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Michael Plank Strapped 15 Live Lizards To His Chest, Arrested At Airport: Authorities Say
LOS ANGELES — Federal officials say they arrested a man who strapped 15 live lizards to his chest to get through customs at Los Angeles International Airport.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday that 40-year-old Michael Plank of ...
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Michael Bloomberg
Australia
Top 25 Reasons To Care About Climate Change
For some people, climate change is a tough cause to rally 'round--even those who understand that it's happening and that it's human-caused get distracted by things like eating, working, having sex, watching TV, or watching people on TV have sex.
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Environment
Climate Change
The World's First Green Surfboards
In San Clemente, a start-up company called Green Foam Blanks is out to change a half-century of surfboard-making tradition. Its founders, Joey Santley and Steve Cox, have created what is thought to be the world's first recycled polyurethane blank -- ...
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Steve Cox
Green Grid
Get Inspired By 10 Amazing Examples Of Eco Art
Maybe it's time we tap into our inner child-artist and try some more creative and open-minded approaches like, as a first step, using green art to convey the urgency without the ideology.
But...what the hell is green art?
The gang at ...
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Eco Goats
Regifting: Green Giving This Holiday Season
Before you flash the plastic, consider shopping at home for the holidays this year. Shop your closets, cabinets and plastic storage bins. Browse your basement, your attic, and the space under your beds. All that accumulated clutter that isn't right ...
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Environment
Green Grid
Electric Rolls-Royce Could Be Out By Christmas 2010, Rumors Report
Rumors of an electric Rolls-Royce Phantom are back, with the word being the super-luxe automaker could have one on the road within 12 months.
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Andrew Winston: Why Going Green -- And The Climate Negotiations In Copenhagen -- Matter Now More Than Ever
For the past few years, the business world has been swept up in a green wave -- a rising tide of interest and concern about environmental issues. The Great Recession has not stopped the pressure pushing this wave. Environmental crises such as climate ...
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Green Grid
Climate Change
Kevin Grandia: Stolen climate science emails just ain't the conspiracy some want it to be
I'll admit, as someone who spends most days looking for leaked documents, the package of stolen emails and documents from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University is pretty juicy.
Anything provides insight into the inner-workings ...
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Climate Change
Jessy Tolkan: Time Out: Youth Climate Leaders Must Change the Game
After an emotional week for the members of the youth climate movement, who have staked so much hope on the promise of passing legislation in congress this year and sealing a binding agreement in Copenhagen, we've had to deal with managing our ...
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Environment
Climate Change
Trudie Styler: Do We Want To Be The Generation That Destroyed Ourselves?
The following post was originally delivered at the UN General Assembly's meeting on climate change on Thursday, November 19th.
It has been 20 years since Sting and I first visited Brazil, and met some of the people for whom the Amazon rainforest ...
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Trudie Styler
Jason Wojciechowski: (WATCH) Heather Graham matches wits with Mackenzie Crook (Office, UK; Pirates) in Climate Challenge for Oxfam
Heather Graham follows on her hilarious advocacy spot for health care reform
with a new climate change ad. Graham squares off with Mackenzie Crook
(The Office, UK; Pirates of the Caribbean) in this spoof. Graham
details the world we are ...
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Climate Change
Tulsi Tanti: COP15 is in danger of being hot air
I am a natural optimist; as entrepreneurs tend to be. But I fear that the international excitement in the run up to COP15, with supporters and naysayers drawing battle lines and crossing swords, is perhaps masking reality. The truth, regardless of ...
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Climate Depot: Everything You Need To Know About "Climategate"
Climate Depot is an anti-global warming website, which promotes skepticism and disbelief about the realities of climate change. The website is similar is format to The Drudge Report, and has a particular focus on criticizing Vice President Al Gore. ...
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Al Gore
Baylor University
Pete Altman: The US Chamber's Chronic Reliance on Biased Policy Analysis
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, ...
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Reliance
Missouri
30 Rock Goes Green, Al Gore Makes Cameo (VIDEO)
As part of NBC's Green Week, many programs are incorporating environmental themes into their shows. On this week's 30 Rock, Jack Donaghy gives Kenneth the task of reducing TGS's carbon footprint by 5%.
Kenneth first confronts Jenna about her ...
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Al Gore
Green Grid
Inhofe To Boxer: 'We Won, You Lost, Get A Life' (VIDEO)
Sen. James Inhofe has won the battle against global warming -- or so he thinks.
"I proudly declare 2009 as the 'Year of the Skeptic,' the year in which scientists who question the so-called global warming consensus are being heard,'' the Oklahoma ...
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James Inhofe
Oklahoma
Barbara Boxer
Tensie Whelan: Expecting More from Copenhagen
Expectations for a climate treaty had been in a dramatic downward spiral until President Obama's meeting with Hu Jintao in Beijing this week, where they agreed to shoot for emissions targets, and press for an agreement at Copenhagen that would "rally ...
