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  • US headed for a massive decline in carbon emissions

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    For years now, many members of Congress have insisted that cutting carbon emissions was difficult, if not impossible. It is not. During the two years since 2007, carbon emissions have dropped 9 percent. While part of this drop is from the recession, part of it [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 10:13pm EDT
    by Mike O'Brien

  • Seven Myths About Alternative Energy

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    As the world looks around anxiously for an alternative to oil, energy sources such as biofuels, solar, and nuclear seem like they could be the magic ticket. They're not.

    Read more....' [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2009, 10:48pm EDT
    by Mike O'Brien

  • Street Farmer

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    "Like others in the so-called good-food movement, Allen, who is 60, asserts that our industrial food system is depleting soil, poisoning water, gobbling fossil fuels and stuffing us with bad calories. Like others, he advocates eating locally grown food. But to Allen, local doesn’t mean" [...]
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    Posted: July 06, 2009, 9:51pm EDT
    by Mike O'Brien

  • Betraying the Planet

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    So the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill. In political terms, it was a remarkable achievement.

    But 212 representatives voted no. A handful of these no votes came from representatives who considered the bill too weak, but most rejected the bill because they rejected [...]
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    Posted: June 30, 2009, 6:31am EDT
    by Mike O'Brien

  • Moving People Sustainably?

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    Posted: June 17, 2009, 9:17pm EDT
    by Mike O'Brien

  • This Woman is Redefining Public Transportation

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    Ask a friend to name a shared transportation option and he’ll probably mention that bus that rumbles past on the avenue or the commuter train that all the office jockeys pile into each weekday morning. But Robin Chase thinks the phrase is about to undergo [...]
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    Posted: June 16, 2009, 8:16pm EDT
    by Mike O'Brien

  • Vermonters Free to Air Their Clean Laundry

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    Lyman Orton speaks on behalf of
    the “Right to Dry” campaign at the
    Statehouse in Montpelier, VT.

    Middlebury, VT — Vermonters have long been known for their frugality, independence and common sense. More recently, residents have garnered a reputation for [...]
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    Posted: June 15, 2009, 8:13pm EDT
    by Mike O'Brien

  • From a Failed Growth Economy to a Steady-State Economy

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    USSEE lecture, June 1, 2009
    Herman E. Daly
    School of Public Policy
    University of Maryland

    "So—if we can’t grow our way out of all problems, then maybe we should reconsider the logic and virtues of non-growth, the steady-state economy. Why this refusal by neoclassical economists" [...]
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    Posted: June 05, 2009, 12:46am EDT

  • Green Promise Seen in Switch to LED Lighting

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    "..fast-growing trend that is redefining the century-old conception of lighting, replacing energy-wasting disposable bulbs with efficient fixtures that are often semi-permanent, like those used in plumbing.

    Studies suggest that a complete conversion to the lights could decrease carbon dioxide emissions from electric power use" [...]
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    Posted: May 31, 2009, 9:14am EDT

  • Report: Carbon pollution to grow by 40 percent

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    WASHINGTON - The amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide seeping into the atmosphere will increase by nearly 40 percent worldwide by 2030 if ways are not found to require mandatory emission reductions, a U.S. government report said Wednesday.

    The Energy Information Administration said world energy consumption [...]
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    Posted: May 29, 2009, 2:14am EDT

  • Major Greenhouse Emitters and Solar Energy

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    Posted: May 25, 2009, 11:55am EDT

  • Obama in Health Insurance Industry Hip Pocket

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    by Mike O'Brien



    If I were to discontinue my TV cable, one show that I would miss would be Bill Moyers. He consistently hosts a program with thought provoking guests on a wide variety of current topics and often their voices are drowned out by' [...]
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    Posted: May 24, 2009, 8:36am EDT

  • A Cautionary Video About America’s ‘Stuff’

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    The thick-lined drawings of the Earth, a factory and a house, meant to convey the cycle of human consumption, are straightforward and child-friendly. So are the pictures of dark puffs of factory smoke and an outlined skull and crossbones, representing polluting chemicals floating in the [...]
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    Posted: May 13, 2009, 9:13pm EDT

