Toys are safe _ The Advocate

... 28) does plenty to incite fear in parents, but unfortunately is rooted more in rumor than in fact. Please allow this letter to clear up a number of misconceptions about the toy industry." Provided by CT Environmental Headlines.com.

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Assessing Biodiesel Plan's Impact | Courant.com

... commission Tuesday night began deliberations to determine whether the $65 million biodiesel production plant proposed at the end of Firestone Drive would harm the surrounding environment." Provided by CT Environmental Headlines.com.

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Suffield ZPC begins discussion of petitions against biodiesel ...

... Commission began deliberations Tuesday on whether a proposed $65 million biodiesel facility would likely harm the environment, as suggested by the 40-plus petitions filed against the plant." Provided by CT Environmental Headlines.com.

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West Hartford GOP Councilman To Seek Larson's House Seat ...

... town council member who made a name for himself as a leading opponent of the Blue Back Square project, will announce Thursday his campaign to unseat Democratic US Rep. John Larson." Provided by CT Environmental Headlines.com.

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The right choice for Broadwater? - The Connecticut Post Online

The Connecticut Post Online: "I guess our elected officials just wants to see more residents exit the state since we have some of the highest energy costs and property taxes in the United States." Provided by CT Environmental ...

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Leadership Crisis in Somali Region(posted on galbeed august 2007)

Many transnational corporations have acted as economic predators in Ethiopia, gobbling up national resources, distorting national economic policies, exploiting and changing labor relations, committing environmental despoliation, ...

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Top Environmental Blogs

Find the top Environmental sources and opinion blogs. From a post about Top 35 Environmental Blogs. Created by cduv on 10/20/2007 Tags:Environment Saved on Technology>Internet Updates: 1.-TreeHugger Blog[10 new feeds] ...

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Happy May Day!

The State Environmental Protection Administration, now the Ministry of Environmental Protection, along with the central bank and the Banking Regulatory Commission, jointly issued a "green loan" policy in July that banned loans to ...

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Kia cee’d awarded ISO environmental certification

Kia Motors has been presented by TÜV with two certificates which recognize the environmental design and manufacturing processes behind the Kia cee'd. TÜV presented Kia with DFE (ISO 14062, Design for Environment) and a LCA (ISO 14040, ...

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Environmental Volunteer Program Night at the Watershed : Wednesday ...

To celebrate National Volunteer Week 2008, The Watershed Sustainability and Resource Centre in Newtown will host a fun and interactive evening for both new and existing volunteers of its Environmental Volunteer Programs. ...

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Environmental Engineering Jobs and Environemental Engineering

Environmental Engineer Jobs, kansas environmental engineer temporary jobs, environmental engineer careers, environmental engineer position, environmental engineer employment, environmental engineer vacancies, environmental engineering ...

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Prius does more environmental damage than Hummer

This plant has caused so much environmental damage to the surrounding environment that NASA has used the 'dead zone' around the plant to test moon rovers. The area around the plant is devoid of any life for miles. ...

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Andrew Arentowicz: The Big Picture

I want to do all I can to prevent economic and environmental catastrophe before it's too late. Ironically, I believe it is possible to use this unique time as an opportunity to grow a much stronger and more sustainable economy; ...

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April 30, 2008 John Kline E-Newsletter

possible bridge designs, environmental studies, and funding for the construction project. Meetings continue with Governor Pawlenty's office, MnDOT, state and local officials, and the City of Hastings ...

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Vegetarian political power

One by someone who worked for one of the environmental organizations of the government. He detailed quite well how much of our resources were wasted on the inefficiency of animal products. You would have much more food if you eating ...

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On the Olympics…

This post, however, does not explore this issue, but instead questions the viewpoint that the Olympics is in some way divorced from this political/social/environmental conundrum. Rogge's statements are indicative of failed leadership ...

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We Need To Drill For Oil

What keeps these areas closed are exaggerated environmental fears, strong prejudice against oil companies and sheer stupidity. Americans favor both "energy independence" and cheap fuel. They deplore imports -- who wants to pay ...

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Environmental Performance Actions

Environment show at Exit Art gallery. The show was located in the basement of the gallery where long narrow hallway had installed videos and arts that documented the performance by environment artists. The target audience was general ...

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Bush Goes After Arctic Refuge — AGAIN

But in response to this reality, we hear Bush claiming yet again that one of the chief problems is that environmental laws have prevented energy companies from building more refineries. Again the Associated Press provides the fact: ...

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Top 10 Ecotourism Destinations Part I

Ecotourism - or ecological tourism - is a type of tourism that seeks to minimize the environmental footprint of foreign visitors and broaden awareness for the preservation and appreciation of unique flora, fauna and local cultures. ...

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The Sales Apprentice 2008: Sales training and business tips from ...

On Kevin's team Jenny enthusiastically promoted a theme of environmental cards. Was she having a laugh or what? How can anyone who claims to be green support the creation of something that uses natural resources to be made and petrol to ...

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The really scary thing about the current environmental crisis

The United States government is promising the EPA will step up to the plate and save us from ourselves, while the president – in the name of Homeland Security – sets aside more than 30 environmental regulations [Richard Marosi and ...

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Alberta exempts major transmission line projects from enviro ...

EDMONTON _ The Alberta government is exempting major power transmission line projects from requiring environmental impact assessments.Environment Minister Rob Renner says any public concerns related to power line projects, ...

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Aviation Industry Sets a Global Example-Unprecedented Cooperation ...

The declaration states: "We agree on the need to accelerate action to mitigate our environmental impact, especially in respect to climate change while preserving our driving role in the sustainable development of our global society. ...

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Coorong Lakes and Murray Waterkeeper speaks in a Lateline report

IAN BRIGHTHOPE, ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE EXPERT: If the heavy metals go into water and the water is drunk by humans the heavy metals are taken up and are toxic to every cell in the body. If the heavy metals are taken up by fish and humans ...

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Evangelicals jumping on the ecological bandwagon

(A clarification: It has been claimed that James Watt, former Secretary of the Interior, 1981 to 1983, under the late, not-so-great, B-grade movie actor president, Ronald Reagan, said something to the effect that environmental concern ...

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Politics vs. Public Health at the EPA?

A new study from the Government Accountability Office finds that White House policies have been blocking and delaying chemical reviews by the Environmental Protection Agency. We discuss the GAO's findings.

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Another Ponte Vista Survey??? We Need Your Help

However, I learned that whatever the Planning Department suggests could be built at Ponte Vista will not be published at or near the same time the Final Environmental Impact Report is published. Ponte Vista has quite a long way to go ...

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Mr. Shmeckel and Formaldehyde

The Bush administration has changed Environmental Protection Agency reviews of chemicals in a way that will delay scientific assessments of their health risks and open the process to politicization, congressional investigators said ...

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Environmental Engineering Jobs and Environmental Engineer Jobs

jobs for environmental engineers, civil environmental engineering jobs, jobs for environmental engineering, environmental engineering job openings, environmental engineering jobs in texas, civil and environmental engineering jobs, ...

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What causes monster waves?

A look inside the Tsunami Factory

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Ghana Environmental Management Project takes off in Upper West

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has been tasked to collaborate with relevant institutions to strengthen and transform the existing District Environment Management Committees into statutory committees of District Assemblies to ...

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Waste Management, Linde join on giant garbage-to-gas project

Waste Management Inc. and Linde North America Inc. have formed a joint venture to build the world's largest facility for turning landfill gas into vehicle fuel, the Houston Business Journal reports. The $15.5 million liquefied natural ...

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Prince Charles comments on Griffintown

Such principles, in my experience, tend to create added social and environmental value, as well as commercial value. They apply whether building anew or adapting existing buildings. We all need to consider the meaning of heritage and ...

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GIS Specialist - Cincinnati, OH

BHE Environmental, Inc., an environmental engineering consulting company providing services to clients nationwide, has immediate openings in our Cincinnati office for GIS Specialists. Candidates are required to have experience with ESRI ...

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Environmental Planning Project Manager

Job Duties and Responsibilities: Responsibilities for the Environmental Planner/Project Manager position include: * Serve as project manager for CEQA and NEPA documents prepared for land use and infrastructure projects, managing several ...

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Jiminy Peak's Amazing Wind Mill Power Plant

Jiminy's policy of environmental awareness is seen in all our activities. We seek to raise the environmental awareness of guests and employees, and to broaden their knowledge and appreciation through educational programs along with our ...

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Larger homes; More severe environmental consequences

Stan Cox at Commondreams.org - "SUVs Without Wheels". Exerpts -. "Since 1990, construction of supersized homes of 3000 square feet or more has doubled, to 24 percent of new homes. Combine that with the shrinking size of the American ...

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Welcome to Region 6 of the CREEC Network

Our online, searchable Resource Directory includes Environmental Education providers and programs/resources available to educators in your area. Please look at our calendar and find environmental education activities and exhibits, ...

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Good Article on the True Cost of Food

Environmental Cost of Shipping Groceries Around the World.

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AP Environmental Writer

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) -- A federal agency says it's impossible to tell from existing data how industrial pollution has affected the health of people in the Great Lakes region.

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Green Gear: Do the Math

What Terra Pass' new carbon calculator lacks in tangibility (it's an online service, not a "product," per se), it more than makes up for in awesomeness. The next time you plan to take a trip in your car, hit the site to see how much CO2 ...

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WaMu Switches 1M Accounts From Paper To E-Statements

Through its year-long "Make A Statement, Plant A Tree" campaign, Washington Mutual Inc. has raised $1 million for the The National Arbor Day Foundation.The campaign pledged to donate $1 to the foundation for every customer bank ...

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Beyond Earth Day

The Spring issue of Organic Style magazine (http://www.OrganicStyleMag.com) highlights visionaries who have taken courageous, inspiring action in pursuit of humanitarianism and environmental justice.

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SONIC TO ACQUIRE HEAVY OIL UPGRADING TECHNOLOGY

SONIC Technology Solutions Inc. ("SONIC" or "the Company") today announced that it has agreed to terms to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Northern Oil Research Technologies Inc. ("NORT"), an Alberta based oil process ...

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Poverty & Environmental Degradation in the South

The causes of environmental degradation in the South are manifold, and poverty is a symptom of a global economical and social system which drives this environmental degradation, both in North and South, in pursuit of short-term ...

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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom: Environmental Justice is the ...

In a focused and powerful address, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom addressed the Ecocity World Summit last week with a call for environmental leadership at the local level. Sounding at times more like an activist than a politician, ...

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Reading Green

It's not something that I discuss often here, or even that frequently with my (highly socially-conscious and terribly opinionated) friends, but I spend a lot of time mulling over social and environmental issues. ...

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New Plugs Improve Prius MPG

Pulstar Pulse Plugs have increased the fuel economy of 2005 and 2007 Toyota Prius hybrid vehicles by 6 to 8 percent, or 3 miles per gallon, according to the company. Tests on the vehicles' acceleration also showed improvements of 5 ...

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Pew Poll on Global Warming shows just that, Warming With the ...

who appeared with other Senate Democrats at a press conference on Earth Day to pressure the Bush administration on environmental issues — said he was not worried about current polling data and believed that the wording of questions ...

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Exaggerated Environmental Fears, Strong Prejudice against Oil ...

WashingtonPost.com has this article today by Op-Ed Columnist Robert J. Samuelson and it goes in part like this... It may surprise Americans to discover that the United States is the third-largest oil producer, behind Saudi Arabia and ...

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Find that job: Lesson 47. Antipreneurs - a success story

It makes trainers from 99 per cent recycled materials and it's strong on labour rights and environmental policy. According to its co-founder, Cyndi Rhoades, they want to show that they can create a product that doesn't thrash the planet ...

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Caravan and Camping Industry’s Gumnut Awards

For this reason, environmental programs such as the Gumnut Awards have been developed to get the touring industry to proactively drive environmental sustainability." The program, self described above, was developed back in 2002, ...

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CRBI To Hold Conasauga River Paddle

PFOAs, chemicals used to create stain resistant carpet, though currently unregulated by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), have been linked to health risk in humans. CRBI in Rome recently signed on to a letter from the United ...

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Politics Dictating Science

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration is undermining the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to determine health dangers of toxic chemicals by letting nonscientists have a bigger — often secret — say, ...

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Earth Day 2008

Environmental legislation was passed, awareness was raised, and an annual remembrance was institutionalized. The following excerpt was copied from Wikipedia: "Earth Day proved popular in the United States and around the world. ...

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New “Cleantech Israel” Group Meets in Herzliya

Cleantech Israel, a new group that enables entrepreneurs, investors, academics, government officials and others to meet and exchange ideas about Israel's renewable energy, water, and environmental technology sectors, held its second ...

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Boris: ‘vote blue, get greed’

"Boris Johnson's main contribution to environmental policy was as a cheerleader for George W Bush's disastrous decision to oppose the Kyoto climate treaty."It didn't seem possible six weeks ago, but Boris Johnson's environmental ...

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News - Business - Budget 2005: What we already know

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL TAXES. Green Landlord Scheme. The Treasury has promised to give an update on its proposed Green Landlord Scheme in Budget 2005. It would offer incentives to landlords who invested in energy efficiency measures. ...

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Keeping the Brighton Festival green

In this years' Brighton Festival – which runs from 3-25 May – we have Sir David King, one of the leaders in the environmental field. Former Chief Scientific Adviser to the government, he will be looking beyond the spin and cutting ...

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Why Open Source

Environmental benefits. Using Open Source products supports a number of small companies all over the world, even in very poor communities. It promotes development of resources that will be used by a greater number of people and that ...

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Tana Sugar: Public Hearing Dates Announced

In my previous post, I mentioned that the National Environmental Management Agency (NEMA) would hold three public hearings in the Tana Delta to present the outcome of the review of comments made by the public on the EIA report of the ...

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Will he, won’t he?

And one of the downsides of China's economic boom is the astounding environmental devastation that has come with it at home http://www.onpointradio.org/china/index.php/2008/04/environment not to mention the environment damage also ...

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Kenya IDPs: Camp Conditions Harsh for HIV-positive People

Photo: Manoocher Deghati/IRIN IDPs have insufficient food, soap and warm clothing in the camps NAKURU, 29 April 2008 (PlusNews) - Harsh living conditions and the onset of the cold rainy season in Kenya are making it increasingly ...

