient Truth, Environment, Our Choice, Al Gore Book Review, Environmental, Environmental Problems, Fossil Fuels, Al Gore Book, Going Green, Books, Al Gore Our Choice, One Year Later, Books News

Bill McKibben Progressive Book Club Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis By Al Gore Rodale, 2009 There's been a certain amount of debate ...

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Planet Earth - Your Lymph Nodes Have Cancer

Mary Liz Thomson | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Ocean Policy Task Force, Damage From Plastic, Chris Jordan Photography, Midway – Photos From the Gyre, Albatross, Plastic Vortex, Environment, Midway National Wildlife Refuge, Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch, Midway Atoll, Chris Jordan, Dead Birds, Pacific Ocean Gyre, Green News
Mary Liz Thomson

We humans have been in a comfortable denial, enjoying the convenience of throwaway items with no thought to the consequences. Now we face a planet despoiled by toxic plastic.

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Nation's Top Polluters: We're Green Too!

Tom McNichol | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Corporate Responsibility, Greenhouse Gases, Global Warming, Greenwashing, Greenwashing Companies, Dupont, Dow Chemical, Eastman Kodak, Air Pollution, Bayer Group, Archer Daniels Midland, Green News
Tom McNichol

Don't expect any of these companies to admit they have a poor environmental record. In fact, to hear the top polluters tell it, they're as green as Al Gore.

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Treehouse Photos: Awesomely Unusual Creations

Huffington Post | Eve Solomon | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Design, Slidepoll, Tree-Houses, Green Living, Green Design, Treehouse-Society, Environment, Green News

Every kid fantasizes about living in a tree house, but some people are making that childhood fantasy into an all grown up reality. Have a look at this...

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Halloween Murder Mystery: Who Is Killing Copenhagen?

James Hoggan | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Copenhagen Climate Talks, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability, Clean Energy, Copenhagen Treaty, Green Energy, Global Warming, Green News
James Hoggan

With premature obituary notices popping up all over, it's probably time to ask: Who is killing Copenhagen?

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The True Impact of Coal Mining

Bruce Nilles | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Coal, Powder River Basin, Mining, Dirty Coal, Coal River Mountain, Sierra Club, Clean Coal, Green News
Bruce Nilles

Blasting has begun on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia, site of a long battle between Massey Energy and local residents who want it to be a site for wind turbines instead of coal mining.

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Laurie David, Will You Marry Me?

Kevin Grandia | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Green, Environment, Sustainability, Laurie David, Global Warming, Climate Change, An Inconvenient Truth, Larry David, Green News
Kevin Grandia

I really don't know what to make of this video. At the least it's very entertaining, but I don't know if it will woo the likes of Inconvenient Truth producer Laurie David to the altar!

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Mindblowing Video by Moms Against Climate Change

Kevin Grandia | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Green, Sustainability, Climate Change, Global Warming, Green News
Kevin Grandia

Someone just sent me on of the best videos on climate action I've seen to date. As they say in the video, if our children knew that our world's lead...

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Inspirational Stories From No Impact Week: The DC Green Muslims, Volunteering In Costa Rica And Confronting "Poverty Consciousness"

Huffington Post | Matthew Palevksy | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, No Impact Week, No Impact Man, Volunteering, Dc Green Muslims, Costa Rica, Environment, Carbon Footprint, Green News

Starting Sunday October 18, HuffPost hosted the inaugural No Impact Week, where people around the globe examined and reduced their ecological footprin...

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Do Green Jobs Create Greener Americans?

nytimes.com | Liz Galst | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Sustainability, Green Energy, Green Jobs, Solar Power, Economy, Green Technology, Green News

Most "green job" training programs aim to teach low-income workers the job skills necessary to join the nascent clean-tech economy: energy-efficiency ...

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Astroturf King Jack Bonner's Long History of Deceitful "Grassroots" Lobbying

James Hoggan | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Ed Markey, Forged Letter Scandal, Sustainabiliy Rachel Maddow, Bonner and Associates, Climate Change, Jack Bonner, Environment, Global Warming, Politics News
James Hoggan

Jack Bonner and his 'Associates' are Astroturf specialists, working for the agendas of major corporate clients, who pay his firm large sums of money to manufacture 'citizen outrage'.

