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Why are you still reading this? Go buy Van Jones’ new book!
Watch this video: Now watch this video: Now go buy Van Jones’ new book!
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The whole economy needs to be green collar
Bob Herbert lays out a strong argument for a focus on jobs in his column “A Fool’s Paradise”: The economy won’t be saved by bailing out Wall Street and waiting […]
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New study shows the error of ICCAT’s ways
A new study in this week’s Science finds that the two distinct Atlantic bluefin tuna populations — those spawned in the Gulf of Mexico and those spawned in the Mediterranean […]
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Snippets from the news
• Are falling oil prices a blessing or a curse for automakers? • Some envision offshore wind farms in the Great Lakes. • Credit crisis threatens energy projects in West. […]
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Feds will designate critical habitat for polar bears
The U.S. government will designate critical habitat for polar bears off Alaska’s coast as part of a partial settlement of a lawsuit brought by Greenpeace, the Natural Resources Defense Council, […]
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Fascinating L.A. Times article on racial and coal politics in Virginia
“We’re all black in the mines.” — Jerry Stallard, a coal union organizer in Virginia, arguing to his fellow miners that Obama’s support for unions and for coal is more […]
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Must-read NYT Magazine: ‘Capitalism to the Rescue’
The New York Times Magazine has a long article on how uber-VC Kleiner Perkins is helping to jumpstart the clean-tech revolution. It is a must-read because what Kleiner and other […]
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Snippets from the news
• Why CDC responded with “lack of urgency” to formaldehyde warnings. • 500,000 gallons of oil spilled from Hurricane Ike. • Democratic Republic of Congo cancels two-thirds of logging contracts. […]
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Economics of GHG reduction, part bazillion
Two troubling things I heard last week: The on-going question about what our next president will sacrifice in the name of the economy. If the financial crisis has taught us […]
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Nearly a quarter of wild mammal species are in danger of extinction
Some 21 percent of the world’s 5,487 known wild mammal species are in danger of extinction, according to the updated Red List maintained by the International Union for the Conservation […]
