Photo credit: cdsessums / Creative Commons Making the transportation system more fuel efficient represents a huge opportunity to reduce national oil dependency and, according to most accounts—including a recent report from the Mobility Choice Coalition —can be accomplished with a few simple changes. The difficult part, of course, is making these simple ideas politically viable…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo credit: Wikipedia /Creative Commons 24 of the top teachers in the U.S. have been chosen to go to the Galapagos Islands, with the Toyota International Teacher Program . The program is designed to engage a variety of conservation and education issues that the teachers can then give back to their students and communities. I’m traveling along with them to report on the trip’s experiences and lessons. The Galapagos Islands are a fantastically interesting place…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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5 Things Everyone Should Know About the Galapagos: An Introduction
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Photos: Chinanews Too Expensive to Go Under? Go Over… What if there was a way to get most of the benefits of a subway, but without the costs of digging up all those tunnels? The Chinese company Shenzhen Hashi Future Parking Equipment Co. thinks it might be able to do just that with a concept it calls the 3D Fast Bus (which has also been called the straddling bus), and kind of giant bus/train that straddles the street and allows cars to drive right under it. This means that it isn’t slowed down by traffic and it doesn’t add to traffic either. Read on for more details and a video showing a… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Rainforest Action Network has a new Executive Director to help it take on some of the worst corporate polluters, Rebecca Tarbotton. RAN is a Bay Area-based advocacy group, started in 1985, that operates sort of like a pack of jackals–its campaigners jump on a target’s back and won’t get off until it submits. In the past few years RAN has taken on the big banks that are funding the coal industry, like JP Morgan and Chase, and it has worked to protect the world’s most vulnerable rainforests, like those in Indonesia that are home to endangered orangutans and tigers…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Rebecca Tarbotton Takes Over At Rainforest Action Network
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Photo via vauvau What things can you absolutely not live without? Pause for a second and really think about that. You can’t live without it. What did you come up with? This question when applied to our lives and, more importantly, the pausing it takes to honestly consider the answers, is at the heart of moving beyond our addiction to oil — that sticky, dangerous stuff we use to make a whole lot of things
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Moving Beyond Oil: Restoring Meaning to the Word "Necessity"
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photo via EPA The pundits are saying that the vote on Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s amendment to upend the EPA’s Endangerment Finding, which says the CO2 and other greenhouse gases are warming the planet, could be a harbinger of things to come on the Senate climate and energy bill. This is probably not the case, since the Murkowski language could never get through the House and the president wouldn’t sign it. Nonetheless, EPA chief Lisa jackson posted a blog today on the
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EPA Administrator Pens Blog Against Murkowski’s ‘Dirty Air’ Amendment
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