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Norway’s Doomsday Seed Vault Has Third Anniversary, Welcomes Thousands of New Deposits

February 28, 2011

Beans at the CIAT gene bank in Colombia, which has just sent its latest consignments of seeds for conservation at the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway. Photo: Neil Palmer/Global Crop Diversity Trust/Creative Commons.

The Doomsday Seed Vault (mor…

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Reducing Black Carbon Soot Would Slash Arctic Warming Two-Thirds by 2030, Cut Temp Rise by 0.5C

February 23, 2011

In addition to burning fossil fuels and cookstoves, industrial processes such as brick production are also important sources of black carbon emissions. Photo: jerseyshowaa/Creative Commons.

A new UNEP report highlights what a growing body of research…

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Fellowship Contest Gets $100 Million to Solve Climate Change

February 18, 2011

Throwing good money after good, StartingBloc brainstorms green investments. Photo by Yomanimus via Flickr

It’s called SIC – the Social Innovation Competition. Teams of six players will collaborate and brainstorm real solutions to the world’s greatest…

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Why We Need Humane Education In Our Schools

February 1, 2011

Photo by Shermeee via Flickr Creative Commons

Zoe Weil is the founder of Institute of Humane Education, and she recently gave a TED talk on the importance of redesigning how we educate people. We wanted to find out more about how a humane education c…

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Why We Need Humane Education In Our Schools

February 1, 2011

Photo by Shermeee via Flickr Creative Commons

Zoe Weil is the founder of Institute of Humane Education, and she recently gave a TED talk on the importance of redesigning how we educate people. We wanted to find out more about how a humane education c…

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Message for Policymakers: Ocean Iron Fertilization Chances of Success Low

January 31, 2011

photo: Marina Kuperman/Creative Commons

Another summary of the potential risks and benefits of ocean iron fertilization–the geoengineering method which proposes seeding oceans with iron so as to stimulate microscopic plants that absorb carbon from t…

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The Global Impact of Protecting One Turkish Lake

January 30, 2011

Yeniçağa Lake. Photo: Yeniçağa Belediyesi (Municipality).

Once a popular swimming spot, Yeniçağa Lake in the northwestern Turkish province of Bolu has become too polluted even to sustain the healthy fish populations once found there. But thanks…

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TED Talk: Zoe Weil on Shaping The World Through Our Classrooms

January 19, 2011

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Zoe Weil is the president of Institute for Humane Education, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating a humane world through teaching principles of living a more meaningful life. In other words, we can create a sustainable, t…

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CO2 Levels at Leaking Canadian Carbon Storage Project Could Asphyxiate You In One Place

January 12, 2011

Some more on the leaking carbon sequestration project in Canada that has killed farm animals, and caused all sorts of strange problems for farmers Cameron and Jane Kerr. A new piece in The Tyee fills in some of the background details and the current …

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CES 2011: GE Unveils Our Smart Home of the Future

January 8, 2011

Photos via Jaymi Heimbuch

General Electric has been working on smart appliances for years now, and more importantly, it has been pouring resources into getting those appliances connected within a smart home and the smart grid. The company showed plan…

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