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Dispatches from a solar-power training expedition
Walt Ratterman is program director for Green Empowerment, a nonprofit that promotes community-based renewable-energy projects internationally to generate social and environmental progress. Monday, 24 May 2004 GALAPAGOS ISLANDS Today was […]
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Russian Coquette
Putin Commits Russia to Kyoto Protocol Well, we’ll be damned: Kyoto might just happen. After an international courtship worthy of a Harlequin romance, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Friday […]
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Carbon Neutrality: the New Black
Celebs Pay Up to Be Carbon-Neutral It’s the latest hip trend in the entertainment world: carbon neutrality. Celebs from Brad Pitt [sound of young girls screaming] to Orlando Bloom [more […]
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Table Talk
Environment May Play Key Role in Presidential Election While it’s true that the environment ranks low on the general public’s list of concerns (eighth, according to a recent Gallup poll), […]
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Something to HUD
Feds Withholding Info on Lead-Contaminated Public Housing If the comments of a senior federal housing official, captured on videotape, are to be believed, the government is withholding information on public-housing […]
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Dr. Jekyll and Formaldehyde
EPA Develops Industry-Friendly Wood-Products Regulation How does the song go? “It’s all the same; only the names have changed.” This time around, it’s the wood-products industry. Since 2002, the U.S. […]
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A Different Kind of Giant Sucking Sound
China Hoovering the World’s Raw Materials China is huge, its economy is exploding, and its consequent hunger for resources is having profound effects on the world’s economy and environment. Sure, […]
