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Denied: White House Rebuffs Efforts To Put Solar On Its Roof

Posted on September 11, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo via 350.org Bill McKibben, author, activist and founder of 350.org , has been on a tour of the East Coast to promote his latest project, PutSolarOnIt , an effort to get the White House to put Jimmy Carter’s solar panels back on the roof after Ronald Reagan had them removed. The project was an ingenious PR stunt designed to both educate the public about how powerful solar energy is and just what the White House’s priorities are when it comes to climate and energy policy. On Friday, the white House… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Can Transparency on Calories Be a Model for Change?

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

A new beverage labeling initiative that is starting this fall provides an interesting example of how businesses can change without government mandates or laws . Launched by the American Beverage Association (ABA), Clear on Calories provides a standard disclosure system for the calorie content on the front label of any single-serve beverage item. Participation is not federally enforced but all the big beverage companies, including Coke, Pepsi, Dr Pepper-Snapple Group, and Ne… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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BP Helped Write CA’s Public School Environmental Curriculum

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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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Mass Mobilization, Direct Action Needed Locally & Nationally to Stop Climate Change

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Takver via flickr Bill McKibben and friends are in a biodiesel van making the symbolic journey to the White House from the Maine college where Jimmy Carter’s solar water heating panel has been residing for the past three decades, ultimately pressing the President to install donated solar PV panels , all as part of an effort to reinvigorate the environmental movement. But symbolism is only part of what’s r… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Today on Planet 100: Robots to the Rescue (Video)

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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The Italian Mafia is Making Money with Wind Power

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo: The Godfather Cosa Nostra Goes Green It seems like the mob has discovered that there’s money to be made with wind power in Italy. The mafia is up to its usual tricks: fraud, extortion, bribery, money laundering, etc. Police wiretaps even caught an alleged mafioso telling his wife: “Not one turbine blade will be built in Mazara unless I agree to it.” Read on for more details…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Greater Challenge To Retirement Planning: Maya Prophecy, Climate Catastrophe, Or Living Big?

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Brendtwood For many the idea of Retirement Planning has been derailed by a global economic slump and increasing health care expenses. Those who take seriously the December 21, 2012, Maya Prophecy about astronomical alignment obviously won’t bother at all. (This latter force is hooey though: thrown in get your attention to the risk posed by weather extremes that prospective retirees must now consider.) Meanwhile, most of The English feel it will ” not be feasible for people… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Gulf Doctors Advised to Learn to Treat Oil-Related Illnesses

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via News One Less dramatic than the fiery explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and the multiple month-spanning underwater oil geyser that followed it are many of the BP Gulf spill’s side effects. And oil-related sicknesses are undoubtedly among the thorniest — many fishermen-turned cleanup workers have already been afflicted by close contact with oil and the chemical dispersents used to combat it. But there will probably be many … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Political Squabbling Holds $500 Million of BP’s Pledged Research Money in Limbo

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: US Fish & Wildlife Service via flickr While BP just concluded that a whole slew of missteps led to the Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent Gulf Gusher, so it seems a whole bunch of political squabbling seems to be holding up distribution of some $500 million in research money pledged to investigate the ecological effects of the spill. OnEarth goes into more detail, but this is the gist of it:… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The 6 Crucial Errors that Lead to the BP Spill

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via NY Daily News It’s beyond well-known by now that crucial mistakes and shoddy cost-cutting measures were instrumental in bringing about the tragedy at the Deepwater Horizon drill site. But it’s still rather alarming to look at them back-to-back-to-back — New Orleans Times… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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