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Posted by on in Arts and Entertainment
Two Golden-based Film and Theater Organizations Celebrate a Decade of Progress with Strategic Merger Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012 — Golden, CO — Two Golden-based organizations whose missions aim to inspire and educate audiences through film and theater are merging. The Colorado Environmental Film Festiva...
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Posted by on in Agriculture
Last year was the second warmest in Britain since records began and CO2 levels have gone up by almost a fifth in the past five decades; but, as every well-briefed journalist knows, global warming is a myth put out by charlatans, so there can be no cause for concern. No, in 2012 we should worry inste...
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Tagged in: carbon dioxide crop varieties crops growing food nitrous oxide
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Posted by on in Solar
Government agencies using solar power may soon be ditching their panels in favor of paint brushes. Researchers at the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Nano Science and Technology (NDnano) have developed a “solar paint” that can be applied on to a conductive surface, such as transparent conducti...
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Posted by on in Sustainable Development
A possibly ground-breaking idea has been kept on life support after Ecuador revealed its Yasuni-ITT Initiative had raked in $116 million before the end of the year, breaking the $100 million mark that Ecuador said it needed to keep the program alive. Ecuador is proposing to not drill for an estimate...
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Tagged in: biodiverse ecosystem Ecuador indigenous populations United Nations Development Fund Yasuni National Park
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
Siku, a polar bear cub born in captivity in Denmark, has taken the Internet by storm. It's not a surprise, he's so cute! When Siku was born at the Scandinavian Wildlife Park November 22, 2011 his mother had not produced milk for three years. "Instead of leaving the cub to die we decided to try to ...
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Angel
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Posted by on in Sustainable Development
Mark Hay Monday, January 02, 2012 Functioning largely by sight and sound, humans are poorly equipped to understand the importance of chemical signals among organisms. We pay to go to museums and concerts where we see and hear; we rarely pay to go to "displays" of smell. In contrast, most organis...
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Angel
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
By early next year, there will be more deepwater drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico than there were in the days leading up to the largest oil spill in U.S. history, Jonathan Fahey of the Associated Press (AP) reported on Friday. On April 20, 2010, and explosion onboard the BP-leased Deepwater Hori...
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Posted by on in Earth Violators
Large-scale tusk smuggling has reached a record high this year, with at least 2,500 dead elephants used for ivory.Organised criminals - particularly Asian syndicates - are increasingly involved in the illegal trade, according to environmental agency Traffic.Experts believe it has been the worst year...
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Tagged in: Africa elephants endangered animals Ivory ivory trade
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Posted by on in Sustainable Development
  PANAJI: Against the backdrop of public apprehensions over the Regional Plan (RP) 2021, the archbishop of Goa, Filipe Neri Ferrao, on Thursday reminded Goa government leaders including chief minister Digambar Kamat and cabinet ministers of "the duty to tend the earth and to be responsible s...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
It's been obvious for some time now that the Obama administration's promises to fight global warming are in mothballs. But it's still shocking to see Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attack the 27 European countries that are actually trying to do something about the greatest environmental challeng...
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Tagged in: cap-and-trade Climate Change EU global warming pollution
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Posted by on in Forestry
  Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell to the lowest level on record between August 2010 and July 2011 according to preliminary data from Brazil's National Institute of Space Research (INPE).Forest clearing during the period amounted to 6,238 square kilometers (2,408 square miles), down ...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
Conservationists and wildlife officials in the Malaysian state of Sabah airlifted a young female Sumatran Rhinoceros — one of the world's most endangered animals — to an area of forest where she would encounter a potential partner, reports the Sabah Wildlife Department and Borneo Rhino Alliance. Sum...
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Posted by on in Buy Local
The Christmas season is upon us and while it’s the happiest time of the year, it can also be the most wasteful.  White Christmases are overrated — this year, make sure you, your family and your friends have a green Christmas! Here are a few tips to get you started:   Your Christmas ...
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Tagged in: Buy Local gifts Green Christmas green wrapping Holidays
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Posted by on in Earth Violators
Highly emotional and completely guileless, elephants mourn their dead—and across Africa, they are grieving daily as demand from China’s “suddenly wealthy” has driven the price of ivory to $700 a pound or more. With tens of thousands of elephants being slaughtered each year for their tusks, raising t...
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Posted by on in Environmental Heroes
In 2011, the fifth year of the Earth Hour campaign, WWF-Australia introduced the WWF Earth Hour Awards to celebrate the grassroots efforts of everyday Australians going ‘beyond the hour’ for the planet. As we enter the second year of the Awards, we're pleased to re-launch last year's favourite ...
Earth Hour 2011: Hanan Hassan and Julia Lin, champions of EnviroKids – Young Panda Award Winners. / ©: WWF-Australia
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Posted by on in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines
West Coast shellfish growers have learned to work around upwellings of corrosive waters and save the lives of their bivalve stocks. Increased levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere are changing the chemistry of the oceans, making it more acid. The CO2 surge stems mostly from coal and to a...
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Posted by on in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines
An ashy pallor has spread across South Florida's coral reefs over the past few months, as stressed corals expelled the algae that gives them color. The worst case of coral bleaching since surveys began in 2005 struck reefs from the Florida Keys through Martin County, harming the base of the region'...
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Posted by on in Arts and Entertainment
Thursday, December 15, 2011 - The Colorado Environmental Film Festival (CEFF) announced today that it will host a Sustainablity Expo and Call To Action programming in conjunction with the 6th annual festival which will be help February 23-25th in Golden, CO at the American Mountaineering Center. CE...
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
Safety slighted before blow out was the conclusion of a new independent report by the National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council citing multiple flawed decisions from a deficient overall systems approach to safety among the corporations that ran the drilled of the Macondo well. Th...
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Posted by on in Population
One-third of the food produced for human consumption winds up lost or wasted globally, about 1.3 billion tons a year, according to a study by the Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology (SIK). The UN supported the study titled “Global Food Loses and Food Waste.” Although the amount of food lost...
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Tagged in: food per capita human consumption
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