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There's (thankfully) been a lot of attention focused lately on the behind-the-scenes influence of corporations on public policy and opinion -- see Jane Mayer's great expose of the extremely powerful billionaire Koch brothers for a good example. Over the last year we've seen corporations sponsor "grassroots" movements fighting health care reform, the oil industry back anti-climate legislation Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Could Save Millions of Dollars Per Year
Vehicles without regenerative braking are throwing away a lot of energy every time they brake (movement is converted into heat via friction on the brake pads). Hybrid and electric car address that problem by capturing as much of that energy as possible and converting it into electricity, and the same might be about to happen to subway trains with the added twist that it would be tied to the (smart) power grid. The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPT...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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This one's been inbound for a couple of years now, the United States objecting to the European Union's plans to make foreign airlines start paying for the carbon emissionsM from landing and taking off there from 2012, but as the New York Times reports, the US is upping the pres...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Legalizing cannabis has been promoted as the cure for nearly everything, from healing our withered economy, to ending the reign of drug cartels. Medical cannabis is already legal in the state, but this proposal would regulate and tax marijuana for any adult to use. On Monday, September 13, the Proposition 19 campaign is launching a “money bomb”— a single day when supporters all across the nation contribute to the campaign to legalize marijuana in the state of California.
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Are You Concerned About School Food? Help Propel the Revolution! is a post from: Eco Child's Play
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A new concept design by Lee Ju Won is the ultimate middle man. It sticks to a window to harness the power of the sun to run LEDs that provide light to potted plants that sit under it. Um, what's wrong with this picture?
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It's time to get creative. Climate legislation, as we all know, is kaput. Hope is dim for any kind of greenhouse gas limiting policy to emerge over the next year -- or years, more likely. So climate activists and green groups are starting to think outside the box for how to cut carbon in large scale, meaningful ways. One promising option that has arisen is to push for more stringent fuel economy standards -- a coalition of environmental groups has just launched a campaign urging the Obama ad...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Canyons of the Ancients. Image Credit: Bureau of Land Management
Southwest Colorado's Canyons of the Ancients is home to the greatest known concentration of archaeological sites in the United States. However, though it is protected as part of the National Conservation Lands, this ancient home of the Anasazi people is in trouble, and it's not alone. Overseen by the Conservation Lands Foundation, the Na...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Earlier in the week, I looked at a hypothetical scenario laid out by columnist David Brooks in which he imagined Obama and the Democrats had gone forward with an energy bill instead of doing health care reform. Joe Romm of Climate Progress had looked at the same scenario, and commented in the end that ""Future ge...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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More and more parents are expressing deep concerns about the quality of food being served in schools. And, many are still unaware that there might be anything to worry about.
