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Sacramento Bee - San Francisco, renowned for its civic will to save the planet, is now ordering residents and businesses to compost food scraps and biodegradables, or risk fines for not properly sorting their garbage.That's welcome news for Jepson Prairie Organics, a Dixon-based composting firm that already accepts delivery of 400 tons a day in plate scrapings, greasy cardboard and other

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Lloyd Alter, Tree Hugger - Alternating tread stairs. . . are a great way to save space and are surprisingly easy to use. Justin at StairPorn found this elegant one in a surprising place: a house built at the Rural Studio of Auburn University, where four students designed and built a house with $10,000 worth of materials and $10,000 worth of labor.

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Rep. Dennis Kucinich - I oppose H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. The reason is simple. It won't address the problem. In fact, it might make the problem worse.It sets targets that are too weak, especially in the short term, and sets about meeting those targets through Enron-style accounting methods. It gives new life to one of the primary sources of the problem

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Metaefficient - For "D.I.Y."ers, using recycled construction products is a great way to reduce raw material consumption and lessen stress on landfills. But for retailers, the "Re I. Y." trend (Re-use It Yourself) is taking the idea a step further, giving unused building products a new lease on life.The idea of reusing building materials is certainly nothing new, and in the past it was a trend

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Tree Hugger - There's plenty of debate as to whether there's anything green about the Cash for Clunkers program that just passed the Senate, and is on the way to the White House to be signed into law. The law will allow owners of "clunkers", or old, emissions-spewing vehicles, to receive up to $4,500 when they trade it in for a new, more fuel efficient vehicle. The bill will allegedly curb

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Daily Climate - The Obama Administration released a report showing climate disruption is already leaving deep imprints on every sector of the environment and that the consequences of these changes will grow steadily worse in coming decades.The 196-page report . . . finds that global warming has touched every corner: Heavier downpours, strengthened heat waves, altered river flows and extended

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Helen Pidd, Guardian, UK - Here is my report of a very happy weekend roadtesting the gocycle, a brand new, very sleek electric bike that distinguishes itself from most of its competitors by looking quite cool. The brainchild of an ex-car designer, the gocycle . . . works just like an ordinary bike, except that when you can't be faffed pedaling or you simply want to show off, you press and hold

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Guardian, UK - Stretches of excrement-stained ice that are so large they are visible from space have helped scientists to locate 10 newly discovered emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica.Researchers at the British Antarctic Survey have used satellite images, created to survey the sea ice around Antarctica's coast, to identify emperor penguin colonies using the huge tell-tale reddish-brown

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Reuters - Climate change is turning the oceans more acid in a trend that could endanger everything from clams to coral and be irreversible for thousands of years.Seventy academies from around the world urged governments meeting in Bonn to take more account of risks to the oceans in a new UN treaty for fighting global warming due to be agreed in Copenhagen in December.The academies said rising

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Inhabitat - Philadelphia's new landfill-crunching compacting bins are entirely powered by the sun and are able to accept close to eight times as much waste as a regular trash can. They are predicted to save the city close to $12 million over the next ten years.ECO CLIPSGuardian, UK - Dell, the world's second largest PC manufacturer, announced earlier this month that it is

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ENN - A recent study by Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies reports that if humans commit to the restoration effort, most ecosystems can recover from very major disruption within decades to half-centuries. . . . According to the study, researchers compiled information from 240 independent studies conducted since 1910 that examined large, human-scale ecosystems recovery

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Telegraph, UK - President Obama's energy adviser has suggested all the world's roofs should be painted white as part of efforts to slow global warming. Professor Steven Chu, the US Energy Secretary, said the unusual proposal would mean homes in hot countries would save energy and money on air conditioning by deflecting the sun's rays.More pale surfaces could also slow global warming by reflecting

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Tree Hugger - The first-ever comprehensive review of the state of the world's shellfish has just been released by the Nature Conservancy and the prognosis (as you may expect) really isn't good. . . Globally, about 85% of the world's oyster reefs have vanished and in many areas oyster reefs are functionally extinct.The report says that the main factors in the decline of oyster reefs are

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Tree Hugger - New analysis from MIT on how much global average temperatures could rise if we continue burning fossil fuels and emitting carbon like there's no tomorrow indicates that things could be twice as bad as we thought.If we do not radically cut emissions, the new projections indicate a median probability of surface warming of 5.2C (9.4F) by 2100, with a 90% probability of 3.5-7.4C (6.3-

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Green Car - Volkswagen's CEO, Martin Winterkorn recently confirmed the company is working on a car that will get 235 mpg fuel economy. In 2002, VW showed its 1-Liter concept car that achieved 264 mpg (0.89L/100km). The project was cancelled in 2005 but VW has now revived it. How real is this? VW now says a limited production car could be offered by 2010.Minimum weight is crucial to extreme fuel

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Think Progress - Obama "announced his intent to nominate" Ignacia S. Moreno to be Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division in the Department of Justice. Moreno, general counsel for that department during the Clinton administration, is now the corporate environmental counsel for General Electric, "America's #1 Superfund Polluter":Number five in the Fortune 500

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ABC News - "Clean coal is a dirty lie," says environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who calls President Barack Obama and other politicians who commit taxpayer money to develop it "indentured servants" of the coal industry. Despite a series of expensive false starts and failures, President Obama proposed $3.4 billion in stimulus legislation to fund continued research on "clean coal" projects."

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Times, UK - When British consumers are compelled to buy energy-efficient lightbulbs from 2012, they will save up to 5m tons of carbon dioxide a year from being pumped into the atmosphere. In China, however, a heavy environmental price is being paid for the production of green light bulbs in cost-cutting factories.Large numbers of Chinese workers have been poisoned by mercury, which forms part of

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Lester Brown, Scientific American - For many years I have studied global agricultural, population, environmental and economic trends and their interactions. The combined effects of those trends and the political tensions they generate point to the breakdown of governments and societies. Yet I, too, have resisted the idea that food shortages could bring down not only individual governments but

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Tree Hugger - According to a new study, if mercury levels continue to rise at the rate they're predicted to rise, the amount of mercury in the Pacific will increase by 50% over the next 40 years. The study also shows just how the mercury in emissions from around the world wind up in the North Pacific Ocean:"Methylmercury is produced in mid-depth ocean waters by processes linked to the "ocean rain

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Doyle Rice, USA Today - Professor Stephen Schneider of Stanford University . . . in an opinion piece in this week's journal Nature, [looks] at the absolute "worst-case" climate-change scenario, based on an atmosphere with 1,000 parts of carbon dioxide per million by the year 2100. (Current levels are about 380 ppm.) . . . Under this scary scenario, the Earth's average temperature would likely

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From Tree HuggerSome scientists believe that at the current rate of resource depletion, the Earth will become limited to sustaining only about 2 billion humans by the year 2100. Currently there are about 5.9 billion lives on the earth to support, and of these nearly 15 million children die each year of malnutrition and starvation. . .The assets of the world's three richest men are much more than

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