Recently my apartment complex left a note on my door that our community bicycle cages were being cleaned out of all abandoned bikes. They requested that I come to the office to get a tag for my bike so it didn't end up in the dumpster. Dumpster? Really? I thought of the dozens of abandoned bikes I had seen languishing...
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Running along Canada's Pacific coast from Vancouver Island to the southernmost point of the state of Alaska is a 19-million-acre swath of land that has never been improved, developed, exploited, earmarked or even fully explored.

The fact undoubtedly has developers and energy company execs chomping at the bit, but the animals living...
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At last week's Governors' Global Climate Summit, Governors from the U.S., Indonesia and Brazil signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to reduce forestry-related greenhouse gas emissions. It was an historic event and the first state-to-state, sub-national agreement focused on reducing emissions from deforestation and land degradation. There was much applauding over the agreement as the...
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No, some say, because the minute the economy gets rocky (as it is now), the cost of preserving the planet is seen as too expensive.

Others say yes, arguing that these initiatives may contract and expand based on economic signals, but always deliver some benefit even in the worst of times. A prime example is the Montreal Protocol, put into effect in January of 1989.

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In the United Kingdom near West Midlands, a house is being powered by a unique energy source: a hydrogen powered fuel cell. Hydrogen is currently being explored as a green alternative to current energy sources. It seems promising because it's readily abundant in nature, and gives off virtually no carbon emissions when...
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Good News

• Obama's EPA and Interior Department face high expectations in reversing Bush's war on the environment.
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Do you know when you're being greenwashed?

Does your blood pressure go up when you see those disinformation ads (you know, the ones by the American Petroleum Institute, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electicity, Conoco, Dow Chemical, Shell, BP, General Motors, Chevron, etc?), which are usually narrated either by some enthusiastic, idealistic company scientist telling you about how excited she/he is to be working on some project that will enable us to hand a better world to our...
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Editor's Note: Today we are glad to bring you an excerpt from Green Your Home: The Complete Guide to Making Your New or Existing Home Environmentally Healthy by Celsias writer Jeanne Roberts.

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Like many parents, in 2005 I was horrified to hear of the cord blood research that uncovered over 200 pollutants already present in babies' bodies at birth. Even more disturbing were the possible health implications of those chemicals:

"Of the 287...
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