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The continuation of the GoodPlanet project "6 billion Others" about climate change shown during the Copenhagen Summit in December 2009. A project supported by ADEME, French Ministry of sustainable developement and United Nations.
Join us on www.6billionothers.org. (Read More)
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The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future:
Collapse Director Chris Smith on His New Doc and the Impending Fall of CivilizationMy opinion on these issues changes on a daily basis. This film made me think about these issues and to try to educate myself. And I discovered that there’s a huge number of scientists and scholars that fall on both sides of every issue that M (Read More)
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TreeHugger:
Image credit: Transition WhidbeyI posted on Friday about Worldchanging's critic of the Dark Side of Transition Towns, in which Alex Steffen argued that the Transition Town movement is effectively burying its head in the sand—promoting ineffectual, perhaps folksy [I paraphrase], individual action instead of systemic or polit (Read More)
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TreeHugger:
Eat Me. You might possibly, perhaps be doing something good for the environment. Credit: EthicureanLast week's NY Times featured an op-ed entitled "The Carnivore's Dilemma"--an ostensibly enlightened response to the chorus of voices promulgating a vegetarian diet as a way to significantly reduce one's emission of greenho (Read More)
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TreeHugger:
Alex at Shedworking is expanding into interior design, with this bookcase that opens up to "create an environment which helps us to concentrate and focus," although it won't do much for noise. Alex calls it "shedworkingesque."Designer Rene Siebum won third in the public voting at the Design Academy Eindhoven during Dutch De (Read More)
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TreeHugger:
It looks like forest, but it's a palm oil plantation... photo: sampsadaily via flickr.
Three stories coming in focusing on deforestation, climate change and biodiversity: Scientists point out that when it comes to carbon emissions from peatland loss SE Asia leads the way; development of . (Read More)
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Toolbox talks are classes in workplace safety, designed for workers in potentially hazardous industries. These include construction, mining, engineering, heavy manufacturing and similar occupations. Through toolbox talks, workers are taught to spot potential hazards, and take immediate action to report or correct them, or t (Read More)
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The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future:
Volatility here to stay in an uncertain oilpatchThere is quite the bun fight going on these days among oil price prognosticators, with much of it taking place on editorial pages and through the airwaves.While many make fun of economists--saying that if all the economists in the world were strung end to end around the globe, (Read More)
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TreeHugger:
Al Gore Heads to the Daily ShowThat's just one of the questions Jon Stewart asks Gore when the former vice president sits down to talk about his new book about finding solutions to climate change. Consider this a companion piece to my earlier postdefending Al Gore from the New York Times--and watch Gore prove himself to be (Read More)
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Climate Change,
Global Warming
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BBC:
The UK government has admitted that a new legally-binding global treaty on climate change is highly unlikely to be agreed this year. (Read More)
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Climate Change,
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TreeHugger:
Photo credit: ellievanhoutte via FlickrFarmed fish and seafood has sort of a bad reputation in some green circles. Sometimes -- as with, say, Atlantic salmon -- it's for good reason. But there are a number of cases where farming can actually be a good thing -- for water quality, the health of the fish or seafood in question (Read More)
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TreeHugger:
Thought the Senate climate bill was on hold all thanks to an ongoing three-day Republican boycott of Environment and Public Works Committee activity? Think again. Using some side-stepping parliamentary procedures, committee chair Barbara Boxer (D-CA), has managed to get the bill passed by a vote of 11-to-1, AFP reports:...R (Read More)
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TreeHugger:
Image credit: NarocrocWe TreeHuggers have long been inspired by the Transition Movement's positive response to peak oil. From planting nut trees for food security to launching local currencies, Transition Initiatives are promoting real, boots-on-the-ground action. But they have not been without their critics, arguing that T (Read More)
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Climate Change
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The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future:
The Crude Truth About Oil Reserves: The coming century will overflow with petroleum.It offends conventional wisdom. It will also seem nasty to the doom-sayers, who for decades have predicted an oil scarcity that never came. But the 21st century is very likely to overflow with oil. There are at least three main reasons for t (Read More)
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