On the heels of an International Whaling Commission meeting slated for later this month to discuss the future prospects of commercial hunts , conscience and moral imperatives may not be the only thing influencing the countries present there. An undercover investigation, conducted by reporters from The Sunday Times , found whaling-friendly Japan has sought to bribe small nations into taking … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Japan Accused of Bribing Nations to be Pro-Whaling
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Missed base call. Image credit: New York Magazine The lifestyle backdrop Do we agree that incremental lifestyle changes can not surmount the political obstacles posed by well-funded Think Tanks and lobbyists, by an irrational obsession with libertarian ideas, and by a broadcast media focused on creating false controversies to boost ratings? If so, read on. Big Problems require Big Solutions and Fortune Listed companies can change political culture in a matter of a few months so that solutions are forthcoming. A… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Big Business Can Save The Future, If Their Political Umpires Don’t Miss The Call – Again
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Image: The Chronicle of Higher Education While everyone else worries about the toxicity of the oil, the physics of plume dispersion, and the costs to wildlife and workers across the gulf, one crew of scientists see a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The obvious ethical restrictions to releasing large amounts of methane (which contributes 25 times more greenhouse effect than carbon dioxide) into the ocean has complicated study of how seepage of natural gas at the ocean floor contributes to global wa… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Scientists Hope BP Oil Spill Offers Clues about Global Warming
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photo via flickr Massachusetts has a law mandating a portfolio of renewable energy, including energy derived from wind, solar, and biomass. But a new study says that replacing coal power with biomass will actually increase the amount of CO2 emitted, throwing a wrench in the state’s plan and casting some doubt over the utility of using biomass on national scale and the inclusion of biomass titles in the energy bills now being negotiated in Congress…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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New Study: Biomass Worse Than Coal
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U.S. Geological Survey hydrologic technicians collect a stream sample from Hallocks Mill Brook downstream of the outfall of one of the wastewater treatment plants investigated. Photo courtesy of USGS. Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com . A five-year study conducted by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) researchers has found that pharmaceutical manufact… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Study Says Drug Manufacturing Facilities are Source of Drugs in Drinking Water
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photo via comedy central The comedy troupe ” Upright Citizens Brigade ” has taken on the BP oil gusher, lampooning the oil giant’s leadership for being out-of-touch, pampered, and clueless. The video shows an executive spilling coffee, which threatens fish (sushi) and laptops. Kevin Costner even makes an appearance in this funny sketch. The spill has been a source for laughs along with tears, with comedians like
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BP Executives Spill Coffee, Flip Out (Video)
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Image credit: Mitch Epstein, American Power Across the country, billboards are springing up. They feature an image that is arresting—smoke spewing from a coal plant, a massive power plant behind a school, or the hulking industrial frame of an oil refinery—and a simple question written in plain letters. “What is American Power?” Taken from photographer Mitch Epstein’s book American Power , the question is a starting point for a much deeper exploration—and the path it r… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Many Faces of American Power (Slideshow)
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Image credit: The Onion Apparently it’s not just BP failing f***ing booming school we have to worry about anymore. Nor the terrible effect that the oil spill is having on UK pensions (I hope someone told the sea turtles!). If The Onion is to believed, there’s an even more menacing threat. Bullshit. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Massive Flow of Bullshit Continues from BP: The Onion on the Spill
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The Murkowski amendment , which is currently heading to the Senate floor for a vote, is around one sentence long. It’s simple, and potentially devastating. It’s solely stated goal is overturning the endangerment finding filed by the EPA that ruled greenhouse gases are a harmful pollutant, and threaten public well-being. Which would both effectively stop the EPA from being able to clamp down on the nation’s heaviest greenhouse gas polluters and toss Obama’s new, highly touted national fuel economy standard into the trash heap… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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What the Hell is the Murkowski Amendment?
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