Image credit: Forum for the Future Insurance isn’t the first industry people think about when talking about business and climate change. Yet from moving to pay-as-you-drive car insurance , to discounting LEED-certified buildings , we have already seen a number of ways that insurance companies can reward sustainable practices. Given the likelihood of
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Photo: The Annenberg Space for Photography Giving the perfect gift doesn’t have to mean spending the entire month of December at the mall — and then showing up with the same chocolate-scented candle you got your hard-to-buy-for cousins last year. It doesn’t have to mean giving a thing at all: Instead, philanthropic donations and symbolic adoptions help you put your gift budget toward a good cause. And if you want to have something to wrap, then choose books, videos, and apparel that support these seven non-profits that are making the world a better place year-round…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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For the Philanthropist: 7 Gifts Supporting Fantastic Non-Profits
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photo: Paul Keller / Creative Commons Population growth is one of the touchiest issues out there. It’s really easy for people to leap to paranoia about government control of who can and cannot have children and no amount of qualification about how that’s not being advocated seems to stop it. Nevertheless population growth and its flip side, resource consumption is a critica… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Family Planning As Important For Fighting Climate Change As Clean Technology: Worldwatch
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Photo: Amazing Scrap Sculptures Of Wildlife By Edouard Martinet These beautiful robot fish sculptures by French artist Edouard Martinet were just one of our 30 most popular posts of November. The other 29 are after the jump. We know you work hard and don’t have time to see every single post we publish, so now you can kick back and see some of the best of what you might of missed. Enjoy! … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo credit: Polar Cruises / Creative Commons In the Arctic, polar bears have recently been observed swimming in icy water while carrying young cubs on their backs . It’s the result, researchers explained, of having to swim greater distances to find solid sea ice—and is an innovation that may be crucial for the survival of the species…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Polar Bear Mothers Spotted Swimming With Their Cubs on Their Backs
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Photo: eschipul , Flickr, CC President Obama can’t seem to make up his mind about banning offshore drilling — does he want a drilling moratorium in place or not? Now, it once again looks like he does — sort of, anyway. The White House is announcing today that the administration plans on maintaining most of the initial ban. Certain waters will be kept off limits, though some will still be opened for drilling. Here’s where we stand now…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Breaking: Ban on Offshore Drilling is Back! Sort of.
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Sri Lanka’s Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage. Photo: S J Pinkney / Creative Commons . The escalation last week of hostilities between North Korea and South Korea has surely been a setback to plans to create an ecological corridor out of the
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From the announcement that all new UK homes would be zero carbon by 2016 , through the big reveal of the first zero carbon home in the country , to the launch of a more commercially viable prototype for a zero carbon home , there has long been both buzz and confusion surrounding Britain’s future housing plans. Last year, Lloyd explained that the
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Photo: NASA Images , CC The US Senate just passed the first major update to the nation’s food safety policies in decades — the bill gives the FDA the ability to test foods for dangerous pathogens, to issue food recalls, and requires that it do better and more frequent inspections of industrial food production plants. All of that is good news for the nation’s food consumers — namely, us. The stream of cases of tainted peanut butter, eggs, spinach, etc had drastically, and rightfully, weakened our confidence in natio… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Food Safety Bill Passes Senate: What it Means for Eating in America
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Graphic courtesy Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund . Today the U.S. Senate passed Senate Bill 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act. After the recent scandal with eggs , and all of the other food safety issues of recent years ( meat , peanut butter , s… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Does Senate Bill 510 Put Raw Milk in Real Danger?
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