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Hybrid cars unveiled by Ford, Honda and Toyota

Great news in between is that 3 automakers have unveiled their new and latest hybrid cars and the related technology at an environmental conference on Friday. Event was first national convention of the Sierra Club, largest environmental ...

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The ultimate kapu

My friend and co-conspirator, DeAnander, just put together a very informative and important article. For environmental dilettantes, throwing your disposable water bottle into a recycling can is how to escape the consequences of runaway ...

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LNG platforms - A northeast update

Bergen Record columnist James Ahearn expanded on the Stainton quote on Sunday, declaring: " "Corzine, faced with a confrontation between environmental activists and corporate interests, did not hesitate to choose growth." ...

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Sushi

Less original: EMIRATES ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP. Agency: JWT. Awards: Print Silver at the 2008 Dubai Lynx Awards. UAE - 2008. Type of Entry: Newspaper. Category: Public Health & Safety, Public Awareness, Fundraising & Appeals ...

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CERTIFIED SHOCKER: HANJIN WITHDRAWS ITS PROJECT IN MISAMIS ORIENTAL!

They cited some of Hanjin's reasons for the withdrawal: failure to secure an environmental compliance certificate from the environment department, relocation problems, a disagreement with the state run National Power Corporation over ...

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Evann Souza joins LFHCfS

In May 2007 I obtained my Masters of Science in Conservation Biology and Environmental Sciences from the University of Hawaii at Hilo. I currently work for the USDA-ARS, doing agricultural insect research primarily with fruit flies. ...

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Causes of diabetes: Genetic and environmental factors

Kumar, Surender (2003) Causes of diabetes: Genetic and environmental factors. Physicians Times, 2. pp. 2-8.

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Vietnam

Sapa, located in North Vietnam . July 07. Photo taken by someone in my family. When I went to Vietnam last year, it had only been my third time to the country. I am fortunate to have parents who like traveling so my family and I ...

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Sacrifice is for suckers (an occasional series)

The most recent one was from the environmental radicals at the IMF. So why all the sacrifice talk? Maybe because it's just plain hard to imagine what a decades-long economic transformation will look like. We tend to extrapolate crudely ...

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Why Are So Many People being Diagnosed with Cancer? Is it the ...

Top environmental organizations have stated that their studies concluded that an estimation of 6000 cancer deaths is caused every year by indoor air pollutants. A scientific study was also done that revealed that because of homemakers ...

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The Chinese View of Global Warming, by Hedvah Shuchman, Ph.D.

I interviewed a member of the Shanghai Environmental Protection Agency who spoke to me about the great efforts this city of 15-18 million people is making to control air pollution. I traveled by train from Shanghai to the city of Suzhow ...

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I'm sitting here, having a nice conversation with you ...

I mean I JUST got done writing that "environmentalism" is as traditional as apple pie, used Roosevelt (Teddy) as a GOP example, said "good environmental stewardship" is something I support, declared that no sane person opposes cracking ...

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Hearing on Environmental Protection: Toxic Chemical Policies

Today the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works held a hearing on the Environmental Protection Agency's toxic chemical policies. Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) blamed the Bush Administration for changes in EPA's policies that ...

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So Cal Builder Expo Hosts State Officials & Environmental Leaders

ONTARIO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A highlight of this year's So Cal Builder Expo is Green.

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The Great Ethanol Hoax

We have allowed the environmental activists (mainly in the Democratic Party) to essentially block any moves our nation wants to make while looking for a path to energy independence. We know how to get oil from places like Alaska, ...

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Wireless Technology for Social Change: Case Study Synopses

When rapid deforestation in Argentina threatened the country's woodlands and wildlife, Greenpeace developed a mobile advocacy program to marshal support for environmental protection. Greenpeace reached out to their constituency via text ...

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Feds Not Addressing Drugs in Water

Hall's nonprofit now runs what was the EPA's Hospitals for a Healthy Environment stewardship program, designed to reduce mercury use and improve the environmental footprint of the health care industry. The EPA cut the $200000-per-year ...

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West shouldn’t get lost in rush for energy

Didn't it seem a little out of character when Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal said last week that the ...

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Philly getting a solar plant

The city of Philadelphia is leasing a brownfield at the Philadelphia Navy Yard to Epuron LLC for a solar electric plant. The Philadelphia Business Journal reports that Epuron will sell the 1 to 1.4 megawatts of electricity generated at ...

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Environmental Disasters

(April 29, 2008 02:06 PM, by Arnold Kling) According to Iain Murray's new book, the worst disasters come from environmental policy. It is remarkable the magnitude of the...

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“Travel for Good” with Travelocity

I've posted before regarding Virgin Atlantic Airlines offering their passengers to offset their carbon footprint while flying on one of the enormous planes. But another travel-related company is offering its customers to opportunity to ...

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Ranger Rick Takes Action on Climate Change

www.nwf.org/climateaction - It's so easy a raccoon could do it! Send an email, write a letter or call your representatives to tell them you want congress to take action on climate change.

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theological reflections on the environment

We all know a lot of environmental damage has been written-off by the Christian community because some of us believe we are going to escape earth in the end head off to heaven. If we will be gone from this place soon, why should we care ...

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Israel Helps Environmental Struggle By Destroying Syrian Bomb

This page has always defended the use of force to stop evil in this world. That's why it was great to see the Israeli's take the initiative and destroy a Syrian bomb factory that was (reportedly) less than two years away from producing ...

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Environmental week in our school

environmental weeks are ended. now gonna get back and focus what i need to do..hmm..a week more to go..exam is coming ppl. arh..feel sucks, 3 weeks of examination, is boring okay. can bang wall. i can't do my homework properly now. when ...

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Outdoor Wood Burning Stoves | Exploring the Environmental Benefits

Many people do not realize it, but there are a number of environmental benefits associated with outdoor wood burning stoves. Global warming is a situation that is gaining a lot of popularity in recent years. The climate of the Earth...

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Laws Can Prevent Harmful Wildlife Invasions

The Environmental Law Institute (ELI) announces the release of Cooperative Prevention of Invasive Wildlife Introduction in Florida. The report recommends ways in which state and federal agencies can more effectively prevent harmful ...

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Bill Gates outed as the worst greenhouse gas offender

MIT has begun to track the carbon footprint of different lifestyle in different nations. And the picture painted for the U.S. isn't pretty: If you are looking for people with the worst carbon footprint, look among the super-rich such as Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey,

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Sustainability Is Watchword for Biomass Industry

Sustainability was on the minds of many of today's speakers at the World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, an annual conference attracting more than 1200 scientists, business leaders, and government officials that ...

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“Understanding and managing the threats to our Reef, Rainforest ...

"Many of Australia's leading environmental and social scientists will be joining industry leaders in Cairns for a four day conference on the environmental risks facing our Reef, Rainforest and the Torres Strait. ...

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Environmental Issues

Environmental issues, such as global warming, have been of concern for government pressure groups and other individuals. Some companies have responded positively to new regulations and seized/created new business opportunities that have ...

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Solar Tech Financiers In Race To Keep On Crest Of Solar Wave

A growing number of young companies are spending their brain power on software and financing, rather than photovoltaics, GreenTechBlog reports. In a deal with German solar panel manufacturer Conergy, web-based software tools and ...

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Town Meeting ‘08 Session One

An ARB member explained that this would permit businesses going through an ARB environmental review the opportunity to satisfy their parking requirements through a long-term business arrangement rather than owning the parking spaces. ...

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How the Media Abandoned the Environment

If you're reading EcoTech Daily, you've probably sensed for some time that the mainstream media has largely abandoned environmental science coverage. Now there are some hard numbers which show the issue's consignment to the back page. ...

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North Pole Could Be Swimmable In 2008

In September 2007, Arctic sea ice reached a record low, opening up the fabled North-West passage that runs from Greenland to Alaska. Scientists from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) are preparing for the possibility that ...

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COMPENDIUM OF FUTILITY: SIERRA CLUB BRAGS OF INCONSEQUENTIAL ...

You mention postponing the Kearl tar sands mine pending environmental impact assessment (climate change). You mention stopping the Digby Neck mega-quarry in Nova Scotia that would have proved harmful to right whales. ...

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LA Goes Green

"Choosing a station BP had purchased from California-based Thrifty Oil, the architects launched a total environmental and aesthetic makeover. Their goal: to make old elements green in a way that could be easily reproduced. ...

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POLISHING THE FURNITURE IN A BURNING HOUSE: SIERRA CLUB IGNORES ...

It was the late great David Brower, three time Nobel Peace Prize nominee and Sierra Club pioneer who said that overpopulation was the major cause of America's environmental ruin, and that since immigration was the main factor in ...

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We Went to an Environmental Center

Sunday we did a lot of running about, but in the midst of it, decided to stop at an environmental center not far from us. Everything was in bloom, animals run about free, not afraid of people at all, and it is such a tranquil setting. ...

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Hedonic pricing method on environmental assets

The hedonic pricing method is used to estimate economic values for ecosystem or environmental services that directly affect market prices. It is most commonly applied to variations in housing prices that reflect the value of local ...

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Russia Has No Plans To Cap Carbon Emissions

Russia says it has no plans to cap carbon emissions under a new climate regime, currently being negotiated to succeed the Kyoto Protocol after 2012, Reuters reports. Under Kyoto, Russia is considered an industrialized country. ...

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Column: We must work toward reducing our environmental impact

I think it is fitting that my last piece of the year is on something that means quite a bit to me.

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Environmental cost accounting and auditing

2008 A history of the extension of traditional cost accounting systems to account for environmental impacts and their costs goes back toward the end of the 1970's in Germany where rules were promulgated to ...

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Are We Losing the Great Lakes?

Lake Michigan's water level has dropped nearly four feet since 1997. How low will they go?

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Video seminars

John Quiggin has been trying to reduce travel costs (mostly environmental) by agreeing to video seminars. He has one at ANU today. Somewhat extraordinarily, if you want to watch that seminar you need to get yourself to ANU! ...

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First Federal Savings Bank Touts Green Design

Interesting tour of the green features of First Federal Savings Bank in Mishawaka, Ind.

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Canada To Ban Polycarbonate Baby Bottles

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) tested canned food bought across America and found BPA in more than half of them, at levels they call "200 times the government's traditional safe level of exposure for industrial chemicals. ...

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ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA TO HOLD CENTENNIAL CONVENTION JULY 11-18

Wangari Muta Maathai* – Environmental and political activist from Kenya and the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for "her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace." ...

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an inconvenient truth? here’s what’s REALLY inconvenient

Ireland introduced a tax on plastic bags in 2001 to combat their negative environmental effects. The result? The amount of polyethylene (the product used to make plastic bags) used actually INCREASED after this tax was introduced. ...

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Cleaning Up My Kitchen - Clearing Out the Bisphenol-A and Other ...

Reports by both the Center for Disease Control (CDC) & Commonweal, a California non-profit environmental and health group, have shown that almost all of the people they test have BPA in their blood & urine. ...

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Green Awakenings Fashion Show Benefits Sierra Club

But she developed another passion during her junior year after taking an advanced placement class in environmental science. "After learning about the importance of sustainability in our environment I decided I wanted to meld these two ...

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Riverkeeper Suing Detroit Edison Over Mercury Discharges

In 2004, the US Environmental Protection Agency successfully sued Teck Cominico over chemical discharges into the Columbia River at its lead and zinc smelting plant in Trail, BC That suit argued the discharge was creating pollution in ...

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White House undermines EPA on cancer risks, GAO says

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is undermining the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to determine health dangers of toxic chemicals by letting nonscientists have a bigger _ often secret _ role, congressional investigators ...

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Environmental, conservation groups sue over wolf delisting

Environmental and animal rights groups sued the federal government Monday to force it to restore endangered species status for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies. The US Fish and Wildlife Service lifted federal protections for the ...

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Ethanol gas costs more to use, delivers less energy

"Mileage can suffer by about 25 percent with E-85, according to AAA. Over the course of a year, that amounts to an extra 300 gallons of E-85 to go the same distance as when using conventional gas. That means an average household, when the total cost of conventional gas and E-85 are compared, would spend nearly $100 more per year for E-85."

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How America can win the War Against Global Warming - TIME

Wonderful article that gives a pragmatic solution to lower America's carbon footprint.

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Solar power, weeds and algae to fuel armed forces of future

Britain's armed forces could acquire a new tinge of green under plans to end the military dependency on fossil fuels.

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Doomed Chernobyl reactor to be buried in giant steel coffin

Twenty-two years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, work is under way on a colossal new shelter to cover the ruins and deadly radioactive contents of the exploded Soviet-era power plant.

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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: Dems' bill would let private citizens fight ...

A coalition of House and Senate Democrats are pushing legislation they say will restore citizens' ability to fight environmental injustices in their communities in federal and state courts. S. 2918,…

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Vegan Environmental Awards 08 - Vote for us !

As you have seen via the banners above and below, ScouseVeg is nominated for a Vegan Environmental Award ! We need your vote. Please read the latest update below and then please vote for ScouseVeg. —– Original Message —– ...

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Green Line: California Transmission Battle Divides Environmentalists

Utilities that need to install clean energy to meet environmental targets are running into environmental opposition when it comes to actually transmitting the juice to where people live. The LA Times reports that California governor ...

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Green Ink: Who’s the Straight Shooter?

Crude oil broke $120 and new records Monday on the back of further supply disruptions, reports Bloomberg, and analysts are talking about $130. If the Fed cuts rates a last time, the weaker dollar could also push oil higher. ...

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National Wildlife Federation. v. National Marine Fisheries Service

Apr 24: In the US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, Case Nos. 06-35011 & 06-35019. According to the Appeals Court the consolidated appeals involve another round in the complex and longrunning battle in the Pacific Northwest over salmon ...

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EPA Rewards Environmental Champions in the Virgin Islands

Two individuals and one organization from the USVI received top honors on Friday from the US Environmental Protection Agency for their work to protect the environment. Their achievements were recognized as they were presented with EPA ...

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Organic Style Ltd. acquires Bed &Bath pioneer Coyuchi, Inc.

Organic Style Ltd., the fast-growing eco-luxury internet retailer, announced today the acquisition of Coyuchi, Inc., an eco-luxury brand for premium Organic and Fair Trade cotton bed and bath products.

