Environment

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 12.19.2009 | 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

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

"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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