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Cautious Optimism for Copenhagen Deal as Barcelona Climate Talks End

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Copenhagen 2009, cop15, James Inhofe, Yvo De Boer, Climate Change, Green, Sustainability, Barcelona Climate Talks, Global Warming, Green News

The mood was markedly improved on the final day of the Barcelona climate talks, as delegates, observers and non-governmental organizations all brushed off the pessimism.

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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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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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Venturing Green

Bob Giloth | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Social Enterprise, Nonprofits, Green Jobs, Social Ventures, Green, Business, Social Entrepreneurship, Employment and Training, Green Businesses, Green News

Are theses nonprofit ventures harbingers of bigger and better things to come? It's hard to scale these businesses or even to replicate them.

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Michael Pollan's 'Hummer-Driving Vegan' Claim Debunked

Kyle Cassidy | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Enviro, Wend, Debunk, Prius, Michael Pollan, Vegan, Green, Media, Huffington Post, Meat, Hummer, News, Kyle Cassidy, Green News

Michael Pollan stated that "A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef-eater in a Prius" at the Pop-Tech conference last Saturday. The only problem is, the statement isn't true.

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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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Beyond Green

Wendy Gordon | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Healthy Eating, Congestion Pricing, Healthy Living, Living, CO2 Labeling, Global Warming, Green-Consumers, Green, Green News

It's not surprising, given the economic stresses on the American family, that many are seeing green in a more serious light -- not as a luxury, but as a necessity to integrate into all aspects of life.

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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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Indonesia's Rainforests and the Climate Crisis

Daniel Kessler | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Green, Redd, Obama, Indonesia, Deforestation, Green News

A drive through the Kampar Peninsula reveals hectare after hectare of forest conversion from healthy rainforest to palm oil plantations. There is no sign of animal life or biodiversity -- just row after row of palm.

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Green Clean Where the Sun Don't Shine: Use a Bidet

Lea Lane | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Green, Bidet, Green Living, Cleaning, Toilet, Green Energy, Green News

I realized that by wisely moderating water use, trees can be saved with better cleaning achieved. You'll be saving paper and greening the planet in a basic way. Go for it!

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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

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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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

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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Leaving the Law, Part Two: A Different Kind of Green

Laura A. Hutchings | Posted 10.24.2009 | Denver

Read More: Energy Efficiency, Women Entrepreneurs, Green, Clean Energy Economy, Entrepreneurship, Green Energy, Law Firms, Entrepreneur, Career Change, Denver News

In May of this year, I left my post as an associate at a large international law firm to stake my claim in the Wild West of Colorado's clean energy economy.

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HuffPosters Getting Trashed (SLIDESHOW)

Matthew Palevsky/Zach Dorfman | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Slidepoll, Recycling, No Impact Week, No Impact Man, Trash Management, Green, Trash, No Impact Project, Trash Day, Slideshow, Green News

As part of Trash Day for No Impact Week, (learn more here and sign up) we're taking a deeper look into trash, recycling and where things go after we t...

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World's Greenest Skyscraper Is Under Construction

BBC NEWS | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Skyscraper, Greenest Skyscraper, Green Architecture, China Pollution, Green Skyscraper, Chinese Green Skyscraper, Green, Green Energy, Green Technology, China, Chinese Green Architecture, Green News

Rising high through the polluted air of Guangzhou City in southern China is a 71-story tower block which, according to its designers, will be the most...

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Life Cycles of Consumable Goods: Lower-Impact Shades of Green

Renée Loux | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Fuel, Energy, No Impact Week, Lifestyle, Local, Renewable Energy, Green, Manufacturing, Personal Care Products, Recycled, Low-Impact, Lifecycle, Green Living, No Impact, Consumption, Paper, Home, Reduce, Consumerism, Nontoxic, Recycle, Green News, Environment, Reuse, Plastic, Food, Nontoxic Products, Green News

Understanding the "life-cycle" of any consumable good offers a fairly accurate sense of how "green" it really is -- basically, where things come from and what happens to them when we are done with them.

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Chamber of Commerce: A Long History of Killing Clean Energy Policy

James Hoggan | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Us Chamber of Commerce Climate Change, Us Chamber of Commerce Global Warming, Climate Change, Green, Environment, Sustainability, Clean Energy, Obama Climate Change, US Chamber of Commerce, Global Warming, Us Energy Policy, Green News

A diminished role for the U.S. Chamber would brighten the prospects of passing climate and energy policy in the United States and abroad.

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PHOTOS: Your Favorite Hot Farmers

Huffington Post | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Hot Farmers, Local Produce, Eat Local, Organic Farmers, Farmers Markets, Farmers, Slidepoll, Green, Food, Green Living, Local Farmers, Green News

We had a blast with our first hot farmers slideshow, and we were overwhelmed by the number of great submissions from readers of cuties from around the...

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Readers' Photos of Local Food Restaurants

Huffington Post | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Locally-Grown, No Impact Week, Local Food, Local, Restaurants, Food Miles, Slidepoll, Green, Food, Sustainability, Eating, Green Living, Organic, Locavore, Green News

Here at HuffPost Green, we're all about the local food movement. Food typically travels hundreds, if not thousands of miles to get to our plates, so ...

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No Impact Week: The Enigma of the Water Closet

Robert Glennon | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Green, No Impact Week, Water, Green News

The water delivered to our homes is drinking-quality water but we use only ten percent of it for drinking and cooking. We use about one-third outdoors to water lawns. Of the water we use indoors, a third is flushed away.

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No Impact Week: Consumption and Garbage

Molly Greenwood | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Nrdc, No Impact Week, Reduced Consumption, Local Food, National Resources Defense Council, Green, Low Impact Living, Sustainability, Global Warming, Carbon Footprint, Green News

Looking at the garbage and recycling bins under my own kitchen sink yesterday, it struck me that most of the stuff I end up throwing away consists of packaging.

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Walking the Talk -- My Week of Environmentally Responsible Living

Shravya Reddy | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: No Impact Week, Reduced Consumption, Local Food, Green, Sustainability, Low Impact Living, Global Warming, Carbon Footprint, Nrdc, National Resources Defense Council, Green News

For an environmentalist in America wishing to minimize his or her footprint, New York City is one of the better choices -- less sprawl, more compact living, and a public transit system.

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An Optimist on Climate Change

Alexia Parks | Posted 10.21.2009 | Impact

Read More: Congress, David Johnston, United Nations, Green, Copenhagen, Unfccc, Sustainability, Climate Change, Joe Biden, Bill Mckibben, United Nations Convention on Climate Change, Barack Obama, Global Warming, Impact News

We're at a point," I've been told, "where everything we know is out of date. What happens next is unknowable, unspeakable, and undetermined."

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SAI PHOTOS: Toyota Unveils Bigger, More Expensive Hybrid Car

AP | By YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Sai Prius Photos, Sai Pictures, New Car, Gasoline, Toyota, Prius, Sai Pics, Green, Sai Photos, New Toyota Hybrid, Miles Per Gallon, Carmakers, Cars, Kyushu Plant, Mph, Kyushu, Sai Prius, Cost, Tokyo, Sai Assembly, Toyota Sai, New Toyota, Detroit, Sai Miles Per Gallon, Sai Cost, Sai, Japan, Slideshow, Business News

ASSOCIATED PRESS, BY YURI KAGEYAMA: TOKYO -- Toyota Motor Corp. has unveiled a more expensive and bigger hybrid-only model than its hit Prius, underl...

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