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Will China steal the U.S. thunder by launching cap-and-trade in the next five years?
Just when the U.S. Senate finally admitted to abandoning its plan of issuing a federal climate bill by the end of this year, top Chinese officials were discussing how to launch carbon trading programs under their country’s next five-year plan (2011–15).
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Natural Enemies–People And Nature
Crossposted from Biodiversivist The above photo is from Rhett Butler’s (of Mongabay) latest trip to Bali. It inspired me to do a post. Beetle collecting was all the rage back […]
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Friday music blogging: Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
Ariel Pink got his start in the Los Angeles low-fi freak folk scene, which I know nothing about. Recently, though, he put a stable band together, the Haunted Graffiti, and earlier this year put out an album, Before Today. It's confounding and addicting.
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Greenpeace shuts down 30 London BP stations
Greenpeace U.K. shut down at least 30 BP stations in London on Tuesday in one of the more ballsy displays of civil disobedience against the energy giant. Something for us Yanks to learn from?
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Prairie Crossing in Illinois: The ‘urban’ farm of the future?
Matt and Peg Sheaffer run Sandhill Organics in Prairie Crossing.(Michael Hanson) For the final stop on the Breaking Through Concrete tour, we’re gettin’ all peri-urban on y’all. It takes almost […]
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Response To The Cornucopians
(Photo credit: Ollie Crafoord’s photo stream Flickr) Cross Posted from Biodiversivist There have been four recent articles in Grist (mine makes the fifth and I would not blame anyone for […]
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Population trends as you’ve never seen them before [VIDEO]
As part of my GINK and population coverage, I’ll be bringing you a video each Saturday with a different take on these issues. Check out the previous installment, and stay […]
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BP whistleblower: ‘They just don’t know who they’re messing with’
If you’ve been reading Mother Jones lately, you’ve heard about BP’s stranglehold on media access in the Gulf, which has included preventing reporters from visiting oil-soaked public beaches and barring […]
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Grist president gets a pie in the face
Here at Grist, we are berry grateful to all our lovely, generous readers who donated during the May 2010 “Save our endangered journalists” fund-raiser. We were thrilled to hit our […]
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The Emerging Politics of Food Scarcity
A dangerous geopolitics of food scarcity is emerging in which individual countries, acting in their narrowly defined self-interest, reinforce the trends causing global food security to deteriorate. This began in […]
