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Victory Declared In Global Phase-Out Of Lead In Gasoline

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Christian | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Lead Poisoning, Phasing Out Lead in Gasoline, Video, United Nations Environment Program, Peter Lehner, Clean Fuels and Vehicles Project, Environment, Lead in Gasoline, Rich Kassel, Green News

Victory has been declared in a decade-long campaign to globally phase out lead from gasoline. More than 185 countries worldwide have stopped adding...

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Natural Value at Bargain Prices

Kiyotaka Akasaka | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: United Nations Environment Program, Poverty, Water, Nagoya, Unep, Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Watershed, Environment, UN Environment Programme, Climate Change, Forests, Coral Reefs, World News
Kiyotaka Akasaka

2010 was supposed to be the year that the world reversed the loss of biodiversity. Countries have failed to reach this target, however, and species a...

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Haiti's Tomorrow May Be Rooted In Trees, Fertilizer

Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Restoration, United Nations Environment Program, Soil, Knight Foundation, Agriculture, Aid, Plots, Knight Center for International Media, Jobs, Flooding, Plan, Trees, Dredging, Farms, Canals, Earth Institute, Countryside, Dominican Republic, Miami, Wood, Poverty, Crops, Tradition, Earthquake, Fire, University of Miami, Haiti, Fertilizer, Rivers, Columbia University, Environment, Food, Charcoal, Marc Levy, World News
Joseph B. Treaster

The task of restoring Haiti's countryside is extremely difficult and could even be impossible. But the restoration work for a healthy countryside would provide more food and jobs, and make flooding less severe.

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Haiti Earthquake: Greening of Hillsides Can Bolster Recovery

Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: United Nations Environment Program, Soil, Knight Foundation, Green, Knight Center for International Media, Earth, Tents, Trees, Crop, Port-Au-Prince, Earth Institute, Countryside, Miami, United States Agency for International Development, Hurricanes, Jeffrey Sachs, Poverty, Forest, Corn, Flood, Seed, Earthquake, Plant, Mountain, University of Miami, Haiti, Rivers, Firewood, Rice, Columbia University, Water, Deforestation, Food, Sustainability, Jacmel, Marc Levy, Green News
Joseph B. Treaster

Now with parts of Haiti in ruin and perhaps 200,000 people dead, the tree-planting and the soil sampling have halted. But the catastrophe makes it more critical than ever that Haiti be re-greened.

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Biofuels from Microalgae (Part 1)

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: UN Biofuels Assessment Report, Microbial Biofuels, Gasoline, Biofuels, Algae, Pollution, Crude Oil, Global Warming, Department of Energy, Biofuels Assessment Report, United Nations Environment Program, Biojet Fuel, Green News
Patrick Takahashi

I begun to be involved with growing algae in raceways a third of a century ago, and from then until now, have observed that federal funding was spotty and mostly non-existent.

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Planet Ocean: Riding a Green Ship to the Future We Want - Project Kaisei

Mary Liz Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: United Nations Environment Program, Scripps Oceanographic Institute, Social Entrepreneurs, Doug Woodring, Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch, Ocean Clean Up, Project Kaisei, Alternative Energy, Environment, Marine Science, Plastic Vortex, Ocean Pollution, Jim Dufour, Discarded Plastic, Green Economy, Oceans, Diesel Fuel, Green News
Mary Liz Thomson

Hundreds of square miles of ocean, just North West of Hawaii, are covered thick with floating human garbage. The ocean doesn't clean itself.

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