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To shift the global economy from fossil fuels to renewable energy will require the construction of wind, solar, nuclear, and other installations on a vast scale, significantly altering the face of the planet. Can these new forms of energy approach the scale needed to meet the world’s energy demands?...
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The Corporate Doomsday Machine’s (aka the fossil fuel industry) latest scheme to plunder and ruin the earth for profit involves transforming the highways, waterways and railways of the Northwest into a transport corridor for coal. King Coal’s domestic options are soon going to be limited after Obam...
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Wombats will have drowned, turtles won't breed and kangaroos will starve for lack of feed in the wake of Queensland's floods. Pets aren't the only animals in danger from the state's flooding, and native wildlife will suffer serious long-term impacts, Robert Johnson, of the Australian Veterinary Ass...
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NOT DEAD YET A flock of red-winged blackbirds like the ones that made news by dying by the thousands in Arkansas. At the beginning of this month when about 5,000 red-winged blackbirds fell from the sky in one night in Arkansas, biologists were called on to put a damper on public speculation about...
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Posted by on in Environmental Heroes
“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind [sic] to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind [sic] must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliati...
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Posted by on in Sustainable Development
by Greg Lavery, Ph.D. Who will drive sustainability in the future? Government, community or business? This thought-piece suggests that supporting business transformation to more sustainable practices may be our best hope. If we look at the avenues for change that exist in the world – those ways in ...
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by Greg Lavery, Ph.D. Who will drive sustainability in the future? Government, community or business? This thought-piece suggests that supporting business transformation to more sustainable practices may be our best hope. If we look at the avenues for change that exist in the world – those ways in ...
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Creating new well-paying jobs to spur the economic recovery remains a central concern globally and in the US. The Great Recession has left many professionals and their families struggling to make ends meet for over two years. This jobless recovery is likely to be the longest recovery since the Great...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
  Researchers disagree about what the economic costs of climate change will be over the coming decades. But the answer to that question is fundamental in deciding how urgent it is to take action to reduce emissions. by john carey When climate legislation died last summer in Congress, one cau...
A Positive Path for Meeting the Global Climate Challenge
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On New Year's Eve, over 3,000 red-winged blackbirds inexplicably plummeted to their deaths from the skies over Arkansas. They may have struck something while in the air such as lightning or hail. It is also possible that the ground itself caused their deaths, and they were merely rendered unconsciou...
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The past few years have seen a sharp rise in awareness, and criticism, of Japanese whaling practices. The Oscar winning documentary The Cove and Animal Planet's television show Whale Wars have brought western public attention to the killing of both large and small cetaceans. Whale meat is sold openl...
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Posted by on in Fossil Fuels
  On Tuesday, the Obama administration finally announced the end of a politically motivated offshore drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico. The drilling ban, originally scheduled to be lifted in November, has been the subject of a torrent of criticism from Gulf area resident...
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Posted by on in Lakes/Rivers/Wetlands
  Many coastal wetlands worldwide — including several on the U.S. Atlantic coast — may be more sensitive than previously thought to sea-level rise projections for the 21st century.     U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists drew this conclusion from an international research&n...
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  Military aircraft flew supplies to an Australian town slowly disappearing under floodwaters, as authorities warned on Monday that record floods that have devastated the northeast were far from over. The spreading environmental disaster is estimated to have caused more than A$1 billion ($980...
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Posted by on in Environmental Heroes
  Japanese whalers shot water cannons at anti-whaling activists on Saturday, the conservationist group's founder claimed, hours after the activists tracked down the hunting fleet in the remote and icy seas off Antarctica. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is chasing the fleet in the hop...
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Posted by on in Environmental Heroes
  “What an awesome way to begin the New Year,” said captain of the Gojira Locky MacLean of Canada. “Our three vessels dancing dangerously through the ice packs locked in confrontation with the three harpoon ships of the Japanese whaling fleet. It was both deadly and beautiful. Dead...
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Posted by on in General Environment
    By Brett Israel, OurAmazingPlanet Staff Writer   The natural forces of the planet were in full swing this year, with some spectacular and devastating consequences. From the massive Haiti earthquake to a bevy of explosive volcano eruptions, 2010 saw its share of natur...
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Posted by on in General Environment
  Our planet is gasping for breath. Our harmful pollutions is choking the eco system and stripping the ozone layer and affecting the water and air. In response to this alarming state of the only planet we live on maybe it is time we did something more about it. The science is there, the know...
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Posted by on in Fishing
  China will intensify management of the fishing industry in its territory, an annual national fishery conference heard on Thursday. "Normal patrols to safeguard fishing around the Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea will be organized in 2011," said Zhao Xingwu, director of the Fishery Admin...
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