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Emerson Helps the US Environmental Protection Agency Start ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson (NYSE:EMR) and the global leader in enabling Business-Critical Continuity™,

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GALLUP POLL RESULTS ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

... down from 41 percent who gave that response last year. People tend to be most worried about environmental problems they can see. That may be one reason why global warming hasn't reached the top tier of environmental concerns. Table.

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Shaw Awarded Environmental Multiple Award Contract by the US Navy

BATON ROUGE, La.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Shaw Group Inc. (NYSE: SGR) announced today that its Environmental & Infrastructure Group has been awarded an Environmental Multiple Award Contract.

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RAINWATER HARVESTING HELPS INNOVATION CENTRE ACHIEVE TOP ECO RATING

The new Innovation Centre at the University of Exeter has been awarded the top rating in the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) thanks in part to a rainwater harvesting system installed by ...

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Tana Sugar: EIA License Not Issued Yet

To do this our Executive Director, Ali Kaka, wrote to the Director General of the National Environmental Management Agency (DG-NEMA), Dr Muusya Mwinzi on 11 April 2008 seeking to hear directly from the DG-NEMA about the EIA. ...

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The Government is Meddling! Probably...

An article by the Environmental News Service by actual reporter- not just from the AP- JR Pegg, gives an inside view into the workings of the government, and alerts citizens as to how their government is handling, or rather ignoring and ...

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LCA speeches

Colin Preece - LCA Environmental Spokesman Don Barnard - LCA Press Officer Granny Pat Tabram - Cananbis Gran Osbourne Douglas - Guest Speaker Rocky van der Benderskum - LCA Canterbury Steve Pank - LCA Norfolk ...

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Reducing Desktop Power Consumption: Helping your company go green

As a result of growing environmental sensitivity, businesses are feeling pressure from activists, consumers and government at all levels to make their operations more eco-friendly. This paper examines the ways in which Power Save helps ...

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Root River center to open May 3

The University of Wisconsin-Parkside will celebrate the grand opening of the Root River Environmental Community Center (REC) with a full day of outdoor activities on May 3. Located at 1301 6th Street along the Root River , the REC ...

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Monday Guest Blog by Lisa

Last month was released a new report 'Environmental Trends and Climate Impacts: Findings from the US Book Industry', which is probably the most important report that was published recently on the environmental impacts of the book ...

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Environmental fx in maps?

Very often, there are custom 3d objects in the maps but what could greatly enhance the atmosphere...

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MPs consider themselves too good for ordinary tap water!

"In a decision that flies in the face of environmental advice, the Commons authorities are clinging to bottled mineral water "on cost and hygiene grounds". A committee decreed that bottled water was cheaper to serve - even though mains ...

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Update on The Forest Service’s Natural Turnpike Project : Warren ...

First comes a scoping letter, then a draft Environmental Assessment, and finally a Letter of Decision and a final Environmental Assessment, or, with regionally significant projects, an Environmental Impact Statement. ...

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Acting for environmental protection

BAGUIO CITY (Apr. 22) — Colorful and artistic illustrations covered Session Road as tourists and passersby expressed their thoughts on environment sustainability through art in the annual celebration of Earth Day. ...

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Alzheimer’s Heritability, Selection, and Affects of Inbreeding

The use of twins allowed scientists to look at both environmental and genetic factors of the disease. In the case of identical (monozygotic) twins, all of their genes are shared, so if the disease is highly genetic than it should be ...

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Time's Environmental-War Whoop

The latest Gallup environmental survey shows that only 37 percent of Americans worry about global warming "a great deal," a drop from 41 percent last year. Indeed, the share of Americans greatly concerned with climate change is about ...

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Welcome IntLawGrrl Rebecca Bratspies

Rebecca's teaching and scholarship focus on environmental and public international law, with particular emphasis on how legal systems govern the global commons and how law can further sustainable development. Before entering teaching ...

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Green Mortgages on the Rise

If you were offered a loan to renovate your home to adhere to higher environmental standards, would you do that? What are you currently doing to keep emissions from your home lower? What alternative technologies could you adopt into ...

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A big fishhook in the FTA

They limit the fundamental right of a democracy to decide its own laws and its own environmental, health, safety and labour standards. While a democracy can choose to limit its ability to pass laws (and I certainly advocate that where ...

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Does More E-mail = Less Carbon?

The aim of the exercise is to try and prove, quantifiably, that e-mail has an environmental advantage over other methods of communication. The research also hopes to enable firms to benchmark the carbon footprint of their own e-mail ...

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President Bush Goes All Scooby-Doo On Warming Law, Judicial Review

Some courts are taking laws written more than 30 years ago to primarily address local and regional environmental effects, and applying them to global climate change. The Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the National ...

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Quit complaining about gas prices and DO SOMETHING!!!

However many environmental protection groups such as the National Wild Life Federation have protested drilling for this oil because of environmental concerns. Recently in north Dakota an untapped reservoir of oil contain approximately 4 ...

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Pepsi Cans Feature Recycling Info

Recycling facts and messages provided by the National Recycling Coalition will be featured on 500 million Pepsi cans and 250 million Diet Pepsi cans nationwide. That's 7 billion cans by the end of the year.Pepsi Co. ...

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Going green is people!

In the process of reading, watching, listening to, and discussing environmental media, I have learned to appreciate journalists for the difficult task they have to present a balanced and unbiased picture of what's going on in the world ...

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1ST ANNUAL NY MUSIC FESTIVAL NAMES NOTED CARIBBEAN MUSIC PRODUCER

Carlos "Go-Go" Gomez presents an African/Cuban drum circle workshop and an environmental work shop for all ages. A multitude of vendors will be on hand with foods from all over the Caribbean and Latin America as well as a variety of ...

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L. Deborah Sword CV

Her masters degree in environmental dispute resolution and doctorate in conflict analysis included training in mediation, facilitation, arbitration, negotiation, med-arb, conflict coaching, consensus building, strategic planning, ...

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The Next Hit by Government

Are we ready for the next environmental disaster? No, I don't mean a hurricane, although the big winds blowing from Raleigh intend to do us damage. Our Heroes in the state legislature may enact any or all of 56 "policy proposals" ...

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Why Measure Environmental Performance: 8 Steps to a Greener Supply ...

As April Terreri describes in her article, Eight Steps to a Green Supply Chain, it is quite evident that companies are carefully being instructed to make improvements throughout their business processes. The author points out that no ...

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Ross Gelbspan review of new book on capitalism and the ...

'Gus' Speth, a prominent environmentalist who, in this book, has turned sharply critical of the US environmental movement," says Ross Gelbspan, writing in the April 27 Washington Post Book World.

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WANTED - For Recycling

Goods For Recycling at EcoExpo:. - Postage Stamps- Reading Glasses. - Medical equipment in good condition. - School Equipment, Including children's books, writing equipment, Writing paper, Craft Items.- Bike Frames and Bikes, ...

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Sewage Outfalls to the Ocean — No More in Florida

Some marine scientists and environmental groups, like Earthjustice and the National Resources Defense Council would disagree with me. Noting concerns with the nitrogen and phosphorus causing red tides . . . the effects of ...

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Mini-Project #6

What precautions are the local officials in your city taking regarding a biological terrorism attack? The local officials in Miami Dade and Broward county are always at a high level of preparedness for any biological terrorism attack by ...

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‘Water wars’ with US in our future: experts

... emerging will develop into bitter conflicts in the not too distant future when those dry states become increasingly desperate, said Milton Clark, a senior health and science adviser for the US Environmental Protection Agency. ...

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Man Builds His Own Solar-Electric Vehicle

Although Brent Hatch's homegrown solar-electric whip looks eerily similar (read: just as ugly) to the SUNN solar car kit, this one was actually created without the help of any pre-packaged parts or sophisticated schematics.

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Technological Breakthrough In Fight To Cut Greenhouse Gases

Scientists at Newcastle University have pioneered breakthrough technology in the fight to cut greenhouse gases. The Newcastle University team, led by Michael North, Professor of Organic Chemistry, has developed a highly energy-efficient method of converting waste carbon dioxide (CO2) into chemical compounds known as cyclic carbonates.

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America's dirty little oil secret: Plastic Bottles and Bags

America consumes 31.2 billion water bottles a year taking 17.6 million barrels of oil to create them. Enough to fuel 1.5 million cars for a year. America consumes 100 billion plastic bags a year taking 12 million barrels of oil. World figures? 154.3 billion water bottles and 500 billion - 1 trillion bags=147.4 - 207.4 million barrels of oil a year.

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The REALLY Inconvenient Truths

Fortunately, you can discover facts like these in Iain Murray's brand-new book, The REALLY Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know About (Because They Helped Cause Them)-- a rollicking ...

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Turning tide in Indiana

Ruckelshaus, a member of a prominent Indiana Republican family, was also the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. "Senator Obama's ability to attract not only Democrats, but also Republicans and independents, makes him uniquely ...

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BuildDirect - Environmental Benefits of Bamboo Flooring

In an age of growing environmental concerns, bamboo flooring is the most preferred choice for consumers looking for green building materials. Bamboo flooring is the one of the most environmentally friendly flooring options you can ...

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Consequences of Mass Immigration

It echoes many of the arguments put forward in recent years by the OPT - notably on pensions, job vacancies and impact on GDP – but devotes relatively little attention to the environmental impacts of mass immigration, ...

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Ma homeowners fined for illegal asbestos removal

Holliston, Massachusetts Two Massachusetts homeowners are facing fines for violating the Department of Environmental Protection s asbestos regulations, after they removed asbestos roofing materials from their property. ...

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Congressman Ron Paul Wants A Free Market in Gasoline

Note that much of the support for unrealistic environmental regulations comes from northeastern politicians and media, who weren't nearly as interested in oil fortunes when the business hit rock bottom in the 1980s. ...

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Hyundai Motor Leading the Way to Make China Greener

Hyundai Motor Co. and the Korean Federation for Environmental Movement (KFEM) will lead the project, while the Chinese central government, Inner Mongolia's regional government and a local Non-governmental Organization will also ...

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Lead Clinical Specialist Full Time Day Shift (BURBANK, CA, 91506, USA)

Implements and maintains established department, unit, and hospital policies, procedures, and objectives as well as improving organization performance program, safety, environmental, and infection control policies. (1) 4. ...

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Imroved water quality from deployment of GM crop varieties

In their report, published in the March-April issue of the Journal of Environmental Quality, soil scientists Martin Shipitalo and Lloyd Owens, and agricultural engineer Rob Malone, noted that losses of contact herbicides in surface ...

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Coastal Council Votes to Oppose New High School at Angels Gate

NOISE leader Yvonne Schueller narrated a PowerPoint presentation setting forth reasons to not build the school and referring to the school board's authority to certify its own environmental impact reports as the "fox guarding the ...

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Canada - Waterloo Watch Says Fluoride In Our Tap Water Is Unnecessary

The fluoridation chemicals (hydrofluorosilicic acid, arsenic and lead) are all toxic substances from Schedule 1 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Agency list. Toxic substances are man-made and accumulate in our bodies over our ...

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Rice Lake dairy farm to triple its 1200-cow operation

The Department of Natural Resources is seeking public comments on the proposal and is preparing an environmental assessment."We haven't had any negative comments from the neighborhood yet," Heer said. "We're assuming it's going to be ...

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Stand By Your Beds

Around the world, a shadowy army of plant lovers is on a mission: to make their dull, grey neighbourhoods more beautiful places to live. Armed with seedbombs and spades, these green-fingered outlaws are stealthily filling neglected ...

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April 8, 2002 -- For decades, chlorine has been used to disinfe

His report appears in the current issue of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. However, in US pools, extra chlorine is added periodically during peak swim hours as a "shock treatment" to destroy microorganisms and decrease ...

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Why we already know everything, here in 2008

On this Earth Day 2008, new predictions will again be made about looming environmental disasters about to strike our planet. If past experience is any guide, most of these predictions are wrong. People concerned about our planet's ...

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Greenpeace: Paradise lost for soap, ice cream & biofuel

The Unilever-led RSPO uses some of the same Astroturfing tactics, creating an ineffective body with an environmental sounding name to obscure the continued destruction of the world's irreplaceable forests. ...

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elacora @ 2008-04-25T23:40:00

Its a bachelor's degree in liberal arts with a concentration in environmental studies. Basically, you decide what you want to study (preservation, environmental law, how human impact the tree dwelling monkeys in Africa, whatever--sky's ...

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Cool Foods Campaign Aims To Take A Bite Out Of Global Warming

According to the IAASTD press release, "The report will suggest that modern agriculture will have to change radically if the world is to avoid social breakdown and environmental collapse." Check out the new Cool Foods Campaign website ...

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Earth Week: The Greening of Gear

The first and most effective way to reduce the environmental harm from the gear us trail runners use is to buy less of it. No, that's not what the outdoor retailer industry wants to hear, but it's true. Unlike, say a 35 year old furnace ...

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Green Party of Suffolk holds Earth Day Fundraising Party 4/26/08

The first day Earth Day on April 22, 1970 was meant to be as an environmental teach-in "to shake up the political establishment and force this issue onto the national agenda." On that day, around 20 million people hit the streets to ...

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Why the demise of civilisation may be inevitable

In his 2005 best-seller Collapse, Jared Diamond of the University of California, Los Angeles, blamed environmental mismanagement for the fall of the Mayan civilisation and others, and warned that we might be heading the same way unless ...

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Now Get Busy! Columbus Earth Day 2008

The morning work activities were followed by a city-wide celebration at Goodale Park that featured a free lunch for morning volunteers, booths for environmental organizations, live music, and speakers, including Mayor Michael B.Coleman. ...

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LED lightbulbs: Are you ready to make the switch?

Saving energy makes sense, especially when it can also save you money. Despite the current high price, I'd bet everyone has at least one annoying bulb they hate to change which might make one of these bulbs a worthwhile investment.

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Water desalination becoming more realistic

There's probably a place for desalted seawater in meeting the nation's future water needs, but research is needed to reduce the costs and impact on the environment, the National Research Council says.

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How We Value Food: Organic, Local, Diverse

In response, many environmental and agricultural advocates are arguing that we should think about how our food (and product) choices contribute to local economies rather than focus simply on the notion of organic. ...

