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Greenpeace
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Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 42 countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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2 months, 2 weeks ago by: faircompanies faircompanies comments
Global Warming Revisited
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It doesn't make one bit of difference if humans are contributing to global warming or not. Whether we are causing it or not, our lifestyles are harming the ecology of our planet.
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4 months, 1 week ago by: BioDieselHauling user comments
A March snowstorm in Barcelona: climate vs weather
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March 8, 2010 and it snowed in Barcelona. This is a city where the average low temperature for the month is 9 degrees. The very unusual snowstorm caused the city to semi-shutdown: the buses stopped running, schools shut down and some neighborhoods lost electricity.El Niño probably played a ...
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5 months, 4 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Hackers on the good life and Sarah Palin as eco-model
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I was publicly criticized by a few hackers* last week and after a bit of soul searching, I've decided their action-oriented ethos may be what's needed to help fix what's wrong with the fight against climate change. (*I'm using the term hacker in reference to computer ...
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9 months, 1 week ago by: kirstendirksen staff 6 comments
An EV maker on the end of gas and the new electric era
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Neal Saiki is an aeronautical engineer who has helped create
transportation solutions for NASA (including a human-powered
helicopter), so he knows what he's talking about when he insists that soon
we'll all be changing what we drive. "The era of gas cars which lasted about 100 years is ...
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10 months, 1 week ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
America's 1st carbon neutral community?
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According to the IPCC, the point of no return for global warming -date when we need to stop the rise in global carbon emissions to prevent irreversable damage- is 2015. Given this is less than a decade, many have decided not to wait for their federal governments to act. Communities ...
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1 year ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Climate control for sidewalks: making stores close the door
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A loophole exists in our global warming awareness. As most of us are are investing in energy saving appliances and insulating our homes to cut the need for climate control, there's a large segment of our communities that still find it acceptable to run the air conditioning or heating ...
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1 year, 1 month ago by: kirstendirksen staff / nicolas.boullosa staff 2 comments
Jetter l'énergie par les portes
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encourager les magasins à fermer la porte.
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1 year, 1 month ago by: kirstendirksen staff 2 comments
Can whitewash, tinted windows & closed doors save the earth?
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The fight against climate change has taken a rather low-tech turn lately. Obama's Energy Secretary Stephen Chu wants to fight climate change by whitewashing the world's roofs roads and pavements.California's air regulators are requiring automakers, beginning in 2012, to install sun-reflecting glass in the windows of ...
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1 year, 2 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
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Thoreau's simple life at Walden
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"In wildness is the preservation of the world," wrote Henry David Thoreau in 1851 at a time when he was one of the few thinking about environmental conservation. Six years previous he had embarked on a now-famous experiment in simple living. He'd gone to the woods outside Boston to ...
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1 year, 2 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
