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Some might say these are trying days. Well, I would feel better if [eople would stop saying "true fact" it's either a face or not and any educated person should know the difference. Climate change is a fact and not up to speculation.

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1. WHAT IS THE MILLION TREES L.A. INITIATIVE?Mayor Villaraigosa is committed to making Los Angeles the largest, cleanest, and greenest city in the United States. The Million Trees L.A. (MTLA) Initiative will accomplish this through public-private partnerships that will plant one million trees throug...
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A partnership of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Transport Forum (ITF) and FIA Foundation is launching the Global Fuel Economy Initiative (GFEI) at the upcoming Geneva motor show. The “50 by 50” effort calls for cars worldwide to be made...
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Posted by on in Solar
AFP, 13 July 2009 -Twelve European companies on Monday launched a 400-billion-euro (560-billion-dollar) initiative to set up huge solar farms in Africa and the Middle East to produce energy for Europe. The consortium says the massive project could provide up to 15 percent of Europe's electricity ne...
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Joel ReynoldsDirector of NRDC's Urban Program, the Marine Mammal Protection and So. California Ecosystem projects, Santa Monica, CAPosted July 13, 2009 in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild PlacesIn yesterday's New York Times Magazine ("Watching Whales Watch Us"), author Charles...
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Posted by on in Animals
By Brandon KeimFebruary 24, 2009Rather than relying on warm, fuzzy feelings to protect animals, conservationists suggest appealing to something more reliable: greed. By selling financial contracts pegged to species health, the government could create a market in the future of threatened animals, ma...
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By Alexis MadrigaMaybe there really isn’t anything that you can’t buy online.Endangered animals, including chimps, marmosets and leopard cubs, are being bought and sold online, according to a new report. Over six one-week observation periods earlier this year, the International Fund for Animal Welf...
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Posted by on in Green Design
On Wednesday, June 24, 2009, executives at the Sears Tower announced plans for the most significant sustainable modernization projects of an existing building ever undertaken. The project will result in energy savings and reduced CO2 emissions to the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, cutt...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
As the markets have gone down, long-held assumptions have been thrown up and into the air. Economic theories, and not just the value of our homes and our retirement accounts, are coming undone. In some cases, that may just be a good thing. Consider the argument that climate change solutions, no mat...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
A judge overseeing endangered salmon on the Columbia and Snake Rivers is raising the possibility of dam removal. If politics trumps science this time, how can we hope to deal with climate change?By Paul VanDevelderJuly 6, 2009 If ever there were a story that foreshadowed the political and legal Wat...
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Posted by on in Transportation
A hydrogen concept car that attempts to sidestep the three main hurdles to the dream of hydrogen-fuelled highways has been unveiled in London, UK. The car weighs 772 pounds and can travel 186 miles on just 2.2 pounds of liquid hydrogen. The Riversimple Urban Car fuel cell combines hydrogen with ox...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
Statements on Passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act out of House Energy and Commerce Washington, DC – Former Vice President and Alliance for Climate Protection Chairman Al Gore today issued the following statement on the passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act out of t...
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Posted by on in Clean Technology
THE WHITE HOUSE - Office of the Press Secretary April 22, 2009 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON CLEAN ENERGY Trinity Structural Towers Manufacturing Plant, Newton, Iowa I just had a terrific tour of the facility led by several of the workers and managers who operate this plant. It wasn't too long ago,...
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Posted by on in Recycling
If you want to recycle EVERYTHING you possibly can, this post is for you. Recycle Ok, I am an environmental engineer (well, sort of). I would be an environmental engineer by now if I hadn’t came to Wageningen to get a Masters degree, or if the Portuguese were like normal people and didn’t have 5 y...
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Posted by on in General Environment
Smart ShoppingBuy what you need, not what you want.Consider renting and borrowing things that are seldom needed.Buy used items from garage sales and second-hand stores. Simple SaversReplace incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs.Use aerators on faucets and shower heads.Weatherstrip...
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Posted by on in Forestry
Today is Earth Day, so it'd be bad karma to derail a Muni bus, toss plastic bags in the ocean, or randomly scatter wads of used chewing gum on the sidewalks (in fact, these are always bad karma). But the U.S. government can cut down its share of trees in a national forest, thanks to a ruling fr...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
April 2009 (CNN) -- Human-induced global warming is real, according to a recent U.S. survey based on the opinions of 3,146 scientists. However there remains divisions between climatologists and scientists from other areas of earth sciences as to the extent of human responsibility. Against a backdro...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
Former Vice President Al Gore must not have been too surprised when it happened, but a well-known climate skeptic confronted him at the Wall Street Journal's ECO:nomics forum in Santa Monica. The skeptic, Bjorn Lomborg, is a favorite of conservatives who would rather not spend on the environment. D...
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Posted by on in Animals
20-03-2009 A new report based on 40 years of data analysed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey, state government wildlife agencies, and non-governmental organizations including Audubon (BirdLife in the USA), shows that birds are sending an important and troubling message a...
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Amidst worldwide protest and controversy, Canada’s shameful annual massacre of 300,000 baby harp seals began today. Mass killings are underway in the Saint Lawrence Gulf and will soon expand to Newfoundland. Canada’s seal hunt (if you can call bludgeoning defenseless baby animals to death “hunting”)...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
Source ABC, October 29, 2008Frogs and salamanders are disappearing in Yellowstone National Park and researchers at Stanford blame their decline on global warming. These amphibious indicators of the environment are the kind of discovery that, for a Ph.D. candidate, can be the makings of a career. So,...
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