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• Carbon Trading Scams – Who are you paying to reduce your footprint?

  
  The Chic Ecologist — Authority: 112
  Ever bought a plane ticket and seen the little banner that says ‘offset your carbon emissions here’, or seen a company claim to be ‘carbon neutral’? More often than not, they are buying carbon credits.Carbon footprints are all the rage right now, so much so that a whole new industry is being built on carbon ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  2 days ago

• Water Use in the U.S. Less in 2005 Than in 1975

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 477
  Just when you think all human activities are making the environment worse, news comes that our efforts to improve efficiency and reduce environmental impacts (0ur environmental footprint) are doing some good. According to a new U.S. Geological Survey report, the U.S. is using less water now than during the peak years ...
  5 days ago

• Land disputes is costing India 100 Billion Dollars of Investment !

  
  Trakin' the india business buzz — Authority: 474
  We very well know the story of Tata Nano Land Dispute. What was West Bengal’s loss though was Gujarat’s profit. Nano’s are now coming out of the state. However, most of the projects are not as lucky as Nano to get a Land replacement. Did you know that 70% of total 190 projects that were supposed to be ...
  5 days ago

• Midland School Receives the Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award (GEELA)

  
  Boarding School Blog - onBoarding Schools — Authority: 128
  Congratulations to Midland School for receiving the prestigious Environmental and Economic Leadership Award . The award represents California’s highest environmental honor. GEELA “recognizes individuals, organizations, and businesses that have demonstrated exceptional leadership and made notable, voluntary ...
  1 week ago

• Australia Blazing Oil Rig May Collapse

  
  Fire Earth — Authority: 434
  How Could Any Worthy Person, Corp, or Govt Allow Such Ecocide Continue for So Long?Australia Oil Rig May Collapse, Fire Out of Control: PTTEPOn August 23, 2009 FEWW asserted that the Australian Oil Disaster May Get a Lot WorseIt has, and there’s no sign of abating. Just over 10 weeks after the leak started on ...
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• Tourist resort on Great Keppel Island knocked back

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 541
  A new $1.15 billion tourist resort on Great Keppel Island has been knocked back by Environment Minister Peter Garrett because it would have a major impact on life in the Great Barrier Reef. read more
  1 week ago

• Tourist resort on Great Keppel Island knocked back

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 541
  A new $1.15 billion tourist resort on Great Keppel Island has been knocked back by Environment Minister Peter Garrett because it would have a major impact on life in the Great Barrier Reef. read more
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• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
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• Hawai’i Supreme Court to Hear Development Dispute on O`ahu’s North Shore

  
  Climate of Our Future — Authority: 414
  Development plans approved 25 years ago need update before more building allowedOctober 30, 2009  Honolulu, HI – The Supreme Court of Hawai`i announced it will review a lower court decision that an outdated, 25-year-old Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) provides enough information to approve a major new ...
  1 week ago

• Protests in Australia as oil well in Timor Sea continues to leak

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 448
  Oil-covered protesters demonstrated outside the offices of a Bangkok-based well operator in Perth Thursday 29 October to protest a leaking oil well in the Timor Sea , off the northwest coast of Australia. The well, 2.6km below the ocean floor, has been leaking oil and gas into the sea since 21 August. Concerns are ...
  1 week ago

• The Great Diaper Debate: Comparing the Environmental Impact of “Eco-Friendly” Diapers

  
  Green Options — Authority: 147
  I knew going into having a baby that the mountains of diapers would horrify me from both a personal hygiene and environmental perspective. I also knew that I wasn’t game for potty-training-at-birth philosophies. Sure enough, if I calculate how many diapers I’ve changed for my now 15 month old, I’m horrified. ...
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• PolyMet Draft EIS released

  
  Legalectric — Authority: 122
  WOW… and here I thought PolyMet’s Draft EIS was as moribund as the EIS for Excelsior Energy’s Mesaba Project.  Nope, here it is: PolyMet Mining Draft EIS It’s HUGE, it will take a while, there are a lot of parts. They are not accepting comments until after November 2, so after that time, I’ll post ...
  1 week ago

• Ethical Clothing Pledge

  
  Little eco footprints — Authority: 422
  I’ve decided to take Isis’s Ethical Clothing Pledge . I pledge to only wear clothing that is one or more of the following: 1. Pre-loved 2. Handmade (preferably by me) 3. Reconstructed 4. Made with ethical / environmentally friendly materials 5. Made by a company with strong ethical policy & workers rights. ...
  1 week ago

• Chris Jordan – Environmental Awareness Photographer

  
  The Chic Ecologist — Authority: 112
  I have always been fascinated with photography, its ability to tell a story in a single frame. Sustainable and environmental photography hardly ever gets its place in the spotlight, mainly because the images can be so graphic or disturbing that nobody wants to put them on their wall at home. Chris Jordan may be one ...
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• Noise Pollution Forcing Blue Whales to Cope & Compete

  
  Mendo Coast Current — Authority: 117
  MendoCoastCurrent, October 27, 2009Editor’s Note: Over the past few weeks there have been numerous Blue Whales showing up dead on the coast of California and a cause of the recent Blue Whale washing up on the Mendocino coast has been the topic of great discussion and mystery here. Actual cause of death has been ...
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• US consumers could save a France’s worth of greenhouse gases

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 162
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• Harbour Bridge picnic may become annual

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  This mornings massive breakfast picnic which closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge could become an annual event. Sydneys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a city-wide food festival, has been hailed a success, with about 6,000 picnic goers in attendance. The eight lanes of bitumen were given a temporary ...
  2 weeks ago

• 6,000 eat brekkie on Harbour Bridge

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Six thousand people have found the best picnic spot in Sydney this morning - sitting down to breakfast on the Harbour Bridge. The citys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a Sydney-wide food festival, was hailed a success. Picnickers say the event was well organised and there have been very few ...
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• Australia faces famine, expert warns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A food production expert says Australia may face a massive famine if governments fail to address an impending global food shortage. A conference of food productivity experts in Sydney this week heard the greatest threat to the world is not climate change, but food production on land and in the water. Science ...
  2 weeks ago

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