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How To Really Save Planet Earth: A Test About Al Gore

An Inconvenient Truth left out the most inconvenient truth of all, and the Live Earth concerts were an environmental joke (and the music was really bad, too). Ms. Sawyer's suggestion to cut back on toilet paper is a bit of poo itself. ...

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Environmental Kookiness Really Is A Religion

How else can you explain the third most powerful politician in the country INVENTING bible quotes. I wonder what the bible has to say about that! This also proves that politicians haven't got a clue what the internet is. ...

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Week 10: Is there anything we can do?

The report is sponsored by the US Bureau of Reclamation and the US Environmental Protection Agency. Of course, the study is to find ways to lower the cost and help evaluate the environmental and ecological impacts from desalination. ...

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New Tools for Going Solar

New tools emerge to help homeowners go solar from the SJ Mercury News. Sun Run offers to install panels on houses at for less than the regular price. The company owns the panels and continues to own them, then simply charges a monthly ...

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Exciting environmental education

More people becoming "environmentalists" are needed, so the minority becomes the majority and the press will actually afford environmental issues fair attention. If I can learn to appreciate the environment, surely anyone else can. ...

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Gore Ducks, As A Backlash Builds Against Biofuels

A Harvard professor of environmental studies who has advised Mr. Gore, Michael McElroy, warned in a November-December 2006 article in Harvard Magazine that "the production of ethanol from either corn or sugar cane presents a new ...

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An Agenda for Regionalism: Step 1

Most, if not all, metropolitan Democratic districts have low property wealth (as do more than half the Republican districts). Therefore the basic principles of equity, environmental leadership, and government cooperation should not be ...

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Texas Governor Makes Right Call on Ethanol

Texas Governor Rick Perry is to be congratulated for filing the first request for a waiver of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) with the US Environmental Protection Agency to reduce the amount of corn being used to produce ethanol, ...

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Friday's Miscellany 04-25-2008

Nanotechnology: Better Guidance Is Needed to Ensure Accurate Reporting of Federal Research Focused on Environmental, Health, and Safety Risks http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08402.pdf · Nanotechnology: Accuracy of Data on Federally Funded ...

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Cities that may die…

sooner rather than later due to environmental and economic trends:. Atlanta Miami Detroit New Orleans Las Vegas. Well, I wasn't planning to move to any of those places anyway. Philly's looking better all the time.

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Fight Global Warming - Bring Back the Environmental Champion

Environmental superstar and progressive Democrat Fran Pavley is running for California State Senate (SD-23). Pavley termed out in 2006 after serving in the State Assembly, where she earned a reputation as one of the most effective ...

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BTSSB Cutsew Review

So I got quite a happy surprise today in the mail...a new sailor cutsew from BTSSB. I know that many plus size girls are wary of buying cutsews because they're so small to begin with, but if you are short or have a relatively "flat" ...

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Temporary Auto Solutions to Permanent Environmental Woes?

Today I spent six hours in the car. I had business to attend to in a city three hours away. It was the kind of trip I'm glad I don't make often, and the kind that makes me cringe with guilt every time I step on the accelerator or put ...

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Lean speech

Joe Sussman of MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Prof. Judy Hoffer Gittell of Brandeis University's Heller School. The invitation came because Earll had heard me talk last October at the National Academy of ...

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Health, Safety & Environmental Advisor

Hydrex is one of the biggest names in the business when it comes to outsourced mobile plant solutions and we're growing fast. As a market leader in the Rail and Materials Handling sectors, clearly ...

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Boxer named 'Environmental Legislator of the Year'

The South Coast Air Quality Management District is naming US Sen. Barbara Boxer as its "Environmental Legislator of the Year."

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egl @ 2008-04-25T16:30:00

Requesting pictures of any and all food prints you can think of from Japanese brands. :) Thanks!

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Pharos Green Labelling System

It signals and documents the environmental and social performance of products in the marketplace. The Pharos Label will accompany the lens and offer more information than any other green label in the market, including the ability to ...

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Fairmont: Fairmont & The Prince Albert II Of Monaco Foundation ...

The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation and Fairmont Hotels & Resorts today announced a formal partnership aimed at promoting sustainability, conserving natural resources, and advancing the overall commitment to environmental ...

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Friday Blog Question: Is it easy being green?

I wouldn't say it's all hype - there are environmental problems we directly cause. Look at how the land around battery plants tends to rot and decay. Look at the malformed babies that are born around certain chemical plants. ...

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Week in Review

The Sierra Club, citing Shaheen's "excellent record on important environmental issues" will join several other conservation and environmental groups in supporting Shaheen's campaign to replace Republican John Sununu. ...

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Go Green Expo! A Full Weekend of Green! April 25 - 27 at the ...

Speakers include CEOs, VPs, Managing Directors and a variety of representatives from Intel, Verizon, Ogilvy & Mather, US Environmental Protection Agency, Green Team Marketing, BBMG, Davis & Gilbert LLP and many others. ...

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Your Computer, Health and the Environment

Environmental Justice Advocates Speaker Series Your Computer, Health and the Environment" Ted Smith, Mandy Hawes, April 2, 2008 Environmental Justice Advocates. Is your laptop not only distracting you in class, but also destroying the ...

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Losing More of the Plastic Paunch at Whole Foods

Here is a sampling of some of the other local and nationwide Whole Foods environmental initiatives:. Offsets 100 percent of electricity used in every facility through the purchase of wind energy carbon credits; Collects and recycles ...

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Greenpeace founder says no proof of global warming by humans

Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore says there is no proof global warming is caused by humans, but it is likely enough that the world should turn to nuclear power - a concept tied closely to the underground nuclear testing his former environmental group formed to oppose.

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Civil Engineering: Meeting the challenges of tomarrow

As a result the structures constructed now a days are more taller, wider and flexible and are subjected to huge environmental loads such as wind, earthquake etc. The biggest challenge for Civil Engineering is that its entire ...

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OK fine, have a DIFFERENT apocalypse

This article about the possible new Little Ice Age, arguing based on sunspots rather than an ultimately human-caused Gulf Stream shutdown, sounds depressingly plausible. Depressing in that croplands would have to move south instead of ...

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Earth Week: The Greening of Gear

The first and most effective way to reduce the environmental harm from the gear us trail runners use is to buy less of it. No, that's not what the outdoor retailer industry wants to hear, but it's true. Unlike, say a 35 year old furnace ...

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Without a Trace

The Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating outdoor enthusiasts about their environmental impact. For back-country and front-country travelers, the Leave No Trace principles serve as ...

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The Environmentalists’ Real Agenda

"The nations that have the best track records on environmental protection and improvement are those with the highest amount of free-market capitalism," wrote Samuel Aldrich and Jay Lehr, in "Free Enterprise Protects the Environment." ...

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Patrick Moore and the "middle ground" of environmentalism

In an op-ed in the New York Times, Patrick Moore describes how he fell in love with environmental advocacy, and then fell out with Greenpeace, an organization he helped to found:. In 1971 an environmental and antiwar ethic was taking ...

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MINING: Navajo and environmental groups take uranium fight to ...

After a decade-old administrative battle to revoke the license for four new uranium mines proposed for Navajo Nation lands, tribal and environmental groups are taking their fight to federal court.…

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Esperanca’s response

In Nicaragua, poverty and environmental concerns have limited the diet and access to a balanced diet. - What does Esperanca teach community members? Which foods to plant? How to cultivate and plant them? In Mozambique we focus solely on ...

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PSE&G receives green light to launch solar investment program ...

The military says there were no public health, safety, or environmental risks. Crews conducting the work were not aware the parts contained depleted uranium because the 40-year-old drawings and other information describing the ...

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Ritz-Carlton Golf Club Awarded Environmental Excellence ...

It is required that the course demonstrate that it is maintaining a high degree of environmental quality in five key environmental areas including wildlife and habitat management, chemical use safety and reduction, water conservation, ...

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Shades of Green?

"The dialogue is cheapened when environmental events themselves do not showcase environmental criteria for how they are implemented" says Ron Mader, founder of journal Planeta.com. Can you imagine that - people making money hawking ...

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‘Shame govt into doing right thing’

Mr Posselt said environmental concerns and other issues with the proposed dam were being clouded by propaganda from the Queensland Water Commission. "The problem with Brisbane is that their bulls**t detectors aren't working," he said. ...

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Hot Topics in Environmental Law

Discusses cutting-edge issues in environmental issues, including Illinois-based climiate change initiatives and legislative updates. Topics and Speakers include:. Cutting Issues in Toxic Torts Ernest P. Chiodo, MD, JD, MPH, CIH.

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Exercise is bad for the environment

So half of his eco-friendly exercise is lost because he needs to obtain additional food from elsewhere to maintain his weight — food whose growth and distribution have environmental consequences too, as does the manufacture of his ...

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Bike to Work Day 2008

This will be followed by afternoon events starting at 3pm, including bicycle-related vendors providing safety tips and demonstrations, local environmental organizations, information about upcoming bicycle signage and lane striping, ...

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2008 Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival - 10th annual!

Our film festival is May 1-4, 2008 at the University of Washington in Seattle and will feature 50+ films and shorts, speakers, and filmmaking workshops.

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Environmental Destructiveness

... not really clean, but still) energy. So I guess it's all worth it, and I'm sure that those starving people can be comforted by the fact that they are really kind of environmental martyrs. So all's well that ends well.

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Greenwashing companies aren't the only villains

Its authors define greenwashing as "the unjustified appropriation of environmental virtue by a company, an industry, a government, a politician or even a non-government organization to create a pro-environmental image, sell a product or ...

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Every snowflake tells own story

Different temperatures, humidities and ambient temperatures make different snowflake shapes. And people can't figure out how to predict which snowflakes will form at all, pretty much.

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Buying Local

I know I try to reduce my environmental impact through a combination of recycling, driving very little, buying organic and reusing, reusing, reusing! Another key way to reduce your footprint is by buying locally grown food. ...

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Go Green: How To Build An Earth-Friendly Community, by Nancy H. Taylor

She explains the issues at stake, assesses their financial, environmental, and health impact, and then offers practical suggestions for future behavior. The book concludes with an extensive list of green products, books, websites, ...

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Vital Perspectives for Environmental Managers

One of the difficulties in environmental management is that the EM is often perceived within the organization as an overhead cost to be minimized, rather than a valuable resource to be maximized. Corporate decision makers [...]

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British Columbia April sale of oil and gas rights nets $39.6 ...

The province is also creating a new regulatory framework for the industry by establishing the Oil and Gas Activities Act, aimed at supporting growth in a way that also meets environmental guidelines.The act, which replaces older ...

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Are We Ready for Climate Change’s Health Impacts?

Environmental Defense Fund released a new report [PDF] today on the US public health system's state of preparedness for global climate change. It's based on a survey for which I was one of the interviewers. ...

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Biodiversity loss will lead to sick world: experts

The world risks wiping out a new generation of antibiotics and cures for diseases if it fails to reverse the extinction of thousands of plant and animal species, experts warned Wednesday.

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Poll: Shift in who we blame for our environmental problems

A new poll on the environment suggests we're no longer just blaming traditional big polluters. The poll in today's Globe and Mail reveals a dramatic shift in who we blame for our environmental problems ...

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Benzman v. Whitman

Apr 22: In the US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, Case Nos. 06-1166, 06-1346, 06-1454. This interlocutory appeal and cross-appeal present issues concerning individual and governmental agency liability, in the aftermath of the 9/11 ...

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Craig Venter’s synthetic fuel co. aims for more funding

Synthetic Genomics, the company founded by genetics pioneer Craig Venter with aims to revolutionize the fuel market, is looking to score another $100 million to $200 million in funding, Earth2Tech reports.

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Test Post for NSES

At the "No Child Left Inside" Power Session held at the 2007 NRPA Congress in Indianapolis, participants heard from Gina McCarthy, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection and a recognized leader in the ...

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Environmental Programs Summer Intern - Lincoln Park Zoo

The Environmental Programs Summer Intern will be instrumental in furthering Lincoln Park Zoo's environmental programs. The successful candidate will gather and analyze data related to several summer programs including an upcoming ...

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Global Warming Explained, in Various Learning Styles

Slideshows, video, short facts and more. What is global warming and how does it effect wildlife?

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All Female Fish Species Lived For 70,000 yrs w/o Reproducing

A fish species, which is all female, has survived for 70,000 years without reproducing sexually, experts believe. Scientists from the University of Edinburgh think the Amazon Molly may be employing special genetic survival "tricks" to avoid becoming extinct.

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Greenwashed! How to spot the travel industry's eco-lies

Lofty promises made by airlines peddling gimmicky carbon offsets, resorts hawking convoluted green initiatives and companies with shiny new fleets of high-maintenance cars to rent.

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Windows that generate their own heat

This new invention burns up to 25 watts of electricity per square foot by turning the glass into an electric heater . They say it is more energy efficient because it eliminates drafts, and the conventional heating system doesn't have to work as hard."

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Why are bees disappearing and what can be done to save them?

Yesterday Britain's beekeepers, an eminently peaceful and undemonstrative group of people, felt steamed up enough about the issue to mount a lobby of Parliament, bending the ears of peers and MPs.

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G-awed

Population control is inextricably linked to the environmental and abortion movements. For years, the Sierra Club and other green militants have said that the best way to consume fewer resources is to have fewer children. ...

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Wake me when “Global Warming” is over

Americans polled by Gallup for 'Earth Day' value "traditional", bottom-up environmental issues such as pollution and conservation as being more worrying than Global Warming. Remarkably, the level of concern about greenhouse gas ...

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The 12 most outrageous fees*

In March, U-Haul started charging $1 to $5 to offset its waste-disposal costs, calling it an "environmental fee." The trailer- and truck-rental company said that mechanics and oil-change shops charge similar fees, and that for years it ...

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links for 2008-04-24

"Odd as it may seem, gender influences how we frame our goals, the techniques we use to "save the planet," who speaks, and who bears the burdens of environmental action." (tags: holidays earthday environment activism gender) ...

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The end of Oil (as we know it; cheap and available!)

The bulk of the world's oil was formed in two periods 90 and 150 million years ago. Rifts formed as the continents moved apart; captured algae which absorbed oxygen, increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. ...

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Environmentalist Martha Kostuch dies

"I can't think of a single person who has been able to literally shape the face of environmental protection in the whole country the way Martha was able to with some of her groundbreaking legal work," Kitagawa told CBC News. ...