  • Don't Worry, Be Happy

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    What attracted me to Transition, as the movement is called, was the word resilience, with its implications of being skilled, being ready, being confident, and therefore being optimistic about The Day After Tomorrow. The word is all over Transition’s literature, all over its YouTube [...]
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    Posted: April 21, 2009, 9:57pm EDT

  • Guerilla Gardening: Eating The Suburbs

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    I can not think a better article to represent this blog........Mike



    The Age recently had an article on the emerging practice of "guerilla gardening", taking a look at the "Gardening guerillas in our midst". This concept seems to have steadily increased in popularity in [...]
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    Posted: December 27, 2008, 4:15pm EST

  • Transportation Renaissance Won't Happen With Detroit Bailout

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    This morning I begin my Sunday morning like most other mornings by reading the New York Times and scanning the news. Today I read about the worsening US auto industry illustrated by a dealer in Quincy Florida and his struggle to stay open.Bruce Thomas has spent his life working [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2008, 8:08am EST

  • Climate Confusion: Who Wins?

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    by Michael O'Brien



    Climate change is the biggest challenge we face as a humans. Any serious student who analyses the information recognizes that the overwhelming consensus from scientists is that we have a very small period of time' [...]
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    Posted: February 04, 2008, 9:29pm EST

  • Our Automobile Future

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    2008-Jan-18


    by Michael O'Brien



    Our Automobile Future



    I write this letter as we come off the heels of the Bali Conference where world leaders met to discuss the issue of climate change. This important meeting did result in an agreement' [...]
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    Posted: February 04, 2008, 8:53pm EST

  • Why the era of cheap food is over

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    Christian Science Monitor



    Food prices worldwide hit record highs in 2006, and all the signs are that they will go on rising this year, and for the foreseeable future. The era of cheap food, the experts say, is over and we are going to [...]
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    Posted: January 01, 2008, 3:44pm EST

  • Desperate times, desperate scientists

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    Salon.com



    Dec. 12, 2007 | How dire is the climate situation? Consider what Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the United Nations' prestigious Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said last month: "If there's no action before 2012, that's too late. What we do'" [...]
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    Posted: December 18, 2007, 8:42pm EST

  • 2007 data confirms warming trend

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    BBC News



    The UK's Hadley Centre and University of East Anglia conclude that globally, this year ranks as the seventh warmest.




    The 11 warmest years in this set have all occurred within the last 13 years. For the northern hemisphere alone,' [...]
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    Posted: December 13, 2007, 7:35pm EST

  • Study Details How U.S. Could Cut 28% of Greenhouse Gases

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    By MATTHEW L. WALD
    Published: November 30, 2007, NY Times


    The report said the country was brimming with “negative cost opportunities” — potential changes in the lighting, heating and cooling of buildings, for example, that would reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels even as they [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2007, 4:05pm EST

  • Arctic ice loss: Northwest Passage now open, says space agency

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    PARIS (AFP) - The Northwest Passage, the dreamed-of yet historically impassable maritime shortcut between Europe and Asia, has now fully opened up due to record shrinkage of Arctic sea ice, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Friday.





    It released [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2007, 10:53am EDT

  • New Jersey Sets National Precedent by Passing the Global Warming Response Act

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    TRENTON - On the final day of votes before their summer break, the New Jersey Legislature overwhelmingly passed the Global Warming Response Act, A3301/S2114, (72-8 in the Assembly, 36-1 in the Senate). This ground-breaking legislation requires a mandatory reduction of the state’s global warming pollution to below 1990 levels by [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2007, 12:39pm EDT

  • Icequakes in Greenland Put on Pace

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    Vlad Tarko, Senior Editor, Sci-Tech News









    The icequakes in Greenland are caused by the motion of the glaciers and are most common in July and August when temperature is higher. But the seismologists from Columbia and Harvard have found that [...]
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    Posted: July 15, 2007, 7:50pm EDT

