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Bill O'Reilly Disses Solar, Solar Chief Hits Back (Video)
Source: TreeHugger

You may have heard about the hot deal made between SunEdison and the Irvine, California, school district. They're putting up panels at 21 sites, and expect to save $17 million in energy costs over 20 years.

Polluting pets: the devastating impact of man's best friend
Source: Canwest Publishing Inc. - By Isabelle Toussaint,

PARIS – Man's best friend could be one of the environment's worst enemies, according to a new study which says the carbon pawprint of a pet dog is more than double that of a gas-guzzling sports utility vehicle.

Climate Change Deniers Cost the Earth
Source: Common Dreams

From the Senate chamber in Canberra, Australia, to the editorial offices of The Spectator in London, an entire class of right-wing leaders has hitched its wagon to an outlandish conspiracy theory without seemingly appreciating the profound implications their move will have not ju …

Energy-saving ideas - Times Online
Source: The Times

They have been called "negawatts" — the vast amounts of electricity and heat wasted around the world every day from homes, businesses and appliances as well as ageing power plants.

Largest web-spinning spider on record found in South Africa - Times Online
Source: The Times

A spider larger than any other web-spinning species on record has been found in South Africa. The species Nephila komaci is a member of the golden orb weaver family, and was identified as a new species after being found in a nature reserve.

Kirkwood as alternative energy lab: Ski area joins fight against global warming
Source: The Sacramento Bee

Few businesses feel as threatened by global warming as the ski industry. And few resorts are poised to go to the same lengths – and expense – to combat it as Kirkwood and the hardy folks who make their homes in the snowy, windswept Kirkwood Meadows.

Why the Polls on Climate Change Are Wrong
Source: Common Dreams

Here's a little creative action you can do to mark the occasion right now from your computer. Go ahead and News-Google the words: New Survey Climate Change. Watch what happens. At present writing, the top two search results that come up are utterly, irreconcilably contradictory.

Look At This Powerful Little Girl Of Wisdom

This little young lady is preaching to the world on how we are and the wastefulness that we put ourselves. She is only 13 years of age, and came 5000 miles on her as well as others money that they collected just to give the message that she gave.

Op-Ed Columnist - The New Sputnik - NYTimes.com
Source: The New York Times

What do we know about necessity? It is the mother of invention. And when China decides it has to go green out of necessity, watch out. You will not just be buying your toys from China.

Global Warming 'Science'
Source: American Thinker

From the article: Americans have been told that climate change legislation must become law based upon findings by scientists in a group called the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Old-growth forests felled for America's behinds - Washington Post- msnbc.com
Source: msnbc.com

We Americans are all about our image and how others view us. I suspect the majority of Green individuals would kill a large forest before giving up soft TP.

Japan to propose green technology,funding-minister
Source: Reuters

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama will unveil a plan to support developing countries in technology and funding to fight climate change at a U.N. meeting this week, Japan's environment minister said on Sunday.

Global Warming Has Made Arctic Summers Hottest for 2,000 Years
Source: Common Dreams

Warming as a result of increased levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has overwhelmed a millennia-long cycle of natural cooling in the Arctic, raising temperatures in the region to their highest for at least 2,000 years

Lawsuit Filed to Block Pipeline Project
Source: Common Dreams

Less than two weeks after the State Department gave the go-ahead for a major new 36-inch diameter pipeline to carry Alberta oil sands crude into the United States, a network of environmental and Native American groups filed a lawsuit in a San Francisco court on Thursday, accusing …

Water: The Newest Wave of Corporate 'Social Responsibility'
Source: Common Dreams

Water is a key medium through which climate change impacts will be felt," it reads, adding that "water-related adaptation" should be seen as part of the solution.

Climate Trouble May Be Bubbling Up in Far North
Source: Common Dreams

Pure methane, gas bubbling up from underwater vents, escaping into northern skies, adds to the global-warming gases accumulating in the atmosphere.

The US, Canada and Tar Sands: Pollution Without Borders
Source: Common Dreams

Tar sands development in Alberta is creating an environmental catastrophe, with toxic tailings ponds so large they can be seen from space and plans to strip away the forests and peat lands in an area the size of Florida.

Satellites Unlock Secret To Northern India's Vanishing Water
Source: Science Daily

Groundwater loss in northern India is particularly alarming because there were no unusual trends in rainfall – in fact, it was slightly above normal during the study period.

Coal Lobbyists Sent 13 Fake Letters to Hill
Source: Common Dreams

A lobbying firm working for a pro-coal industry group sent lawmakers a total of 13 fraudulent letters opposing the House climate bill — five more than initially believed, the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming said Tuesday.

Take This Mine and Shove It: India Fights Coal, as Tribe Fights Mountaintop Removal
Source: Common Dreams

Over the past year, demanding a sustainable economy, green jobs and an end to the destruction of their mountain communities and watersheds, an uprising against government-sanctioned mountaintop removal mining in the Appalachian coalfields by residents and national environmental o …

'The Clunkers of the Power-Plant World'
Source: Common Dreams

Many public health and environmental advocates say too little attention has been paid to facilities such as Fisk and Crawford -- "legacy" plants grandfathered in under the 1977 Clean Air Act and largely exempted from its requirement that facilities use the best pollution-control  …

Protesters Descend on Chevron's Richmond Refinery For Climate Justice, To 'Cap The Crude'
Source: Common Dreams

Chevron wants to process heavier crude at its Richmond refinery. Refining heavier crude will result in more air pollution, greater greenhouse gas emissions and disease.

Climate Change to Make Texas Too Hot for Some Species
Source: Common Dreams

As the hot days in Texas get even hotter, it may just be too much for some birds and fish.

Obama Administration Announces New Effort to Protect Wildlife in National Forests
Source: Common Dreams

SEATTLE, Wa. - August 14 - Today Agriculture Secretary Vilsack announced the Obama administration would not appeal a court ruling won by Earthjustice that struck down forestry regulations enacted by the Bush administration.

Scientists Explore How the Humble Leaf Could Power the Planet
Source: Common Dreams

It is one of evolution's crowning achievements - a mini green power station and organic factory combined and the source of almost all of the energy that fuels every living thing on the planet. Now scientists developing the next generation of clean power sources are work …

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