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EPA Nixes External Adaptors from Energy Star Program

Photo via alistairas The Environmental Protection Agency decided that external power adapters aren’t eligible for inclusion in the Energy Star Label program, the reason being that they’re doing too good a job meeting qualifications anyway. Since most external adapters meet qualifications, there’s no point in wasting resources putting them through the labeling process. On the one hand, it makes perfect sense to streamline the program where possible (after all, Energy Star is

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Pacific Nation Kiribati ‘Sacrifices’ Itself To Create Largest Marine Heritage Site

Map of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA). Image: www.phoenixislands.org Kiribati , a Pacific nation of 33 atolls and lying just barely two meters above sea level, is one of the countries that’s on the front-lines of climate change . With its very existence is threatened to be wiped out by rising waters, Kiribati recently made a unprecedented decision: despite its overwhelming dependence on fishing, by 2050 it will forbid it in over… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Pacific Nation Kiribati ‘Sacrifices’ Itself To Create Largest Marine Heritage Site

The Dark Threat of Ecofascism

Image credit: Pentti Linkola Fansite I confess I’ve always been bemused when angry skeptics denounce climate activists as “Hitler Youth” , or label fellow TreeHugger Lloyd as either an eco-fascist or an eco-commie . While environmentalism, like any movement, does attract its fair share of extremists, the vast majority of greens I have met are pragmatic, democratically-minded souls with a firm belief in … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Dark Threat of Ecofascism