  • UN Calls for Pedal Power to Reduce Environmental Damage

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    Agency France Presse, posted on Commondreams



    KUALA LUMPUR - More bicycle riding and other lifestyle changes are urgently needed to reduce climate-altering carbon emissions that are damaging Asia’s health and could also threaten the economy, the World Health Organisation said Monday.
    Climate change contributes [...]
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    Posted: July 04, 2007, 8:03pm EDT

  • As Glaciers Melt and Rivers Dry Up, Coal-Fired Power Stations Multiply

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    by Jonathan Watts / John Vidal, The Guardian UK




    BEIJING - On a bad day - which can be hundreds in a year - the ancient city of Linfen in the northern province of Shanxi is environmental hell. Named by the World [...]
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    Posted: June 20, 2007, 9:44pm EDT

  • Democrats Press Plan to Channel Billions in Oil Subsidies to Renewable Fuels

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    by Edmund L. Andrews, NY Times, Posted on Commondreams



    WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats are seeking a major reversal of energy tax policies that would take billions of dollars in tax breaks and other benefits from the oil industry to underwrite renewable fuels.
    The tax [...]
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    Posted: June 18, 2007, 9:20pm EDT

  • Carbon Emissions Exceed Highest Assumptions Used in Climate Change Studies

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    Peter N. Spotts, Christian Science Monitor, Posted on Alternet.



    Global emissions of carbon dioxide are growing at a faster clip than the highest rates used in recent key UN reports.



    CO2 emissions from cars, factories, and power plants grew at an annual [...]
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    Posted: May 22, 2007, 7:38pm EDT

  • US Chided for Hindering International Efforts on Climate Change

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    by Haider Rizvi, OneWorld.net



    UNITED NATIONS - Disappointed with the U.S. role in international discussions on energy, environmental groups are making fresh calls for Washington to give up its isolationist approach and become part of ongoing global efforts to tackle climate change.



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    Posted: May 17, 2007, 7:11pm EDT

  • Warming Triggers Alarming Retreat of Himalayan Glaciers

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    Tim Johnson,McClatchy Newspapers,posted on Commondreams



    KAROLA PASS, Tibet - The glaciers of the Himalayas store more ice than anywhere on Earth except for the polar regions and Alaska, and the steady flow of water from their melting icepacks fills seven of the mightiest rivers [...]
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    Posted: May 12, 2007, 7:29pm EDT

  • Climate Change: Why We Can't Wait

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    James Hanson, The Nation



    This is an adaptation of a talk delivered February 26 at the National Press Club. Comments relating to policy are Dr. Hansen's personal opinion and do not represent a NASA position.



    There's a huge [...]
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    Posted: April 23, 2007, 8:41pm EDT

  • Arctic Sea Ice is Shrinking in Downward Spiral

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    Winter sea ice in the Arctic has failed to reform fully for the third year in a row. Scientists said yesterday that the area of ocean covered by Arctic ice at the end of the winter months was lower only in March 2006.



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    Posted: April 05, 2007, 7:07pm EDT

  • Top Scientists Warn of Water Shortages and Disease Linked to Global Warming

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    Top Scientists Warn of Water Shortages and Disease Linked to Global Warming



    By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS



    WASHINGTON, March 11 (AP) — The harmful effects of global warming on daily life are already showing up, and within a couple of decades [...]
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    Posted: March 12, 2007, 7:05am EDT

  • The Big Green Fuel Lie

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    by Daniel Howden in Sao Paolo, lndependent/UK



    The ethanol boom is coming. The twin threats of climate change and energy security are creating an unprecedented thirst for alternative energy with ethanol leading the way.



