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'Green News Report' - October 4, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Epa, Nigeria, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green Belt Movement, Green News Report, Pollution, Solar Decathlon, Coal, Radiation, Engineering, Military, Radioactivity, Oil Spill, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Solar Power, Global Warming, Bp, Energy, Lobbying, Nuclear Energy, Environmentalism, Shell Oil, Texas, Energy Efficiency, Koch Brothers, Dept of Energy, BRAD BLOG, Green News, Koch Industries, Sustainability, Logging, Natural Gas, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Solyndra, China, Salmon, Navajo Nation, Shipping, Forests, Salmonella, Factory Farming, Mining, Uranium, James Hansen, Tuvalu, Green News

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

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From Island Paradise To 'Dire' Emergency: South Pacific Faces Water Shortages Linked To Climate Change

AP | By NICK PERRY | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: South Pacific, South Pacific Freshwater, Samoa, Tokelau, Climate-Change, South Pacific Water, Tuvalu Water, South Pacific Water Shortage, Tuvalu, Water South Pacific, South Pacific Water Supply, Green News

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Crops are wilting, schools have shut their bathrooms and government officials are bathing in lagoons because of a severe sh...

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Ethical Responsibility And Climate Change: We're All In The Same Boat

Rabbi Lawrence Troster | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Green Faith, Judaism, Haida Gwaii, Ethics, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Environmentalism, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Religious Environmentalism, Bill Reid, Spirituality, Tuvalu, Religion News

As Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel once said, "Above all, the prophets remind us of the moral state of a people: Few are guilty, but all are responsible."

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South Sudan Reminds Us What It Takes to Become a New Nation

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Confederacy, India, Montenegro, Slovakia, Civil War, Palau, United Nations, Serbia, Democracy, China, Independence, Country, Cairo, Sudan, Nauru, Czechoslovakia, North Sudan, Tuvalu, South Sudan, Czech Republic, World News

Recently created countries remind us that there are no special requirements in terms of physical size, population or economic strength in order to become an independent country.

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WikiLeaks, Cuba and More U.S. Cynicism on Climate Change

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cuba, Mangroves, Wikileaks, Zapata Swamp, Hutia, Jonathan Farrar, Zapata National Park, Dwarf Hutia, Caribbean, Un Climate Change Conference, Bolivia, State Department Cables, Tuvalu, South America, Green News

As more and more WikiLeaks cables become available, a portrait of the U.S. attitude toward climate change is emerging -- and it is not flattering.

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

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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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WATCH: FILM: New Visions of the Apocalypse

Spread ArtCulture | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lucy Walker, Tuvalu, Kisa Lala, Film, Apocalypse, Countdown to Zero Movie, Kana Tomoko, Acqua Alta, Venice, Richard Hardy, New York City, Beautiful Islands Movie, 2012, Arts News

By Kiša Lala "Acqua Alta in Venice, An image from "Beautiful Islands," Horizon Features" A recent surge in apocalyptic films indicates the mood ...

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The globe prepares to switch off for Earth Hour

Andy Ridley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Earth Hour, Tuvalu, Desmond Tutu, Global Warming, Climate Change, World News

This Saturday night at 8.30pm local time, the national government of Tuvalu will switch off power to the low-lying island nation, as one of the first ...

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Climate Chess: Massachusetts Fires a New Shot Heard Round the World

David Novack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scott Brown, Copenhagen 2009, Documentary, Climate Change, Unfccc, Tuvalu, Global Warming, State of the Union, Climate Bill, Green News

We're two days away from President Obama's first State of the Union address. I personally wait with bated breath. The President threw some punches l...

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Seeing The Effects Of Climate Change (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Lindsay Armstrong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepoll, Climate Change, Floods, Effects of Climate Change, Natural Disasters, Climate Change Photos, Melting Glaciers, Tuvalu, Green News

Sometimes as we go about our daily lives, climate change can seem abstract, and not something we think we are experiencing on a daily basis. However, ...

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Tuvalu: The First Country In The World To Become Unlivable?

