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From the monthly archives: July 2010

Help Create a Documentary on Haiti and Its Long-Term Food Crisis

By Zachary Shahan On July 31, 2010

http://vimeo.com/13301985

Important activist opportunity to help make a film about Haiti that goes deep into the country’s history, culture, and food insecurity issues.

Haiti was on people’s map after the horrible earthquake it suffered recently, and then… quickly off it.

Perhaps a much bigger issue for Haiti than this recent earthquake, however, is a food [...]

Greenpeace Activists Quarantine Illegal GE Crops

By Zachary Shahan On July 31, 2010

Greenpeace recently found genetically engineered maize from Monsanto, MON810, illegally growing in Italy. Now, activists from Italy, Austria, Germany and Hungary are quarantining this GE maize.

“Greenpeace has taken action today to prevent any further contamination from these hazardous and illegal GE crops,” said Federica Ferrario, Greenpeace Italy Agriculture campaigner. “For days these [...]

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Important Media Weekly Roundup

By Zachary Shahan On July 31, 2010

Some great recent news from the Important Media network.

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Oil Spill Condoms

By Zachary Shahan On July 31, 2010

A variety of oil spill condoms, political condoms, or endangered species condoms are available for folks practicing safe sex these days.

Want to help the Gulf of Mexico while also having safe sex? Exactly what you’ve been thinking about lately, right? Well, now you can!

Practice Safe Policy has started selling

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Latest News on Environment, Climate Change, & Activism (Weekly Roundup)

By Zachary Shahan On July 31, 2010

10 of the latest green news stories from around the web (that we didn’t cover in more depth earlier in the week).

Have more to add, stick them in the comments below!

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Zebra Pictures (10 Friday Photos)

By Zachary Shahan On July 30, 2010

17 amazing zebra pictures, to follow the birth of a zedonk (zebra-donkey hybrid) earlier this week.

Ok, I have to make a confession, this post has turned into a 10 + 7 Friday Photos post. I love zebras — one of my very favorites animals (maybe favorite) since I was a [...]

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Global Warming in 5 Minutes, from a Top Hedge Fund Manager

By Zachary Shahan On July 30, 2010

As good of a summary on global warming as you can find.

You can read what green bloggers have to write about global warming all day, but when a top hedge fund manager gives you a 5-minute summary of global warming and what we should think and do about it (and completely nails [...]

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TED Talk: Oil Spill’s Unseen Culprits & Victims

By Zachary Shahan On July 30, 2010

Carl Safina, author of five books and over 100 scientific and popular publications on ecology and the oceans (including featured work in National Geographic and The New York Times), is about as expert as it gets when we talk about the oceans.

In an excellent recent TED talk, Safina discusses the BP [...]

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More Frequent and Intense Heat Waves for New York

By Joshua S Hill On July 30, 2010

Heatwaves like the one that hit the northeast of America in July are likely to be more commonplace in the future.

A new study from climate scientists at The City College of New York (CCNY) suggests that densely built urban environments like Manhattan are likely to suffer more frequent and more intense heatwaves [...]

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A Million Reasons to Clean the Gulf

By Joshua S Hill On July 30, 2010

The US foundation that launched privatized space travel is now offering 1.4 million dollars to clean up oil spills.

The X Prize Foundation, in partnership with Wendy Schmidt, wife of Google chairman Eric, are putting up 1.4 million dollars in a year-long challenge to find new ways to clean up oil spills.

“With [...]

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Zebra/Donkey Hybrid — Zedonk

By Zachary Shahan On July 29, 2010

Too wild not to share: zebra/donkey hybrid (i.e. zedonk) was born in Georgia this week.

A “zedonk” was just born in the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve in north Georgia (the state, not the country). She’s got a donkey for a mother and a zebra stallion for a father.

It is a rather rare [...]

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Largest State in India Bans Plastic Bags

By Zachary Shahan On July 29, 2010

India’s largest state, Rajasthan, has become the latest place to completely ban plastic bags.

The ban has been put in place due to “both the short-term and long-term environmental hazards” of plastic bags.

Some of the main reasons for the ban were that plastic bags blocking sewer lines, drainage systems and water distribution [...]

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Cut Soot and Save the Arctic

By Joshua S Hill On July 29, 2010

A new study says that cutting soot emissions is the best way to save the rapidly melting Arctic.

Soot emissions are a result of burning fossil fuel, wood, and dung, amongst other things, and according to a new study by Stanford researcher Mark Z. Jacobson, if we were to cut soot emissions we [...]

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Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall in 2009 – Past Decade Still Sees Rapid Emissions Growth

By Earth Policy Institute On July 27, 2010

The latest EPI release is on carbon emissions trends and the potential results.

by Amy Heinzerling

In 2009, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in China—the world’s leading emitter—grew by nearly 9 percent. At the same time, emissions in most industrial countries dropped, bringing global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use down from a high of [...]

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