BP would prefer you to see photos like this: One of the lucky pelicans, rescued from the oil spill and released in St Petersburg, Florida. Photo: US Coast Guard . This stage management/damage control is just really starting to piss me off… According to reports in Mother Jones and the Daily News BP has apparently banned o… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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BP Bans Workers From Sharing Photos of Animals Killed by the Oil Spill
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photo via flickr While scientists say we need to peak our emissions by 2015 and then dramatically reduce them thereafter, the US is projected to actually increase our greenhouse gas emissions through 2020, according to estimates from the government to the United Nations. CO2 emissions are expected to rise about 1.5 percent and overall climate-warming pollution could go up by 4 percent. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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US GHG Emissions Set To Increase Through 2020
There were all kinds of people protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Ottawa last week, and that was even before events caused him to rush for the exit. PETA never misses an opportunity to promote their anti-sealing campaign, such as putting a yarmulke on the head of their seal suit and making a really bad pun. We should point out that falafels are of arabic origin. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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A Picture Is Worth: PETA Gag of the Day
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Photo via Sulekha Temperatures Could Rise to 122 F India is currently facing the hottest season ever recorded in the nation — the hottest since record keeping began in the late 1800s. And the heat has been disastrous: Hundreds of people have died already, and many more are seriously ill. Hospitals in one region in the north have been receiving 300 people a day. And it looks like it’s going to get worse…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Hundreds Die in Heatwave as India has Hottest Summer on Record
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photo: Martin Pettitt via flickr Developing offshore wind farms on the Great Lakes has been touted as an overlooked resource in a number of studies and indeed a few projects are in the planning stages. Which, seemingly on cue, has aroused opposition to them on the usual grounds, as the
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Great Lakes Offshore Wind Farms Already Face NIMBY Opposition, Just Like Those in Saltwater
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photo: banspy via flickr I can here the collective cry of ‘Right on!’ and ‘About effing time!’ rising up from the TreeHugger readership… CNN is reporting that US Attorney General Eric Holder has announced that the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the Gulf Gusher. We’ll have more as it emerges, but this is what we know so far:… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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BREAKING: US Justice Department Launches Criminal Investigation of BP Oil Spill
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So often in the past few years, if you saw a product designed with style, humour and an environmental message, the designer was Tobias Wong. It started on TreeHugger with the Sun Jar. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Though they may look like forests at first glance, palm oil plantations often have far lower biodiversity and store far less carbon than the genuine forests they replace. Photo: Achmad Rabin Taim via flickr. One more story making the rounds last week that you may have missed in the midst of all the continued oil gushing in the Gulf of Mexico, but is worthwhile paying attention to: The top line is that the UN REDD program got $4 billion in funding, with $1 billion coming from Norway and going to Indonesia to h… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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While You Were Gawking at the Gulf Gusher: UN’s REDD Forest Preservation Deal Gets Major Funding
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Robert Stern is Dean of the Yale School of Architecture, discussing sustainable design in Environment Yale. UTNE Reader picks up the story and illustrates it with….. a parking garage? “I don’t think sustainability is a design aesthetic, any more than having electricity in your building, or telephones, or anything else,” says Ster… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Quote of the Day: Robert Stern on When All Architecture is Green Architecture
BP CEO Tony Hayward has been working really, really hard lately . And he’s tired of it. He wants his life back. He said so in an interview with Fox News, definitively explaining once and for all why everyone should trust BP to clean up the oil spill as best they can. Which is why fishermen and charter boat captains who’ve lost their livelihoods, volunteer cleanup workers from around the Gulf who are sick at the thought of their beaches getting coated with oil, and environmental groups of every stripe working to protect gravely threatened ecosystems should come together to stop… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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BP’s CEO: "I’d Like My Life Back" (Video)
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