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Musician's campaign for clean water wins environmental award

Feliciano dos Santos is one of six recipients of the international Goldman Environmental Prize, recognized for his commitment to campaigning for better public health through safe water and sanitation in Mozambique. ...

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Safeway Unveils Two New Solar-Powered Stores, Releases CSR Report

As part of its Earth Day celebration, Safeway Inc., one of the largest retail users of renewable energy, unveiled its two newest solar-powered grocery stores in Northern California. Solar equipment at the stores provides about 20 ...

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April 25, 2008 - Environmental Timeline

Walk the UT timeline on the Pedestrian Mall and find out more about the history of the environmental movement. Timeline will be displayed the week of Earth Day (April 22nd). For more information email environment@utk.edu.

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Spring Fling with the Cascade Climate Network

The session was held in part to stress the importance of justice in the fight against environmental degradation and climate change. It consisted of an eye-opening activity that challenged us to critically consider what privileges and ...

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Interviews: 5 Books With Blueprints for Surviving Environmental ...

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Meeting

Start: 04/29/2008 - 6:00pm. Timezone: Etc/GMT. We will be having a meeting next Tuesday to discuss post Earth Day Festival issues, our next big campaign, future events and our end of semester party. I hope to see you all there!

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EPA Insiders Report Widespread, Potentially Harmful Political ...

Results of investigations by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) paint the EPA as an agency under siege from political pressures. Political appointees "have edited scientific documents, manipulated scientific assessments, ...

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Xu Jinglei Awarded Title of China Environmental Ambassador

Chinese actress Xu Jinglei was awarded the honorary title of "China Environmental Ambassador" at an awarding ceremony cosponsored by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the United Nations Development Program on World Earth Day, ...

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Australian Association for Environmental Education (AAEE ...

The Australian Association for Environmental Education (AAEE) is the premier professional association for those who work in the fields of environmental or sustainability education. The 15th Biennial AAEE Conference has the theme ...

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Upsatate Reggae on the River Eco Music Festival Release

Carlos "GoGo" Gomez presents an African/Cuban drum circle workshop and an environmental work shop for all ages. A multitude of vendors will be on hand with foods from all over the Caribbean and Latin America as well as a variety of arts ...

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Brought to you by The Scientifically Challenged Bushtard Admin.Part II

Today, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) released a report detailing the increasing politicization of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Of the nearly 1600 EPA staff scientists surveyed, 889 of them — 60 percent — "said ...

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Boeing and Airbus Join Forces to Improve Environmental Performance.

Boeing and Airbus have signed an agreement to work together to ensure global interoperability in Air Traffic Management as part of an effort to help reduce the impact of aviation on the environment. The companies will seek the ...

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3 companies agree to limit mountaintop mining

The deal struck Wednesday settles the latest round in a long-running battle pitting the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition and several other groups against the Army Corps of Engineers and coal mine operators. OVEC won a court ruling in ...

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It’s Easy Bein’ Green . . .

This year's spring festival and open house at Gavilan College has a special environmental theme, and will include environmental and "green" building exhibits. VENDORS NEEDED!! WHEN: SATURDAY, MAY 3, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM ...

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kevin smith__offsetting democracy

MANY OTHER SCHEMES to commodify and trade away environmental problems have been proposed or are in development, including landfill trading, endangered species trading and wetlands banking. The irony is that it is the perpetual expansion ...

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Zonolite manufactured in Wilder, Kentucky for WR Grace for 40 years.

We all probably have heard about the asbestos problems plaguing workers of WR Grace and the residents of the town of Libby, Montana arising from mining vermiculite ore. Like you, I did not think the asbestos issues touched upon my local ...

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Report confirms ozone pollution can kill

The report recommends that the Environmental Protection Agency consider ozone-related mortality in any future ozone standards, and said local health authorities should keep this in mind when [...]

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Airing Schedule Seg 296-297-298-299-300-301

featuring Ezra Neale, Roads Program Manager, of Resource Conservation District of Santa Cruz County, Stephanie Sellers Sakasai, of ARO by design, and Valley Women's Club of San Lorenzo Valley Environmental Committee ...

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Flagship Press Hybrid

Now they are leading the way as an advocate for environmental sustainability in the printing field. Not only do they print with soy inks and have a large selection of recycled stocks, but they are also powered 100% by wind energy. ...

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Virtual Volcano: Built your own & watch it Erupt (Explore)

how they work, what happens after eruption, where can be found on earth, more. (indepth info)

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Massachussetts v. EPA (environmental)

Massachusetts petitioned the EPA to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from new motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act which states that "any air pollutant" that can "reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare" must ...

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The Energy versus Environment Tradeoff: Stark Evidence from Europe

For most coal power plants the costs of converting would be "phenomenal," concluded a report by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Then there is the problem of storing the carbon dioxide, which is at some level an ...

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EPA Is 'Under Siege'

Environmental activists have been sharply critical of President George W. Bush's record on the environment. Unions, advocacy groups and Democratic lawmakers have expressed strong concerns about the White House obstructing science at the ...

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The USEPA’s Mission in Photographs

The United States Environmental Protection Agency invited the public to share its best photos showing the USEPA's mission to protect human health and the environment. Hundreds responded, sending in nearly 750 photos. ...

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Byron wins praise for environmental work

The Cape Byron Headland Trust's littoral rainforest restoration project, which re-established 15 hectares of degraded littoral rainforest vegetation at Cosy Corner (Cape Byron State Conservation Area), was featured in the 2006-07 NSW ...

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The Origins Of Earth Day

Earth Day is, without a doubt, the youngest holiday that's so widely accepted. The term hadn't even been invented until 1969, when it was announced there was going to be one in 1970.

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Create an Earth Day Checklist

This Earth Day it's easier to be "green" than ever before. And that is a true reason to celebrate. So grab your pen and paper and write down a few fun activities you'd like to accomplish. I'd love to hear what other people are doing for Earth Day!

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MIT, Chesonis Foundation announce solar revolution

Promising to transform solar power from a "boutique" option to an affordable, dependable, mainstream energy solution, MIT and the Chesonis Family Foundation today launched a "solar revolution" with the ultimate aim of making solar energy America's primary carbon-free fuel.

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Happy Earth Day! [CARTOON]

Frighteningly appropriate.

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50 Ways to Help the Planet

"Going green" doesn't have to be a daunting task that means sweeping life changes. Simple things can make a difference.

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Google-Backed Solar Startup Picks Up Steam, $130 Million

Rising oil prices lift all alt-energy boats.For proof, look no further than the fat $130 million investment scooped up by eSolar, a company whose basic solar power strategy -- using sunlight-reflecting mirrors to generate steam -- was all but abandoned in the 1980s, and has recently recently caught investors' attention again.

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Can We Feed The World?

The era of cheap food is over. In Britain, a standard white loaf costs more than £1, grocery bills are driving up inflation and land prices are going through the roof. But steep rises in the price of staples such as wheat and rice are having an even bigger impact on poor countries.

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Exposed: the great GM crops myth

Major new study shows that modified soya produces 10 per cent less food than its conventional equivalent.

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Updates - Aquaculture, Environmental Ed. Initiatives

Our local aquaculture industry is thriving, and a new federal grant will support research that will help the industry to grow while ensuring the environment is protected. Click here for today's report in Providence Business News. ...

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Environmental group warns vs use of biofuel

BRUSSELS, Belgium - An environmental group warned the European Union on Tuesday that expanding biofuel use could cause more deforestation and loss of wildlife in Latin America.

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Whole Foods Earth Day Contribution

Whole Foods Markets across the US will be celebrating Earth Day by eliminating plastic bags. Once the store on Houston Northcutt Boulevard uses all of its supply, there will no longer be a choice of paper or plastic. Hooray! ...

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Effect of environmental stress on fluctuating asymmetry in certain ...

C. Vishalakshi and BN Singh The Mansouri - Sexl theory is a well-known test theory of relativity. Mansouri and Sexl deal with a large number of experiments such as Michelson - Morley, Kennedy - Thorndike, Ives - Stilwell...

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World Earth Day

April 22, 1970, in the Pacific the other side of the United States, the people in order to solve the problems of environmental pollution spontaneously set off a massive masses of the environmental protection movement. ...

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Dove Soap isn't too clean

Amazing 60 second campaign ad turning Dove's "onslaught" ad around against the company -- the biggest buyer of palm oil in the world (which is the biggest cause of forest destruction in Indonesia).

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Shocking pictures; is this the 'humane' seal hunting ??

Isn't it time something was done about this? This is what the Canadian government means by 'humane' slaughter. Incredible story and pictures from a witness of seal hunting... really cruel and really really sad...

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The Green Ad Effect (Pics)

A recent survey from Burst Media revealed that green advertising has a stronger than average impact with consumers. Good right? Well they have higher recall but they aren't necessarily buying into the messages. Maybe that's due to the overwhelming amount of green claims consumers have been hit with.

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Easy Office Environmental Tip: The Disposable Cup

If you work in an office, chances are there'sa water cooler somewhere. And if there'sa water cooler, chances are there'sa stack of disposable paper cups (or possibly, even in this age, styrofoam). And chances are that most people will ...

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Go Green, Live Rich Exclusive

Earth Day is "a time to celebrate gains we have made and create new visions to accelerate environmental progress." Doing just that is internationally renowned financial expert and bestselling author David Bach who outlines fifty ways to ...

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What’s at Steak?

Because meat consumption is one of the primary causes of environmental devastation, including the misuse of natural resources, the polluting of water and air and the destruction of rain forests. I have been a lacto-ovo vegetarian for ...

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Marketing and environmental considerations

Perhaps there are other mediums that have a lower environmental impact • If it is the best method, ask yourself how can you lessen the impact? Perhaps you can encourage re-use of materials or longevity of your campaigns? ...

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Gas Prices Reach a New High: What is the WTO to Do About It?

I support the environmental benefits that come from decreased dependence on cars. When I moved to Northern California five years ago, I was more than a little surprised at the underdeveloped and poor condition of public transportation; ...

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Why Bother Dealing with Climate Change? - Michael Pollan

There are so many stories we can tell ourselves to justify doing nothing, but perhaps the most insidious is that, whatever we do manage to do, it will be too little too late. Climate change is upon us, and it has arrived well ahead of schedule.

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Is Your Water Polluted? These Critters Will Tell You

See how scientists use bugs to find out if toxins and chemicals are in your water.

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Scientists: An Even Bigger Quake Could Hit Midwest

The magnitude 5.2 earthquake that rocked the Midwest on Friday was felt from Kansas to Georgia, and aftershocks could continue for months at this strange seismic zone at the nation's center and even trigger another big quake, a geophysicist said.

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Chopping down trees to make books is good for environment

The editorial staff of the UK's Bookseller magazine want you to know that lining your exterior walls with books is practically a moral imperative, since it reduces your energy costs and saves the world. You don't have to tell me -- I've been lining my walls with books for decades.

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The Cutting Edge: Zoo launches first database to help birds return ...

Sometimes it's the simple, but labor-intensive, tasks that make the biggest difference. The Lincoln Park Zoo has released a database documenting a century's worth of events where birds have been introduced into new habitats in the wild. ...

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Kotrous v. Bayer Cropscience

1997), in light of the Supreme Court's most recent precedent addressing the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) -- ie United States v. Atlantic Research Corp., 127 S. Ct. ...

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Office Assistant - California Environmental Associates

San Francisco, CA.

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INTERVIEW - Joanne Soneshine, manager of environmental policy at CEA

Charlie Browne, environmental manager at IKEA, and Peter Jones, development director at Biffa Waste Services, agreed that big changes needed to be made to the waste management infrastructure and the UK and Europe, with a need to look ...

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GREENHOUSE, WHITE HOUSE, AND ENVIRONMENTAL STATISTICS: THE USE OF ...

Start time: 4:00 PM Speakers: Barry D. Nussbaum. Chief Statistician,, US Environmental Protection Agency Campus: Homewood Campus.

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Russians to Shut Reactor That Produces Bomb Fuel

The reactor, located in a closed city in Siberia, is a remnant of the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons program, and has been extraneous for the past 15 years.

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Wikipedia's zealots

Think you can put actual facts onto Wikipedia? Think again

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Mercury Research Bears Fruit in the Amazon

Women play a key role in protecting villagers from the mercury contaminating Brazil's Tapajós River. Now they are set to take on a new foe: Chagas disease

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Bush Gives President's Environmental Youth Award - video

President Bush honored 36 young men and women for promoting environmental awareness and for... 4/2008 AP.

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Crisis of lifestyle and character

He argued that the environmental crisis of the 1970s -- an era innocent of climate change; what we would give to have back that environmental crisis! -- was at its heart a crisis of character and would have to be addressed first at that ...

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Free Education for PhD in Applied Environmental Science at ...

ITM offers an excellent environment for graduate training in environmental research. The wide spectrum of scientific expertise ranging from atmospheric science through aquatic chemistry and biogeochemistry to ecotoxicology builds a ...

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PhD Student in Applied Environmental Science - with a focus on ...

This position offers the possibility to acquire a broad range of analytical and conceptual skills within environmental analytical chemistry, biogeochemistry and climate science. The Ph.D. student would join an internationally active ...

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Stimulate Some Incumbent Protection

"The governor should have seen this coming a long time ago," said Pollina, who proposed a package Friday that would use money generated by closing a capital gains tax exemption for road and bridge repairs, environmental job creation and ...

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Five Habits for Greener Computing

If you're reading this, it's a pretty safe bet you're using a computer, and computers generate waste in all kinds of ways. But by changing just a few habits, you can keep more stuff out of landfills, save energy, and even tuck a few extra dollars in your wallet. Here are five ideas to get you started.

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Even the eternal dirt nap is going green

FTA: Cardboard coffins, clothes sewn from natural fibers, a burial plot in a natural setting. Green funerals attempt to be eco-friendly at every stage.

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Stripping Mountains to Power D.C.

This is a place where "moving mountains" is no longer a figure of speech. Here, among the steep green Appalachians, mining companies are moving mountains off their pedestals. Article, and photo gallery with audio narration included.

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Catching corals' spectacular mating moment

The coral reefs in the tropical western Pacific are at the brink of one of the most spectacular and significant nights in their annual life cycle.

