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Written by Jessica Gottlieb
06/09/2008
I’m wandering around the Green Expo a bit aimlessly and stumble upon the most childlike adult I’ve seen in eons. And I call her childlike with deep reverence. April is selling creativity and Multiple Intelligences to the masses. (See Ma! That M.A.Ed really did pay off!) I stood in front of her booth a little baffled, a [...] Read more...

President Obama on the Environment

Written by Leslie Berliant
06/09/2008
Now that Lieberman-Warner has suffered a timely death, a President Obama will be free to actually call for some truly sweeping legislation on climate change that stands a chance of getting through a Senate which by all estimations, should be much friendlier to aggressive climate change legislation come January 2009. A hat trick (and a [...] Read more...

Illegal Logging in the Amazon Threatens Native Tribes

Written by Alison Kroulek
06/09/2008
Last week, the Brazilian government released aerial photographs of an indigenous tribe living in the Amazon that has never been contacted by outsiders. These intriguing pictures show tribe members in black and red body paint, threatening the intruding plane with bows and arrows. We’ve become so used to thinking of the rainforest as threatened that [...] Read more...

Written by Marc Roberts
06/09/2008
On the Brasil/Peru border, Illegal loggers — neoliberalism’s shock troops in the region — are rushing to welcome the last free people on Earth into the loving arms of the twenty first century. Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins Read more...

The High Cost of Doing Nothing on Climate Change

Written by Leslie Berliant
06/08/2008
The NRDC commissioned a report from my alma mater, Tufts University, on the costs of inaction on climate change. It is a must read for every person that believes that we can’t afford to address climate change. The truth is that we can’t afford to do nothing. Even those with a ‘take now and pay [...] Read more...

China cracks down on ‘white pollution’

Written by Tan Copsey
06/08/2008
China has announced a ban on the production, sale and use of ultra-thin plastic bags. Shoppers around the country will also now have to pay for regular plastic bags. According to estimates from the Chinese Plastics Processing Industry Association, one billion bags had been given out by supermarkets every day, while two billion are [...] Read more...

Written by Raegan Payne
06/08/2008
For those needing inspiration over the long summer months, look no further! An Inconvenient Truth is not the only green movie option available to stoke your fire. Here are six movies which will encourage you to get off the couch and do something for the environment. (Yes, that last statement was ironic.) Read more...

Is There Intelligent Life on Earth?

Written by Eliav Bitan
06/07/2008
This week’s Mars Landing is generating much press and excitement. Humanity’s ability to land a rocket on another planet, and remotely control it from Earth is an impressive technological feat. But should we be spending U.S. government funds on Mars exploration when life on earth is threatened? The cover story of The Atlantic Monthly takes on [...] Read more...

Plan to Relocate Disease Facility From Island to Mainland Based on Faulty Government Study

Written by Doug Snodgrass
06/07/2008
Plum Island is located approximately 2.5 miles as the crow flies from the northeastern tip of Long Island, its closest mainland neighbor. For nearly 50 years Plum Island has been the home of the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, which had been run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) until 2003, when the reins [...] Read more...

Human Footprint

Written by Craig Mackintosh
05/20/2008
One life. One Lifetime. What does it all add up to? Imagine that you could see, piled up in front of you, all the things that you will ever use and produce in your lifetime. The UK’s Channel Four has done the imagining, and the research, for us. The following documentary is a unique way of looking [...] Read more...

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