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Over 70% of voters are concerned about climate change, get out the vote
University of Colorado By Matt Burgess • Published: March 19, 2024 Climate change matters to more and more people–and could be a deciding factor in the 2024 election If you ask American voters what their to
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NATIONAL RANKING Denver ranks 2nd for climate-friendly, clean-energy policies
By Elise Schmelzer eschmelzer@denverpost.com Denver’s new mandates for building electrification earned the city the second-place spot in a new ranking of the country’s top cities with climate-friendly policies. A report set for release Tuesday by
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Does cleanup pose an environmental threat?
Company wants to extract gold, silver from waste; locals skeptical, alarmed  By Elise Schmelzer eschmelzer@denverpost.com LEADVILLE>> Millions of tons of waste from decades-old mining operations sit in the hills east of town. The brown and
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Deforestation "anti-forest law"
By Jack Graham | Climate change and nature correspondent, UK Deforestation amnesty Brazil and Colombia's dramatic reduction in deforestation last year was hailed worldwide as a major step in the right direction. Under President Luíz Inácio
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Biden Administration’s The Executive Order, Revitalizing Our Nation’s Commitment to Environmental Justice for All,
•Deepen the Biden-Harris Administration’s whole-of-government commitment to environmental justice. The new Executive Order makes clear that the pursuit of environmental justice is a duty of all executive branch agencies and should be incorporated int
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Biden-Harris Administration Takes New Action to Conserve and Restore America’s Lands and Waters
. President Establishes New National Monuments in Nevada and Texas; Directs Secretary of Commerce to Consider Expanding Protections for Pacific Remote Islands Which Would Reach Goal of Conserving 30% of U.S. Ocean by At the White House Conser
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Climate change will force the world to play a grim game — adapt, move or die
IMMIGRATION By Pepper Trail Writers on the Range Let’s play a game, the climate-change game that every living thing on Earth has no choice but to play, starting … now. The game is called Adapt/Move/Die, and the rules are simple. The object of the
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EPA rule bans toxic chemical that’s used as paint stripper but known to cause liver cancery
By MATTHEW DALY (Associated Press) WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday it has finalized a ban on consumer uses of methylene chloride, a chemical that is widely used as a paint stripper but is known to cause liver cancer an
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The world’s most advanced economies just agreed to end coal use by 2035 – with a catch
By Angela Dewan, CNN 4 minute read Updated 10:26 AM EDT, Tue April 30, 2024 CNN — The Group of Seven nations announced Tuesday its member nations would end the use of “unabated” coal by 2035, but left the door open for countries
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OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY Officials unveil climate and energy deal
Agreement calls for dropping of bills and ballot measures By Seth Klamann and Nick Coltrain The Denver Post Leading Colorado Democrats and the state’s oil and gas industry announced a preemptive armistice Monday — one that seeks to defuse the late
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The results of an EPA study link fracking in Wyoming to water contamination.
An Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) study has linked a contaminated Wyoming aquifer to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. This is the process required to make natural gas extraction profitable, as it opens up cracks and pores in rock formations to make the gas flow. Scientists for the EPA state...
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Buying Meat Directly From a Farmer: 7 Things You Need to Know
Like most things that I’ve done around here over the course of the past few years, I started buying meat directly from a local farmer in idealistic and almost utter ignorance.I mean, it’s not exactly like I went out looking for someone to sell me half a hog.As a matter of fact, when I first started ...
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Buy Local: Quick Facts on the Benefits of Buying Local
With current market conditions, it has become increasingly cheaper to buy distantly produced goods, despite the increased costs of packaging, transport, inspection, and associated expenses. However, along with lower prices comes the added cost of repercussions on the environment and impacts on the e...
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Great Quick Glance at Where Your Money Ends Up When You Spend It Locally
Buying Local - A Bright Idea!
