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Magazines go green
It seems like every magazine puts out a "Green Issue" these days. And while I love nothing more than to see increasing attention paid to the environmental movement, there is a wide disparity in the...
Last Action Hero
Our governor, who was oiling his quads for the camera when Lois Gibbs was fighting a chemical catastrophe at Love Canal, is suddenly being hailed as an environmental hero.
Commuting takes a toll on the body -- especially over time
As reported by the Washington Post in Your Car + Your Commute = A Visit to Your Doctor, your daily drive will make you angrier, stiffer, and home sick more often. Another compelling reason to reduce...
Automakers construct excuses, not solutions
According to the New York Times, American automakers recently put together a short list of reasons for not cutting carbon dioxide emissions in their vehicle fleets:
How to talk to a climate change skeptic
Do you have trouble defending global warming science against the indefensible arguments of a climate change skeptic in your office or [gasp!] at your dinner table?
This just in: CO2 bad for air
In a huge decision that could force the Bush Administration to take action on global warming, the Supreme Court has ruled that carbon dioxide is air pollution.
First Class to Nairobi and 2 tons of carbon credits, please
The London papers are nailing the British diplomat whose job it is to lobby other countries to reduce global warming gases – but whose frequent-flier lifestyle produces a staggering 22.3 tons of...
Katrina IMAX feature glosses over reality
I left the Smithsonian's IMAX Theater after seeing Hurricane on the Bayou wondering how the film's producers managed to make such a colorfully feel-good movie about the devastation of Katrina. The...
Campus transportation alternatives
Providing parking facilities and addressing traffic congestion imposes significant costs to universities across the United States. That's why many campuses have implemented Transportation Demand...
In the news: February 19, 2007
How gov't decided lunch box lead levels- In 2005, government scientists found that one in five soft, vinyl lunch boxes contained amounts of lead that medical experts consider unsafe. But that's not...
Getting married soon? Consider greening your wedding.
Planning a large event like a wedding is a unique opportunity to make decisions can dramatically reduce your toll on the environment. Joe Carrick and Jessica Randall, newlyweds featured in today's...
What we are up against
"No you will not teach or show that propagandist Al Gore video to my child, blaming our nation -- the greatest nation ever to exist on this planet -- for global warming," Hardison wrote in an e-mail...
Bush's energy concerns fuel international interest and skepticism
The world watched in awe and excitement as President Bush outlined his new concepts of global warming and strategies to battle it during his State of the Union address Tuesday night. While the...
Bush's omissions not omitted by Washington Post
The Washington Post will not let President Bush off the hook for his omissions in last nights State of the Union address.
Society seeks support for "peculiar" animals
The Zoological Society of London highlighted 100 species – ranging from the spiny long beaked echidna to the potentially already extinct Yangtze river dolphins – for their new program EDGE...
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH to be adapted for young adults
Publishers Penguin and Rodale have announced today a joint effort to publish an adaptation of Al Gore's book AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH: THE CRISIS OF GLOBAL WARMING for young readers.
Does carbon offsetting work?
When Tony Blair says that he will be 'offsetting' his family's recent Florida trip, he is referring to a system in which an individual pays a [usually for-profit] company to zero out all or part of...
Inconvenient Truth 2 with Cameron Diaz?
Al Gore's Nashville-based Climate Project expects to train well over 1,000 volunteers to be effective messengers of climate change science through slideshow presentations. Al's use of the slideshow...
I'm resolving to change my light bulbs. Will you join me?
Happy new year and welcome back to Enviroblog--you are reading the first post of 2007! I've never been big on New Year's resolutions but this year I'm making one I know I'll follow through with and...
Experimental Xerox paper erases itself
Feel guilty about those documents you print out, only to be read once and then tossed? Not guilty enough to strain your eyes reading every last word from your computer screen? Xerox Corporation thinks...
