"Bundanoon” is a new green verb referencing an Australian town that prohibited bottled drinking water in 2009. Continue Reading →
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The retrofitting of suburbia
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"We tend to think that downtowns should be dynamic, and we expect that. But we seem to have an expectation that the suburbs should somehow remain frozen in whatever adolescent form they were first given birth to. It's time to let them grow up." Continue Reading →
Filed under: Democracy & Civics, Economy, Environment, Featured, Nation, Economy, Energy, Environment
Bhopal gas victims still searching for justice after 25 years
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Activists cite a double standard in the U.S. response to Gulf Oil Spill versus the U.S. response to Union Carbide's Bhopal Disaster, which killed up up 23,000 people. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Democracy & Civics, Environment, Featured, World, Environment, Environment & Health, India, News You Might Have Missed
Southeast Asia dolphins near extinction
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A rare breed of dolphins in Southeast Asia is on the brink of extinction, according to a conservation group. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Environment, Featured, World, Cambodia, dolpins, Mekong River
Niger Delta oil spills dwarf BP, Exxon Valdez catastrophes
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Thousands of spills across decades have ravaged the Niger Delta region. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Environment, World, Africa, Environment, News You Might Have Missed, Nigeria, oil, Public Health
Recycled ink cartridges used for bike pathway
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An Australian national park just got a little more green: it built a new bike pathway with recycled printer cartridges. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Economy, Environment, World, Australia, bicycle, cartridges, green, recycle
Trashy hotel built from beach debris
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Rome is home to the Pantheon and the Colosseum, but last week the city added something entirely different—and trashier—to its architectural repertoire. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Environment, Featured, World, Environment
Alaska on fire while Lower 48 girds for summer wildfires
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Fairbanks is smoky. Anchorage is smoky. To be in Alaska this early June is to see skies of haze, mixed with the scent of burning forests. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Environment, Featured, Nation, Environment, News You Might Have Missed, Photos
Way up north, another kind of oil controversy
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Not many people have heard of Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, nor the Athabaskan Tar Sands. Not these days, anyway, with the Deepwater Horizon disaster spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. But in Fort Chipewyan, the ongoing effects of bitumen oil extraction continue as the top news of the day. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Economy, Environment, Featured, Public Health, World, Economy, Energy, Environment
U.S., Viet ‘Catfish Wars’ heat up (again)
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The so-called "Catfish Wars," pitting U.S. catfish farmers against Asian producers since 2002, is heating up. Continue Reading →