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Toyota Creates Its Own Flower Species to Gobble Harmful Gases

Fast Company | Posted 10.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Toyota, Toyota Flower, Green Technology, Climate Change, Toyota Prius, Nature, Environment, Sustainability, Toyota Gas Eating Flower, Green News

Toyota is upping the green stakes with a strange, yet ingenious initiative--the company has developed two new flower species that offset CO2 emissions...

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Even If They're Right, the Superfreakonomics Guys Only Have Half an Answer

Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 10.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Energy, Superfreakonomics, Geoengineering, Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Energy Policy, Global Warming, Green News
Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson

Even if geoengineering works magnificently to cool down the Earth (and right now, that's definitely an "if"), it won't meet growing energy demand from countries like India and China.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Lars von Trier's Antichrist: A Conversation

Dan Persons | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Violence, Earth, Justice, Repression, World, Murder, Horror, Emotion, Lars Von Trier, Sex, Drama, Suspense, Controversy, Death, Indie, Environment, Gore, Antichrist, Acting Legend, Fantasy, Off Beat, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe, Art, Love, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

"Lars von Trier isn't going to talk to a lot of press." Yeah, yeah; yadda-yadda. But just because he isn't talking to us doesn't mean we can't talk about him, particularly about his childhood.

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11 Carnivorous Plants (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | ThienVinh Nguyen | Posted 10.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Flora-and-Fauna, Butterworts, Dewy Pine, Bladderworts, Plants, Sundews, Slidepoll, Nature, Flowers, Environment, Carnivorous-Plants, Pitcher Plants, Corkscrew Plants, Water Wheel Plant, Green News

These plants may look like sweet, innocent flowers, but don't be fooled -- they are meat-eating killers! Carnivorous plants are those that don't just ...

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Solar Is Coming to Town -- Price Shifts, Market Changes And Policy Opportunities to Grow the Midwest's Green Economy

Howard Learner | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Solar Energy, Chicago, Green, Environment, Clean Energy, Green Economy, Energy Policy, Solar Power, Global Warming, Green News
Howard Learner

Everyone is in search of which clean energy option will be the US's savior from fossil fuels. While wind looks promising, a perfect storm of opportunities might make solar the best game in town.

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Food Beware: How Non-Organic Food Will Kill You

Louise McCready | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Organic Farming, Farming, Biodynamic, Organic Food, France, Jean-Paul Jaud, Food Beware, Environment, Food, Cancer, Green News
Louise McCready

While Food, Inc. uncovered the horrors of the industrial food system, Food Beware links pesticides and herbicides with cancer and other health problems.

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Solar Power Boss to Announce "A Solar Bill of Rights"

Kevin Grandia | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Solar Energy Industries Association, Rohne Resch, Solar Power International Conference, Environment, Green, Sustainability, Climate Change, Green Energy, Global Warming, Green News
Kevin Grandia

Next time you hear a coal executive or one of his lobbyists tell you that coal is cheap and solar remains too expensive, remember that renewables have been forced to compete on an unfair playing field.

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In Support of 350, It's Myth Bustin' Time: "Carbon Dioxide is Just a Trace Gas, Big Deal"

Jeff Goldstein | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Environment, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Reducing Carbon Emissions, Blood Alcohol Level, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Climate Crisis, Global Warming, Trace Gas, Green News
Jeff Goldstein

For all those that do not want to pay homage to CO2, I say -- stop eating. Or at least stop throwing around the expression "trace gas" so loosely.

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Village Green: Is Going Car-Free the New Prius?

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Sustainability, Cars, Driving, Carsharing, Toyota Prius, Green News
F. Kaid Benfield

Those of us who do own a Prius, like Larry David, may now have to yield our hipness credentials to the latest trend, which is owning no car at all.

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'Freezer Plan' Bid To Save Coral

BBC NEWS | Matt McGrath | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Global Legislators Organization, Freezing Coral, Coral Reef, Coral Samples, Climate Change, Global Emissions, Environment, Great Barrier Reef, Coral, Coral Freezing Samples, Green News

The prospects of saving the world's coral reefs now appear so bleak that plans are being made to freeze samples to preserve them for the future....

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Protesters Hold Massive Rallies Against Emissions, Climate Change

New York Times | ANDREW C. REVKIN | Posted 10.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Rallies, 350 Protests, Environmental Defense Fund, 350.Org, Carbon Emissions, Environment, Protests, Obama, Climate Change, Emissions, 350 Climate Change, Copenhagen, Green News

Campaigners against global warming have drawn on an arsenal of visually startling tactics over the years, from posing nude on a Swiss glacier to scali...

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