In: World News

Gisele Bünchen, Wangari Maathai & Unilever Are Big Winners at The International Green Awards 2011
11/28/2011

by Leonora Oppenheim The glittering ceremony for The Sixth International Green Awards took place in London last night in the splendid…

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Farmer-Owned Corn Ethanol Cooperative Fined For Falsifying Air Pollution Records
11/28/2011

by John Laumer When a company falsifies or changes it’s pollution control records, even slightly, to make it seem like they…

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Known Carcinogen Spreading Through Groundwater in New Jersey, Hundreds at Risk
11/25/2011

by Brian Merchant Aaaaand here’s why we need good, well-upheld environmental regulations. An investigative report carried out by a small newspaper…

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Inside CIRS at University of British Columbia — “North America’s Greenest Building”
11/25/2011

byLloyd Alter Sometimes, buildings are constructed to enclose laboratories; the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) at the University of…

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Google Drops ‘Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal’ (RE11/25/2011

by Michael Graham Richard Google Makes a Mistake As you can see from the linked stories on the left of this…

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Luminous Maps Show Web of Human Impact on Planet
11/23/2011

by Kimberley Mok We live in times where the impact of human activities on the planet has never been greater. And…

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Wrecked Car Furniture: Crashed Ferrari Remade Into Coffee Table
11/23/2011

by Kimberley Mok There are plenty of ways to recycle scrap metal from a car, but this coffee table made from…

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Floating “Solar Cucumbers” Form Artificial Reefs That Desalinate Sea Water
11/23/2011

by Kimberley Mok Current methods of transforming salty sea water into drinkable water are land- and energy-intensive and are often powered…

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New Trove of Stolen E-Mails From Climate Scientists Is Released
11/23/2011

By JUSTIN GILLIS and LESLIE KAUFMAN The anonymous hacker who shook the world of climate science two years ago by posting…

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Green Blog: Disposable Chopsticks Strip Asian Forests
11/23/2011

Festival season in Japan is a sensory delight. Taiko drums bang while fireworks blaze overhead, delighting kimono-clad onlookers. Perhaps most central…

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