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Al Gore endorses Barack Obama

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:52:10 -0400

DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 30JAN05 - Al Gore at the Annual Meeting 2005 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 30, 2005. Photo by Severin Nowacki. Al Gore has just sent out this email: “A few hours from now I will step on stage in
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Research shows that PlayStation 3 uses 500% more energy than a refrigerator

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:09:10 -0400

The Australian Consumer Association recently published a list on Computer Energy Costs for various home gadgets such as your computer screen, DVD player, cordless telephone, gaming console, laptop etc. Interesting with this list is that it shows ho
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Eutrophication

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:07:55 -0400

There are many environmental problems caused by human but not widely known. One of them is eutrophication. This phenomenon cannot be entirely characterised as water pollution, as it mostly describes the process of too many plants growing in lakes, ri
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Bush Administration Okays Superfund Mine Expansion into Idaho Roadless Area

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:00:11 -0400

EarthJustice.org Major assault on America’s wild national forests protected by the 2001 Roadless Rule June 11, 2008 Bozeman, MT — The U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management today authorized expansion of the Smoky Canyon pho
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Happy Birthday to Green Blog!

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:16:49 -0400

Today Green Blog has been online for one year. A lot of things have changed and happened since the start last year. After only a few months online Green Blog changed from only covering green web hosts to become a multi-author environment blog coveri
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Southern collaboration ‘key to adaptation’, says climate scientist

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:20:50 -0400

Scidev.net Katherine Nightingale 13 June 2008 | EN Adapting to climate change — unlike mitigating it — will succeed in developing countries only by sharing local understanding and knowledge with other low-income nations. These were the words
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Pollutants from coal-based electricity generation kill 170,000 people annually

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:04:22 -0400

The image shows the old Cahokia Power Plant in Sauget, IL which has been decommissioned for 31 years. Photo: Jay Dugger Top British climate scientist Professor James Lovelock FRS has warned that over 6 billion people will die this century due to una
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Protesters stops coal train in Britain

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:18:52 -0400

Today activists from Climate Camp stopped a train carrying coal to Britain’s biggest coal-power station. Armed with a banderol with the text “Leave it in the ground” the activists started to shovel down the coal to the ground. The
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Take biofuel crops off the land and grow them at sea

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:15:20 -0400

Scidev.net Ricardo Radulovich 6 June 2008 | EN | ?? Seaweed could be cultivated large scale as a biofuel The environmental and social costs of producing biofuels on land can be avoided by farming seaweed, says Ricardo Radulovich. The dream
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India under fire for ‘misleading’ biosafety statements

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:23:22 -0400

Scidev.net convener of the Delhi-based nongovernmental organisation Gene Campaign, has attacked statements made by the government that it has established an efficient domestic regulatory framework for genetically modified organisms. Sahai’s cla
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“We would like the rest of the world to follow you”

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:50:54 -0400

Nidhi Jamwa from the Centre for Science and Environment India asks in the organisations journal Down to Earth “why green projects in India are hot favourite of international NGOs?” Nidhi Jamwa focuses on a recently started green Sierra Cl
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Brazil biotech ‘held back’ by regulatory barriers

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:00:16 -0400

Scidev.net Brazil has the “building blocks” for an innovative health biotechnology sector, but is held back by regulatory barriers and poor coordination between the public and private sectors, say the authors of a new study. The authors
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The Caribbean monk seal is now extinct due to human causes

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:57:27 -0400

Photo from “The Fisheries and Fisheries Industries of the United States”, by George Brown Goode (1887). The Caribbean monk seal has gone “the way of the dodo” and been officially listed as extinct by the US Government. The Ca
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Court Halts Bull Mountain Pipeline Construction

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:45:41 -0400

EarthJustice.org Order protects roadless areas until hearing on June 18 June 6, 2008 Denver, CO — In response to a challenge by five conservation organizations and Pitkin County, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals today issued a temporary injunc
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Australian Rudd Labor Government plans to kill Great Barrier Reef?

Mon, 9 Jun 2008 15:48:45 -0400

Photo from the Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of Australia. Photo: Icelight. An extraordinary admission by the Australian Federal Government has passed unnoticed by the Mainstream media in the “look away” Land of Oz, the Antipodean Land of Fl
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Rainforests and deforestation

Mon, 9 Jun 2008 15:07:16 -0400

Tropical rainforests have the largest biodiversity of all ecosystems on Earth. The soil is rather poor, but it sustains a great variety of plants. It is estimated that 65% of the known plant species are found in rainforests. During the past three de
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Majority of US Senators Support Moving Forward on Global Warming Legislation

Mon, 9 Jun 2008 05:00:16 -0400

EarthJustice.org Global warming naysayers block Senate legislation designed to curb greenhouse gases June 6, 2008 Washington, D.C. — Today, a majority of senators supported moving forward on the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2007. Th
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African farmers ‘adjusting to climate change’

Sun, 8 Jun 2008 05:30:11 -0400

Scidev.net David Njagi, Esther Tola and Christina Scott 5 June 2008 | EN Rural African farmers are already adapting to climate change, according to case studies in Benin, Kenya and Malawi. The studies, carried out by local environmental groups f
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This is so thoughtful…

