Image credit: Nesster /Flickr Jamming phone lines, fax machines or e-mail boxes with messages has been a key tactic ever since I first became an environmental activist. I remember one Senator telling me in 1994, before the internet existed as we know it today, before Facebook and Twitter and mass e-mails, that his staff was literally weighing the letters on a scale that we were sending from Sierra C… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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All images: Matthew McDermott A quick update on the status of new proposed rules covering New York City’s community gardens : Scores of garden supporters turned out for a public hearing, alongside activists and the City Council Speaker, all saying they want the gardens to be permanently protected. What that exactly means and how to get there remains open to… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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New York Community Garden Supporters Turn Out in Scores for Public Hearing on Their Fate
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Lord Monckton confronted by youth climate activists during COP15, photo:
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House of Lords Tells Climate Skeptic Lord Monckton: Stop Pretending You’re One of Us
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” Tugs slowly move the Noble Frontier Driller into port at Signal International’s east shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss., on Saturday. At right is the Transocean Marianas. ” Image credit: Times Picayune , Rusty Costanza. Remember all those dire predictions that the Federally imposed, deep-water drilling moratorium (for just 6 months) would crash the economies of Louisiana and Mississippi, for example? Initial data indicate no such thing is happening. As per a well-prepared sto… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Six-Month Deep Water Drilling Moratorium Having Little Adverse Impact On Jobs, Rig Siting
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (photo via flickr) Hey climate activists, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wants to know what you think of a little trip South Africa. Why? Because he doesn’t think that world leaders will agree on a deal at the next U.N. conference on climate change, scheduled for late November in Mexico. South Africa would be the next Conference of the Parties, one year from the meeting in Cancun…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Climate Activists: Every Been To South Africa?
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Image credit: Wikimedia Commons The last great extinction occurred sixty five million years ago. You can visit the exact point on earth where it started, on the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. The Chicxulub crater , more than 110 miles in diameter, was formed by the enormous impact of a meteor the size of San Francisco hitting the earth. Life on earth changed radically from that moment of impact…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Tracking the Extinctions and Adaptations Around Us
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Photo via MSNBC It irks me that I have to write a headline like that, but with so much of the media’s BP spill coverage painting pictures of a harmonious, oil-free Gulf, I can’t underscore enough the fact that this thing is far, far, far from over. Thankfully, CNN ran a report that got this 100% right , and spoke to scientists about the bevy of problems that still have them very concerned fo… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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BP Spill Still a Really Big Problem
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photo: Jason Kuffer via flickr Referring to the newly-formed iceberg four times the size of Manhattan which broke from Greenland over the weekend, John Rudolf over at the New York Times writes, in a piece titled Iceberg as a Metaphor for Inaction , ”Despite the scientific uncertainty, Mr Markey used the image of the ice island as a logjam of Republican opposition to climate change legislation… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Sloppy Reporting as Symbol Of Why Getting Climate Legislation Passed Has Been So Tough
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Climate change is (obviously) a subject that’s greeted with heaps of controversy just about whenever the topic is broached. Unlike most phenomena that a vast majority of scientists have agreed is occurring after years and years of meticulous study, climate change is apt to cause a ruckus (or at least some grumblings) when brought up in any kind of social forum. You, the informed TreeHugger reader, are most likely aware that global warming is real, caused by man, and will cause a number of serious problems if left unaddressed. But those who … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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100+ Quick Rebuttals to Common Anti-Climate Change Arguments
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Image via Boston With the flow of oil from the BP well in the Gulf of Mexico capped and most of the spilled oil skimmed from the water’s surface, incoming CEO Robert Dudley said last weekend that it was time for BP to “scaleback” its cleanup efforts, the AP reported . E… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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It’s Not Time to Scale Back the Gulf Coast Cleanup, Is It?
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