Following up on my article last week about the GOP’s rejection of climate science, here’s an excellent piece on that same matter by leading climate scientist Michael Mann. This was originally posted in The Washington Post and I may have actually mentioned it previously, but it is such a good piece, from such a good […]
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Avatar may have been a science-fiction story, but many of its themes were based off of some of the world’s biggest real-life struggles. One such struggle is going on in the Amazon, where a large dam, the Belo Monte Dam, is threatening the environment and tribes living in Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest. Avatar-Like Battle in the
An amazing Greenpeace action to stop oil drilling in fragile Arctic waters has come to a close, but the activists are still in police custody after scaling an oil rig that “looked unclimbable” and spending over 40 hours “suspended above the churning Arctic waves through freezing winds.”
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This edition of 7 Green Bloggers (which, as you will see, actually turned into 9 Green Bloggers) was a fun one. I asked these leading bloggers (who, themselves, could be heroes to many people) to tell us who their green heroes were. Some familiar names came up, but also some names I’m not so familiar
The magnitude 8.1 earthquake and tsunami that killed 192 people last year in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga triggered another two earthquakes. The massive 8.1 earthquake that hit the South Pacific region on September 29, 2009 triggered another two major quakes of magnitudes 7.8 which, when combined, “represent the energy release of another magnitude-8 quake,”
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In an interview posted on the Big Think website this past Monday, August 9, famed physicist Stephen Hawking declared that “Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.”
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The following letter is from members of the 1Sky Board of Directors: Jessica Bailey, KC Golden, Bracken Hendricks, Bill McKibben, Billy Parish, Vicky Rateau, Gus Speth and Betsy Taylor
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The latest Earth Policy Institute news release by Lester R. Brown discusses the issue of appliance efficiency, with information on this issue from countries around the world. Lester R. Brown There are enormous opportunities to use energy more efficiently. Investing in energy efficiency is often far cheaper than expanding the energy supply to meet growing
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Tons of big green news stories in one short article. There are tons of big green news stories out there every day. Although we can’t (and probably shouldn’t) cover all of them here on Planetsave, it drives me crazy not to cover everything I think is big news. Hopefully, a new idea I’ve had to
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/fgT-QfcjXw4&hl=pl_PL&fs=1] Here is this week’s “greencast” or screencast of great green news from around the internet (that we didn’t already cover). Enjoy the video above via YouTube or in high definition on screenr. By the way, if you happen to notice the sound of pedestrians, cyclists or streetcars in the background, it is because I
