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6 Nov 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
Doug Honnold, the managing attorney of EarthJustice, writes that a sad milestone has passed: "More than 100 [gray] wolves have been killed since Idaho and Montana began hunting them this fall." Following President Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's decision to remove gray wolves from the...+ READ MORE
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6 Nov 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
Buy a Coal Country DVD, CD, or book, and learn all you need to know about coal mining and mountaintop removal to stun you into action to stop it. Best part, buying the CD supports an organization already working to do just that.+ READ MORE
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6 Nov 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
Nick Clooney writes about his childhood memories from Appalachia: from Grandpa Clooney dragging him to the Ohio River when all he wanted was an Eskimo Pie, up to what he thinks the community's gift was to the rest of the nation, a community now threatened by the coal industry and mountaintop...+ READ MORE
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6 Nov 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
Ashley Judd takes her canine companion back home to Kentucky, but finds a scale of destruction from mountaintop removal coal mining that even her dog can sense. Here, a moving story that illustrates why so many activists are working so hard to stop the destructive practice.+ READ MORE
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22 Oct 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
it's now illegal to throw away food scraps in San Francisco--and failing to recycle can hit you with a $500 fine. When the news first surfaced that the law had passed, many were worried. But instead of lamenting how the city government is taking over its freedoms, San Franciscans have embraced the...+ READ MORE
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21 Oct 2009 IN TECH & TRANSPORT | COMMENTS
Here are the greenest cars on the road this--and next--year. And then there's the 10 worst gas guzzlers . . .+ READ MORE
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19 Oct 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
By reaching across the aisle to help pass US energy reform, Graham has breathed new life into the climate bill--but at what cost?+ READ MORE
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18 Oct 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
The Elvis of academia has a way of inspiring green action.+ READ MORE
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17 Oct 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
Does cap and trade just give polluters an excuse to keeping doing it?+ READ MORE
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17 Oct 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
In 1970s, most states had around the same per capita energy consumption. Then, in 1978, one state passed a law enforcing energy efficiency codes. Since then, all the other states--all 49 of them--saw their energy consumption skyrocket, sometimes as much as doubling. One did not. Why?+ READ MORE
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14 Oct 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
Putting a small tax on soda could not only raise billions of dollars for cities and states, but it would lower the rates of obesity and diabetes across the country, too. Find out exactly how much a soda tax could bring in for your city or state.+ READ MORE
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14 Oct 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
The climate bill is going to usher in a new era of innovation and technology. So don't you want to be in on the conversation being had by those who are going to be doing all the ushering? + READ MORE
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7 Oct 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
The US Chamber of Commerce is the largest not-for-profit business organization in the world. It represents over 3 million companies. It's arguably the most powerful lobbying group in the nation. And it's doing every thing it can to stop climate legislation.+ READ MORE
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6 Oct 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
Split Estate shows what happens when a person owns the rights to the surface of the land but not the mineral rights to what lies beneath. The results are shocking. It turns out that what you don't know can hurt you.+ READ MORE
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2 Oct 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
John Kerry may forever be best known as the 'elite liberal' who failed to dethrone Bush in 2004, and whispers of 'botox' and 'swift boat' may forever lurk around his persona. But he's hands down one of the best proponents for climate action in Congress, and one of the most effective. This is why...+ READ MORE
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