    An ethanol plant is seen by [...]
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    Posted: March 05, 2007, 9:55pm EST

  • UK Plans to Cut CO2 Doomed to Fail - Scientists

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    by James Randerson, UK Guardian



    An independent scientific audit of the UK's climate change policies predicts that the government will fall well below its target of a 30% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2020 - which means that the country will not' [...]
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    Posted: March 05, 2007, 9:48pm EST

  • China About to Pass US as World's Top Generator of Greenhouse Gases

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    by Robert Collier, San Franciso Chronicle

    Far more than previously acknowledged, the battle against global warming will be won or lost in China, even more so than in the West, new data show.

    A report released last week by Beijing authorities indicated that as its economy continues [...]
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    Posted: March 05, 2007, 9:35pm EST

  • Study Questions Prospects for Much Lower Emissions

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    WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 — As Democratic leaders in Congress prepare to put climate change legislation on the agenda, some in the utility industry are arguing that it will take decades of investments and innovation to get substantial reductions in their emissions of greenhouse gases.

    A Path [...]
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    Posted: February 19, 2007, 5:50pm EST

  • Boycott America?

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    The fact that humans have contributed to the current problem of global warming is “unequivocal” according to the recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Webster’s definition of “unequivocal” tells us: not equivocal; unambiguous; clear; having only one possible meaning or interpretation; absolute; unqualified; not [...]
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    Posted: February 11, 2007, 3:55pm EST

  • Millions to Go Hungry, Waterless: Climate Report

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    by Rob Taylor, Reuters, Posted on Commondreams

    Rising temperatures will leave millions more people hungry by 2080 and cause critical water shortages in China and Australia, as well as parts of Europe and the United States, according to a new global climate report.

    By the end of [...]
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    Posted: January 30, 2007, 10:45pm EST

  • Electric cars the answer for the future -- and the present

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    By Candace Page Free Press Staff Writer

    MONTPELIER -- Electric cars will "inevitably" replace gasoline-powered vehicles in coming decades, a Vermont researcher told lawmakers Wednesday, and the state can take steps now to prepare for and help speed the transition to a cleaner transportation system.

    "The plug-in hybrid is [...]
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    Posted: January 27, 2007, 9:46am EST

  • A Coalition for Firm Limit on Emissions

    By FELICITY BARRINGER, NY TimesWASHINGTON, Jan. 18 Ten major companies with operations across the economy utilities, manufacturing, petroleum, chemicals and financial services have banded together with leading environmental groups to call for a firm nationwide limit [...]
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    Posted: January 23, 2007, 7:11am EST

  • Behold the Rise of Energy-Based Fascism

    The Pentagon is helping to create a grim future for all of us: a struggle for energy primacy abroad and Big Brother at home.

    By Michael T. Klare, Tomdispatch.com., post on Alternet.

    [...]
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    Posted: January 21, 2007, 12:00am EST

  • Vegetarian is the New Prius

    by Kathy Freston, Huffington Post, posted on Commondreams

    Last month, the United Nations published a report on livestock and the environment with a stunning conclusion: "The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most [...]
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    Posted: January 20, 2007, 11:37pm EST

  • 100-Mile Diet: Your Body Will Thank You



    By Jeff Nield, The Tyee. Posted on Alternet

    Is eating locally through the winter more a matter of survival than of pleasure or good health? The surprising answer is an emphatic "no." Vancouver-based registered holistic nutritionist Paula Luther is an adherent of year-round local eating [...]
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    Posted: January 11, 2007, 9:10pm EST

  • Dire Warning From China's First Climate Change Report

    Agence France Presse, posted on Commondreams

    Temperatures in China will rise significantly in coming decades and water shortages will worsen, state media has reported, citing the government's first national assessment of global climate change.

    "Greenhouse gases released due to human activity are leading to ever more [...]
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    Posted: December 27, 2006, 12:24pm EST

  • By 2040, Greenhouse Gases Could Lead to an Open Arctic Sea in Summers



    By ANDREW C. REVKIN, NY Times

    New studies project that the Arctic Ocean could be mostly open water in summer by 2040 several decades earlier than previously expected partly as a result of global warming caused by emissions of greenhouse gases.

    The projections [...]
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    Posted: December 13, 2006, 6:53am EST
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