The world’s second largest mining company, Vale, has been given the dubious honor of being voted the world’s most awful corporation in terms of human rights abuses and environmental destruction by the Public Eye Awards. Vale received over 25,000 votes …
02.01.2012
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01.31.2012
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The U.S. state that takes climate change most seriously—California—has unanimously approved new rules dubbed the Advanced Clean Cars program to lower carbon emissions, reduce oil dependence, mitigate health impacts from pollution, and save …
01.30.2012
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Greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil-based biodiesel are the highest among major biofuels when the effects of deforestation and peatlands degradation are considered, according to calculations by the European Commission. The emissions estimates, whi…
01.28.2012
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruled on Friday that palm oil-based biofuels will not meet the renewable fuels standard due to carbon emissions associated with deforestation.
01.28.2012
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruled on Friday that palm oil-based biofuels will not meet the renewable fuels standard due to carbon emissions associated with deforestation.
01.11.2012
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A cow named Hyacinth is leading a campaign to ‘green’ a city by disposing of all its food waste by anaerobic digestion at Europe’s first combined low-carbon energy centre and manufacturing farm. Problems with a reducing milk yield from a herd of Jersey…
01.03.2012
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Sarah Laskow is a freelance writer who has covered environmental issues for Grist, GOOD, and Newsweek.com, among others. Raised in New Jersey and educated at Yale where she studied literature, Sarah now lives across the river in Manhattan with her part…
12.23.2011
Categories: activism, Africa, Amazon, amazon conservation, amazon destruction, Amazon rainforest, arctic, bold and dangerous ideas that may save the world, Bolivia, borneo, Brazil, Britain, burma, climate change policy, climate change politics, climate science, corporate environmental transgressors, crime, deforestation, Drought, east africa, environment, environmental activism, Environmental Politics, Famine, food crisis, forest people, forestry, forests, global warming, global warming mitigation, governance, greenhouse emissions, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Greenland-Arctic, Home Wind Power, Hydroelectric Power, hydropower, impact of climate change, Indigenous People, indigenous rights, Indonesia, jeremy hance, law enforcement, Malaysia, Mammals, marine crisis, migration, Myanmar, North America, Norway, obama administration and the environment, ocean crisis, oceans, oil spills, overpopulation, Parks, poaching, population growth, protected areas, protests, pulp and paper, rainforest, rainforest conservation, Rainforest deforestation, rainforest destruction, rainforest people, rhett butler, roads, Russia, saving rainforests, saving species from extinction, saving the amazon, Sharks, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, somalia, South America, tanzania, threats to rainforests, threats to the amazon, threats to the rainforest, traditional chinese medicine, traditional medicine, traditional medicines, tribal groups, tribal people, tropical forests, United Nations, water crisis, water scarcity, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
Many of 2011′s most dramatic stories on environmental issues came from people taking to the streets. With governments and corporations slow to tackle massive environmental problems, people have begun to assert themselves. Victories were seen on four co…
12.16.2011
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After a massive campaign by Greenpeace to get everyone’s favorite social media site to quit coal energy, Facebook has announced a new energy policy and a partnership with Greenpeace. The policy includes a goal “to power all of our operations with clean…
12.13.2011
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Early Sunday morning over 190 of the world’s countries signed on to a new climate agreement at the 17th UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Durban, South Africa. The summit was supposed to end on Friday, but marathon negotiations push…
