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Main Climate Threat Comes From Stuff We Haven’t Yet Built… There’s Still Time to Turn It Around

We have to stop building polluting infrastructure, now. Photo: eutorphication & hypoxia via flickr. If you think all the carbon-spewing stuff we’ve built to date, from power plants to cars to airplanes, will just drag us over the climate change tipping point, think again. A new study, published in the journal

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Why "Gandhi of Water" Rajendra Singh Is Walking the Length of the Ganges River

Image of Rajendra Singh in the documentary Flow via Mongrel Media Considered the Gandhi of water issues, Rajendra Singh is an activist about to begin an incredible walk in order to bring attention to India’s water problems. Starting on October 1st at the threatened Goumouk glacier in the Himalayas, the head of the Ganges River, he will walk along the river’s length to its mouth at the Bay of Bengal. Singh is embarking on this 37-day journey for a singular purpose — to illustrate how the health of our fresh water systems determines the health of human populati… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Angelina Jolie Losing Sleep Over Somalia This Week

While some celebs are busy ordering fancy dinners and trying to get the attention of a sommelier, Angelina Jolie is trying to bring attention to Somalia. (Let’s try not to get those two…

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Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt Visit Iraqi Refugees in Syria

They’ll never let us forget they are more than just pretty faces. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt took time out of their schedules on Friday to bring attention to the…

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