Environment & Climate
The Organic Revolution: Change the System, Not the Climate
What if there were an organic technology that could cut greenhouse emissions in half and literally suck down and sequester carbon dioxide in living soil - bringing the total amount of CO2 in the atmosphere down to 350 ppm - the level scientists warn us we must acheive in order to avert a climate catastrophe?
Cook Organic, Not the Planet. Boycott Factory-Farmed Foods.
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The Dominion (Canada)
The heat is on environmental groups and politicians to churn out proposals for stabilizing the planet's rising temperatures, but some environmentalists say existing plans to cool climate change are timid. Their criticism reveals a rift between two approaches: preserving the American way of life at the expense of quicker solutions, or changing the structure of US society to counter an unprecedented threat.
The dominant approach to human-induced global warming revolves around slow but dramatic reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions by mid-century. The mainstream environmental Read more
The dominant approach to human-induced global warming revolves around slow but dramatic reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions by mid-century. The mainstream environmental Read more
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March 5, 2007
Q: Dear Umbra,
Now that I've caught the environmental bug, I don't know what to do with the toxic cleaning products (e.g., Ajax) that I have on hand. As a bulk buyer, I've got 5 to 6 bottles in my garage. Is it better to use them up, throw them away, or just have them stay put in my garage?
Jill Miller
Pleasanton, Calif.
A: Dearest Jill,
Do not leave them in your garage! Home storage of unused toxics inevitably leads to irksome problems. I speak for all those who have had to clean up someone else' Read more
Now that I've caught the environmental bug, I don't know what to do with the toxic cleaning products (e.g., Ajax) that I have on hand. As a bulk buyer, I've got 5 to 6 bottles in my garage. Is it better to use them up, throw them away, or just have them stay put in my garage?
Jill Miller
Pleasanton, Calif.
A: Dearest Jill,
Do not leave them in your garage! Home storage of unused toxics inevitably leads to irksome problems. I speak for all those who have had to clean up someone else' Read more
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March 3, 2007
Leaders of several conservative Christian groups have sent a letter urging the National Association of Evangelicals to force its policy director in Washington to stop speaking out on global warming
The conservative leaders say they are not convinced that global warming is human-induced or that human intervention can prevent it. And they accuse the director, the Rev. Richard Cizik, the association's vice president for government affairs, of diverting the evangelical Read more
The conservative leaders say they are not convinced that global warming is human-induced or that human intervention can prevent it. And they accuse the director, the Rev. Richard Cizik, the association's vice president for government affairs, of diverting the evangelical Read more
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August 1, 2006
Forget cars fuelled by alcohol and vegetable oil. Before long, you
might be able to run your car with nothing more than water in its fuel
tank. It would be the ultimate zero-emissions vehicle. [...] Read more
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February 26, 2007
From: Commondreams.org
CONTACT: Rainforest Action Network
Sam Haswell
Communications Director
(415) 659-0519
Brianna Cayo Cotter
Media Specialist
(415) 659-0557
SAN FRANCISCO - February 26 Rainforest Action Network (RAN) today issued the following statement in response to the anticipated $45 billion buyout of Dallas-based utility company TXU by private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company (KKR) and Texas Pacific Group. The deal could dramatically affect a controversial plan by TXU to build 11 new Read more
CONTACT: Rainforest Action Network
Sam Haswell
Communications Director
(415) 659-0519
Brianna Cayo Cotter
Media Specialist
(415) 659-0557
SAN FRANCISCO - February 26 Rainforest Action Network (RAN) today issued the following statement in response to the anticipated $45 billion buyout of Dallas-based utility company TXU by private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company (KKR) and Texas Pacific Group. The deal could dramatically affect a controversial plan by TXU to build 11 new Read more
Scientific Study
February 23, 2007
Click the highlighted headlines for links to these stories.
'Change a Bulb, Change Everything'. Agence France-Presse, February 22, 2007. "Yahoo, [with A coalition of private companies, organizations, and government agencies] and [Lawrence Bender] the producer of the documentary An Inconvenient Truth launched a website devoted to rallying US consumers to fight global warming by switching light bulbs. [Thursday's announcement was at the Tech Innovation Museum, in San Jose]... The website is devoted to Read more
'Change a Bulb, Change Everything'. Agence France-Presse, February 22, 2007. "Yahoo, [with A coalition of private companies, organizations, and government agencies] and [Lawrence Bender] the producer of the documentary An Inconvenient Truth launched a website devoted to rallying US consumers to fight global warming by switching light bulbs. [Thursday's announcement was at the Tech Innovation Museum, in San Jose]... The website is devoted to Read more
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February 22, 2007
Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania sued the Bush Administration this week claiming they failed to adequately regulate emissions of mercury and other pollutants at older cement plant kilns. Last December, the EPA announced
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February 21, 2007
From CommonDreams.org
Factory farms are responsible for both the bird flu and emissions of greenhouse gases that now top those of cars and sport utility vehicles (SUVs), according to a report released Monday. Sixty percent of global livestock production, including chicken and pig "confined animal feedlot operations" (CAFOs), now occur in the developing world. Unregulated zoning and subsidies that encourage these CAFOs or factory farms are moving closer to major urban areas in China, Bangladesh, India, and many countries in Africa, said the report, "Vital Signs 2007-2008" by the Read more
Factory farms are responsible for both the bird flu and emissions of greenhouse gases that now top those of cars and sport utility vehicles (SUVs), according to a report released Monday. Sixty percent of global livestock production, including chicken and pig "confined animal feedlot operations" (CAFOs), now occur in the developing world. Unregulated zoning and subsidies that encourage these CAFOs or factory farms are moving closer to major urban areas in China, Bangladesh, India, and many countries in Africa, said the report, "Vital Signs 2007-2008" by the Read more
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February 21, 2007
From CommonDreams.org
To any thinking person, it must be obvious there is something terribly wrong with relations between human beings and the animals they rely on for food. It must also be obvious that in the past 100 or 150 years, whatever is wrong has become wrong on a huge scale, as traditional animal husbandry has been turned into an industry using industrial methods of production.
There are many other ways in which our relationship with animals is wrong (to name two: the fur trade and experimentation on animals in laboratories), but the food industry, which Read more
To any thinking person, it must be obvious there is something terribly wrong with relations between human beings and the animals they rely on for food. It must also be obvious that in the past 100 or 150 years, whatever is wrong has become wrong on a huge scale, as traditional animal husbandry has been turned into an industry using industrial methods of production.
There are many other ways in which our relationship with animals is wrong (to name two: the fur trade and experimentation on animals in laboratories), but the food industry, which Read more
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