A Spend in Need is a Spend Indeed (www.grist.org) TMC

The head of the world's top climate scientists says he is stunned at the trillion-dollar cheques that have been signed to ease the banking crisis when funding for poverty and global warming is... More

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Submitted about 21 hours ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

Climate Talks Kick Off with Cautious Optimism (us.oneworld.net) TMC

This year's global climate negotiations, where countries will work towards an agreement, due in 2009, to reduce emissions and avoid environmental catastrophe, have opened with cautious optimism and a... More

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Submitted about 21 hours ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

Non-Green Companies Warned on Earnings | OneWorld.net (U.S.) (us.oneworld.net) TMC

Companies producing many food, beverage, and household items must implement sustainable environmental strategies or risk income losses of 19 to 47 percent over the next 10 years, says a report... More

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Submitted about 21 hours ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

Five Ways to Game Global Warming (www.motherjones.com) TMC

These online ecofantasies put the fun back into saving the planet.

Tags: global warming,tmc,environment,sustainability,online ecofantasies

Submitted about 21 hours ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

Ecogeek Deathmatch: Ed Begley Jr. v. Bill Nye, Science Guy (www.motherjones.com) TMC

Which Hollywood do-gooder has the greener crib? A no-holds-barred fight to the furnished.

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Submitted about 21 hours ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

From CSA to CSK: The Community Supported Kitchen (www.chelseagreen.com) TMC

Elizabeth Henderson, co-author of Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen’s Guide to Community Supported Agriculture, defines Community Supported Agriculture thusly: Community Supported Agriculture is... More

Tags: tmc,chelsea green,kitchens,communities,communitysupported kitchens,food,farms,agriculture

Submitted 1 day ago by robertharding | 0 Comments |

Is the Latest Eco-Term Just Corporate Hype? (www.alternet.org) TMC

In early 2008, the Coca-Cola Company began making public claims that it would become "the most efficient company in the world in terms of water use in the beverage industry." Central to the company's... More

Tags: tmc,alternet,cocacola,water,water neutral,sustainability,beverage industry,carbon neutral,businesses

Submitted 1 day ago by robertharding | 0 Comments |

Are Cows Worse Than Cars? (www.prospect.org) TMC

These days almost any proposal to reduce global warming gets taken seriously, even by conservatives. Solar panels are proposed for powering everything except submarines. Oilman T. Boone Pickens wants... More

Tags: tmc,the american prospect,environment,cows,cars,climate change,vegetarians,meat,beef

Submitted 1 day ago by robertharding | 0 Comments |

Report: Water and oil shale don’t mix (coloradoindependent.com) TMC

The Bush administration and the Bureau of Land Management are pushing relentlessly ahead with plans to fast-track Colorado’s long-dormant oil shale industry, but a study released this fall exposes... More

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The Little Green Schoolhouse (washingtonindependent.com) TMC

The sixth-graders in Marti Goldstone’s science class at Horace Mann Elementary are working on a project that could save their D.C. public school a lot of money. They are conducting an energy audit... More

Tags: tmc,the washington independent,green,green energy,environment,schools,energy consumption

Submitted 1 day ago by robertharding | 0 Comments |

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