Hi folks, Jesse here again. As I always do on the holidays, I curled up on the couch at my mother-in-law’s house on Easter Sunday and read a paper (that’s right!) edition of Wired magazine, a technological rag that I’ve…
Lester Brown, one of the U.S.’s most respected environmentalists and the president of the Earth Policy Institute, a Washington-based environmental think tank believes that civilization is in trouble due to our overpopulated and overconsuming world. He blames an economic system…
Al Gore knew he could not get his message out about the dangers of global warming without some help, so he decided to recruit 1000 volunteers to help spread the word. This idea became the “The Climate Project”. According to…
Al Gore, in a 30 minute speech at the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival, urged top advertising companies across the world to work commercially and voluntarily on getting out the message against global warming. According to the Reuters article, the former…
College students in 100 countries have been asked to come up with a video game based on Global Warming by the “Xbox 360 Games for Change Challenge”. According to the show, Living on Earth, the winner will receive a 25,000…
A newly launched website called climatecounts.org is grading large companies on their efforts to address climate change. The nonprofit organization, funded by Stonyfield Farm, Inc. produces organic yogurt and has come up with a 0-100 point scale scorecard to see…
The New York Times’ Science Times section today ran an interview with Barry Commoner, “the Paul Revere of the environmental movement”. If you’re not familiar with Commoner, a long-time environmentalist (Commoner is a spry 90 years old), the article will…
An interesting editorial appeared in the Sacramento Bee last Friday. It discusses the great divide in the United States over global warming policy, not the divide between Republicans and Democrats, but the divide between representatives of states dependent on carbon…
You’d think wind power would be extremely popular with conservationists. After all, it’s completely renewable, clean, almost silent, and carbon-free. However, wind has its fair share of critics. The turbines aren’t exactly attractive, but more often, the criticism comes from…
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In case you needed more proof that global warming is one of the hot issues in Washington right now, check out Warming’s Long Green Shadow from Congressional Quarterly Weekly. This article cites numerous examples of environmental groups and environmentalists jumping…
Original post by Laura Hannon
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