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The Century's Environmental Leaders

14 environmental leaders are discussed in this Newsweek slideshow, including John Muir (often called the father of national parks) and Al Gore.

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Support the Australian Nappy Network!

The ANN is a not-for-profit organisation, the goal of which is to educate the Australian community on the health, environmental and financial benefits of using cloth nappies. We will be drawing on the combined skills, enthusiasm and ...

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Discovering your inner DOS (Part 1: The terminal)

Go to the Advanced tab and push the button for Environmental Variables. In the System Variables menu, scroll down to Path and push the Edit button. Go to the end of the string in Variable value and carefully add ";c:\batch" (don't ...

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Monday_morning_coffee Good morning! April 22nd is our 38th Earth ...

Thank you very much for bringing environmental awareness to the public's awareness. As moms, we will do our best to honor your work and all that you have done to create this special day. Not only will we practice everything we know ...

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Felician dos Santos - Goldman Winner

The Goldman Environmental Prize acknowledges the efforts of six grassroots environmental pioneers from the inhabited continental regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, and South and Central America. ...

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Petaluma River Tidings: April 17, 2008

It's been a jammed packed first quarter for Friends; watershed conferences, river events, fish forums and environmental challenges have all played a big role in recent weeks. Here is the latest River news: ...

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When bananas ruled the world

Intrigue. Power. Corruption. Death. Sex. The history of oil has nothing on that of the yellow fruit.

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Mighty Waterfall Gushed at Greenland Ice Sheet

For an hour or so Greenland had it's own mighty waterfall, flowing secretly at three times the volume of Niagara.

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Looking Forward, an Energy Scramble or a Blueprint?

Like many institutions and individuals, Shell, the oil giant, is trying to divine what lies ahead in a world with limited energy options, a fast-growing energy appetite, and a

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Sort Tons of Beach Trash With Wired's Spreadsheet

This week, the Ocean Conservancy released a new report based on their beach cleanup efforts. The study revealed that their volunteers found six million pounds of trash on the world's coastlines in a single day...

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The Nuclear Option

So you're against nuclear power. Do you know why?

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Solved: mystery of the disappearing lake

The sudden and dramatic disappearance of a large lake which had formed on the surface of a melting ice sheet in Greenland has been documented for the first time by scientists who estimated that its outflow was greater than that of Niagara Falls.

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Deep Antarctic waters freshening

Scientists studying the icy depths of the sea around Antarctica have detected changes in salinity that could have profound effects on the world's climate and ocean currents.

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The New McCarthyism-Any Friend of KI is a Lefty, Tree Hugger and ...

It is also possible to deal with environmental issues. However, this should be up to KI members themselves to decide. So, I stand firmly with the KI 6, even while supporting the mining activity. Like them, I was born and raised in ...

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Environmentalism

First, a disclaimer: My income comes from the petroleum industry, but I try not to let that affect my environmental views, either direction. Remember also that in this blog I'm not speaking for my employer. I want to be wise concerning ...

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Senior Supervisor-Mine Environmental

-A minimum college degree in environmental mining or environmental chemistry and/or science-related field; -Five (5) years + experience in mine water management and program development to collect scientific data pertaining to ...

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The Vested Interest.

Claims by the environmental 'industry' are not treated the same way, at least by many. Don't they have a vested interest? I think they do because if they don't frighten people then they don't get any money and the executives would not ...

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101+ Web Resources for Students | studenthacks.org

101+ Web Resources for Students | studenthacks.org.

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Last Rites For The Front Garden

The paving of urban and suburban front gardens is a social and environmental disaster. It's a scandal this is allowed to slip unchecked through the planning system as 'permitted development'.

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Open Question: How can this reporter land a public relations job?

I really want to be a writer or communications director at an environmental agency, but I am finding it is hard to get my foot in the door. I am seriously thinking about doing a year-long internship with the Student Conservation ...

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Fill activities covered by 3 mining permits suspended

A federal judge has temporarily suspended valley fill activities covered by three mountaintop removal permits and ordered the US Army Corps of Engineers to immediately notify an environmental group when new mining permits are issued. ...

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Dennis Mckenna’s Forward to ‘Left in the Dark’

Climate changes or other environmental catastrophes forced several lineages of hominids as well as archaic/early humans out of their forest-dwelling ancestral home into much harsher savannah or grassland environments. ...

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Early Warning

It will be important to observe the weather changes for this year and carefully monitor the environmental impacts. Environmental awareness for all must be seriously raised and all people should change thier life styles to help, ...

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Open Question: How can this reporter land a public relations job?

I really want to be a writer or communications director at an environmental agency, but I am finding it is hard to get my foot in the door. I am seriously thinking about doing a year-long internship with the Student Conservation ...

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Emirates Environmental Group - What Goes Around Comes Around

EEGNylonbags. EEGbottlecaps. EEGCrudeoil. "What goes around comes around. Keep the sea clean." Advertising Agency: JWT, Dubai, UAE Executive Creative Director: Chafic Haddad Art Director / Copywriter: Rola Ghotmeh ...

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Emirates Environmental Group - On Récolte Ce Que L’on Sème

EEGNylonbags. EEGbottlecaps. EEGCrudeoil. "On récolte ce que l'on sème… Gardez les océans propres." Advertising Agency: JWT, Dubai, UAE Executive Creative Director: Chafic Haddad Art Director / Copywriter: Rola Ghotmeh ...

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The Mentor's Journey :: RE: The Business Side of Wilderness ...

We are acutely aware of full and real hazards of the out of doors and social dynamics after years of working in environmental education. We try to move away from the highly structured and limiting tolerances of conventional ...

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Houston Emits Most Carbon Dioxide in the USA

For the list of the top 20 counties, see the Environmental News Network. Why am I pointing you to ENN, and not directly to a press release by Vulcan or NASA? That's because NASA isn't reporting this news - not on the Vulcan page or on ...

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This Week in the Eco-Apocalypse

Also in environmental linkage: Jeffrey Sachs has economics for a crowded planet at NPR, while Paul Greenberg unexpectedly beats me to the punch with a post on James Howard Kunstler and Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia, which I read on the ...

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Environmental impacts a big hurdle for Jordan Cove LNG project

As we've been saying for months, there are massive environmental impacts with the Jordan Cove proposed LNG terminal and California pipeline. Today in the World, reporter Alexander Rich laid out some of the hurdles, processes and ...

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When Do I Need to Call a Junk Removal Company?

By Amy Nutt. Cleanliness and tidiness at home are very important, and you can remove your junk with the help of a junk removal agency. However, you may be quite unsure when is the best time to have your junk removed. ...

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New environmental education facility dedicated at University of ...

Golden Environmental Education Pavilion April 11 during a ceremony held on campus. The $258000 facility will be used to expose and educate UNF students and the community to the world of nature, according to a news release.

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Bamboo Bikes

Stronger Than Steel. Bamboo may be the world's greenest raw material. Architects and bicycle designers are catching on. Tough Stuff: In his bicycle frames, Craig Calfee uses bamboo stalks that are naturally formed to balance stiffness ...

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Save Tasmania from pulp mill pollution

I left Tasmania 12 years ago, when this particular environmental battle was just starting to brew - not the construction of a pulp mill, but the destruction of old-growth forests and their conversion to woodchips, aided buy the ...

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PhD Scholarship: Biogeochemistry and Paleoecology of Lake Sediment ...

The Water and Environmental Research Center (WERC), at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, will employ the successful candidate. Thermokarst (thaw) lakes dominate large areas of the arctic land surface ...

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fingers crossed

wow. i think KB environmental might actually be interested in providing me with gainful employment. i would be working as (junior) environmental scientist, testing air quality/noise levels for airplanes and associated airport vehicles, ...

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Mobile Gaming meets environmental awareness

What better way to learn about conservation efforts to save Africa's few remaining mountain gorillas than playing a mobile game! Silverbackers, a free game that can be downloaded and played on any Java-capable phone with a mobile web ...

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April 18, 2008 - Cancer and Sin

Sure, there are all sorts of theories out there about environmental causes of various cancers, but only a few (smoking for lung cancer, asbestos exposure for mesothelioma, sun exposure for melanoma, sexual promiscuity for some cervical ...

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Firms more aware of need to insure against environmental risks

It was, however, fortunate in one respect: A growing awareness of environmental issues meant it had taken out insurance against such accidents, so its costs were covered. The demand for this type of liability insurance. ...

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Earth Day Events

The United Nations celebrates Earth Day, which was founded by John McConnell in 1969, each year on the March equinox, while a global observance originated by Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in, and since January 1970 also ...

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Environmental woes not agenda of PGMA meeting with Caraga execs

CARRASCAL, Surigao del Sur- Environmental problems raised by different church-based environmentalist groups in the towns of Carrascal, Cantilan, Madrid, Carmen, and Lanuza which was supposedly one of the reasons why President Arroyo ...

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Environmental Awareness Events in Radford

The City of Radford has many events planned throughout the month of April in recognition of Environmental Awareness Month. Some events that have been held included an Environmental Awareness Month Speaker Series. ...

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Bush’s Lack of Faith in Americans

He apparently has no trust or faith in the ability of Americans to come up with economically feasible ways to curb greenhouse gases, protect environmental health and build the economy. What about all the jobs that would be created to ...

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Brosnan. Pierce Brosnan.

Well, in 1997 he was presented with an Environmental Leadership Award by Green Cross President Mikhail Gorbachev, calling him "a truly committed leader whose bold actions and clever voice have been instrumental in marine mammal ...

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“Show Me the Water”

Moore and Boyer, both environmental lawyers, shared their perspectives on California's Urban Water Management Planning Act, the California Environmental Quality Act, and Senate Bills 610 and 221–often called the "show me the water" laws ...

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The Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association Responds to Health ...

Toxicologist Calvin Willhite from the California Environmental Protection Agency recently completed a two-year BPA risk assessment on his own time with NSF International, a not for profit, public health and safety company. ...

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UN gives strong backing to sustainable agriculture systems

For poor farmers, the report concludes, GM crops are unlikely to play a substantial role in addressing their needs. In any case, longer-term assessments of the environmental and health risks, and regulatory frameworks, are needed. ...

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Staying True to the New

Overall, the collection of data by the volunteer monitors fosters good stewardship of environmental resources and provides early warnings of problems resulting from inadequate storm water management, sedimentation, sewage contamination, ...

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Global Warming Test: The Real Answers

D., a scientist in the Climate and Air program at Environmental Defense Fund. There's an email making the rounds lately - an invitation to take a Global Warming Test. It starts off reasonably enough (yes, global warming is real), ...

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Seven groups presented with environmental excellence awards

The eighth annual Springfield/Greene County Choose Environmental Excellence awards were presented today at a luncheon at the Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce as a part of Springfield's Earth Day festivities. ...

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Sierra Club Newsmakers -- 4.18.2008

Native American environmental activist Winona LaDuke said at the press conference that instead of a coal plant, Otter Tail should build a 1000-megawatt wind farm. Above, Kearns, Peggy Peters of the Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux environmental ...

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Ryan Leech 'Plays it Cool' With David Suzuki

First Carbon-Neutral Pro-Mountain Biker Ryan Leech has taken his role as an environmental advocate one step further this month by signing on the first professional mountain biker in the Suzuki Foundation's 'Play it Cool' program. ...

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“You Otter Be Here”

Recognized by the UN as an International Biosphere Reserve, Grandfather Mountain in Linville, North Carolina is unique because it is privately owned and operated. In other words, the park, like other products, is marketed and "sold" for ...

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8 Animals to Be Dramatically Impacted by Global Warming

The National Wildlife Federation considers global warming to be "the most dangerous threat to the future of wildlife." Here are just some of the species being dramatically impacted by global warming.

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Environmental Time Cover Offends Veterans

From Wonkette:. "It's an absolute disgrace," [Iwo Jima veteran Donald] Mates said. "Whoever did it is going to hell. That'sa mortal sin. God forbid he runs into a Marine that was an Iwo Jima survivor."

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VIRTUAL ONLINE RALLY FOR UPPER TELLICO OHV AREA

In 2007, the Southern Environmental Law Center, in coalition with Trout Unlimited and PEER (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility) filed a notice of intent to sue the Untied Stated Forest Service, claiming it was in ...

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New Mexico inventor eyes wind power

An Albuquerque, NM, inventor hopes his device will dot the roofs and yards of remote homes, at first in Navajo country and later, throughout the US Michael Baca has created a miniature wind-powered generator and formed a company with ...

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mufflers after bush

To create the Vulcan maps, the research team developed a method to extract the CO2 information by transforming data on local air pollution, such as carbon monoxide and nitrous oxide emissions, which are tracked by the Environmental ...

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Political Climate: John McCain takes tax breaks too far

John McCain is feeling generous: This week, the Republican presidential hopeful called for Congress to declare a summer-long "gas-tax holiday". The scheme would see the federal government nix all gas and diesel taxes for three months ...

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How many gallons of water do you need to power a lightbulb?

Here's a measurement you probably haven't thought of before: it takes between 3,000 gallons and 6,000 gallons of water to power a 60-watt incandescent bulb for 12 hours a day over the course of a year.

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Magnitude 5.4 earthquake hits Illinois

Magnitude 5.4 earthquake hits Illinois

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Barbary apes that terrorise tourists to be culled

The apes are part of a breakaway group that are going into town and making a nuisance as well as posing health hazards. British soldiers are thought to have introduced the apes, natives of north Africa, into Gibraltar in the miid-18th century to use for shooting practice.

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Plants 'thrive' on Moon rock diet

Scientists with the European Space Agency (Esa) say the day when flowers bloom on the Moon has come closer.

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Waves of destruction

Calling for "the embayment" of 25 square miles of low-lying land, the government's environmental body, Natural England, said that nine miles of sea defences between the seaside villages of Eccles and Winterton were unsustainable "beyond ...

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My LBAM Spray Letter to Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter

I was only a young girl when you were President and First Lady of the United States, but my parents have always spoken with great respect for the environmental efforts you made during that period. ...

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THE SHY IS FALLING...WHAT TO DO...?

The breadth of his interests and expertise is truly remarkable, ranging from environmental history through evolutionary biology to molecular physiology. With Guns, Germs and Steel, Diamon explained the environmental and geographical ...

