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Is Environmental Pessimism Losing Its Appeal?

Carol Pierson Holding | Posted 04.30.2013 | Green
Read More: Sandy, Grist, Millenials, Ford, David Roberts, Rosana Francescato, Triple Pundit, Michael Liebreich, Mindy Lubber, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Carbon Bubble, New Energy Finance, Paul Bain, NYU Green House, Bloomberg, Forbes, Cered, Carbontracker, Green News
Carol Pierson Holding

I asked one future biochemist what she thought about NYU's environmental program. Her bright young face turned sour as she complained that her environmental studies were dominated by disaster science. Where was the hope, she wanted to know?

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The Old Grist Mill Today (VIDEO)

Rebecca Gerendasy | Posted 01.15.2013 | Home
Read More: Grain, Video, Cedar Creek Grist Mill, Grist Mill, Hydro-Powered Mill, Washington, Stone Buhr, Grist, Flour, Home News
Rebecca Gerendasy

Built in 1876, The Cedar Creek Grist Mill, located in southwestern Washington, just outside the town of Woodland is situated above the banks of the Cedar Creek.

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'Green News Report' - December 8, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 02.07.2012 | Green
Read More: Fracking, Oil Subsidies, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, West Virginia, United Nations, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green News Report, West Virginia Mine Disaster, Pollution, Coal, Radiation, Methane, Drought, Video, Heat Wave, Conservatives, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Corporate Media, Climate Science, Durban, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Coal Mining, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, Massey Energy, Farming, Fukushima, Ipcc, Carbon Emissions, Nuclear Power, Crops, Environmentalism, Subsidies, Permafrost, Pennsylvania, Army, BRAD BLOG, Water, Green News, Japan, Hydraulic Fracturing, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Unfccc, Extreme Weather, Solyndra, Upper Big Branch Mine, Wind Power, Global Climate Mitigation, Americans for Prosperity, Cancer, Grist, Tim Phillips, Toxic Chemicals, Jon Huntsman, Koch Industries, Ethanol, Adaptation, James Inhofe, National Journal, Tea Party, Koch Brothers, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Triumph o...

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Yet Another Reason To Go Meatless On Earth Day -- And Every Other Day

Bruce Friedrich | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: European Nitrogen Assessment, Vegetarianism, Grist, Earth Day, Global Warming, Nitrogen Pollution, Factory Farms, Meatless Mondays, Nitrogen Fertilizer, Green News
Bruce Friedrich

Just in time for Earth Day, European scientists released a groundbreaking report linking meat consumption to nitrogen pollution. Nitrogen pollution? What on earth is nitrogen pollution?

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Weekly Pulse: Paul Ryan's Medicare Swindle

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.13.2011 | Politics
Read More: Gop, Tom Laskawy, Poverty, Hiv, RH Reality Check, Budget, Wic, Mitt Romney, Addiction, Pregnancy, Lynn Paltrow, Opiate, Iowa Independent, Drug, Republican, Tapped, Robert Parry, Aswini Anburajan, Hunger, Lynda Waddington, Insurance, National Advocates for Pregnant Woman, Food, Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Paul Ryan, In These Times, Aids, Grist, Adap, Politics News
The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Robert Parry in In These Times examines how Paul Ryan's budget test would turn healthcare for the elde...

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Weekly Mulch: The EPA Can Regulate Carbon, For Now

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.08.2011 | Green
Read More: Grist, ORION MAGAZINE, The Colorado Independent, Earthworks, Campus Progress, Carbon Regulation, Senate, Epa, Natural Gas, Omb, Composting, UN Foundation, SOLAR DONE RIGHT, House, American Prospect, Carbon Emissions, Earth Island Journal, Clean Energy, MORAL GROUND, Green News
The Media Consortium

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger This week, the House voted to shut down the carbon regulation program at the Environmental Protection Agency...

