By Greg Lindsay | FAST COMPANY | February 1, 2010 The world is bracing for an influx of billions of new urbanites in the coming decades, and tech companies are rushing to build new green cities to house them. Are these companies creating a smarter metropolis — or just making money? Stan Gale is exultant. [...]
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Consumers really can affect global warming — particularly if they live in the US
by Robert McClure in Dateline Earth/InvestigateWEST | February 8, 2010 I’ve always been just a hair skeptical about all those admonitions to consumers to save the world — you know, the “Live simply, that others may simply live”-type instructions. They felt a little too much like guilt-tripping to me, with perhaps not enough corresponding actual [...]
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Forgive me, Planet, for I have flown. Frequently.
Carbon offsets reflect the tendency of environmentalism to act like a new religion. Remember European history about the buying and selling of indulgences? But there can be good sense in donating to atone for our offenses against the environment. By Anthony B. Robinson | Crosscut.com | February 5, 2010 The other day I, half-joking, told [...]
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A Seattle chef proves that traditional sushi and healthy oceans go hand-in-chopstick
by DARBY MINOW SMITH | grist | January 31, 2010 Growing up in small-town Montana, two things just made no sense: vegetarians and sushi. Why eat tofu, or raw fish, when you could just as easily have a big juicy steak? Coming from generations of cattle rancher stock, I read Jonathan Safran Foer’s ringing defense [...]
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Way out front: Changing lawns to gardens to save the world
Los Angeles architect Fritz Haeg looks to change the world by changing our notions about landscaping by John Bentley Mays | The Globe And Mail | January 22, 2010 For millions of Americans and Canadians, the front lawn is a sacred place. It symbolizes home ownership quite as forcefully as the house itself does. Kept vividly [...]
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This Satellite Could Help Save Humanity
But DSCOVR remains grounded. That fact is key to interpreting the so-called ‘climategate’ emails. by Mitchell Anderson | TheTyee.ca | January 20, 2010 The media missed the real story about the so-called “climategate” scandal. After thousands of emails were mysteriously stolen from the University of East Anglia and distributed just before the climate conference in Copenhagen, many [...]
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Biodiversity is not just about saving exotic species from extinction
Neglect of the natural services provided by biodiversity is an economic catastrophe greater than the global economic crisis by Robert Bloomfield | guardian.co.uk | Monday 11 January 2010 07.00 GMT Starting Monday, celebrations and events across the world will highlight the beginning of the UN’s Year of International Biodiversity and the loss of our richly varied [...]
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Turtles Are Casualties of Warming in Costa Rica
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL | The New York Times | November 13, 2009 PLAYA GRANDE, Costa Rica — This resort town was long known forLeatherback Sea Turtle National Park, nightly turtle beach tours and even a sea turtle museum. So Kaja Michelson, a Swedish tourist, arrived with high expectations. “Of course we’re hoping to see turtles — [...]
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Acid oceans: the ‘evil twin’ of climate change
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 [...]
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B.C.’s old-growth forests being systematically destroyed: report
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: [...]