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Critics question World Bank’s role as carbon trader, fossil-fuel funder
For as long as it’s been around, the World Bank has been prone to mission creep. Established 60 years ago to rebuild war-torn Europe, it morphed into an institution whose […]
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I Coulda Had a V-12
Automakers make SUV engines bigger, less efficient Under heated criticism for making SUVs that are unsafe and grossly fuel-inefficient, American automakers are responding the way any responsible industry would: making […]
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Maybe There’s Something to This “Polite” Business
Auto industry agrees to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in Canada After years of halting negotiations, the auto industry has reached a deal with the Canadian government to voluntarily reduce its greenhouse-gas […]
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O Brother, Where Wal-Mart Thou?
Environmental lawsuits stymie Wal-Mart’s attempts to colonize California Retail Brobdingnagian and perpetual defendant Wal-Mart, having carpeted much of the U.S. in Supercenters, has its sights set on one of its […]
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Environmental funders share blame for movement’s weak pulse
In responding to “The Death of Environmentalism,” activist Ken Ward writes, “If the future toward which we rush is folly, the solution proposed by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus is […]
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Post No Bills
Eco-activists arrested for protesting near bank chief’s home Three activists with the Rainforest Action Network were arrested and fined earlier this month after posting signs on telephone poles and trees […]
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Author and oil-spill expert Riki Ott answers questions
Riki Ott. What work do you do? What’s your job title? For the past seven years — 1998 to 2004 — I researched and wrote a book, Sound Truth and […]
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The Prices’ Height
Market notices that natural resources are shrinking fast While some folks in political circles still like to pretend that natural resources are endless, global financial markets aren’t, uh, buying it. […]
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Looking for Some Good Cowboys
Blair bypasses Bush, appeals to Texas for global-warming aid British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s quixotic mission to convert the Bush administration from staunch believers in “more research” on global warming […]
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The Cradle-to-Cradle Will Rock
Smart, eco-friendly design making inroads in the business community The seminal 2002 book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, by architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart, […]
