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• Direct action against climate change

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 598
  I thought I’d share this excellent opinion piece from the UK on the value of direct action in the climate movement. With each day bringing new compromises from corporate green groups and governments in the lead up to Copenhagen, it is essential that we keep up the heat in the streets. By Kevin Smith As ...
  7 hours ago

• California Group Blames Immigrants for Climate Change

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 631
  A California anti-immigration group has created a multimedia ad campaign blaming immigrants for climate change and environmental degradation in California. Californians for Population Stabilization, or CAP, argues that immigrants, legal and illegal, increase their carbon footprint four-fold when they move to the US ...
  13 hours ago

• Homemade Harvey: “This Package is Landfill Friendly”

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 631
  Opportunity Green’s been brimming with great speakers and quality products to talk about. But occasionally there’s a lemon. I was puzzled to see what looked like flattened toothpaste tubes in a bucket of ice on the patio today. They turned out to be a crushed fruit product called “Homemade Harvey” – [...]
  3 days ago

• Channeling Clean Coal through Penguins

  
  Global Warming: Change Starts Here — Authority: 103
  Poor taste. That’s what I call the energy industry’s decision to run TV ads about “clean coal” during a nature documentary about Emporer penguins of Madagascar. During the November 6 screening of “March of the Penguins,” on The Weather Channel, were several advocacy TV spots paid for by the American ...
  3 days ago

• Is it Really Local?

  
  The Green Workplace — Authority: 413
  Weve heard a lot about greenwashing in the past ( false claims regarding the green-ness of a product, service, etc), but have you heard of localwashing? I ran across an article discussing how global corporations are now claiming to be local. I hadnt been thinking about this concept, but sadly, I wasnt ...
  3 days ago

• “Let’s Learn About Coal”: Industry front group distributes coloring book on the “advantages” of coal

  
  Climate Progress — Authority: 714
  This is a Think Progress repost .  Click on cartoon to see the whole coloring book. Friends of Coal (FOC) is a front group created by the West Virginia Coal Association. Its mission is to “ inform and educate West Virginia citizens about the coal industry ” and “provide a united voice” for the ...
  3 days ago

• Looking for Climate Leaders? None here…yet

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 598
  Aliens at UN. Credit: Robert vanWaarden - vanwaardenphoto.com On the final day of the UNFCCC negotiations in Barcelona, the last meetings before the world turns it’s eyes to Copenhagen, the Avaaz Action Factory formed a coalition with the aliens from Planet B (you read that right). The aliens were on a dire ...
  4 days ago

• Propos de Philippe Starck sur les biomatériaux : les réactions

  
  PakBec — Authority: 123
  En réaction au billet Bioplastique : Crime contre lhumanité ??? rapportant les propos de Philippe Starck à propos des biomatériaux, plusieurs professionnels ont réagi. Je partage avec vous quelques uns de leurs points de vue. L.B : Oui, nous sommes dans un monde où certains peuvent se permettre de ...
  6 days ago

• VIDEO: WashU flashmob confronts Coal Executives

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 598
  Written by Will Fischer, student leader at Washington University in St. Louis. Something loud is afoot on our sleepy campus in St. Louis. Washington University students are beginning to re-discover what connects them. Students that have never worked together before have just executed the largest direct action ...
  6 days ago

• Palm oil lobby group launches public relations push to counter environmental complaints

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 137
  A report released by World Growth International in late September claimed that environmentalists are waging a “morally indefensible” campaign against palm oil. The report accurately highlighted the high productivity of oil palm — the worlds highest-yielding commercial oilseed — and noted that the crop has ...
  1 week ago

• In Defense Of TetraPak

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 721
  Image Source: TetraPak TetraPak, the company that makes aseptic milk carton-like packaging that holds everything from wine to soup to tomato sauce, has been receiving a lot of coverage in the green media lately, both good and bad . This surge in attention is in part due to a recent TetraPak-sponsored media ...
  1 week ago

• Bioplastique : Crime contre lhumanité ???

  
  PakBec — Authority: 123
  J’ai glané cette citation du designer français Philippe Starck sur le Blog Biopol . « … Dautres, plus à la mode, diront que nous devons utiliser le bioplastique. Le bioplastique implique que nous devrons supprimer des milliards dhectares darbres, de champs où les gens cultivent quelque ...
  1 week ago

• If Walmart were really green…

  
  The Writing On The Wal — Authority: 131
  …it wouldn’t be so slow about eradicating plastic bags. In a post explaining Target’s new program on this front, Kathryn Robbins writes: But where is the nation’s biggest retailer, Wal-Mart, on ditching plastic bags? They’re thinking about it. The company wants to “reduce our global plastic shopping ...
  1 week ago

• During forged letter investigation hearing, coal industry lies under oath about its lobbying history

  
  Climate Progress — Authority: 714
  This is a Think Progress repost . Today, the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming held a hearing investigating fraudulent letters forged by Bonner & Associates on behalf of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) to attack the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and ...
  1 week ago

• The Menace of Eco-Friendly

  
  BCBUSINESS RSS Feed — Authority: 130
  Steve Burgess Be aware of the "eco-friendly" labels and what lurks behind them. read more
  1 week ago

• Combating the Scourge of Greenwashing

  
  Global Warming is Real — Authority: 513
  Green marketing has never been more popular, but not all green claims are created equal. Businesses are increasingly cognizant of the value of socially and ethically conscious consumers. Between 2007 and 2009, the in-store availability of ‘green’ products has increased between 40% and 176%. Globally, the market ...
  1 week ago

• PROOF POSITIVE THAT GREENWASHING WORKS…

  
  The Writing On The Wal — Authority: 131
  If you tell a lie loud enough and long enough, that portion of President Abraham Lincoln’s foolable people will believe that black is white, up is down, war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength and on and on and on. And when the Ministry of Truth Greener World Media, Earthsense and Survey Sampling ...
  1 week ago

• University Of Kentucky approves new $7 million industry-funded dorm named after “Coal”

  
  Climate Progress — Authority: 714
  You can’t make this stuff up, as this Think Progress repost makes clear. A group led by Alliance Coal CEO Joseph Craft recently proposed donating $7 million to the University of Kentucky for a new dorm for the men’s basketball team. The catch, however, is that the dorm would have to be named after Craft’s ...
  1 week ago

• Why ‘Green’ Isn’t Working: How Do We Reach the Other Half?

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 545
  A few weeks ago I attended a “Green Festival” in Washington, D.C., tagged as the world’s largest environmental expo. As I walked around, I kept thinking about who this festival was really meant for . Everyone in attendance chose to go to (and pay to get in) this event. These are people who are already invested ...
  1 week ago

• Hit or Myth? A Dozen Dirty "Truths" With One Tiny Problem: Theyre False

  
  Planet Green — Authority: 671
  How eco-gullible are you?
  2 weeks ago

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