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November 21, 2009
Posted by Jacob Scherr
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- biogems, climatechange, forests, globalwarming, wilderness, wildlife, wildplaces
Protecting and restoring the world's rainforests is critical to preserve biodiversity. Tropical forests are teeming with life - covering just about 6% of the earth's surface they are home to between half and three fourth of all plant and...continued→
November 20, 2009
Posted by Justin Horner in Living Sustainably
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
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- california, locationefficiency, smartgrowth, transit, transportation
Both Transform and the Urban Land Institute have recently released reports that look at the Bay Area from a perspective NRDC has been pushing in the public arena for some time: “location efficiency.” Just as appliances can be more or...continued→
November 20, 2009
Posted by Pete Altman in Solving Global Warming
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- afl-cio, americanrightsatwork, uschamberofcommerce
The US Chamber's extreme position on climate has been drawing fire for a long time, and dissatisfaction with the US Chamber is growing as more and more businesses say that the Chamber doesn't represent them on climate and other issues. ...continued→
November 19, 2009
Posted by Anjali Jaiswal in Solving Global Warming
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- cleanenergy, cleantech, climatechange, copenhagen, copenhagencountdown, india, obama, renewables, singh, solar, wind
On Sunday, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will embark on a five day trip to the United States for the first official state visit of the Obama administration. The visit will be highlighted with a state dinner with President Obama...continued→
November 19, 2009
Posted by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
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- global warming pollution, lee myung-bak, southkorea
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has just announced that South Korea would commit to significant steps to address their global warming pollution (as Reuters and the Financial Times reported). He announced that South Korea would cut their global warming pollution...continued→
November 19, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
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- blankenship, bobbykennedy, cleanenergy, climate, climatechange, coal, dirtycoal, dirtyenergy, donblankenship, energy, globalwarming, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR, rfkjr
This just in: Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy, has accepted the challenge to debate environmental champion Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., senior counsel for NRDC, on energy issues. I was with Bobby last weekend in Nashville at NRDC's Music Saves Mountains campaign event, but at that time Blankenship...continued→
November 19, 2009
Posted by Pete Altman in Solving Global Warming
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- ACCF, heritagefoundation, NAM, nationalassociationofmanufacturers, uschamberofcommerce
The US Chamber's recently exposed interest in commissioning a study to put health reform in a bad light isn't the first time the federation has shown its willingness to trumpet questionable analyses about proposals it doesn't like. Heck, the US...continued→
November 19, 2009
Posted by Pete Altman in Solving Global Warming
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- alcoa, Apple, cisco, dow, duke, entergy, Exelon, ge, generalelectric, johnson, microsoft, MohawkPaper, Nike, nrg, pepco, PG&E, PNM Resources, PSEG, royaldutchshell, seventhgeneration, uschamberofcommerce
Looks like we'll have to add a new category to our US Chamber Climate Credibility Crisis Counter (honk if you love alliteration.) As the Wall Street Journal recently reported, Duke Energy has cut the electric utility's contributions to the Chamber...continued→
November 19, 2009
Posted by Pierre Bull in Green Enterprise
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
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- arkansas, bioenergy, biofuels, energyandclimate2009, energyefficiency, energyimports, renewable, windenergy
(From the new Arkansas Clean Energy Report, Figure 1: Mean wind density at 100 meters) ". . . Arkansas has the opportunity to build a strong long-term economy on the solid foundation of its bountiful renewable resources." Today we...continued→
November 19, 2009
Posted by Peter Lehner in Solving Global Warming
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- capewind, congressmanmarkey, copenhagen, kategalbraith, nantucketsound, nytimes, renewableenergy, secretarysalazar, windturbines
Today in the NY Times, there's an exciting article about efforts to develop deepwater, floating wind turbines. The article makes it clear that there are still engineering and major costs hurdles, but I'm hopeful that one day floating wind farms...continued→