Mother Jones | Rachel Morris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tuvalu Climate Change, Global Warming Hot Spots, Auckland Tuvaluans, Tuvalu Christian Church, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, New Zealand Tuvaluans, Maldives, Funafuti, Kiribati, United Nations Development Programme, Environmental Refugees, Climate Change, Tuvalu Global Warming, Reverend Elisala Selu, Copenhagen, Tuvalu, Green News

This is the Tuvalu Christian Church, the heart of a migrant community from what may be the first country to be rendered unlivable by global warming....

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Todd Stern Says No Treaty at Copenhagen

Mike Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Todd Stern Climate Change Envoy, China Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol, U.S. Special Envoy, Todd-Stern, Climate Change, Kyoto Treaty, Tuvalu, Ghg, Politics News

Special U.S. Envoy on Climate Change Todd Stern yesterday arrived at the United Nations Foundation meeting on Climate Change, a big jet-lagged, and we...

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Live from Copenhagen: Talks Halted - Who is pushing the buttons?

Jack Hidary | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carbon, Cap and Trade, Climate Change, Carbon Emissions, Copenhagen 2009, cop15, Tuvalu, Green News

Much of the activity at the climate change conference in Copenhagen is kabuki theater with lots of activity, but real power concentrated in the hands of a few wealthy countries who would rather push decisions off to another day.

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Help Send A Citizen Journalist To Copenhagen

Wade Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tuvalu, Erosion, Copenhagen, Climate Refugees, Maldives, Global Warming, Sea Level Rise, Fiji, Climate Change, Environmental Refugees, Carterets, Green News

Huffington Post is holding a contest to send a citizen journalist to Copenhagen as part of its Hopenhagen platform. This contest will provide a unique...

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Tiny Tuvalu Shocks Climate Talks

Anuradha Vittachi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Copenhagen, Climate Change, Tuvalu, Cop 15, Climate, Green News

Tuvalu wants to ensure that global temperatures won't rise by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. You can see why: if it does, their island could disappear beneath the sea forever.

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Island Nations Fight For Survival At Climate Talks

AP | CHARLES J. HANLEY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Grenada, Copenhagen 2009, Islands Climate Change, Low Lying Islands, Tuvalu, Video, Gabriel London, Olivia Zaleski, Green News

COPENHAGEN — Declaring "it's a matter of survival," one of the world's tiniest nations, speaking for imperiled islands everywhere, took on globa...

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Defining Justice for Environmental Refugees

Wade Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

There is a growing group of people in our world who are in a legal limbo: environmental refugees. And this problem is only going to get bigger as time goes on.

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Maldives underwater meeting to address climate change

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Copenhagen, Maldives, Tuvalu, Seychelles, Home News

Small island nations have much at stake at the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. The Maldives, along with other islands...

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Oil and Coal Companies to Begin Huge Scuba Giveaway

Jerry Cope | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marsh-Fork-Elementary, Rising Sea Level, Mountaintop Removal, Massey Energy, Climate Change, Exxon, Daryl Hannah, James Hansen, Coal, Humanitarian Aid, Global Warming, Tuvalu, cop15, Exxonmobil, Satire, Green News

After years of climate change denial, a consortium of energy industry giants led by ExxonMobil and Massey Energy are launching a global campaign to provide island nations with equipment to combat rising sea levels.

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Sinking Island Nation Of Tuvalu Will Use All Renewable Energy By 2020

AP | MICHAEL CASEY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Renewable Energy, Green Energy, Solar Power, Fighting Climate Change, Tuvalu, Climate Change, Sinking Island, Sustainability, Green Technology, Green News

BANGKOK — The tiny island nation of Tuvalu, already under threat from rising seas caused by global warming, vowed Sunday to do its part for clim...

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GoDaddy Wants You To Know: Tuvalu Is Sinking

Dave Burdick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rising Sea Level, The Island Is Sinking, Water, Climate Change, Environment, GoDaddy.Com, Pollution, Tuvalu, Tuvalu Godaddy, Tuvalu Sinking, Green News

I love the frantic, attention-span-deprived pace of internet memes. Thanks in no small part to boingboing, the nerd/treehugger/angry media blogger dem...

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