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Helena Christensen: Meltdown: Images of What We Lose When the Glaciers Disappear
My mother was 18 years old when she sailed across a vast ocean from her native country, Peru, to her stepfather's homeland of Denmark. When I was a little girl, my family used to visit Peru every couple of years. I have such vivid memories of playing ...
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James Boyce: From Contract To Bestseller In 60 Days
When Frances Beinecke, President of the Natural Resources Defense Council, set out to write Clean Energy Common Sense , her goal was simple: To bring more people into the climate change conversation now. Now? Conversations on climate change are ...
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Environment
James Dobson
Frances Beinecke
Why New Renewable Energy Records Don't Mean a Thing, Unless We Also Reduce Overall Demand
Without actually reducing overall energy demand, just adding more renewable energy (and touting absurdist records like the top energy source for a three hour period in a day) won't get us anywhere.
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Dung Helps Reveal Why Mammoths Died Out
Their results showed a slow decline in megafauna that began about 15,000 years ago and appeared to last for about 1,000 years.
This discovery rules out one idea that the extinction might have been caused by an extraterrestrial object striking ...
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Displacement Of Local Peoples As Coporations Buy Carbon Offsets
THERE IS ANOTHER vexing question inherent in preserving forests: What happens to the people who use the land? Efforts to protect biodiversity in the dwindling wildlands of the world have increasingly run into a discomfiting tension between the ...
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Cigarette Butts' Toxicity Kills Fish
Even with a small amount of unburnt tobacco clinging to it, a single cigarette butt soaked for a day is enough to turn a liter of water a sickly yellow brown and kill 50 percent of fish swimming in it. Without tobacco, it takes about 4 smoked filters ...
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Fox's News Corp. Begins Keeping Tabs of All Its CO2 Emissions
News Corp. - owner of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and numerous other media properties - is adding software to help manage its environmental impact and energy use.
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Graham Hill: Get Smart
Remember sometime back in the roaring '90s when the idea of electronically controlled "smart" homes first popped up? Back then it seemed pie-in-the-sky and Jetson like.
But the advent of smart metering and ongoing work to create a smart grid ...
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Thanksgiving Recipes (PHOTOS)
Here at HuffPost Green, we think Thanksgiving is a pretty green holiday. It focuses on food and spending time together rather than buying new things. Plus, Thanksgiving is one of the most prominent cultural examples of eating seasonal food -- and ...
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Green Living
Taiwan Firm Crafts Stylish Shoes From Recycled Paper
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Confronted with an ever-growing pile of old newspapers, Taiwanese fashion designer Colin Lin came up with the idea of using them to make shoes and tote bags for her environmentally friendly footwear company.
Lin, 50, says ...
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Gadhimai Festival: Nepal Mass Animal Sacrifice Festival To Go Ahead Despite Protests
KATMANDU, Nepal — A Hindu festival in which hundreds of thousands of animals are expected to be sacrificed will go ahead as scheduled in southern Nepal despite protests, organizers said Friday.
The Gadhimai festival, celebrated every five ...
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Nepal
India
Peat: A Climate Threat, Rising From The Soil
Peat, formed over thousands of years from decomposed trees, grass and scrub, contains gigantic quantities of carbon dioxide, which used to stay locked in the ground. It is now drying and disintegrating, as once-soggy swamps are shorn of trees and ...
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Environment
Climate Change
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen: Green News Report -- November 19, 2009 (Audio)
IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Scientists warn while Americans yawn ; Climate Thunder Down Under: it's fire season again in Australia, while their debate over climate change heats up ... PLUS : Sarah Palin 'goes rogue' on science ... All that ...
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Colbert Report
Green Grid
China
Australia
Sarah Palin
Mike Signer: Drive Like a Jetson
When you watch an episode of "The Jetsons," what gets you isn't so much that Elroy wore an antenna on his head or that the family spent their time in cars that levitated. What still resonates about the show is the extreme ease of transportation -- ...
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James Hoggan: Climate Denial Industry Costs Us $500 Billion a Year
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has announced in its latest World Energy Outlook that every year of delayed action to address climate change will add $500 Billion to the price tag of saving the planet. The climate denial industry should ...
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James Dobson
Auto Industry
Carl Pope: Tax the Guy Behind the Tree
I was the second witness yesterday morning as the EPA opened its hearing process on Clean Air Act regulation of greenhouse pollutants. The first was from the American Petroleum Institute (API). He made one point over and over: the EPA shouldn't use ...
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Environmental Protection Agency
Julie Packard: WTO And the Future of Fish
There are many fronts in the fight to protect the oceans. Last month, Ted Danson and I took the campaign to Geneva, Switzerland where we helped global trade negotiators connect their work with the health of the oceans.
International talks about ...
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Anuradha Vittachi: Since Flying is Responsible for Only 5 Percent of Carbon Emissions, I Have the Right to Fly Abroad on Holiday, Right? Wrong.
