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photo: chantrybee via flickr. Even if the sun entered a Grand Solar Minimum –like the one experienced in the late 17th century known as the Maunder Minimum, which brought about the Little Ice Age–it would still only offset less than a tenth...
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...
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...
photo via ENBOTS Climate change denier Marc Morano used to work for climate change denier Sen. James Inhofe but now he runs his own website dedicated to putting out misleading or false information on global warming. This past week, Morano traveled to...
“Innovating to Zero” Bill Gates made a big impression at the TED conference (Technology, Entertainment, Design) last year . Everybody still talks about the mosquitoes that he released in the crowd (though they weren’t actually carrying...
Photo via Syracuse I have a challenge for you: try to come up with a company that better exemplifies the archetype of the nefarious, greed-driven, monolithic corporation than Exxon. Besides Haliburton. You have until the end of this blog post to do so,...
Photo via StoryCorps A report published last week offers a peek into the effects of global warming on the world’s trees . As it turns out, early indications hint that rising temperatures and increases in CO2 em… Read the full story on TreeHugger...
