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House of Lords Tells Climate Skeptic Lord Monckton: Stop Pretending You’re One of Us

Lord Monckton confronted by youth climate activists during COP15, photo:

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Can We Preach Green Without Being Preachy? (Video)

Image credit: UNEP I asked before why so many people hate environmentalists , and concluded that it might have something to do with green living as passive aggressive preaching , disasterbation , not to mention the ever-familiar but oh-so-annoying

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Read a Sample Chapter of Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil

Image credit: Ed Kashi This post was written by Peter Maass whose book Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil is now available in paperback . In Nigeria, the oil has not stopped leaking. While residents around the Gulf of Mexico breathe a sigh of relief over the BP spill’s capping, an oil disaster continues in Nigeria. Due to the recklessness of multinational oil companies, as well as a simmering war between a corr… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Steven Chu: Static Kill "Completed Successfully"

Photo via Xinhuanet US Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu has just made an announcement on the current state of the operations to permanently plug the blown-out well below the Deepwater Horizon site. Chu has been instrumental in the spill’s response, which at first was criticized by some for being slow and lackluster , but has since developed into a more comprehensive effort. His update revealed the fact that cement — in addition to mud — had successfully been injected into the blown well, and so fa… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Today on Planet 100: Naomi’s Blood Diamond (Video)

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Butter For Biodiesel

Photo credit Gulmammad under Creative Commons license. It was an 800-pound butter sculpture of Ben Franklin that led researchers to decide dairy-to-diesel was even a possibility, according to this report in the New York Times . Organizers of the Pennsylvania Farm Show that put up the Franklin butter sculpture in 2007 solicited ideas for what to do with all that yellow (rapidly going rancid) stuff once the show was over. Biochemist Dr. Michael J. Haas of the United States Department o… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Today on Planet 100: Top 5 Endangered Sharks (Video)

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Tell the Senate to Stop Stalling on Clean Energy

It should be unthinkable that in the wake of the worst oil disaster in history, the Senate has not yet passed a bill that would hold BP accountable for the damage they have wreaked on Gulf communities and businesses.   And yet, here we are…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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How a US Ghost Town Got in the Heart of the Amazon

Photo: Carol Laiate Traveling through the heart of the Brazilian Amazon , one might expect to run across many strange and fascinating things — but an American ghost town probably wouldn’t be one of them. Yet deep in the world’s largest rainforest lies the abandoned remnants of Fordlândia , a remote US-style factory… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Weekend Receipts: The Other Guys Jolt Inception Awake

As it turns out, the fourth time wasn’t the charm for Inception . Christopher Nolan’s Scrooge McDuck-inspired blockbuster was knocked out of the top spot at the box office this weekend by Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg and a cadre of Prius jokes. Click ahead for the full assortment of weekend receipts.

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