Don’t be fooled when airline representatives reassure people in the UK that flying creates "only" five percent of our national carbon emissions, as if it is too small an amount for anyone to get steamed up about. If five percent of a mountain ...
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Joseph B. Treaster: In Land of Holy Rivers Getting Rid of Pollution May Have Low Priority
NEW DELHI--Bhola Nishad spends his days on a dusty bluff overlooking the Yamuna River. Like so many Indians, Mr. Nishad regards the river as a holy place. It is also his place of business.
All along the river as it winds through New Delhi, the ...
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Richard Land
Joseph Buchman
Low Carbon Energy
Trip Van Noppen: Back to the Bush Leagues on Arctic Drilling?
An ocean continues to wait for change
In the Arctic waters surrounding Alaska, George W. Bush is still president, but Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has the chance to inaugurate a new regime.
Shell Oil recently got the green light from the ...
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George Bush
Van Jones
Oil Drilling
Potential E-Waste Nightmare: Microsoft Bans Nearly a Million Xbox Users
After discovering nearly a million users had modified their consoles to play pirated games via the Xbox live service, Microsoft gave them the boot from the service and now the modified consoles are making their way onto the market by the hundreds, ...
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A Seahorse Hitchhikes Over 3,100 Miles Away From Home
[A] seahorse that lives on the western coast of the Atlantic has been found in the Azores almost 5000km away from its possible home.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: The New Arms Race
Hobbled by opposition from the carbon incumbents and their short-sighted allies on Capitol Hill the Obama administration acknowledged this week that it would not return from Copenhagen with any groundbreaking commitment to control green house gases. ...
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China
Robert Riley
Multitasking Gift Wrap Benefits Many This Holiday Season
There's nothing more annoying than watching someone open a holiday present really slowly to avoid ruining the paper its wrapped in. That's one reason to be all for Earth Presents wrapping paper, which is not only 100 percent recycled and ...
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Planet
Washington
James Boyce: Climate Change Deniers' Smear Campaigns Exposed
With all due respect to Don Draper sometimes the best way to sell a message isn't a clever campaign, but the truth. A recently exposed whopper conjured up by climate change deniers highlights exactly what is behind the fight against climate change ...
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Climate Change
James Dobson
Ken Salazar Blamed By Oil And Gas Companies For Scant Interest In New Drilling Projects
SALT LAKE CITY — Drillers say it's getting so hard to obtain an oil-and-gas lease in the Rocky Mountains under the new administration of President Barack Obama that many aren't bothering to show up for auctions.
The criticism came after the ...
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Oil Drilling
Ken Salazar
Methane Gas
Utah
Wendy Gordon: Organic, Heritage, Sustainable -- When Talking Turkey, Does it Matter?
My good friends in the Catskills look forward to turkey hunting season. They shoot only what they can eat and make many delicious meals from one bird. Most of us don't hunt for our Thanksgiving turkey, unless you count as hunting our quest for the ...
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Gordon Brown
Turkey
Organic Food
Hopenhagen Ambassador Contest: Meet The First Candidates
HuffPost in conjunction with Hopenhagen.org is sending one person to Copenhagen for the UN Climate Change Conference to both represent concerns of people around the world and to report back daily as a HuffPost citizen journalist. To learn more ...
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United Nations
Climate Change
Lab Grown Meat Could Be Safer Than Animals, Bioengineers Say
Increasingly, bioengineers are growing nerve, heart and other tissues in labs. Recently, scientists even reported developing artificial penis tissue in rabbits. Although such research is meant to help treat patients, biomedical engineer Mark Post at ...
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Netherlands
Heather Taylor-Miesle: Senator McCaskill is Tired
For those who missed this
lovely tidbit in Wednesday’s Bloomberg story:
Missouri Democratic Sen.
Claire McCaskill questioned whether the Senate would have anything left for the
global warming debate after it is finished with health care.
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Claire McCaskill
PancakeCroc BoarCroc And RatCroc: New Species Of Crocodile Cousins Discovered
Paleontologists have discovered 3 new species of crocodile cousins in the Sahara, which have been nicknamed PancakeCroc, BoarCroc, and RatCroc, along with new skeletons of the previously identified DogCroc and DuckCroc.
Paleontologists have been ...
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Green Living
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins: Navigating the Jobs Crisis: Clean Energy and Good Jobs Go Hand in Hand
As part of the Roosevelt Institute's 10-part series on the Jobs Crisis, running on the New Deal 2.0 blog from Nov. 12-25, I was asked to reflect on what can be done to get Americans working again. Here's my take.
It's difficult for most ...
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Clean Calgary Association
Energy Crisis
Jake Schmidt: Key World Leaders Agree to Two-Step Process for Finalizing International Agreement
Monday morning (Singapore time), leaders from 19 countries -- including the US, China, Mexico, Australia, South Korea, and Japan -- joined a last-minute breakfast to discuss the upcoming global warming meeting in Copenhagen. The breakfast ...
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