Photo: Close the Door Here’s an idea that is so obvious it should be a no-brainer: shut the door and save energy. The Close the Door Campaign is asking retailers to conserve energy by keeping their front doors closed. Why do shops all over the place leave their front door wide open? Do they really think that if it’s closed we won’t go in? … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Close That Door–You’re Wasting Energy
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Today, the world-famous environmental organization Greenpeace filed lawsuits against two chemical companies, Dow Chemical and Sasol. The suit alleges that both companies engaged in
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Chemical Companies Spied on Greenpeace, Lawsuit Claims (Video)
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Image: ShopNothing How was your “buy nothing” day? Did you really buy nothing? Did you miss that rush, the unmistakable high of exchanging your musty old cash for something you can brag to your friends about, or for the gift that will simply take the breath away when your intended recipient discovers your thoughtful extravagance? Are you forced to face the facts that you have a consumption addiction? That you may have honored buy nothing day, only to push the next consumption “fix” off until another day? Then you need to check out ShopNothing. Where you can “buy nothing”, or buy “not… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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ShopNothing Helps You Buy Nothing
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Photo: The Sierra Club , Flickr, CC Thanks in part to the ardent campaigning of some outspoken activists , many of the nation’s biggest banks now boast policies that cut off lending to companies engaging in the disastrous practice of mountaintop removal mining . Wells Fargo, Citi, Bank of Am… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Most Major Banks Still Fund Mountaintop Removal Mining, Report Finds
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Photo: christine zenino (chrissy575) Flickr, CC Now that the whole BP spill debacle is over and done with — since the oil’s all gone and every Gulf resident is again healthy , h… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Want to Drill for Oil in Greenland? That’ll be $2 Billion
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photo: tinabasgen / Creative Commons China has been the world’s foremost carbon emitter for over a year now–with per capita emissions now higher than those of France–and this summer overtook the US to become the world’s largest energy consumer as well. Now, according to new analysis by WWF , China can also check itself off on another eco-black list: If everyone on the planet consumed natural resources like the average Chine… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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China’s Ecological Footprint Unsustainable – We’d Still Need 1.2 Planets if Everyone Had It
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Photo via CGI The Clinton Global Initiative is a fascinating, often-perplexing, headline-dominating event. The driving idea is that it creates a forum to encourage businesses to partner with governments and nonprofits to do various good works around the world. Dozens of billions of dollars are raised for such projects as bringing health care to the poor and developing renewable energy sources in depressed regions. I’ve covered the event for the last two years to focus on the climate, clean energy, and conservation projects engendered therein — and there’s… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Can Capitalism be Harnessed to Save the World?
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Curveballs aplenty at the special session “Market-based Solutions for Protecting the Environment” at the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative. The panel, which included Matt Kistler, the Senior Vice President of Marketing Wal-Mart, Dr. Sanjayan and the lead scientist for the Nature Conservancy, convened to discuss how business can address issues like water shortages and climate change, and turn a profit in the process. The biggest surprise came at the end of the session, when Kistler teared up discussing the vast scope pursuing sustainability and addressing climate change presents. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Wal-Mart Senior VP Chokes Up Talking Sustainability (Video)
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Image via Washington Times In the post- Deepwater Horizon explosion rush to expose every devious, idiotic, two-faced, greedy, and hypocritical move BP has every made, the media has brought us a veritable treasure trove of anecdotes and revelations: BP saved millions by cutting corners on the destroyed rig. BP had shady connections to the Lockerbie bomber. BP licensed
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BP Helped Write CA’s Public School Environmental Curriculum
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Photo credit topgold via flickr. Last year at around the start of school, I just said no to new school supplies. We went through our house and found 90% of the supplies we needed (the pencils we gathered were a combination of unused and stubs we resharpened) and went out for a treat on the money we “saved.” This year, living back in the U.S. the list of “required” supplies was longer and more specific (“2 granola bars, no nuts???”), leading me to ask myself: “Is my kid really going to use these 50 pencils I’m providing?” and more importantly, “Why are schools’ a… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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2 Billion Pencils* and A School Supply Quandary
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