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How Bad Is Overfishing & What Can Be Done to Stop It?

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Jim G via flickr By now you’d have to have been living on a desert island by yourself with an imaginary coconut companion to not know that overfishing is a serious problem for all the world’s oceans. The good news is, though the future for fish looks pretty dire if we keep up how we’ve been fishing, we already have seen conservation successes to show the way forward and stop overfishing…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Even Logged Rainforest Holds High Biodiversity Levels & Is Worth Protecting: Study

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Logged forest on left, unlogged forest on right… photo: Wakx via flickr Conventional political wisdom on rainforest degradation is that once you’ve logged an area once, or even twice, removing the largest most valuable trees, the forest becomes degraded to the point that biodiversity losses make it not worth protecting. In Borneo, often the land is turned over to plantation agriculture. A new study in

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How Can President Obama Cut Carbon Emissions Without a Climate Bill?

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Beth Rankin via flickr With Congress still not able to get out of its own way and actually move forward any legislation with the word ‘climate’ in it, what options does President Obama have to make good on his oft-stated commitments to make reductions in greenhouse gas emissions? Leaving aside the EPA mandating carbon emission reductions (remember it’s now officially a pollutant), over at

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New Renewable Energy Installations in US & Europe Continue to Outpace Fossil Fuels

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Petter Palander via flickr Here’s a bit of good news about the slow transition away from oil and fossil fuels: Reports from UNEP and Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century show that in 2009, for the second year in a row, more new renewable energy capacity was installed than was from fossil fuels in both the United States and Europe…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Want to Kick Our Oil Addiction? Let’s Get Our Priorities Straight First

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Joost J Bakker via flickr You’d have to be living in a cave since the beginning of the BP oil spill to not have heard, or made, statements about never letting this sort of environmental disaster happen again and kicking our oil addiction . There have even been checklists 50 items deep of ways you can use less oil. Before we act on that sentiment, (and let me be clear that we will be using less oil in the future, … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Obama Admin Issues New Offshore Drilling Moratorium – After Judge Struck Down First One

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Oil spill cleanup vehicle photo: US Coast Guard via flickr Coming through a variety of sources all through the afternoon, not the least of which is the AP talking to Obama administration officials speaking on condition of anonymity, is word that a new offshore oil drilling moratorium will be issued–a little more than two weeks after

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Growing Consumer Consumption a Bigger Problem Than Growing Population: Fred Pearce

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Greg Scales via flickr We’ve covered this one on a number of occasions but with World Population Day just passed, it’s worth bring up again: In a new op-ed published at Grist and elsewhere, Fred Pearce argues that all the focus on population growth rates in the developing world and its impact on the environment is misplaced. Whe… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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China No Longer a Developing Nation – Per Capita Carbon Emissions Higher Than France’s

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Beijing shopping mall, photo: John via flickr James Kanter over at the New York Times point out a very important statistical update: According to an assessment of per capita carbon emissions by the Netherlands Environmental Agency , China now emits on a per person basis more than France. While emissions in France in 2009 were 6 tons, those in China were 6.1 tons–up from 2.2 tons in … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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What Is Sustainable Development & Why Is Defining It Key to Our Future?

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Jaume Ventura via flickr Even though it’s at the center of environmental thinking, the concept of sustainable development is pretty broad; and considering how often the term gets thrown around and invoked these days, perhaps a quick bit of clarity is in order. There’s a textbook definition of sustainable development (as well as plenty of interpretations of that), but let’s go through the main components and how they all fit together. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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New EcoLabel Index Sorts Out Validity, Accountability & Transparency of Green Certification Programs

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Joshua W via flickr The sheer proliferation of eco-labeling, certification and recognition programs, covering everything from food, to clothing, to energy and more, is bewildering–even to people who follow this stuff professionally. It’s hard to keep up with it all and sometimes just as hard to sort out what labels can be trusted and which need improvement. Which is where the just-launched Ecolabel Index comes in. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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