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Dear Conservation Value Notes reader: As a smart, conscious citizen, you know the difference between talk and action when it comes to Green Economy solutions. You know that to achieve the policy victories needed to simultaneously reduce America’s oil dependence and solve climate change, ...
Environment
Green Grid
Getting ready to head out shopping first thing Friday, and want to reward good companies who are truly taking significant green steps? Here's an article about the release of Climate Counts' new green scorecard -- see who ranks the greenest and who would draw the ire of ol' Woodsy Owl. At the ...
Green Living
Pepsico
Thinking about ways to introduce sustainability into your business and get your employees both involved and excited? The Triple Pundit, reporting from a Net Impact Conference panel on employee engagement, says that what works typically differs from company to company, so take what you know ...
Environment
Climate Change
Green Grid
We know that coastal ecosystems such as mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass provide valuable ecosystem services such as protection against storms and floods, filtration of pollutants, and crucial fishery breeding grounds. However, says Conservation International's Emily Pidgeon, it turns out ...
Environment
Richard Land
Water Conservation
A new documentary film illustrates the environmental, economic and health damage caused by the proliferation of bottled water: With style, verve and righteous anger, the film exposes the bottled water industry's role in suckering the public, harming our health, accelerating climate change, ...
Environment
Water Conservation
Should China take the full blame for its skyrocketing emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other heat-trapping gases that cause global warming? Or should these emissions be split with the U.S., EU and other countries that are outsourcing their manufacturing -- and their emissions -- to China? ...
Environment
Climate Change
Brazil
Deforestation
Global Warming
China
Did you know that agriculture contributes about 20% of America's emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other heat-trapping gases that cause global warming? For the entire planet, agriculture contributes about 12% of these emissions. How are the impacts of our food, fiber and biofuel ...
Green Living
Richard Land
We know about the environmental, economic, security and health benefits of solar and wind power : lower emissions, cleaner air, reduced dependence on foreign oil, abundant job opportunities as these technologies get installed far and wide. What we don't hear about too often are the very real ...
Energy/Transportation
Wind Power
Clean Calgary Association
Energy Efficiency
While the world's efforts to sustain biodiversity continue to fall short, the journal Nature reports that there are some silver linings to the continuing cloud of biodiversity loss: Since the 2010 target was adopted in 2002, the Brazilian government has increased the proportion of land ...
Environment
Richard Land
Water Conservation
Sweden
The journal, Nature, has an outstanding success story about efforts to protect Brazil's Atlantic Coastal Forest: Stemming the deforestation required a broad set of measures: new laws and governmental incentives, the commitment of researchers and conservationists, increased funding from ...
Environment
Richard Land
Brazil
Water Conservation
Amazon
Canada
Here's a fun little anecdote from Marc Gunther that has bigger implications for how we advance our transition to a Green Economy: At the Net Impact conference last week, a waiter stopped by before lunch to ask if anyone at our table wanted a vegetarian meal instead of chicken. Just one or two ...
Environment
Climate Change
Global Warming
With the rapid rise and proliferation of solar technologies, could cities become generators of electricity rather than consumers of power? If we put solar panels on the untold millions of acres of roof-tops that are essentially wasted space right now, can we dramatically reduce our need to ...
Environment
Green Grid
Clean Calgary Association
Energy Efficiency
In a very good piece of news to head into your weekend with, the U.S. and China actually did MORE than expected in their announced plan for collaboration on Clean Energy and Climate Change. As Grist and Climate Progress report: Tuesday, a comprehensive plan for U.S.-China cooperation on ...
Environment
Climate Change
China
Energy Efficiency
Global Warming
This new report from The Breakthrough Institute should really rub all you patriots the wrong way (it sure left me frustrated!): Asia is poised to dominate the fast-growing clean energy industry by outspending the United States by at least three-to-one on infrastructure and technology, ...
Green Living
Clean Calgary Association
United States
Energy Efficiency
China
For all those people who think that reducing pollution is an "environmental" issue that we don't have time for in a recession, give this article a good read: Pregnant women are often extra careful to avoid toxic products, like certain plastics and chemicals in household cleaners. But a new ...
Other
Washington
Among the people benefits of the Green Economy is the boon to public health that we will receive from transitioning from burning fossil fuels like coal to clean energy. According to a new report from the Physicians for Responsibility: "Coal pollutants affect all major body organ systems and ...
Energy/Transportation
Coal Mining
Kudos to ForestEthics for their work exposing the greenwash in the Sustainable Forestry Initiative's unsustainably harvested lumber. For logging to be truly sustainable, it should certified as reflecting the best available science regarding how to reduce impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem ...
Building/Design
Richard Land
The heads of the Aspen skiing company and the outdoor apparel company, The North Face, say their businesses are threatened by climate change, and so are you. For them, it strikes right at the heart of their businesses-- affecting even their namesakes: As CEOs of two of the most widely known ...
Environment
Climate Change
Global Warming
NPR has a well-penned article about the messaging balancing act President Obama faces as he works to advance climate change and clean energy legislation. In public, the president never makes the case for addressing global warming in environmental terms alone. That bothers Damon Moglen, who ...
Environment
Climate Change
Barack Obama
Global Warming
Speaking of the law of unintended consequences... Scientists have sounded the alarm about the need to properly design schemes to pay countries to protect their tropical forests as a means of slowing global warming. Deforestation is estimated to contribute about 20% of global emissions of the ...
