Posts Tagged ‘Business & Politics’
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
Image by
Guardian UK
Poor Obama: not only does he have to contend with Blue Dogs, but now it seems he is being poisoned by lead found in the
People’s Garden at the White House.
In truth, the levels, while not ideal, are far from unusual or unsafe for an
urban garden. The
Guardian states:
The soil in the garden had lead concentrations of 93 parts per millio...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Tags: Blue Dogs, Business & Politics, composting, farming, fertilizer, Food Safety, Garden House, gardening, Guardian Uk, Image, Lead, local food, Obama, obama administration, People, Pesticides, Sewer Sludge, Soil, Stagnation, Truth, Urban Garden, White House
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
photo: Carrotmob Charleston
We’ve heard about the Carrotmob in San Francisco.
Kristin wrote that the organization uses the masses to bring about environmental changes in local businesses. Their first mob scene took place at a convenience store in the Mission District. The store chosen agrees to give a percentage of sales from the event to upgrading the store with green improvements. Now
Carrotmob has made its...
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Tags: Business & Politics, Consumption, Convenience Store, energy, Improvements, Local Businesses, Mob Scene, Photo, San Francisco, Small Business
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Saturday, August 1st, 2009
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YaleGlobal
A
recent essay in YaleGlobal online by Jamie Chamie explores the controversial c
onnection between immigration and overpopulation—a subject that is constantly framed morally or economically, but rarely environmentally. The essay states:
They [the White House] concluded that there is hardly any problem confronting America whose solution would be easier with a larger population. Moving toward population stabiliz...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Tags: Business & Politics, C Onnection, Chamie, energy, Essay, global warming causes, Image, Odds, Open Immigration, Overpopulation, Population, population growth, Sustainability, united states, White House, Yale
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
Photo via Shoot the Messenger NYC
Okay, I'm
sick of the climate bill, too. But when I stumbled upon this little ditty, courtesy of
Auto Tune the News, I had to share it (though maybe you've heard it already). I mean, it's Pelosi, Michelle Bachmann, and House Minority Leader John Boehner 'singing' about the climate bill. And it's hilarious....
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Tags: Auto Tune, Business & Politics, Climate, congress, House Minority Leader, humor, internet, John Boehner, Little Ditty, Michelle Bachman, Michelle Bachmann, Nancy Pelosi, Photo Shoot, Video Photo
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
photo:Jason Taellious via flick
Chinese government owning up to some of its
less savory acts, or even admitting that those might ever exist in the first place, doesn't happen all the time. So, news of a Chinese court accepting a the nation's first lawsuit by an environmental group against a local government certainly bears noting. The details of the case, via the
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Tags: Acts, Bears, Business & Politics, China, Chinese Court, Chinese Government, Environment China, Environmental Group, Environmental Lawsuit, Flick, Indiatimes Com, Local Government, Noting The Details, People, Photo, Pollution, water conservation
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
Photo via Eideard
When I argued a few months back that
legalizing marijuana would be good for the environment, my main point was that illegal
marijuana plantations endanger forests by operating under the radar--and unregulated--in some of our most pristine natural areas. They contaminate water supplies, result in deforestation, and threaten indigenous species. But I had no idea how widespread the destruction really was--just rec...
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Tags: agriculture, Business & Politics, california, conservation, deforestation, Drug Cartels, economics, Forests, Indigenous Species, Legalizing Marijuana, Marijuana Photo, Messes, Plantations, Pristine Natural Areas, Radar, Water Supplies
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
Photo via Frot
Guess it pays to be the
biggest oil company in the world--even though their
profits are at the lowest they've been in six years, Exxon still managed to spend more money on lobbying efforts for the climate bill than the entire clean energy industry combined. ...
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Tags: Business & Politics, carbon emissions, Clean Energy, Climate, congress, economics, Energy Industry, Exxon, global warming solutions, Managed Money, oil, Oil Company, Photo, Profits, Six Years
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
Photo via Frot
Guess it pays to be the
biggest oil company in the world--even though their
profits are at the lowest they've been in six years, Exxon still managed to spend more money on lobbying efforts for the climate bill than the entire clean energy industry combined. ...
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Tags: Business & Politics, carbon emissions, Clean Energy, congress, economics, Energy Industry, Exxon, global warming solutions, oil, Oil Company
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Whenever it seems like there's a surplus of doom and gloom running through the headlines, you hear about a story like this: at-risk teenagers staying in
Covenant House, a homeless shelter in New York City, have set about cultivating
green roofs on skyscrapers around the city. Their goal is to create a citywide "skyscraper garden" across Manhattan.
The teens recently completed the first stage of the project, done in collaboration with Seeding the City--planting a green roof on the ninth story of a buildin...
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Tags: Business & Politics, Collaboration, Covenant House, Doom And Gloom, Garden City, Green Building, green roofs, Headlines, Homeless Shelter, Homeless Teens, Manhattan, new york, new york city, Risk Teenagers, Skyscraper, Skyscrapers
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Prior to the vote on the climate bill back in June, Congressman Tom Perriello (D-VA) received a a letter from Hispanic community group Creciendo Juntos urging him to vote against the bill -- the trouble is that the letter was forged and sent on behalf of an undisclosed client by lobbyists Bonner & Associates. The Charlottesvill...Read the full story on TreeHugger