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Weekly Pulse: GOP Would Privatize Medicare, Gut Medicaid

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.06.2011 | Politics
Read More: Suzy Khimm, Lgbt, New York, Jamelle Bouie, Community Health Center, Hog, Medicaid, change.org, Gay, Barie Shortell, Pig, Alternet, Tapped, Antibiotic Resistance, Williamsburg, Insurance, Primary Care, Mother Jones, LGBT Youth, Bias, Dan Peterson, Health, Ralph Loglisci, Medicare, Joseph Huff-Hannon, Antibiotic, Denmark, Grist, Hate Crime, Politics News
The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger On Tuesday, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) unveiled a draft budget resolution for 2012. Ryan's program would pr...

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Weekly Mulch: Obama Lacks Vision on Energy, Stomach to Defend EPA

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.01.2011 | Green
Read More: Obama, Clean Energy Standard, Republicans, Grist, The American Prospect, Solar Energy, Public News Service, Wind Energy, Renewable Energy, Oil, Mark Bittman, Tar Sands, Penn State, Debbie Stabenow, Nuclear Energy, Grittv, Epa, Natural Gas, ENERGY SPEECH, Michigan Messenger, Germany, Care2, Mother Jones, Pew Environment Group, China, Green News
The Media Consortium

President Obama made an energy speech this week that had little new to offer, while on Capitol Hill, Republicans were pushing to relieve the governm...

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Weekly Mulch: Conservatives and Liberals Remain In Denial About Climate Change

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Grist, MORGAN GRIFFITH, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Industrial Agriculture, Climate Deniers, ECO-FARMING, Ips, Naomi Klein, Nasa, Agribusiness, Sea Level Rise, American Prospect, Earth Island Journal, Democracy Now!, Un, Mother Jones, Green News
The Media Consortium

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger The negative impacts of climate change are coming on more quickly than anyone expected. According to a new...

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Weekly Pulse: 911 Is a Joke (Because It's Broke)

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Truth in Advertising, Abortion, Destitute, Vegetarian, In Defense of Food, New York City, Budget, Cpc, Parke Wilde, 9/11, Medicaid, Omnivore's Dilemma, Noelle Williams, Choice, Usda, Telephone, Marion Nestle, Wisconsin, Tax, Michael Pollan, Blog, Food Politics, Ms Magazine, Food, Working in These Times, Walker, Communications, Bury, Grist, Crisis Pregnancy Center, Ems, Home News
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By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger As the Great Blizzard of 2010 blanketed New York City, most residents were blissfully unaware that th...

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Weekly Mulch: Activist Tim DeChristopher Convicted of Two Felonies

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: The American Prospect, Compost, Dep, Keystone XL, YES! Magazine, Care2, Alternet, Tar Sands, Wild Lands, Pennsylvania, Mother Jones, Climate Change, Salazar, Earth Island Journal, Hydrofracking, Tim Dechristopher, Doi, Grist, Blm, Green News
The Media Consortium

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher was convicted yesterday of two felony counts. DeChristopher was o...

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Weekly Mulch: Why Natural Gas Companies Fear Josh Fox, Gasland, and the Oscars

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Twix, Plains Exploration and Production Company, Gasland, Epa, change.org, Orion, Greenpeace, Alternet, Recycling, Red List, Costco, Mother Jones, Josh Fox, Earth Island Journal, Hydrofracking, Oscars, Girl Scout Cookies, Bridger-Teton National Forest, Grist, Natural Gas, Green News
The Media Consortium

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger The natural gas industry is afraid that Josh Fox, director of the muckraking film Gasland, might win an Os...

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Weekly Mulch: Chevron Must Pay; GOP Tries to Gut the EPA

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: The ENERGY FOUNDATION, Republicans, Inter Press Service, Grist, Gop, Bp, AMERICAN WIND ASSOCIATION, Sierra Club, Chevron, Europe, Epa, Wind Power, Coal-Fired Power Plants, Deepwater Horizon, NATIONAL COAL CAMPAIGN, Carbon Emissions, Mother Jones, Care2, Amazon, ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND, Coal, Budget, Bill Mckibben, Alternet, Green News
The Media Consortium

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger A Bolivian judge ordered Chevron this week to pay $8.6 billion in damages for polluting the Amazon rainfor...

