A great column by former Orlando Sentinel Columnist Charley Reese. A must read. Thanks to Charly S. for the story.
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]]> The Sombrero Galaxy - 28 million light years from Earth - was voted best picture taken by the Hubble telescope. The dimensions of the galaxy, officially called M104, are as spectacular as its appearance.
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]]> Here's an eco-challenge for you: How long do you think you could go recycling every single eligible item you come across? Easy, you say--I do that anyways. Well, not so fast. This is far more difficult than it appears.
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]]> Save Your World is demonstrating its commitment for preserving our world's natural resources by supporting and maintaining a communication channel between students and the first ever Walking the Amazon expedition.
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]]> Ever wanted to be on the radio to tell your green story, as a blogger, business, non-prof, thought leader? Green Talk Radio had me on, it was a great experience.
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]]> Officials want to see more green roofs on building tops in Cincinnati. The City Council on Wednesday became the first in Ohio with a plan to channel grants and loans to residents and businesses to replace
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]]> The world will have to take drastic action within two years to reduce greenhouse gas pollution if it is to avoid the worst effects of climate change, a new study warns.
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]]> Huge coral boulders on Tonga's main island of Tongatapu were possibly tossed hundreds of feet inland by one of the largest tsunamis ever triggered by a volcano.
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]]> The Republican Sarah Palin and her officials in the Alaskan state government drew on the work of at least six scientists known to be sceptical about the dangers and causes of global warming, to back efforts to stop polar bears being protected as an endang
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]]> With only six months left to meet the conservation deadline, our continued action is more important than ever.

Please, take a moment and encourage Premier Gordon Campbell to keep the promise to protect the Great Bear Rainforest.

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]]> Global warming could devastate the world's food production, displace millions of people, and decimate biodiversity. Can we stop such a catastrophe?
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]]> Brazil has announced new measures designed to stem an accelerating assault on the Amazon’s rainforests
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]]> Farmers say they're surprised at calls to cut cattle and sheep production in favour of kangaroos as part of efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

The suggestion has been made by Professor Ross Garnaut, in his climate change report to the Federal Gov
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]]> www.FollowTheOilMoney.org is an exciting tool that tracks which companies are pumping their dirty oil money into politics, who is receiving it, and how it correlates to key climate, energy and war votes
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]]> RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- The Amazon is being deforested more than three times as fast as last year, Brazilian officials said Monday, acknowledging a sharp reversal after three years of declines in the deforestation rate. Brazil's Environment
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]]> Next week Ecuadorian citizens will vote on giving the rainforests, islands and rivers the same legal rights that humans have.
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]]> A rescue operation to save a rare alpine plant from disappearing from one of its few locations on Scotland's mountains, has been successful.
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]]> The EU could save an extra £20bn per year on health spending by setting tougher targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report. The savings could be made if the
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]]> Geothermal energy uses heat that naturally occurs beneath the Earth's surface and is often touted as a greenhouse-friendly source of electricity. The heat used is partly leftover from the formation of
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]]> Loose regulation, now blamed for ills ranging from the U.S. financial crisis to imports of tainted Chinese goods, is drawing increasing fire from opponents of the Bush administration's environment program.
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]]> The sudden thinning in 1997 of Jakobshavn Isbrae, one of Greenland's largest glaciers, was caused by subsurface ocean warming, according to research published in the journal Nature Geoscience.
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]]> Scientists are discovering that climate change — and not just fertilizer from farm use — may be spurring the emergence of barren underwater landscapes in coastal waters.
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]]> The President of the United Nations General Assembly condemned Monsanto for profiteering in his opening remarks last week.
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]]> "Coalition presence -particularly military presence- is problem, not the solution." Foreign office denial. Top US commander in Afghanistan warns militant Islamist jihadis flooding in from all corners of Muslim world to join Taliban fight against Nato
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]]> After appearing to endorse Hamas & back Obama's Pakistan stance, vice-pres candidate embroiled in new diplomatic row: by telling Palin she's "even more gorgeous in life," Benazir Bhutto's widower condemned by both hardline Islamic leaders & feminists
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]]> Rescuers found the bodies of two miners in a flooded gold mine in the northern Philippines on Thursday, following the dramatic rescue a day earlier of three others who had been trapped for nine days.
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]]> What is ultimately the difference of going on any road?

You sit in a car, the engine works, there is the steering. Underneath the tires is tar - that's what the roads are made out of: bitumen, tar, rocks. You drive - and all roads go somewhere.



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]]> “So, what is real peace — peace that is common to every single human being on the face of this earth?

The generic definition of peace is the absence of war, but there is a peace that has nothing to do with arguments and nothing to do with wars...


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]]> As Americans are wondering about their paychecks, retirement and for some, their next meal, the military has contracted with four private firms to sell "the American way" to the Iraqi people. If they know what's good for them they won't listen.
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]]> LACEY, Wash. - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Wednesday it will review the protected status of the marbled murrelet in response to a petition from the timber industry and others.
Several groups, including the American Forest Resource Council and
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]]> The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed an endangered listing for two rare Hawaiian birds, the Akikiki and Akekee, under the US Endangered Species Act (ESA). The proposal includes listing 48 animals and plants that inhabit the Island of Kauai, and
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]]> Unprecedented progress has been made towards the conservation of the Critically Endangered Yellow-eared Parrot in Colombia. A total of 80 nests, both natural and artificial, were reported and monitored by ProAves as well as the successful fledging of a fa
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]]> European Parliament Offers to Help India Save Wild Tigers

BRUSSELS, Belgium, September 24, 2008 (ENS) - In advance of the Europe-India summit in Marseille next Monday, the European Parliament today passed a resolution calling on both parties to renew e
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]]> Romance does not come cheap at London Zoo. At a cost of £5 million, the zoo's tigers are to get a new home in the hope it might finally encourage them to breed.

A public appeal is being launched to raise the funds to replace the current tiger paddock.
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On the afternoon of Sunday, September 21, our pleasant sail home from the Gulf Islands was cut short by a group of vessels which were surrounding several transient Orcas, between Moresby and Stuart Islands. There were approximately hal
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]]> AVALON — It could be days or weeks before officials know what caused the death of a True's beaked whale that became stranded in Avalon.

The whale first appeared along the beach at 23rd Street and passersbys managed to help it back into the ocean. But t
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]]> Officers from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission are investigating the death of an American crocodile on the University of Miami campus. The animal's headless and tailless carcass was discovered in a campus canal Wednesday afternoon.

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]]> Mobile phone technology is helping Queensland scientists unlock the mystery of why koalas bellow.

The deep grunts and bellows of male koalas are a distinctive sound in Australian forests in spring, but researchers still don't understand what they mean.
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