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HANFORD: DOE's Rispoli to visit next week

Jim Rispoli, the Department of Energy assistant secretary for environmental management, is scheduled to visit the Hanford nuclear reservation next week. He'll be in the Tri-Cities for a meeting of the Environmental Management Site ...

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Strapline for Environmental Consultancy and VAR

Our product portfolio offers immediate, measurable environmental benefits and is one of the easiest and most cost-effective sustainability measures your organization can implement. However I need to quantify that into a strap line ...

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Carbon Labels On Tesco Products Next Month

Carbon labels will be tested on Tesco-brand products next month, The Guardian reports.The retailer will put carbon labels on varieties of orange juice, potatoes, energy-efficient light bulbs and washing detergent, stating the quantity ...

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About Earth Day Network

Earth Day Network is a driving force steering environmental awareness around the world. Through Earth Day Network, activists connect, interact, and have an impact on their communities, and create positive change in local, national, ...

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Iwo Jima Veterans Blast Time's 'Special Environmental Issue' Cover

Everyone should be outraged, or just shake your head at the crazy environmentalist crazies again... Anyone who would think what we did at Iwo Jima, WWII or any military victory is parallel with "global warming" has drank kool-aid while ...

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Competitive Feasting

World problems such as poverty, hunger, and environmental degradation are the result of growth and culture scale increases whereby material benefits are concentrated to a few elite groups while socializing the costs to the majority of ...

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Transportation Environmental Planner

DREAM OF WORKING IN BEAUTIFUL CANADA? Canada offers a broad range of cultural and geographical features; from the Rocky Mountains, to whale watching and skiing. Vibrant Canada offers diverse mi ...

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Exposing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and my w

EPAfiles.com http://www.epafiles.com.

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Iwo Jima Veterans Blast Time's 'Special Environmental Issue' Cover

Iwo Jima Veterans Blast Time's 'Special Environmental Issue' Cover: "For only the second time in 85 years, Time magazine abandoned the traditional red border it uses on its cover. The occasion – to push more global warming alarmism."

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Done Deal

Last night, I attended the PA Department of Environmental Protection meeting concerning Amerikohl Mining's application to strip mine coal near Dunbar on the Youghiogheny River. (Read the PG article here: ...

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Green Schools and AP 2.0

I think I made it just in time to do a timely lesson using resources from Green Schools as I learned that Environmental Education Week is April 13-19. I am thinking about trying to put a lesson together for tomorrow. ...

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2008 AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM EUREKA PRIZES

Presented annually by the Australian Museum, the Australian Museum Eureka Prizes are Australia's most comprehensive science awards and the largest award scheme for research into critical environmental sustainability issues facing the ...

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INFLUENCE OF SOWING DATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON THE ...

Research Articles A. SESAY, CN MAGAGULA, AB MANSUETUS, Experimental Agriculture, Volume 44 Issue 02 , pp 167-183 Abstract.

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BOOK REVIEWS Soil Carbon Management, Economic, Environmental and ...

BOOK REVIEWS Soil Carbon Management, Economic, Environmental and Societal Benefits . Edited by JM Kimble, CW Rice, D. Reed, S. Mooney, RF Follett and R. Lal. Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press (2007), pp. 268, £74.99. ...

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BUSH’S LATEST ENVIRONMENTAL PROPOSAL SAYS NOTHING NEW

With the release, yesterday, of the latest White House plan to stop the growth of global warming emissions, George Bush all but guaranteed his standing as the most anti-environmental president in US history." ...

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Ask Plenty: Chasing arrows recycling symbol

Q. I've raised my daughter to look carefully at recycling symbols and sort trash accordingly, but the other day she looked a little bit closer than I had expected and asked me who invented the three-arrow recycling symbol. ...

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Rochelle News– NBC Universal goes green across networks (AP)

NBC Universal is following the lead of corporate parent General Electric Co., which is among many companies sensing that the public looks kindly on pro-environmental efforts. "We don't shy away from the fact that green, so to speak, ...

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How to Get Ideas for Song Writing

Thirty five years later, he returned to school, and earned his MS in Environmental Science; Education and Communications from Cal State Fullerton in 2004.Immediately after graduation from Long Beach State, Michael went to work for the ...

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Comment: Mines staking a claim

The plan must specify what environmental impacts will occur and how reclamation will be performed. Mining companies are also required to post a bond to cover the reclamation costs. In addition to the Federal requirements, ...

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How to Win the War on Global Warming

This post is by Sheryl Canter, an online writer and editorial manager at Environmental Defense Fund. Time magazine's cover story in their latest issue is "How to Win the War on Global Warming". It starts this way: ...

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Tactical Philanthropy Podcast: Fred Krupp

Today's podcast is with Fred Krupp of Environmental Defense Fund. Fred has been the leader of EDF since he took over in 1984 at age 30. Known for embracing partnerships with corporations and advocating market based solutions, ...

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Bush, Burning

Some courts are taking laws written more than 30 years ago to primarily address local and regional environmental effects, and applying them to global climate change. The Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the National ...

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Green Clean - Chametz and Environmental Sustainability

Passover is a natural time to take an "environmental inventory" of the chametz in our world and to be mindful of the simple lives our ancestors led in the desert in their pursuit of freedom. Chametz is the Hebrew term for any of the ...

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Green Gear: The Need for Speed

Treehuggers in training will love this new clean tech toy car—model name H2GO—from Corgi International. Oops, did we say toy car? It may be marketed to tots, but it's so much more than a toy. The remote-controlled, wheat-plastic-based ...

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Eddie and Pets for the Environment

Pets for the Environment was formed in early 2008 when Eddie joined forces with the scientists at Environmental Working Group. The mission: To create a healthy environment for pets and people by demanding toxic chemical reform ...

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Assistant Environmental Planner

Title: Assistant Environmental Planner Description: Under supervision, an Assistant Environmental Planner assists in managing environmental studies on small to moderate transportation projects and environmental compliance programs; ...

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ASSEMBLYMAN LENO, GOODWILL INDUSTRIES, COLE HARDWAR CELEBRATE ...

"Last year we diverted 59863 computers from landfill, and we hope to divert even more this year," said Kim Fox, Director of Environmental Business for Goodwill Industries of San Francisco, San Mateo, and Marin Counties. ...

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Earth Day prompts University recycling

The Environmental Science Society of WT is comprised of motivated students of multidisciplinary studies who are dedicated to promoting environmentally safe practices around campus. Bowden said the group will be educating the general ...

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Lead Environmental Technician - Full Time - Evening Shift Job ...

Job Requisition Number:30413 Title:Lead Environmental Technician - Full Time - Evening Shift Shift:2 - Evening Shift Department: PSJMC ENVIROMENTAL SERVICES Employment Status:Full-Time Location: 501 SOUTH BUENA VISTA STREET BURBANK, ...

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Hearst Tower sets zero waste goal

The Hearst Corporation is adopting aggressive composting and recycling programs at the company's Hearst Tower with the goal of cutting waste going to landfills to zero. The 850000-square-foot tower was already New York's first LEED Gold ...

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HydroGreen Energy lands $2.6 M

HydroGreen Energy LLC, one of the companies with plans to turn wave energy into electricity, has pulled in $2.6 million in first-round funding.

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Break out that Fanny Pack

Map of Washington DC It is time to take a tour of our Nation's capital. This tour will be a little different than those annoying field trips to the Washington Monument, waiting in lines to see some ancient artifact, trying to survive ...

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Every box of Thin Mints you enjoy helps destroy an....

....Orangutan's habitat. Girl Scouts take a stand: Just say no to Thin Mints.

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The Earth is emitting "Love" waves!

A subtle and previously unknown global vibration has been found at Earth's quietest seismic stations. The hippies were right all along!

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Climate change and the decision to delay

By saving money now and letting the environment deteriorate we can compensate the future generations in cash for the loss of environmental services. However, by allowing the environment to deteriorate we haven't only cost them in terms ...

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Site Chemist- Environmental

Site Chemist- Environmental Ref, 14978 Our Client provides water and wastewater treatment services across the UK. They have an immediate requirement for a Chemist to carry out routine chemical analyses at various clean water sites ...

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Assessment Managers - Middlesex

Environmental Chemistry The successful candidate will: Have a number of years practical experience in the Environmental sector Be educated to degree level in a relevant discipline. Have detailed technical expertise in Environmental ...

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Corporate Social Responsibility: The Latest Praxis of Greed?

Even though I see the overall good in corporate social responsibility especially when it comes to the environmental side of things. The truth of the mater - like the one used to be tackled by agents Mulder and Scully in the TV series ...

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Maize Maze

... Show" with host Bob White on WMKT in Traverse City. Harding, former director of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, discussed the environmental impact of biofuels. The interview is 14 minutes and 44 seconds. (more ...)

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Chevron: 'Environmental Con Men' Behind Big Oil Lawsuit

Chevron is guilty of "environmental sins" for polluting the Amazon rain forest, said two Ecuadoran activists who are suing the US oil company for billions of dollars. Chevron says lawsuit is targeting the wrong company.

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Guide to Environmental Law

From Cornell University Law School.

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Northrop Grumman Submits Proposal For GOES-R To NASA

Northrop Grumman's proposal for the Geostationary Environmental Operational Satellite — Series R (GOES-R) builds on its extensive experience designing, developing and integrating research and operational environmental spacecraft and ...

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Beauty queen backs call for Environmental Protection Agency

Miss Earth Northern Ireland delivers campaign message to MLAs at Stormont.

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Post on Bush’s speech

Secondly, the only quote from an environmental organization comes from EDF's Fred Krupp who has been battling hard for a cap at any price, backing legislation that most environmental organizations are quesy about (if not outright ...

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A Drought in Australia, a Global Shortage of Rice

By KEITH BRADSHER New York Times April 17, 2008 DENILIQUIN, Australia — Lindsay Renwick, the mayor of this dusty southern Australian town, remembers the constant whir of the rice mill. "It was our little heartbeat out there, ...

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The past few weeks have been particularly frenetic with visits to ...

On a brighter note I also had the pleasure of speaking at the Great Environmental Briefing organised by my old region Thameswey. They packed the Reading Town Hall with over 450 people plus several hundred more joined us on the Internet. ...

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Top ten Budget 2008 tax issues

On the positive side, the £50000 initial allowance will mean that most smaller businesses will get full upfront tax relief for their capital expenditure on plant and machinery, whilst the increasing environmental focus of the capital ...

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Committee Probes Industry Influence on EPA

A congressional investigation is trying to determine whether ties between the chemical industry and the Environmental Protection Agency put children' health at risk. The House Energy and Commerce Committee is examining whether chemical ...

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Open Forum on Environmental Research

The Open Forum will provide an opportunity for researchers engaged in all aspects of environmental research (business, engineering, health, law, science, etc) to discuss University-wide coordination and out-reach proposals, ...

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Clouds Invading a Mountain

Mother nature never ceases to amaze me daily

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NPR Teenage Environmental Hippie

One of the searches from yesterday was brilliant: npr teenage environmental hippie. The searcher probably was looking for this story, but turns out that my blog showed up on Google's first page. The irony? ...

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MANCAT’s environmental policy gains recognition and starts to make ...

As you know, we have a clear environmental strategy, which guides all our activities to incorporate best environmental practice, including energy conservation. That strategy has been the foundation of our successful bid for a share of ...

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Environmental Books for Children

http://www.childsake.com/. Don't forget - Earth Day (and Arbor Day) is April 22.

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SPM Print scoops second environmental award

SPM Print has been awarded a Southwark Council Gold award for its environmental work.

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The flooding of Birmingham

An interesting discussion is taking place across several posts about our own track record on environmental issues, whether we're justified in lecturing countries like China about their lack of green policies and even questioning if we ...

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The Whole Story About Whole Foods Market

And, from an environmental aspect, at least one study has found that the transportation of organic produce causes an environmental impact large enough to cancel out any environmental benefits. So, when you take all these factors into ...

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China - Pollution - Environment - Economy - Choking on Growth Part ...

Croucher Institute for Environmental Sciences, and Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, PR China, and Department of Earth Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, PR China. Received for review July 27, ...

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65% Of US Consumers Will Pay More For Renewably Sourced Products

Nearly seven out of 10 US consumers are willing to pay more for products made with renewable resources, according to a survey sponsored by DuPont and Mohawk Industries. The survey also revealed that global warming and helping American ...

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Environmental Realism

Climate Change Complete Text.

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Open season on wolves

On a peripheral note, the Bushies will be suspending 30 or more environmental laws in order to complete work on The Fence this year. What does a Homeland Security Fence have to do with the environment? More than you probably realize. ...

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Catastrophe inevitable

Climate scientist James Lovelock seems to think that we only have about twenty years before environmental catastrophe breaks loose. In an article originally published in the Guardian Lovelock dismisses 'green' solutions to climate ...

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The Disadvantages of Leadership

Such were some of my thoughts at last night's Council work session when Lonnie Banks, Managing Director of Environmental Waste Services, gave a report on Garland's Recycling Program. More often government is a monopoly provider of ...

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Government Denies Pesticide Spraying Caused Illness

cry area environmental groups in response, pointing out that the health officials didn't even bother to measure contamination levels in the soil, water, or air of the affected regions after spraying. Nor did they interview any of the ...

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When Local Doesn’t Work: Orange Juice

But oranges and other citrus fruits simply won't survive this far north. So what do you do when you want orange juice? There's 5 choices, and a recent-ish article in Slate debated the environmental merits and demerits of several. ...

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Eno Road

The Post also reports "In that box, she found letters and documents indicating that Tennessee environmental and water officials had concerns about the possibility of TCE appearing in the Holt's well water as early as 1988. ...

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Agriculture- The Need For Change (Article and Video)

The way the world grows its food will have to change radically to better serve the poor and hungry if the world is to cope with a growing population and climate change while avoiding social breakdown and environmental collapse. ...

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Paper-goods giant's forestry practices attacked before shareholder ...

Environmental group Greenpeace is attacking Kimberly-Clark (NYSE:KBM) for its forestry practices on the eve of the paper-goods giant's annual shareholders' meeting.

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What the HELL was I thinking!?

I watch Robin Hood. I enjoy it! Quite thoroughly. Meanwhile my mind keeps on running at 90 miles an hour. And I just keep posting. Yeesh! It turned into gibberish there. I seriously think I've got some damaged brain cells or something. ...

