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Obama Must Say No to the Coal Barons Desecrating Our Mountains
Now is the time for us to flex some grass-roots political muscle and force Obama to stick to his promise to stop mountaintop coal removal.
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Barack Obama
Will We Still Eat Meat, Drink Milk, and Fry Eggs in 2109?
The world will be a much better place in 100 years if we rethink the way we eat.
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George Will
Why Does the Much-Touted Climate Bill Look Like It Was Stolen From the Republican Playbook?
The new climate bill exemplifies a Republican approach: Don't tell polluters what to do, bribe them and hope they do what you want.
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Environment
Climate Change
California's Water Woes Threaten the Entire Country's Food Supply
Nearly a third of the country's food supply comes from California, but drought there may be a catastrophe for farmers -- and the rest of us.
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California
Water Conservation
Food Shortage
Chevron's Inhumane Energy Exposed to Light of Day but Oil Giant Keeps on Spinning
Chevron's wrought destruction in the U.S., Angola, Burma, Canada, Chad, Cameroon, Ecuador, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Nigeria and the Philippines.
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Angola
Burma
Canada
Chad
Cameroon
Ecuador
Don't S**t Where You Eat: Rise of the Ecopreneur
Ecopreneurs are transforming the theory of sustainability into the practice of sustainable business and, then, into viable and desired brands.
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The Amazon vs. Big Oil: Chevron Faces Largest Damage Claim Ever Against the Industry
An Ecuadorean court alleges that Texaco, which was acquired by Chevron, knowingly unleashed toxins across an estimated 1,700 square miles.
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Oil Drilling
The Amazon vs. Big Oil: Chevron Faces Possible $27 Billion Dollar Damages Claim
An Ecuadorean court alleges that Texaco, which was acquired by Chevron, knowingly unleashed toxins across an estimated 1,700 square miles.
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Oil Drilling
World's Next Big Climate Pact Begins to Take Shape
This week, negotiators from 182 countries meet in Bonn, Germany to lay the groundwork for a post-Kyoto climate regime.
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Germany
Climate Change
Slam Bill O'Reilly for His Jihad Against Dr. George Tiller
O'Reilly's horribly offensive rhetoric helped feed the hate that led to this act of domestic terrorism.
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Bill O'Reilly
Carbon Capture Can't Make Coal Clean
WE Energies has proclaimed that it has captured carbon at a coal-fired plant, but this "success" won't come close to making coal clean.
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Environment
From Watchdog to Lapdog: An Insider's History of the EPA
A former EPA analyst explains how the governmental body set up to protect the environment has been undermined by political pressure and industry.
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Environmental Protection Agency
Small Is Better: Big Houses Are Out and Downsizing Is In
With economic and environmental factors colliding, tiny houses are suddenly becoming the biggest rage.
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How Much Has Changed? Obama Administration Deals Series of Anti-Environmental Blows
The Dems have unleashed a slew of anti-environmental policies that would have enraged any reasonable conservationist during the Bush years.
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George Bush
Barack Obama
How to Start a Traditional Compost Pile in Your Yard
For reducing the amount of waste you send to the landfill, composting is essential if you have the means to do it properly.
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It's Time to Come Clean: New Yorkers Are Plugged in to Our Country's Dirtiest Source of Power
More than 240,000 tons of coal stripmined through mountaintop removal operations are consumed by New Yorkers every year.
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Homegrown Grains: The Key to Food Security
OK, you've mastered tomatoes and peppers -- but how about learning how to grow grains in your own yard?
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Food Shortage
Homeland Security
Obama's Climate Guru: Paint Your Roof White!
When it comes to carbon emissions, changing the color of roofs and roads would be like taking all the world's cars off the road for 11 years.
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Climate Change
Barack Obama
Home Depot Throws Green Image Out the Window with Environmentally Destructive Project
The company is associated with a project that would result in the world's longest clearcut through globally rare forests and massive dam building.
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The California Supreme Court Upheld Prop. 8, So Now What Do We Do?
Yesterday's Supreme Court ruling was a big disappointment, but there's no time to mourn: we must turn this anger into momentum.
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California
The Video Shell Oil Desperately Doesn't Want You to See
Business as usual: Shell is trying to suppress the truth.
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Oil Drilling
Why Obama Should Take Notes from Cuba on a Green Energy Revolution
Cuba has successfully greened its energy sector over the last few years, and is now exporting its energy revolution.
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Cuba
Energy Efficiency
Barack Obama
Is the Water Supply for 8 Million People in New York City at Risk?
A massive natural gas project could pollute fresh water supplies for New York, Philadelphia, Camden and Trenton, and other areas.
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New York
Water Conservation
Why Unfettered Capitalism Is Bad for Your Diet
Enforcing the laws that we already have on the books to break up Big Agribusiness would be a great start to building a better food system.
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Agribusiness
Drinking from Plastic Bottles 'Increases Exposure to Gender-Bending Chemical'
Bisphenol A is known interfere with reproductive development in animals; babies are at a greater risk.