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Weekly Pulse: South Dakota's Legislative Attack on Abortion Providers

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Provider, Abortion, RH Reality Check, Brie Cadman, Kill, Jodi Jacobson, Feministing, South Dakota, Miriam Perez, Diet, Choice, H.R. 358, Nutritiion, Fruit, Insurance, Mother Jones, Health, Phil Jensen, Health Insurance, Food, Kate Sheppard, Fruitwashing, Grist, Bill, Home News
The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger The South Dakota House of Representatives will soon vote on a bill that would expand the definition ...

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Weekly Mulch: The Dirty Truth about Natural Gas and Energy Innovation

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Lisa Jackson, Fracking, Energy Innovation, The Michigan Messenger, Epa, Renewable Energy, Texas, change.org, Safe Drinking Water Act, Diesel, Care2, Coal, Doe, Making Contact, Cane, Community-Led Groups, Wasps, Grist, Texas Observer, Americans for Energy Leadership, Green News
The Media Consortium

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger The argument against natural gas got a boost this week, when a congressional investigation turned up evide...

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Weekly Mulch: Why is the U.S. Losing the Clean Energy Race to China? Blame the Climate Cranks

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: American Tradition Institute, Clean Edge, Cancun, Sputnik Moment, Michale Mann, Ruggedizing, Obama, New Energy Economy, change.org, The Nation, Care2, Susana Martinez, Alternet, Hu Jintao, Bilateral Summit, Climate Gate, New Mexico, Climatologists, Truthout, Mother Jones, Clean Tech, Brisbane, Clean Energy Subsidies, Climate Change, Climate Cranks, Climate Deniers, Clean Technology Race, Wto, Grist, Copenhagen, China, Green News
The Media Consortium

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger President Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao touched on energy issues in the bilateral summit between t...

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Weekly Mulch: With D.C. in GOP Hands, Environmentalists Must 'Fight Harder'

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Energy Subsidies, Leadership, Congress, Judy Bonds, Emissions, Jeffrey Leonard, Carbon, Mother Jones, Cap-and-Trade, No Impact Man, Washington, 112th Congress, ORION MAGAZINE, Green Movement, In These Times, MRM, Grist, Energy and Commerce, Colin Beavan, Global Environmental Fund, Janisse Ray, Mountaintop Removal Mining, Washington Monthly, Train Travel, Sustainable Energy, YES! Magazine, Plane Travel, No Impact Week, Subhas Dutta, Robert Hirschfield, India, Fred Upton, Republicans, Senate, Jason Grumet, Green News
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by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger For the environmental community, this coming year offers a chance to regroup, rethink and regrow. Two year...

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Weekly Pulse: On Health Care Repeal, House GOP Full of Sound and Fury

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Suzy Khimm, American Independent, House, Kelle Louaillier, Cbo, Washington Monthly, Repeal, Patrick Caldwell, Obesity, Kevin Drum, Snack, Congressional Budget Office, Mush, Louaillier, Alternet, Steve Benen, Harry Reid, Bonnie Azab Powell, Insurance, Mother Jones, Advertising, Child, Health Care Reform, Personhood USA, Affordable Care Act, Food, Aca, Cartoon, Grist, Senate, Pepsico, Home News
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By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger House Republicans will hold a symbolic vote to overturn health care reform on January 12. The bill, ...

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Weekly Mulch: How to Avoid Fracking and Oil Spills in 2011

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: New Years Eve, Steph Larsen, Truth-Out, Mother Jones, Climate Change, Environment, Green, New Years, Sustainability, change.org, One World, YES! Magazine, Resolutions, Grist, Winslow Myers, Local Government, Green News
The Media Consortium

Editor's Note: We're posting the Weekly Mulch on Thursday this week because of the holidays. It'll return to its regular Friday morning posting next w...

