By JOHN HEILPRIN | ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER | SEATTLE PI | DECEMBER 18, 2009 MONTEREY BAY NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY, Calif. — Far from Copenhagen’s turbulent climate talks, the sea lions, harbor seals and sea otters reposing along the shoreline and kelp forests of this protected marine area stand to gain from any global deal to [...]
BY JUDITH LAVOIE | VICTORIA TIMES COLONIST | DECEMBER 13, 2009 VICTORIA — The old-growth forests of Vancouver Island and the British Columbia coast are Canada’s most valuable weapon in the battle against climate change, but they are being systematically destroyed, says a new report from Sierra Club B.C., to be released Sunday. Read on: [...]
‘Community solar park’: State hopes Ellensburg idea takes off LEAH BETH WARD | YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC | December 13, 2009 ELLENSBURG – Gary Nystedt was brainstorming with a group of colleagues at a solar energy conference a few years ago when the idea hit him. What if Ellensburg put up solar panels in a park and [...]
By Martin Shankleman | Employment correspondent, BBC News | December 14, 2009 Hospital cleaners are worth more to society than bankers, a study suggests. The research, carried out by think tank the New Economics Foundation, says hospital cleaners create £10 of value for every £1 they are paid. It claims bankers are a drain on [...]
by Liz Vaccariello, Editor-in-Chief, PREVENTION (via SHINE), on Tue Nov 24, 2009 11:15am PST How healthy (or not) certain foods are—for us, for the environment—is a hotly debated topic among experts and consumers alike, and there are no easy answers. But when Prevention talked to the people at the forefront of food safety and asked [...]
By Faiz Shakir, The Progress Report. Posted December 10, 2009. This story was written by Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Zaid Jilani, and Alex Seitz-Wald. As delegates from countries across the globe gather at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, the world is waiting to see if international leaders will [...]
The New York Times | by By JARED DIAMOND | December 5, 2009 THERE is a widespread view, particularly among environmentalists and liberals, that big businesses are environmentally destructive, greedy, evil and driven by short-term profits. I know — because I used to share that view. But today I have more nuanced feelings. Over the [...]
By Wendy Koch, USA TODAY, December 4, 2009 The home building industry is struggling, but one sector is booming: green homes. The number of homes winning the government’s Energy Star designation since the program began in 1995 has crossed the 1 million mark. Despite an overall housing slump, 75,000 have been added so far this [...]
SFGate | Peter Fimrite, Chronicle Staff Writer | Thursday, December 3, 2009 Chemicals from cosmetics, perfumes and other fragrances were detected along with dozens of other industrial compounds in the umbilical cords of African American, Asian and Latino infants in the United States, according to a national study released Wednesday. Stacy Malkan wrote a book [...]
SFGate | by Al Lewis | Wednesday, December 2, 2009 The abortion issue threatens to drive a fatal wedge into the Democratic Senate bloc favoring health care reform, just as it nearly did in the House of Representatives. But it’s possible to keep intact the strongly held principles of anti-abortion and pro-choice members of Congress [...]