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Here is a story from NPR, you can even listen to it, about a group of scientists who spent two weeks in Indonesia atop a glacier. The team was led by Lonnie Thompson, a professor of earth sciences at Ohio State University. In the interview he talks about how the glacier literally melted below their
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Here are 12 facts about food that you may or may not want to know, but you really should be aware of. This comes from The Ecologist magazine that is published in the UK and the information was taken from a book called The Little Book of Shocking Food Facts by Craig Holden Feinberg and Dale
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Bill McKibben, writer, activist and founder of 350.org is on his way to the White House with students from Unity College in Maine to symbolically return one of the solar panels that President Jimmy Carter had installed back in 1979. Unfortunately Ronald Reagan had them removed when the roof was repaired in 1986 and never
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I have been seeing so many people on bikes in Los Angeles, ok, mainly down by the beach in Venice, Santa Monica and Marina del Rey but in other parts of town too. I am thrilled whenever I can take a bike to shop or go wherever I am headed, and here in LA I
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Imagine one million trees planted in one day resulting in the annual fixation of at least 6,800 tons of atmospheric CO2 annually. Earth University, a private non-profit international University in Costa Rica (that is carbon neutral) is organizing such an amazing feat. June 5 is World Environment Day and on this day Earth University hopes
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Do you know that this week there was another conference on climate change? I only heard about it Monday as I tuned in to Democracy Now and they were broadcasting all week from Bolivia at the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. Bolivian President Evo Morales came up with
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Tomorrow is Earth Day’s 40th Anniversary. Do you have something planned to celebrate and honor our beautiful planet? This is the official Earth Day web site that is filled with information as well as a search that you can use to see what events are happening close by to you. I am in Los Angeles
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There is considerable conversation these days about clean coal…much of it is an excuse to delay the immediate funding and implementation of more clean and renewable energy sources in America. But I don’t hear many asking…Is it possible to have clean coal? and what does this really mean? Some people within the coal industry and
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Global warming, climate change, we can see it happening all around us. Warmer temperatures in some places and colder winters in others. What can each of us do on an individual level and how can we let our leaders know that this matters to us? It is time for action in so many levels. This
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It has been a busy couple of weeks since I attended the Bioneers conference and getting back to writing I was not really sure where to begin. I have so much great information to share from the conference and about my trip in Northern California, from green hotels to solar powered wineries…and this will all