Greening the Las Vegas Strip

The resorts along Las Vegas Boulevard sit not just in the middle of a desert, but at a crossroads where conspicuous consumption meets scarce resources.

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Energy Execs: Sustainability Is Critical

Many energy executives say sustainability is critical to the success of their operations, but far fewer believe that their companies have embraced the concept, a new survey shows.

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The Australian government decides to scale up its collaboration with India in science and research by pledging over $70 million in areas straddling energy, agriculture and environment.

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In this piece Richard Fisher of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank says "Two weeks ago, I was blessed with the birth of a grandchild. Her name is Anna.

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According to two new studies, planting forests in areas that currently don't have trees -- a process called afforestation -- can reduce the local availability of water.

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So to get to the root of the exploding obesity epidemic, I went in search of a junk food farm. Such farms are not so easy to spot. No fields of Dorito bags waving in the breeze, no orchards blooming with soda pop, no soil bursting with 99-cent burgers.

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Sustainability is founded on altruism – caring for others. Auguste Comte (1798 -1857) coined the word, proposing that we should 'live for others' – vivre pour autrui – instead of living for God, or money, or self-gratification.

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Board members of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute have approached the Marine Stewardship Council about leading efforts to shepherd Alaska salmon through the extensive audit needed to achieve certification as a sustainable fishery.

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A green advisory team launched by Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson earlier this year has proposed a number of measures — such as encouraging people to drink tap water and grow local food — to turn the city into the world's greenest by 2020. Other recommendations in an "u …

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Mayor Gregor Robertson announced an ambitious 10-year plan Tuesday to make Vancouver the world's greenest city by 2020. Robertson presented the plan to Gaining Ground-Resilient Cities conference at the Vancouver Convention Centre. "As in many other cities, Vancouver's eco …

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Completed in 2003, the EcoDorm features permaculture gardens (gardens that use plants, animals and micro-organisms to create a self-sustaining environment), photovoltaic panels and composting gardens.

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For a developing country, they only have their land to capitalize on improving the livelihood of their people. Despite this, some environmentalists hated the idea.

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The people of this Danish island have seen the future, and it is dim and smells vaguely of straw.

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It's difficult to pinpoint when the canvas tote craze really started. The concept isn't new, of course. Public television stations have been giving them away during fundraisers for decades, and L.L. Bean's "Boat and Tote" has been a New England staple even longer.

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After a year of work, the European Foresight Expert Group 'The World in 2025' has now presented their findings at conference in Brussels on 24 September.

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Chickens make up over 95 percent of all the animals slaughtered in the U.S. The sheer numbers killed are astounding. Over 9 billion chickens are slaughtered each year. That's 24 million a day, 300 per second.

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Sustainability is trendy. From clothes to cars to homes, it seems that everyone is jumping on the bandwagon.

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A team of Australian inventors has been awarded the $30,000 grand prize in the International WWF Smart Gear Competition for a fishing gear innovation that could save thousands of seabirds from dying accidentally on long-lines each year.

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A CENTURY of grand ambitions for a northern Australian food bowl has been dealt a new blow by a CSIRO study that has found rainfall too transient and storage too difficult to support Murray-Darling-style development.

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A non-profit called Growing Home has converted two vacant lots, so far, into organic gardens. Local produce costs less–both economically and environmentally–so why not grow it in the inner city?

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Some say print books are passé, but I still like curling up on the couch with a mind-expanding read. Here are my top picks for ecological and sustainable reading.

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The former governor-general of Australia is launching a national campaign to restore Australia's degraded landscape with sustainable agricultre, in what he says is the the most important project in the nation's history.

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We reported a few months ago that Ford planned to spend $550 million to retool a Michigan SUV plant into a small car plant.

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Amidst the Chihuahuan Desert, Abe and Josie built a home out of dirt, designed a wind turbine from scrap parts, and raised their newborn without diapers and other conveniences.

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Here is a story about climate change - although not about global warming. And if it's not a story about Danes and Copenhagen, then it's still a story about Scandinavians. It's a story that I first heard about long ago, in a bout of childish illness, on the radio.

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Many people's first vehicle costs peanuts, but a team of Northern Ireland researchers have helped take that a step further by building a racing car using cashew nut shells.

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