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How To Green Your Holiday Meal

Avital Binshtock | Posted 11.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Pesticides, Organic Farming, Hanukkah, Soil, Turkey, Agriculture, Thanksgiving, Flowers, Green, Toxins, Soup Kitchen, Decor, Vegetables, Christmas, Dishwasher, Leftovers, Holidays, Holiday Season, Food Banks, Crops, Ecuador, Green Living, Reusable, Family Meals, Decorating, Imports, Menu, Organic Food, Fruit, Cornucopia, Colombia, Water, Environment, Tips, Homeless Shelters, Food, Decorating Tips, Green News

Working up a menu for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, or another upcoming holiday? Here are three tips to help you be more environmentally responsible while planning that feast.

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Algae Could Be the Key to Ultra-Thin Biodegradable Batteries

Inhabitat | Ariel Schwartz | Posted 11.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Landfills, Green Technology, Green, Sustainability, Landfill, Green Energy, Batteries, Green News

Algae is often touted as the next big thing in biofuels, but the slimy stuff could also be the key to paper-thin biodegradable batteries according to ...

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Global Warming Emails: Hack Raises Ethical Questions, Hoax And Scam Claims

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein/Craig Kanalley | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Depot, Global Warming Emails, Global Warming Emails Ethics, Environment, Green, Global Warming Scam, Climate Change, Global Warming Hoax, Climategate, Global Warming, Global Warming Conspiracy, Green News

Hundreds of emails related to global warming were hacked from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University in the United Kingdom recently and t...

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Stolen climate science emails just ain't the conspiracy some want it to be

Kevin Grandia | Posted 11.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Michael Mann, Climate Change, Environment, Green, Sustainability, Stolen Climat Change Emails, University-of-East-Anglia, Michelle Malkin, Climate Research Unit, Global Warming, Climate Gate, Climategate, Green News

I'll admit, as someone who spends most days looking for leaked documents, the package of stolen emails and documents from the Climate Research Unit at...

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Behind the Scenes at Project Green Search Model Competition

Starre Vartan | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Models, Green, Green Living, Green News

Project Green Search, the first-ever green model competition, has a winner! Rachel Avalon hails from Los Angeles, and beat out over 130 other contenders for her new title as Green It Girl.

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Robert Redford's Sundance Channel to Air Climate Denier Propaganda

Kevin Grandia | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Great Global Warming Swindle, Green, Environment, Sustainability, Climate Change, Martin Durkin, Global Warming, Robert Redford, Sundance Channel, Green News

In spite of the tsunami evidence that the Great Global Warming Swindle is both laughably wrong and criminally irresponsible, this polemic will air tonight to a nationwide audience on a network renown for its lefty credentials.

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Energy Bookshelf: Ten More Worth Your Time Than Super Freaky Crap

A. Siegel | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Richard Littlemore, Farm City, Plan B 4.0, Green, Eco-Friendly, Sustainability, Climate Change, Environmental, No Impact Man, Book Reviews, Global Warming Deniers, Climate Delayers, Global Warming, Energy, Colin Bean, Conservation, Green Building, 2044, Energy Bookshelf, Plan B, Catastrophic Climate Change, Science as a Contact Sport, Almost Green, Stephen Schneider, Building Green, James Glave, Eric Lotke, Keith Farnish, Operation Redwood, Lester Brown, S Terrell French, Evironmental, Carbon Dioxide, Novella Carpenter, Climate Cover-Up, James Hoggan, Greg Caven, Green News

The authors of Superfreakonomics super(freaky)star status means that they and their travesty of a book will get attention despite its non-truthful truthiness and misleading mediocrity on climate-change.

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When Does Green Real Estate Development Finally Take Hold?

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Green, Green Business, Real Estate, Leed, Retrofitted-Buildings, Pricewaterhousecoopers, San Francisco-California, Urban Land Institute, Green News

The Urban Land Institute convenes each November for its annual fall meeting. Much of this year's meeting focused on the impact of the great recession, and, of course, green and sustainability.

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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

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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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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