To Read More: http://adventurelightingblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/buying-local-a-bright-idea/
Posted by adventurelightingblog on March 18,2010
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Global Warming and Your Food
IS INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE COOKING THE PLANET?DID YOU KNOW that our food system is a major contributor to global warming? The U.S. food system uses between 17-19% of the total energy supply in the country, (1)(2)(3)(4) contributing a significant amount of greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere ev...
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Environmental Movement Plots Future
The future of environmentalism in Connecticut just might be economic development.
At the Connecticut League of Conservation Voters' 12th Annual Environmental Summit in Hartford Tuesday afternoon, it was growth, not blocking bulldozers, that got the old hands and activists chattering.
Sure,...
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Five Reasons to Shop Local for the Holidays
You don't have to travel far.By shopping local you don't have to travel far and if you're lucky enough to have a town center like we do you can park once and hit all the stores. This is particularly nice if you have small children.You don't have to battle the lines at the mall.Shopping local means t...
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Food Miles
Surprise -- your potatoes are better traveled than you are. American food travels an average of 1,500 to 2,500 miles from farm to table, reports the Worldwatch Institute.A "food mile" is the distance food travels from the farm to the store where you buy it, and these miles are costly to the environm...
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The Inefficiency of Local Food
Two members of Congress earlier this month introduced legislation advancing a food reform movement promising to help resolve the great environmental and nutritional problems of the early 21st century. The intent is to remake the agricultural landscape to look more like it did decades ago. But unless...
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How To Buy Local
What types of local food outlets are available?Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is an arrangment or partnership made between community members and a particular local farm. In a CSA farm, consumers can purchase seasonal "shares" which entitle them to weekly f...
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How Buying Locally Will Help You and Your Local Community
Support your local economyRelying on imported goods doesn't sustain your local economy and may drive out small businesses. Imagine if your home town or village only had one or two large chains of shops rather than a number of independently run small businesses. For me personally, that would not be a...
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Why Buy Local? 10 Reasons to Buy Local Food
Local food tastes better. The crops are picked at their peak, and farmstead products like cheese are hand crafted for the best flavor. Food imported from far away is older, has traveled on trucks or planes, and has sat in warehouses before it finally gets to you. ...
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BP Accuses Halliburton of destroying evidence
BP in a high-stakes court filing on Monday accused Halliburton of destroying damaging evidence about the quality of its cement slurry that went into drilling the oil well that blew out last year and caused the worst U.S. offshore oil spill.
BP accused Halliburton of having intentionally des...
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What’s wrong with the electric car?
It’s hard to find an energy wonk out there who doesn’t love the idea of electric cars. Most white papers on ending our oil dependency envision a large future role for plug-in vehicles and hybrids in the future. The concept has legions of devoted fans. Back in 2006, the documentary “Who Killed the El...
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Can a hot day persuade people that global warming is real?
Weather isn’t the same thing as climate. Just because it’s sunny or chilly on a given day doesn’t tell us all that much about long-term temperature trends. Even so, plenty of research suggests that local weather does heavily influence how people think about climate change. Back in 2009, survey data ...
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Global warming: winners and losers
Global warming has brought a new normal to the Arctic, with warmer air and ocean temperatures, thinner and less expansive summer sea ice, and greener vegetation in coastal regions abutting the open water.
In addition, longer periods of open water during the annual sea-ice melt season is allowing th...
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Animal Rights Folks Go to Bat for an Orca
SEATTLE (CN) - Animal-rights activists claim an orca is being held in an "inadequate tank" in the Miami Seaquarium. They sued the National Marine Fisheries Service for excluding captive killer whales from listing under the Endangered Species Act. The Animal Legal Defense...
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Whatever Happened to “Human Rights?”
One of the more bizarre aspects of the Obama Administration’s reactions to developments in the Middle East is its refusal to talk about human rights. For reasons that are obscure, it has developed the neologism “universal rights.”
The term “human rights” has a long and distinguished history and is ...
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UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY, DECEMBER 10, 2011
In 2011, people across the world took to the streets to voice their rights—from Tahrir Square to Arab Spring across the Middle East to Occupy Wall Street in the United States and Canada, it’s been an extraordinary year.
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