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  • Austin Cool House Tour

    Austin Cool House Tour
    Austin Cool House Tour

  • Webinar: 5 Steps for Complying with New GSA E-Waste Mandates

    Webinar: 5 Steps for Complying with New GSA E-Waste Mandates
    New rules from the GSA require federal agencies to take immediate action to improve management of electronic waste (e-waste). To support the National Strategy for Electronics Stewardship in protecting human health and the environment, key provisions require agencies to: - Use only certified recyclers or refurbishers for disposition of laptop computers, cell phones, copiers, telephones, digital cameras, televisions and various other e-waste - Submit an annual report of personal property furnished to non-Federal recipients - Develop consistent data security practices to protect sensitive data and maximize reuse potential using the least-destructive sanitization process

  • Spring of Sustainability

    Spring of Sustainability
    Three-month series of virtual and live events featuring the likes of Bill McKibben, Van Jones and Marc Le Menestrel in free daily teleseminars. www.springofsustainability.com

  • Can smart cars pull out of the slow lane?

    Can smart cars pull out of the slow lane?

    Governments are key to fostering smarter cars, according to carmakers struggling to make progress. For now, speed bumps are keeping the market from accelerating as quickly as many would like. 

    Can smart cars pull out of the slow lane?

  • Why cities hold the key -- and key challenges -- for sustainability

    Why cities hold the key -- and key challenges -- for sustainability

    Cities already gobble up most of the world’s resources, so will increasing urbanization bring greater efficiency or simply more consumption?

    Why cities hold the key -- and key challenges -- for sustainability
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  • Apple to use only green power for main data center

    Apple to use only green power for main data center
    (Reuters) - Apple Inc plans to power its main U.S. data center entirely with renewable energy by the end of this year, taking steps to address longstanding environmental concerns about the rapid expansion of high-consuming computer server farms.

  • Analysis: Germany's Merkel losing green battle to cheap coal

    Analysis: Germany's Merkel losing green battle to cheap coal
    LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - To reach its strict climate targets and fulfill Chancellor Angela Merkel's nuclear exit plans, Germany needs to avoid coal and build a stack of gas power plants to secure clean energy supplies beyond 2020.

  • China cries foul after U.S. sets tariffs on solar imports

    China cries foul after U.S. sets tariffs on solar imports
    (Reuters) - The United States imposed punitive tariffs on solar panel imports from China, the latest in a series of trade disputes between the world's two biggest economies and sparking accusations by Beijing of protectionism.

  • Denmark aims low with green energy policy

    Denmark aims low with green energy policy
    SAMSO, Denmark (Reuters) - Over a beer or two, Danes like to tell a story that goes like this: One night the energy ministers of the countries around the North Sea got together to divide up its oil and gas wealth. The Danish minister got very drunk, but the Norwegian managed to stay sober. As a result, Norway carved out a jagged shape that included Ekofisk, which has proved to be a major field, and Denmark was left with the dregs.

  • Oklahoma park accused of letting kids play with tigers

    Oklahoma park accused of letting kids play with tigers
    OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - The Humane Society of the United States is accusing an Oklahoma exotic animal park of allowing children to handle and pose for photographs with juvenile tigers in what they called "a petting zoo for carnivores."
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  • Supermarkets taking steps to rid shelves of Redlist fish

    Supermarkets taking steps to rid shelves of Redlist fish
    Greenpeace?s campaign to convince Canada?s supermarket chains to remove Redlist fish from their shelves is having results.

  • Greenpeace challenges closed-door meeting of Arctic ?petroleum club?

    Greenpeace challenges closed-door meeting of Arctic ?petroleum club?
    As five foreign ministers hole up in the Gatineau Hills today to divide the resources beneath the Arctic Ocean, Greenpeace calls on them to provide a much more transparent process for discussing the need for greater protection for the fragile Arctic region. Greenpeace activists are on the road leading to the meeting venue with a banner reading ?Arctic Future: Not Behind Closed Doors?.

  • Sobeys : Betraying Its Coastal Roots

    Sobeys : Betraying Its Coastal Roots
    Last year, Greenpeace ran ?There?s probably no cod? ads to sound the alarm bell that the consequences of overfishing are severe, often irreversible, and happening in Canadian waters.

  • Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua)

    Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua)
    Last year, Greenpeace ran ?There?s probably no cod? ads to sound the alarm bell that the consequences of overfishing are severe, often irreversible, and happening in Canadian waters.

  • Greenpeace cod funeral highlights Sobeys? failure to protect overfished species

    Greenpeace cod funeral highlights Sobeys? failure to protect overfished species
    Cod funeral
 
 
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  • Department Of Commerce Slaps Large Tariffs On Chinese Solar Modules

    Department Of Commerce Slaps Large Tariffs On Chinese Solar Modules
    In a long-awaited decision, the U.S. Commerce Department has issued a preliminary decision to apply tariffs to Chinese-made solar modules being imported into the U.S. The tariffs range from 31 percent to 250 percent. The preliminary tariffs were issued after a lengthy investigation by the Commerce Department into whether Chinese companies are “dumping” solar panels [...]

  • While Leading Effort To Prevent Life-Saving EPA Standards, Inhofe Says Mercury Is A ?Real Pollutant?