Sat, 7 Jun 2008 05:55:21 -0400

I have been so busy that I overlooked this beautiful award given to us by Lyn author of The Loft of Love. Lyn is so gracious in her giving I am so honored by this beautiful Award. This is what Lyn said: “Deborah of Climate of our Future, fo
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The demolition of a record-holder

Fri, 6 Jun 2008 11:59:19 -0400

Yesterday the 15 year old Swedish wind power station Matilda was demolished. Matilda wasn’t an ordinary wind turbine. She was a record-holder. Since she was constructed 15 years ago on Gotland she has supplied 15000 homes with electricity. Her
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Elk Herds in Wyoming Harmed by Feedings

Fri, 6 Jun 2008 05:00:15 -0400

EarthJustice.org Conservation organizations argue that artificial winter feedings are detrimental to elk and their habitat June 3, 2008 Jackson, WY — In an effort to restore healthy elk herds, resume natural migrations and dramatically reduce t
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The dangers of false optimism

Thu, 5 Jun 2008 20:08:49 -0400

Oxfam’s Polar Bears protested in support of humans who are also losing their habitat and natural resources due to Climate Change at the UN Climate Change Conference on Thursday 6 December, 2007. Photo: Ng Swan Ti. Martin Parry, Jean Palutikof,
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Why did they use DDT?

Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:28:45 -0400

During a nighttime robbery, the horn of a 120-year-old stuffed rhinoceros was stolen, from the museum where it was displayed. Museum authorities warned that using this horn as a traditional medicine on the Asian black market could have lethal consequ
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Researchers boost yields of rice-waste biofuel

Wed, 4 Jun 2008 05:02:59 -0400

Jia Hepeng SciDev.net 2 June 2008 | EN | ?? [BEIJING] Chinese scientists have developed a new method that dramatically increases the yield of a clean biogas fuel from rice straw. China is the world’s largest rice producer and the indu
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Pedal-Powered Ecocabs comes to Stockholm

Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:16:37 -0400

You might have seen these pedal-powered Ecocabs rolling around in cities like Toronto, Dublin and Berlin the past few years. And now these eco cabs can be seen in Stockholm, Sweden. Stockholm’s Ecocabs will be available from May through Septe
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Keep America’s Largest Forest Off the Chopping Block

Tue, 3 Jun 2008 05:00:34 -0400

EarthJustice The Tongass National Forest in southeastern Alaska is the crown jewel of our nation’s wild forests. At 17 million acres, the Tongass is home to a stunning variety of wildlife, including wild salmon, bears, eagles, and wolves. This
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Are you sure you know all the reasons why shopping destroys the environment?

Mon, 2 Jun 2008 22:32:12 -0400

Shopping can be a really refreshing habit that has been proved to make the purchasers feel happier. It also satisfies basic human needs. Thus, it would be a pie in the sky to say that shopping should be stopped. But it can’t continue with the p
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Developing country biosafety capacity ‘inadequate’

Mon, 2 Jun 2008 05:14:25 -0400

Scidev.net Naomi Antony 30 May 2008 | EN | ?? As many as 100 developing countries are unable to manage and monitor the use of modern biotechnologies adequately, a new report reveals. This situation will only improve with increased funding a
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Live Blue

Sun, 1 Jun 2008 10:54:06 -0400

LIVBLUE.org Wallace J. Nichols PhD If I were to sum up the work I’ve been involved in over the past two decades into one simple statement for that hypothetical “elevator pitch” (that never seems to happen, no matter how many elevators I get o
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Health, Environmental Groups Enforce the Clean Air Act to Protect Americans from Smog

Sat, 31 May 2008 09:07:31 -0400

EarthJustice EPA Science Advisor: “Willful ignorance triumphed over sound science” in setting standards May 27, 2008 Washington, DC — Health and environmental advocates are filing suit today challenging the U.S. Environmental Protec
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Positive changes in light of increased gas prices in the USA

Fri, 30 May 2008 20:25:31 -0400

Imagine for a second that oil prices in the USA today were at the same levels as those in Europe, and have been from the start. And yes. That means gasoline for $8 per gallon. How would the world look like? Would we have a war in Iraq? Would we have
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Sweden’s largest wind farm gets its first approval

Fri, 30 May 2008 13:09:25 -0400

Sweden has approved Universal Wind Offshore’s plans to construct Scandinavia’s largest offshore wind farm. The wind farm will be built in the Kattegatt strait about 30 kilometres off Sweden’s southwestern coast and cover an area of abou
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ZapRoot: Human rights for Burma - It can’t wait

Fri, 30 May 2008 06:36:03 -0400

On this week’s episode: Europeans go crazy for ethical squirrel meat. Bloggers can make a difference. DeSmogBlogger Kevin Grandia pwns The Heartland Institute for publishing a list of 500 scientists that deny Global Warming, and scientists are
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Learning from failures in disaster response

Thu, 29 May 2008 06:54:27 -0400

David Dickson and Jia Hepeng 23 May 2008 | EN | ?? Science journalists should be trained to make their own judgments about when to trust apparently scientific statements The Myanmar cyclone and Chinese earthquake highlight the need for effe
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Senate Committee Passes Bill to Regulate Ship Pollution

Wed, 28 May 2008 07:14:19 -0400

EarthJustice Bill would reduce air pollution from some of the country’s largest pollution sources May 21, 2008 Ocean-going vessels are one of the largest mobile sources of air pollution in the world. Photo: NOAA Washington, DC — The Senat
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Rapeseed Methyl Ester is tasty!