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Unplug, Rethink and Simplify Your Life

As the Earth's feedback loop of consumerism, waste and environmental disaster moans louder, it's easy to feel like giving up. The talking heads relate tales of melting ice caps and dying species while corporate greed overwhelms the ...

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Task: Sustainable Societies Original Hypothesis

Sustainable design is a method of achieving social, economic and environmental sustainability. It can permeate every aspect of society, for example: The way products are produced, distributed, used and the way the resulting waste is ...

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Genetic Modification and Epigenetics: How GM Malfunctions

The environmental causation may vary, but the result is similar, and other examples have been found. In approx. 8000 years of plant breeding, selections have been made which have led to specific crosses (or hybrids) which can also be ...

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Watch the birdie….

Proceeds from Earth Portraits will go to support the ASE's educational and environmental programs, as well as further development of the "Windows on Earth" software that Garriott will use to target each of the Earth Portraits. ...

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The Evolution of a Garden Blog

I like to consider this a blog about a family that's doing it's best to lessen its environmental impact through changing the way it does its everyday activities by investigating alternatives. There must be a better solution, ...

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Plastic Bag Ban Is A Pain. No, Really.

Down in Australia, the shop assistants' union wants laws to protect checkout operators from injury when they are forced to lift environmentally-friendly, reusable bags, which can carry up to 40 percent more than plastic bags, ...

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How I stumbled upon my minor…

Fall of my sophomore year I decided it was finally time to "get it over with", so I signed up for Introduction to Environmental Science, never expecting to actually like it. As it turns out, the lab portion of this class has been one of ...

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Flowers Are Losing Their Smell

Air pollution is killing the smell of flowers, possibly eliminating the "scent trail" that helps guide those terribly important pollinators, like bees, to the plants that depend upon them for survival, scientists believe.

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Sustainable Treehouse for UK kids!

With many inner city kids around the world never experiencing the wildlife or any form of the term. This treehouse definitely seems like a step in the right direction!

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Banning Plastic Bags

Back in 2002, Ireland introduced the Plastic Bag Environmental Levy, ie a bag tax. All revenue generated goes to an environmental fund used to support environmental initiatives (see Citizens Information). In January, China took everyone ...

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West Lake Lotus Baby represents the environmental bags in Hangzhou

Hangzhou Jiebai, Hangzhou Tower, Intime Shopping Mall and Hangzhou Department Store will provide a number of environmental bags with the Dushikuaibao(The City Express – a local newspaper of Hangzhou). The interest thing is they all ...

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PRESECO - Company

Preseco Oy is a strongly growing environmental technology company that solves challenges related to water, biowaste and biofuels. We commit ourselves to understanding our customers and helping them in an innovative way. ...

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Typhoon Neoguri Heads for China and Vietnam

Category 1 Hurricane Churns Through South China Sea.

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Global Warming a scam?

Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data back in the late 1990's to create an allusion of rapid global warming. Other scientists of the same environmental wacko type jumped ...

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Retired NYC Subway Cars Being Used to ... Create a Reef?!

If you think subway cars are only useful so long as they are efficiently carrying urban travelers from point A to point B, well, you're wrong! It turns out that hundreds of retired New York City subway cars have been finding a second home--80 feet underwater, and 16 nautical miles off the coast of Delaware.

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We Drive, They Starve.

The mass diversion of the North American grain harvest into ethanol plants for fuel is reaching its political and moral limits.

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Biofuel Rule Will Do More Harm Than Good

U.K. fuels for cars and trucks must contain biofuels starting today, a move that may do more harm than good to the environment and drive food prices higher.

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China 'now top carbon polluter'

China has already overtaken the US as the world's "biggest polluter", a report to be published next month says. The research suggests the country's greenhouse gas emissions have been underestimated, and probably passed those of the US in 2006-2007.

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Bangladesh faces climate change refugee nightmare

By Masud Karim DHAKA (Reuters) - Abdul Majid has been forced to move 22 times in as many years, a victim of the annual floods that ravage Bangladesh. There are millions like Majid, 65, in Bangladesh and in the future there could be many millions...

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The World’s 13 Biggest Solar Thermal Energy Projects

Solar thermal energy plants focus the glare of the Sun's rays on a central location to create heat, which is then turned into electricity. These amazing arrays come in all shapes and sizes and many of them are design marvels on top of being great clean energy generators.

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Japan kills 551 Antarctic whales, short of target

Japan had planned to catch about 850 minke whales in the Antarctic during the hunting season.

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Suspending Life

If almost every species on Earth was killed some 250 million years ago, how did our ancient ancestors survive and evolve into us?

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Amazon tribe enlists Google in battle with illegal loggers -

The tribe – whose first contact with the modern world was less than 40 years ago – are replacing their bows and arrows with hi-tech gadgets in their battle for survival. They have already begun using satnav on their traditional trails through the trees. And Google Earth has just agreed to provide high-resolution satellite images of their forest hom

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Getting Personal: Coordinator plans a week dedicated to ...

The week of Earth Day, or Earth Week, is upon us and base personnel from RAFs Lakenheath and Mildenhall are again needed to volunteer for nature-related events. More than 20 events on b...

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Japanese whalers return home

Japan abandoned commercial whaling after agreeing to an international moratorium in 1986, but began what it calls a scientific whaling program, which critics say is the same as a commercial program. Japan abandoned commercial whaling ...

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Matsushita introducing home fuel cells

Hydrogen-powered fuel cells for the home Panasonic maker Matsushita plans to start selling could cut primary energy use by 22 percent.

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ACTIVIST CALENDAR April 15, 2008, Issue #136 PART 2 of HUDSON ...

Depending on how we manage them we could usher in a long term era of increased prosperity and sustainability or face an environmental collapse and major social disruption." Public and free. Information, Professor Irwin Sperber, ...

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Organic Compost - The Easy Way

By Tom Johnson. One of the best ways to ensure a bountiful harvest from your garden is to use plenty of organic compost. You can be sure that you're using a safe way of growing your garden. The recycling of organic waste is one of the ...

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Plastic Bags: To Rebate, Tax, or Outright Ban? [Shifting Baselines]

According to the Worldwatch Institute, an <b>environmental</b> research and advocacy group in Washington, DC, plastic factories in 2002 produced between 4 and 5 trillion plastic bags, ranging from large trash bags to thin grocery sacks.

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Must-See Green TV

Learn What Hillary, Obama and McCain Think About the Environment.

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Another lake dissappears on south of Chile

Melting ice in southern Chile caused a glacial lake to swell and then empty suddenly, sending a "tsunami" rolling through a river.

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Unusual friends in unusual places

A few years ago, I would have been grateful to see any coverage of environmental issues anywhere. Maybe Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the scientific reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have ...

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Team hands out energy saving bulbs

An environmental team is handing out free energy efficient light bulbs to Manchester residents.

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Tiny Choices Survey: Nicole

What is the one environmental dilemma you personally struggle the most with? Not knowing if I’m doing the best thing I can, sorting through all the choices, trying to decide which ones are really better for the environment. ...

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5 Tips For A Green Vacation

Never mind that the economy is in the tank, or that you’ll use just under half of your vacation days at once– it’s time to go to the beach! But wait… before you slam the kids in that minivan and speed off: there’s a greener way.

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Biodiesel Mythbuster 2.0: 22 Biodiesel Myths Dispelled

Most of us are at least vaguely familiar with biodiesel, but how much do we really know? While biodiesel is easily the most popular alternative fuel available, it’s commonly misunderstood or misrepresented by inaccurate information.

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Al Gore's brand-new slideshow on the climate crisis

Al Gore presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting

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COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER - Environmental Services

Communications Manager (Planning) for one of the UK's leading environmental services organisations.

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Al Gore's brand-new slideshow on the climate crisis

Al Gore presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting

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Just Jokes…

Homeland Security Waives Environmental Law The Department of Homeland Security used its authority to waive environmental and land-management laws to complete a 670-mile border fence between the United States and Mexico. ...

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Al Gore's brand-new slideshow on the climate crisis

Al Gore presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting

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Fiji Water Releases Carbon Footprint Of Products, Challenges Industry

Fiji Water has decided to disclose the carbon footprint of its products. To that end, the company has joined the Carbon Disclosure Project Supply Chain Leadership Collaboration, the first privately-owned US company to do so. ...

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Dizzy Banjo's designs on music for (virtual) environments

Dizzy Banjo: On this project, I think environmental sound design meant exploring a way of vastly increasing immersion through Gestalt effect principles. This involved creating a highly detailed soundscape of many of the sounds of the ...

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Al Gore's brand-new slideshow on the climate crisis

Al Gore presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting

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Our Hazardous Waste Program received an award for rechargeable ...

Three other programs were also given 2007 Regional Recycling Leadership Awards from the RBRC: Hennepin County Environmental Services in Minneapolis, the City of Austin (TX) Household Hazardous Waste Management Program and the Marine ...

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Al Gore's brand-new slideshow on the climate crisis

Al Gore presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting

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UK guilty of 'a crime against humanity'.

Returning Home, challenges the government's latest claims that resettlement would be too costly and impractical and concludes that "no valid environmental or economic reasons" stand in the way of the return of a small number of families ...

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Al Gore's brand-new slideshow on the climate crisis

Al Gore presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting

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NASA Scientist: Big Oil is Hiding a "Planet in Crisis"

Global warming has plunged the planet into a crisis and the fossil fuel industries are trying to hide the extent of the problem from the public, NASA's top climate scientist says.

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World’s Largest Tidal Turbine Successfully Installed

The world’s largest tidal turbine, weighing 1000 tonnes, has been installed in Northern Ireland’s Strangford Lough. The tidal turbine is rated at 1.2 megawatts, which is enough to power a thousand local homes. It was built by Marine Current Turbines, and it will be the first commercial tidal turbine to produce energy...

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Without Clean Electricity, Plug-In Vehicles Aren’t So Hot

Carnegie Mellon just put out a new study discussing the GHG impact of conventional cars, hybrids, and plug-ins. The most interesting conclusion is that unless we clean up the grid, PHEVs aren't really worth that much. Still beat the pants of standard cars though!

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Scientists Unveil High-Res Map of the US Carbon Footprint

A team of scientists has completed a carbon dioxide emissions inventory of the United States plotted down to 100 square kilometer chunks.

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Audubon Earth Day 2008

Come and find out how Celebrate the wonders and diversity of planet Earth and explore many of the environmental challenges it now faces. Discover seven simple solutions that you can do to help the environment one for each day of the ...

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Scientists Unveil High-Res Map of the US Carbon Footprint

A team of scientists has completed a carbon dioxide emissions inventory of the United States plotted down to 100 square kilometer chunks.

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Field Biologists - DB Environmental, Inc.

West Palm Beach, FL.

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Scientists Unveil High-Res Map of the US Carbon Footprint

A team of scientists has completed a carbon dioxide emissions inventory of the United States plotted down to 100 square kilometer chunks.

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5 Incredible Buildings Made of Ice

Have you ever sat back and wondered whether it would be possible for you to create a castle made of ice? Or perhaps an ice palace or frozen hotel?

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China's environmental economics - 31 March 08

The UN has said that emerging economies face challenge in achieving growth without damaging the environment. Tony Cheng reports on Chinese factory workers in Henan province, paying a high price for the country's push to go green.

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Environmental Futurists Honored

"Keep up the good fight," aldermen told these guardians of the Earth.

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CLIMATE CHANGE: A Vision Worth Fighting For

By Stephen Leahy* BROOKLIN, Canada, Apr 3 (IPS) - Sweeping societal change is a slow and erratic business. The civil rights movement in the United States went nowhere for decades and then exploded in the 1960s. ...

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Feb AWOS data uploaded

The 1 minute interval data from the Iowa AWOS network has been uploaded to the IEM data coffers. This information is provided on a per month basis by the Iowa Department of Transportation from their archive of 1 minute observations.

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Ted Turner Unplugged: Iraq & Global Warming

He's crazy! Like a fox! In an interview with Charlie Rose last week, CNN founder Ted Turner likened Iraqi insurgents to "patriots," and warned that failure to reverse the global warming trend would lead to an inability to raise crops. "Most of the people will have died," Turner said. "And the rest of us will be cannibals."

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Nokia powers up to use less energy

Because of a scarcity of natural resources, along with indefinite liability, some companies are looking for ways to minimize the environmental footprint of their goods and services. As a starting point, such companies scrutinize the ...

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April Third Studios Offsets DVD’s Carbon Footprint

April Third Studios has offset the entire carbon footprint of its new DVD, Elusion. The studio says it’s an industry first. Carbonfund.org’s CarbonFree label appears on the cover of the DVD, indicating that the product’s entire carbon ...

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The Continent of Antarctica -- Without all the Ice (PIC)

Rock surface of Antarctica and sea ground without its ice-shield, from 60 to 90 degrees South. This map does not consider that sea level would rise because of the melted ice, nor that the landmass would rise by several hundred meters over a few tens of thousands of years after the weight of the ice was no longer depressing the landmass.

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Environmental analysis of comerica inc. Free Essay, Term Paper and ...

Environmental Analysis: The Banking IndustryBanks have existed longer than money has. It evolved from a community making deposits which consisted of grain and later other goods including cattle, agricultural implements, and eventually ...

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A first in Tampa: 'Green' building

LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design and is the sustainable building accreditation standard. The building opened Monday on West Kennedy Boulevard and is the new home of the marketing company Walker Brands. ...

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Turbine technology is turning the tides into power

The world’s first deep-water device to generate electricity from the tides on a commercial scale is due to start operating within weeks. A seagoing crane barge has lowered the 1,000-tonne double turbine into place and an operation to fix it to the seabed with 12 metre (40 ft) pins begins today.

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10 Innovative Green Homes

Homeowners are taking sustainability - and their homes - to the next level. These ten innovative designs move the owner off the grid, into the trees, and toward a more environmentally-sound future.

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Nazi Enviros and Revisionist History

David Postman has taken a lengthy look into the details of a controversy you may have heard of, in which a BIAW’s newsletter delves into the environmental record of the Nazi Party. We also discussed the BIAW’s idiocy in last week’s ...

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Has Hillary's Campaign Been the Worst Run in History?

Yeah, I do believe. For eight-plus years, Hillary seemed destined to win the presidency--a