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Clean Energy Bill Survives: Political Realists Rejoice, Climate Science Realists Demand More
Now the next challenge: how to stop this bill from being weakened as it winds itself through the House and the Senate.
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Climate Change
Bill Clinton
Energy Efficiency
Green to the Grave: Eco-Friendly Burials Catching On
The numbers are still small but backers of green burials see their way of death as the wave of the future.
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Eco Goats
Did Asteroids Really Do in the Dinosaurs?
Two new controversial studies are calling are calling that theory into question.
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Vandana Shiva: Our Corporate Farming System Is to Blame for Massive Farmer Suicides
Vandana Shiva explains how our corporate farming model is to blame for hundreds of thousands of suicides.
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Corporate Agriculture Is to Blame for the Hundreds of Thousands of Farmer Suicides in India
Vandana Shiva says industrial agriculture has left Indian farmers indebted and destitute, and explains how to stem the tide of suicides.
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India
How We Talk About the Environment Has Everything to Do with Whether We'll Save It
The American public's understanding of the environment is crucial -- the future of our earth and every living being depends on it.
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Waxman-Markey: Will Congress Cave to Big Industry and Kill One of Most Important Pieces of Legislation Ever?
Our best effort to fend off climate catastrophe is in the hands of our elected officials and the bill's future looks dicey.
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George Will
Will Congress Pass a Much-Needed Environmental Bill? The Future Is Looking Dicey
The Waxman-Markey bill, our best effort to fend off climate catastrophe, is in the hands of Congress, and prospects aren't good.
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Environment
Bill Clinton
George Will
How Do We Curb Carbon: The Debate Over an Emissions Cap or a Tax
As the U.S. Congress debates the issue, eight experts discuss the merits of a cap-and-trade system versus a carbon tax.
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Dear Mr. President: Declare August 3rd as Armistice Day in the Appalachian Coalfields
Obama should keep his campaign promise, travel to Appalachia and publicly announce a timeline to formally end mountaintop removal operations.
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Barack Obama
Good News, There's a Climate Bill -- Bad News, It Stinks
Sparing the many odiferous details, here's three particularly bad aspects that have to be addressed.
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Environment
Climate Change
Bill Clinton
Why Are Indian Farmers Committing Suicide and How Can We Stop This Tragedy?
The factors that have caused 200,000 suicides are rooted in the policies of trade liberalization and corporate globalization.
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Environment
Obama to Raise Fuel Efficiency Standards: Biggest Step Gov Has Taken to Fight CO2
It looks like the Waxman-Markey bill is not the alpha and the omega of energy policy -- this is big news, too.
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Environment
Energy Efficiency
Barack Obama
Armed Forces Community Takes Up Global Warming Cause: It's an Ugrent Matter of National Security
Delaying the transition to a sustainable energy economy or to launching an aggressive response to global climate change is a national security threat.
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Global Warming
Homeland Security
Our Appetite for Animals Is Taking Us Toward Apolcalypse
Cutting your meat-eating habits is one of the most impactful ways you can prevent drastic changes to our climate.
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Environment
The Case of the Missing H-Bomb: The Pentagon Has Lost the Mother of All Weapons
60 years have passed since a damaged jet dropped a hydrogen bomb near Savanah, Ga. -- and the Pentagon still can't find it.
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Our Appetite for Animals Is Taking Us Toward Apocalypse
Cutting your meat-eating habits is one of the most impactful ways you can prevent drastic changes to our climate.
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Michael Pollan: "Don't Buy Any Food You've Ever Seen Advertised"
"The real food is not being advertised. And that's really all you need to know."
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Michael Bloomberg
Food Shortage
Humans Seem Hell Bent on Committing Mass Suicide -- But There's Still Hope
Despite the endless human capacity for denial and self-destruction, the Earth can still be saved. But we must act now.
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Was It Hard Work, or Your Good-Looking Face That Got You a Raise?
New study finds that, even accounting for intelligence, income prospects are enhanced by being good-looking.
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The Ugly Truth Behind Organic Food
The organic labeling standards do nothing to denote how farms treat their workers. Is your organic food a humanitarian nightmare?
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Food Shortage
Would You Call 60,000 Cows Fenced Together on a Dirt Patch a "Farm?"
Between 2002 and 2007, the United States lost 43,603 real farms -- we can't let agribusiness control our food supply.
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United States
Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?
Finally someone is listening to Lester Brown and his warnings of a collapse in our food supplies, as a new article reveals in Scientific American.
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Food Shortage
Fighting Rich Lobbyists to Save Health Care Reform Is AlterNet's Top Take-Action Campaign of the Week
Powerful medical lobbyists stand in the way of health care progress in the name of profits. We must put an end to it.
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Has Anyone in U.S. History Made More Americans Less Safe Than Dick Cheney?
One could write an entire book on Cheney's single-handed efforts to destroy a livable climate for the next 50 generations of Americans.
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