Tue, 27 May 2008 15:55:06 -0400

If you didn’t think Brita’s plastic water bottle advertising campaign was disgusting this one surely is. The Swedish company Flygbussarna (shortly translated to The Flight Busses) wants to get the word out about their recent environmenta
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Another Bad Year for Fires Predicted

Tue, 27 May 2008 07:45:55 -0400

ClimateCrisisCoalition.org By Laura Zuckerman, Reuters, May 12, 2008. “U.S. fire managers are forecasting a grim year for blazes in drought-plagued Western states, just weeks after a premature start to the Southwest’s wildfire season. T
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“The consequences of failure are unimaginable”

Mon, 26 May 2008 16:23:10 -0400

Mohan Munasinghe, vice-president of the intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC), said during a lecture at Cambridge University that climate change will lead to a “fortress world in which the rich lock themselves away in gated communiti
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Plastic water bottle advertising campaign from Brita

Mon, 26 May 2008 15:44:41 -0400

A currently running advertising campaign from Brita, a German company that specializes in water filtration products, says in its ad slogan that “last year 16 million gallons of oil were consumed to make plastic water bottles.” Brita wan
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Climate change ‘will cost Andes US$30 billion’

Mon, 26 May 2008 07:08:17 -0400

Zoraida Portillo 22 May 2008 | EN Melted glacier in Potato Park, Cusco, Peru SciDev.Net/Zoraida Portillo Climate change could cost Andean countries US$30 billion per year by 2025, according to a study. The study was commissioned by the Andean C
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The “Bike Tree” keeps your bike safe

Sat, 24 May 2008 11:41:25 -0400

Here at Green Blog we love bikes. They are green, easy and cheap to maintain and will even help you go down in weight. But of course they also have their downsides. And one of the worst is that they are so easy to steal! But maybe the “Bike T
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ZapRoot: An Inconvenient Truth Sequel?

Sat, 24 May 2008 06:56:47 -0400

On this week’s episode: Al Gore is planning on making An Inconvenient Truth 2 - but not really, Crocs starts recycling and donating their “shoes,” Green Gorilla will entertain and educate your kids, and we check in on some Green Cel
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Report: Industrial Herring Trawlers Threaten New England’s Oceans

Fri, 23 May 2008 04:53:16 -0400

EarthJustice New report exposes risk posed by mismanagement of large-scale fleet, proposes solutions May 21, 2008 Portland, ME — A report released today by the Herring Alliance exposes a threat to New England’s coastal waters that has gon
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Sweden upgrades its train fleet

Thu, 22 May 2008 16:51:34 -0400

While the discussions about high-speed railway systems are many and the people who want them are even more in Sweden the political decisions that are needed still seems far away. Sweden who once was a leading railway country now seems dreadfully be
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India looks to nanotechnology to boost agriculture

Thu, 22 May 2008 05:20:20 -0400

SciDev.net M. Sreelata 16 May 2008 | EN Nanotechnology could help water delivery systems for farming The Indian government is looking towards nanotechnology as a means of boosting agricultural productivity in the country. In a report released in
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The greening of the SUV’s of the tech world

Wed, 21 May 2008 22:38:19 -0400

When you are browsing around on the Internet, reading your emails, watching online videos, chatting with friends and co-workers etc you probably don’t think about the many and massive data centers that are needed to run all those things. Just in U
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Climate change having ‘worldwide, widespread effects’

Wed, 21 May 2008 07:02:28 -0400

Scidev.net Jia Hepeng 19 May 2008 | EN Flickr/DrewToYou [BEIJING] Many physical and ecological systems are being affected by the world’s warming climate, researchers say. Scientists from across the world applied statistical models to publi
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High Court Urged to Uphold Clean Water Act From Mine Challenge

Tue, 20 May 2008 07:45:12 -0400

EarthJustice Alaskan mining company seeks permit to destroy lake with mine waste May 14, 2008 Lower Slate Lake, AK Photo by Irene Alexakos Washington, DC — Earthjustice filed papers today with the US Supreme Court arguing the high court should
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Agri-biotech firms committing ‘intellectual property grab’

Mon, 19 May 2008 08:45:10 -0400

Scidev.net Source: The Washington Post 16 May 2008 | EN | ?? Companies have applied for patents on climate-tolerant crop genes Some of the world’s major agri-biotech companies are applying for hundreds of patents on genetically engine
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Go Live Give at the Kokua Festival

Fri, 16 May 2008 22:50:26 -0400

We travel to Oahu for our second episode where we attend the 2008 Kokua Festival. In supporting an amazing cause, our host Maria has the opportunity to talk with various green vendors and listens to some great musicians. The Kokua Festival is a show
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