    While Leading Effort To Prevent Life-Saving EPA Standards, Inhofe Says Mercury Is A ?Real Pollutant?
    The Environment Protection Agency’s landmark mercury and air toxics standards, announced in December, would reduce pollutants from coal power plants, saving 11,000 lives, prevent 130,000 asthma attacks and avoid 4,700 heart attacks. But Sen. James Inhofe has found the required 30 Senators to bring the rule to a Senate vote. In an event with FreedomWorks, [...]

  • Arctic Death Spiral: More Bad News About Sea Ice

    Arctic Death Spiral: More Bad News About Sea Ice
    by Michael D. Lemonick, via Climate Central The sea ice that blankets the Arctic Ocean each winter peaked in early March this year, as usual, and is now in retreat, en route to its annual minimum extent in September. How low it will go is something scientists worry: Ice reflects lots of sunlight back into [...]

  • A National Clean Energy Standard Is Good Policy ? And Good Politics

    A National Clean Energy Standard Is Good Policy ? And Good Politics
    by Richard W. Caperton Do anti-clean energy senators have any idea what Americans want?  If this morning?s hearing on the Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012 is any guide, they don?t.  The truth is that Americans support a clean energy target for this country.  Senators should listen to the American public and pass this bill. [...]

  • Support Climate Scientists And Look Cool Doing So!

    Support Climate Scientists And Look Cool Doing So!
    By Scott Mandia via his blog Help the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund (CSLDF) raise money to cover the costs of Dr. Mann?s legal defense as well as other scientists who face similar challenges. To help raise money and reward those that contribute, we have rounded up some cool designs and gifts. CSLDF thanks Nicole Martinez and Lunchbreathwho [...]
 
 
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  • Behind the scenes at Facebook

    Behind the scenes at Facebook
    Behind the scenes at FacebookAn employee writes a note on the message board at the new headquarters of Facebook in Menlo Park, California January 11, 2012.

  • New evidence in Martin case raises questions

    New evidence in Martin case raises questions

    Cops, Witnesses Back Up George Zimmerman's Version of Trayvon Martin ShootingTrayvon Martin's autopsy shows he had marijuana in his system the night he was killed by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, and a gunshot to his chest came from close range, according to nearly 200 pages of previously undisclosed documents released Thursday.


  • G8 leaders seek to corral Europe crisis

    G8 leaders seek to corral Europe crisis

    Tourist pose for photographers with Oxfam activist wearing masks depicting G8 world leaders during a demonstration outside the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 17, 2012. President Barack Obama will welcome G8 leaders to his presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)The leaders of eight of the world's biggest economies meet this weekend outside Washington, seeking to keep Europe's debt crisis from spiraling out of control and jeopardizing fledgling recoveries in the U.S. and elsewhere.


  • Suspect arrested in Miss. highway shootings

    Suspect arrested in Miss. highway shootings

    This image provided by the Tunica Miss. Sheriff's department shows James Willie who authorities arrested early Friday May 18, 2012. State Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain says 28-year-old Willie has been charged with two counts of capital murder in the two fatal highway shootings. (AP Photo/Tunica County Sheriff)Authorities in Mississippi have arrested a suspect in two fatal highway shootings. The suspect had not been posing as a police officer in the shootings, as authorities previously thought.


  • Colorado wildfire grows amid erratic wind gusts

    Colorado wildfire grows amid erratic wind gusts

    Fire burns through trees on the Hewlett wildfire in the Poudre Canyon northwest of Fort Collins, Colo., on Thursday, May 17, 2012. More than 50 homes were evacuated on Thursday. The fire has grown from 1.5 square miles to 8 square miles in the last day as erratic wind gusts of up to 50 mph moved into the area fueled by thunderstorms that didn?t produce rain. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)Hundreds of firefighters worked to combat a growing blaze that was scorching terrain around a scenic canyon in northern Colorado.


 
 
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  • Whatever happened to Cameron, the idealistic young eco-warrior?

    Whatever happened to Cameron, the idealistic young eco-warrior?

    David Cameron is today accused of doing no more than pay lip service to his boast that he would lead the "greenest government ever" and of leaving Britain vulnerable to the economic and environmental dangers of failing to tackle climate change.



  • Protestors target energy conference

    Protestors target energy conference

    Climate protesters and anti-cuts demonstrators have targeted a summit of major power firms over high energy bills and greenhouse gas emissions.



  • Picture preview: Gideon Mendel ? Drowning World

    Picture preview: Gideon Mendel ? Drowning World

    In an attempt to search for ways to show the world the effects of climate change through a Drowning World, Gideon Mendel's only other camera on his journey was, alongside the lives affected, paralysed by flood waters.



  • Asian mosquito 'could bring tropical diseases to Britain'

    Asian mosquito 'could bring tropical diseases to Britain'

    An Asian mosquito that can transmit potentially dangerous tropical diseases could soon become established in southern England, according to scientists who have mapped changes to Europe's climate over the past 50 years.



  • Danger from the deep: New climate threat as methane rises from cracks in Arctic ice

    Danger from the deep: New climate threat as methane rises from cracks in Arctic ice

    A new source of methane ? a greenhouse gas many times more powerful than carbon dioxide ? has been identified by scientists flying over areas in the Arctic where the sea ice has melted.