photo via flickr Coal activist Ted Nace today published a must-read post in Grist on the importance of taking on coal via a variety of strategies, effectively coming at the country’s Number 1 contributor to climate change from every angle possible.... 

Photo via Sheerman-Chase I can’t wait to see the comments on this one. Really, I can’t. But this is a concept that I think is important to think about, especially at a time when much of the media appears to be buying into the narrative that... 

There’s a rift among some of the environmental groups almost as wide as the cracks in melting Arctic sea ice caused by climate change. Some groups, in the name of progress, are advocating compromises with some of the world’s worst polluters... 

It is estimated that 40% of the food produced in America is wasted; it amounts to 1400 calories per person every day. According to the EPA, 31 million tons is thrown into landfills. Much of that produces methane as it rots; the gas is 25 times more potent... 

Filipina beauty queen Miriam Quiambao speaks at a Bangkok, Thailand, rally for gender and climate justice. Photo by ~MVI~ via Flickr. It’s already well known that climate change is not an equal-opportunity threat, with its impacts on food production... 

It is an English acronym, short for “Sorry Mate, I Didn’t See You!”, a common excuse used when pedestrians get hit, doors get opened, and “accidents” happen. In the UK there is a campaign to change attitudes of the public,... 

Daily Mail A lot of us winced whenever anyone conflated the lack of snow on Cypress Mountain in Vancouver with climate change; Vancouver is often springlike in February and this is about weather, not climate. People were questioning Cypress as a venue... 

Photo courtesy Eden Organic. Here’s a startling, almost amazing fact. Eden Organic has been canning beans since 1999 in BPA (bisphenol-A) free cans. For a decade . Concerns about BPA keep mounting - in January the FDA reversed its 2008 stance to... 

VW Could be Global EV Leader? Last night, in the runup to the first day at the Geneva Auto show, Volkswagen unveiled its electric vehicle strategy for the next 8 years. The plan, announced by the company’s chairman Michael Winterkorn, aims to put... 

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