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• in IT
  Truly Green or Eco-friendly?
  Web hosting companies are allowed to use the term "green" regardless of whether or not green energy is used.
  by sbullo / on Nov 10, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “ecology”

• In Defense Of Dissection

  
  Scientific Blogging — Authority: 640
  An opinion piece in the Boston Herald criticizes the squid dissection component of an overnight family education event at the New England Aquarium: The barbaric highlight of the night was when the children were instructed to use the squid’s pseudo-spine to puncture its ink sac and then write their names on the ...
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• “Climategate” – the smoking gun?

  
  Open Parachute — Authority: 493
  Some of the more extreme climate change deniers, and others who have an anti-science agenda, continue to dredge through the domestic debris of the emails stolen by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia. Their conclusions are, of course, predictable.  Meanwhile, the balanced media ...
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• Cutting Greenhouse Pollutants Could Directly Save Millions of Lives Worldwide

  
  The X-Journals — Authority: 142
  New studies published in the Lancet show that strategies to reduce greenhouse gases also benefit human health. The Lancet series highlights case studies on four climate change topics — household energy, transportation, electricity generation, and agricultural food production.
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• Obama Announces 2020 Emissions Target, Dec. 9 Copenhagen Visit

  
  President-obama.org — Authority: 438
  President Obama today unveiled key details of the U.S. negotiation position headed into next month’s global warming talks in Copenhagen, including a provisional greenhouse gas emissions target for 2020 “in the range of 17 percent below 2005 levels” and a new itinerary that includes a personal appearance during ...
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• E-dubba Google (The schoolhouse of Google)

  
  hard deadlines - Localblogging Portsmouth — Authority: 129
  My Sumerian is not what it used to be, so forgive what is probably a shaky translation in the title, but the news that Google has partnered with the Iraq National Museum to digitize their entire collection is just fantastic news. You can read about it in the New York Times , which also contains a link to the prior ...
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• Oregon Tops Report on Policies for Customer-owned Renewable Energy

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 484
  Advocates Release Third Annual Report Card to States on Net Metering, InterconnectionRenewable energy advocates today released the 2009 Edition of Freeing the Grid, a policy guide that grades states on their current net metering and interconnection practices. Together these two policies empower energy customers to use ...
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• Marvellous distempered: the Copenhagen diagnosis

  
  Hot Topic — Authority: 468
  The Copenhagen climate conference (COP15) opens its doors in a little under two weeks. To update participants on the science of climate a new assessment report, The Copenhagen Diagnosis, was released yesterday, and it makes grim reading. Designed to inform “a target readership of policy-makers, stakeholders, the ...
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• Weakened ETS now law

  
  Hot Topic — Authority: 468
  The government’s amendments to the Emissions Trading Scheme became law this afternoon, thanks to support from the Maori Party [Stuff, Herald, Reuters]. Nick Smith called the changes “workable and affordable” and said that they struck “the right balance in protecting the future of our economy and our ...
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• Beverly Hills Declares War on Birds

  
  Fat Finch--Birds, Birding & Blogging — Authority: 115
  Beverly Hills, home to generations of movie stars and other rich people, has declared war on songbirds. It may be part of a broader conspiracy. San Francisco, Santa Monica, West Hollywood and Los Angeles have piled on.Woe betide anyone Beverly Hills or those other California towns who dares declaw a cat!  All those ...
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• Environmental Activism – For a Pollution-free Planet

  
  Earthpages.org — Authority: 132
  Traffic: zoonabar / Chris Brown Author: oil Pollution caused by oil spills from tankers is one of the biggest threats to the environment. But it is only one part of the picture. Not many know that oil runoff from cars, trucks, and other vehicles also cause severe marine pollution. When it rains, oil ...
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• Sustainable Electric boating

  
  nevertheless — Authority: 424
  Retired Queensland academic and marine industry researcher Gary Fooks says; "Outboard engines are doing far more environmental damage than the oil spill from the container ship Pacific Adventurer ... (and) ..weekend boaties using old technology two-stroke engines on their outboards dumped more than 3000 tonnes of ...
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• All Your Climate Change Are Belong To Us

  
  The Whig — Authority: 493
  PJM: Three Things You Absolutely Must Know About Climategate
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• Ladybugs Contribute to Species Diversity, According to New Study

  
  Green Options — Authority: 149
  In early fall, many areas of Canada and some parts of the US were overcome by an influx of ladybugs that were adhering themselves to the outside of buildings and even finding their way into homes. Although technically, the species that generated all of the infestation hype was actually a species of beetle, also known ...
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• 24 November, 2009 – This Week in Science

  
  This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast — Authority: 110
  Origin Anniversary, Radio Brains, Rampaging Robot Vampires Need Lawyers Too, Life Mutations and Electricity, RNA Warmth, Biophotonic Communication, Life as a Carrot, Kiki Rants, TWi the End of the World, And Much, Much More!
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• Imagining 2020: A Low Carbon Future? Bah! Humbug!

  
  Hot Topic — Authority: 468
  First essay in the new Scoop/Celsias/Hot Topic Imagining 2020 series is a thought-provoking vision from Gareth Morgan and John McCrystal of the Morgan Charitable Foundation:On the eve of December’s Copenhagen conference on climate, all indications are that there will be no legally binding obligations agreed to by ...
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• Darwin and the Story of Life

  
  University of California Press Blog — Authority: 128
  On November 24, 1859, John Murray published Charles Darwins "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or thePreservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life". That same day, the first printing of 1,250 copies sold out, and it is still in print 150 years later. In the book Darwin proposed his ...
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• New Species Discovered Thanks to Vomiting Snake

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 716
  The newly-discovered Magombera chameleon. Image credit: Andrew Marshall/African Journal of Herpetology Dr. Andrew Marshal did not venture into the lowland forests of Tanzania looking for a new species . He does not study reptiles or amphibians. In fact, the new species of chameleon he disco... Read the full story ...
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• Toronto police use Taser on wayward deer

  
  Dvorak Uncensored — Authority: 637
  CBC News – Toronto – Toronto police use Taser on wayward deer . A wayward deer that wandered through downtown Toronto before stopping to rest near a busy intersection has been stunned and captured. They could have let the deer go on its merry way, but noooo. Found by Robb Murray. .color_viewer { ...
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• Soiling our own nest: "ecology" vs "environment"

  
  nothing new under the sun... — Authority: 415
  “More precisely, the crisis is that a now-globalizing culture in nature and wholly of nature runs full grain against it. A virile, comprehensive, and attractive way of life is destructive of nature and human community together – this is the crisis. Soils, peoples, air and water are being depleted and ...
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