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Weekly Pulse: Egg Salad Surprise! Congress Votes to Clean Up Food Supply

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Second Trimester, The American Prospect, Statistics, Community Health Center, Reproductive Rights, Food Safety, Fertility, Cdc, change.org, Peanut Butter, Republican, Egg, Clinic, Mother Jones, Dan Peterson, Teen Pregnancy, Affordable Care Act, Aca, Grist, Paul Waldman, Birth Rate, Abortion, Women, Judy Shackleford, Abstinence, The Progressive, Democrat, Omnibus Spending Bill, Tom Philpott, Feministing, Choice, Wisconsin, Food Safety and Modernization Act, Madison, Food, Medicare, Siddhartha Mahanta, Home News
The Media Consortium

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger It's a Christmas-week miracle! The Senate, in a vote that astonished everyone, brought the Food Safe...

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Weekly Pulse: DADT, Vampire Bees, and Other Hazards to Your Health

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Michelle Bachmann, Lgbt, Honey, RH Reality Check, San Diego, Brooklyn, Hyde Amendment, Monica Potts, Kenneth Katz, Crackpot, Military, Dadt, Sti, Bee, Affordable Care Act, Grist, Abortion, Stupak, Beekeeping, New York, Food Stamps, Red Hook, Gay, Planned Parenthood, Choice, Recession, Sarah Goodyear, Tapped, Campus Progress, Hunger, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Health Care Reform, Std, Doctor, Home News
The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Dr. Kenneth Katz recently published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine titled "Health...

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The Weekly Pulse: Michael Pollan's Rules for Thanksgiving, Plus Whole Foods' Healthcare Lies

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: John Mackey, Whole Foods, Flight Attendant, RH Reality Check, Rules, Thanksgiving, Weight, Pollution, Pilot, Obesity, Tsa, Birth Control Pill, X-Ray, Estrogen, Michael Pollan, Mother Jones, Scanner, Health Insurance, Food, Ee2, Contraception, Affordable Care Act, Working in These Times, Grist, Union, Home News
The Media Consortium

Editor's Note: Happy Thanksgiving from the Media Consortium! This week, we aren't stopping The Audit, The Pulse, The Diaspora, or The Mulch, but we ar...

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Weekly Mulch: What's in Your Water? Nuclear Waste, Coal Slurries and Industrial Estrogen

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Grist, Estrogen, The American Prospect, Hydrofracking, MUTANT FISH, COAL SLURRIES, SUE STURGIS, Water Supply, Pittsburgh, Running Out of Water, Contamination, Arsenic, Grittv, Enriched Uranium, New Jersey, Natural Gas, Water Pollution, Nuclear Waste, Massey Energy, Clean Coal, PURGEN, Care2, YES! Magazine, East Tennessee, Linden, Mining, Fracking, Factory Farms, Rhrealitycheck, Oceans, 60 Minutes, Susan Leal, Water, EE2, Bpa, Learning Disabilities, change.org, Coal, LADYPEE, MINGO COUNTY, Green News
The Media Consortium

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger It won't be long before the world has to confront its diminishing supply of clean water. "We've had the sa...

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Call Me a Vegivore, Call me Whatever, Just Cook Something, Please! (Recipe Included)

Susie Middleton | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Kitchen, Fast, Vegetables, Eating Habits, Grist, Fresh & Green, Cooking Skills, Recipes, New York Magazine, Cookbooks, Green News
Susie Middleton

Well, I don't know what to think. One minute my hopes are dashed, when I read that Americans are eating less vegetables than ever. (And I was particul...

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Weekly Mulch: For Cancun Climate Summit, Activists Consider the Long View

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Climate Negotiations, Bolivia, cop16, Clean Coal, Center for Biological Diversity, Cancun, Bill Mckibben, La via Campesina, Clean Energy, change.org, Campus Progress, Making Contact, James Fallows, INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS, Mother Jones, Climate Caravans, cop15, Climate Change, India, Carbon Capture, Beltway Politics, Grist, Copenhagen, Grassroots Movement, Tuvalu, Sequestration, China, Green News
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by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger A year ago, it seemed possible--likely, even--that President Barack Obama would sweep into the internation...

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