Category Archives: environment

Climate Change is Happening. The People Must do Something.

The Science and Development Network published an article titled Climate change: Enough science, now for the politics. It makes the point that there is plenty of scientific evidence that proves that climate change is occurring. But people and politics must change their views if anything is to actually be done about it. The idea that humans [...]
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War is far from over

8 British soldiers were killed in Afghanistan.
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Robert Redford Speaks Out | University of Utah student Tim DeChristopher Disrupts an Oil and Gas Drilling Auction

This land is our land, this land is your land...and sometimes, creating a disruption is doing the right thing. Democracy Now! interviews:
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Will Allen Grows on the Media

Will Allen runs Growing Power, Inc. in Milwaukee, WI, a nonprofit empowering people by teaching them to grow their own safe, healthy, sustainable foods. He recently garnered attention from FastCompany, making their 2009 list of the 100 most creative people for the work he's done to transform the relationship between lower-income people and local food. Now Mr. [...]
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Sears Tower | Going Green

The building developers and Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture deserve to be applauded for this. Via FastCompany: The tallest building in the U.S. is about to get a $350 million green makeover as part of a plan to cut electricity use by 80% and save 24 million gallons of water each year. The goal of the [...]
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New Energy Bill | Is it enough?

The climate bill debate has begun in the house. Will it be enough? Obama talks about the jobs the bill is expected to create and states that it will make clean energy profitable.
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Global Climate Change Impacts in the U.S.

Wondering how climate change will affect life in the United States? Read the report from the United States Global Change Research Program. If nothing else, be sure to take a look at the report's Key Findings. (There are also regional reports available for more specific information.)
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