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If you feel like having a laugh, check out the latest Juice Media clip. In the lead-up to COP15 they have orchestrated a 'rap battle' between Al Gore and Lord Monckton, which makes for humorous watching...
Climate change may be no laughing matter, but clearly some people's ...
Environment
Climate Change
Al Gore
Dear Panama City Beach, Florida-
We have a problem. Our relationship has suffered because of your neglectful attitude and your refusal to better yourself. I am threatening to end this affair here and now if you don’t clean yourself up, pay attention to what really matters, and ...
Other
Panama
Florida
Climatologist Stephen Schneider has often found himself in the thick of contests, as indicated by the title of his new book Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth’s Climate. He has been engaged in climate science since its early stages in the 1970s and has much ...
Other
After serving two tours of duty in Iraq, platoon commander Jake Harriman began to develop a unique understanding of the sociocultural dynamics behind the organizations his troops were fighting. In his words, “terrorists rely on an endless supply of people living in extreme ...
Other
Iraq
By way of a deal reached Nov. 17, the European Union is expected to enact laws to set energy efficiency standards for all public buildings by 2018 and thereafter all commercial buildings and homes. Converting existing buildings to near-zero energy standards is a major part of negotiations that ...
Other
Energy Efficiency
It’s probably too late to prepare for peak oil, but we can at least try to salvage food production.
I don’t know when global oil supplies will start to decline. I do know that another resource has already peaked and gone into free-fall: the credibility of the body that’s ...
Energy/Transportation
International Energy Agency
Sweden
Courtesy of Climate Progress :
David Roberts at Grist has the winner of the irony-can-be-so-ironic award:
From a sharp-eyed reader comes this ad for Humble Oil (which later merged with Standard to become, yes, Exxon). It may win the All Time Millenial Award for Maximal Irony. It’s ...
Environment
Oil Drilling
American Geophysical Union
Greenland
Antarctica
For the past year, President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana has traveled the world offering to place his nation's forests under international supervision if other countries paid his citizens not to deforest the tropical landscapes.
The campaign received major support last week when Norway ...
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Guyana
Norway
Bharrat Jagdeo
This week's dose of organic headlines, updates, resources, goodies, and recipes courtesy of DSnodgrass...
New research shows that the use of genetically modified crops have put more pesticides on consumers dinner tables.
The rapid adoption by U.S. farmers of ...
Other
With the United States of America's ever-mounting trade and budget deficits, unemployment above 10 percent (and, dependent on counting, un- and under-employment above 20 percent), looming peak oil and other resource (water, for example) limitations, environmental challenges, and ever-mounting ...
Environment
United States
Water Conservation
The defective Chinese drywall situation in the United States first came to light in November of 2008, when the Herald Tribune reported that homeowners in the Sarasota-Bradenton area of Florida were discovering that their homes’ sheetrock walls were eating away the wiring.
In ...
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United States
Florida
Speakers at the opening session of the World Summit on Food Security, hosted by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, called for increased investment in agriculture and emphasized the role climate change is playing in agricultural production.
“There can be no ...
Environment
Climate Change
Homeland Security
United Nations
We sped along the asphalt, cocooned in our little white hatchback, chasing the ever-retreating heat haze mirage. I don’t want to talk to a pig farmer, I thought, defensively. I felt dread rise up from my gut. My dad chattered happily.
I had been an animal lover since ...
Other
In order to generate excitement around humble dirt - the star of a new movie bearing its name - people are being encouraged to visit the official site and share their own soil stories.
Dirt! The Movie , due out in December, tells the amazing story of humans and our relationship with the earth ...
Other
Actions Speak Loudest: Keeping Our Promise for a Better World , a new book by Robert McKinnon inspires us to keep a generational promise to leave the world a better place than we inherited. This collection of photos, essays, and calls to action draw attention to thirty-one important issues ...
Other
Jimmy Carter
A recent event sponsored by the British High Commission on climate change and low-carbon business drew out into the open a serious issue. As many are aware, should the temperature rise as much as 4 degrees Celsius (or about 7 degrees Fahrenheit) due to climate change, some serious ...
Other
Energy Efficiency
I like to ride my bike and take public transportation when I can. But I still rely on the car to move me around a few days every week. That said, developments in cars and personal transportation are things I take both personal and professional interest in.
So after Ford loaned a new ...
Energy/Transportation
Ford
Fusion
Hybrid Energy
California
Al Gore hasn’t been resting on his laurels since An Inconvenient Truth . His substantial new book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis has grown out of the more than 30 lengthy and intensive “Solution Summits” he has organised to enable leading experts from ...
Energy/Transportation
Al Gore
Climate Change
Stimulus Plan
Energy Crisis
I recently wrote a story on the growing popularity of so-called smart appliances that link into utility's smart grid programs, allowing consumers to manage and cut down on their own power use.
By the end of this year, energy customers in much of Texas can expect the installation of ...
Other
Texas
In Sayerville, NJ, the doors of the Center for Lifelong Learning recently opened. It's a school that can serve up to 175 students with autism and related disorders, providing education and training for many life skills which are taken for granted by neurotypicals.
Here's the kicker .
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