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Can Green Visionaries and Eco Realists Coexist?

Image credit: H. Koppdelaney , used under Creative Commons license. When I wrote about the UK government’s apparent redefinition of ‘zero carbon homes’ , an anonymous commenter noted how amusing it is “when governments figure out that it’s much harder to actually do something, than to say you’re going to do it.” And that got me thinking—given the urgency of climate change, peak oil and resource depletion, we need radica… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Can Green Visionaries and Eco Realists Coexist?

Peru’s Asparagus Industry Is Sucking Wells Dry

Image credit: Nick Hepworth/Progressio/Water Witness Intl Whenever I go to my mom’s for dinner, there is asparagus. She’s 92 and thinks that getting cheap and fresh asparagus year round from Peru is proof that all is well in the world, a gift of globalism and technology. But as Felicity Lawrence notes in the Guardian, it is not such a great gift for anyone. Firstly, they are running out of water…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Peru’s Asparagus Industry Is Sucking Wells Dry