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Tag: Environment

Arts and Culture: ‘Lorax’ Banks on Green Marketing

Reports: The Cancer in Occupy

Arts and Culture: How the Stimulus Revived the Electric Car

Reports: Corporations Have No Use for Borders

Ear to the Ground: This Utopia Brought to You by the United Nations

Ear to the Ground: Scientists Create Magnetic Soap to Cope With Oil Spills

Reports: 10 American ABCs We May Soon Forget

Ear to the Ground: How Brazil Is Saving the Amazon

Reports: Could Ron Paul Be the Next Ralph Nader?

A/V Booth: What a Wonderful World

Reports: Three Supreme Court Cases That Should Worry You

Reports: Climate Apartheid

Ear to the Ground: Canada Becomes the First Country to Quit Kyoto

Reports: A Mild Victory in Durban

Reports: Listen to the People, Not the Polluters

Reports: The Age of Thirst in the American West

Reports: China’s Future Up in the Air

Ear to the Ground: 5 Questions for the Durban Climate Talks

Reports: Cry, the Beloved Climate

Ear to the Ground: Cabinet Officials Raise ‘Gray Area’ Cash for Obama

Reports: Keystone XL: Ring Around the Rose Garden

Ear to the Ground: Investigators and Activists Target Keystone XL Pipeline

Reports: The War Against the Poor

Ear to the Ground: BP Plans a Comeback in Gulf of Mexico

Ear to the Ground: Extinction: Another One Bites the Dust

Reports: Global Warming Just Got Hotter

Reports: A Movement Too Big to Fail

Reports: Government by Death Panel

A/V Booth: Why an Unusually Melty Arctic Means Trouble

Ear to the Ground: Big Winter for Arctic Ozone Hole

Reports: Can the Left Stage a Tea Party?

Cartoons: Tomatoes of Wrath

Reports: Why You Should Eat Yak Instead of Beef

Reports: Tomatoes of Wrath

Cartoons: Congress Trainer

Ear to the Ground: Siemens Drops Nuclear Power

Reports: Obama and Republicans: Champions of Smog

Arts and Culture: June Gloom With Lewis Lapham

Reports: A Come-to-Jesus Moment for American Religion

Reports: The Election March of the Trolls

Reports: Why Perry Hates Regulators: They’re Bad for (His) Business

Reports: D.C. Protests That Make Big Oil Quake

Cartoons: It’s My Planet and I’ll Fry If I Want To

A/V Booth: Google’s Amazon Adventure

Reports: The Vegetarian’s Dilemma

A/V Booth: Chris Hedges Will Be There

Ear to the Ground: If You’re Under 35, You’ve Never Experienced ‘Normal’ Earth Climate

A/V Booth: The Obama Administration’s Changing Attitude on Medicinal Marijuana

Truthdig Podcast: The Obama Administration’s New Crackdown on Medicinal Marijuana

Reports: The Terrorist Threat We’re Ignoring

Ear to the Ground: The Tyranny of the Compact Fluorescent

Reports: New China Will Be Red and Expert

A/V Booth: The Power Behind a Clean Energy Future

Truthdig Podcast: The Power Behind a Clean Energy Future

Ear to the Ground: Autism Study Shifts Focus From Nature to Nurture

Cartoons: Quality of Life

Truthdig Podcast: One-State Solution

A/V Booth: One-State Solution

Reports: Commencement Day for a Lost Generation

Reports: Japan’s Meltdowns Demand New No-Nukes Thinking

Reports: This Hero Didn’t Stand a Chance

Reports: Gridlocking the Lives of the Jobless

Cartoons: Tweet for Help

Reports: America’s Energy Ethos: Do, Regardless of Harm

Reports: Weiner’s No Longfellow

Arts and Culture: Robert Kennedy Jr.’s ‘Inconvenient Truth’ Moment

Reports: Cutting Kids’ Health Care Will Make Deficits Bigger

Reports: The Sky Really Is Falling

Ear to the Ground: Germany Puts an Expiration Date on Nuclear Power

Ear to the Ground: Industrial Capitalism Still on Course to Consume the World

Reports: The New Sputnik

Ear to the Ground: Republicans Make War on the Environment

Reports: Democrats Can Win the Budget Debate

Reports: The End of Shutdowns

Ear to the Ground: Bolivia Set to Pass ‘Law of Mother Earth’

Cartoons: Elephant in the Room

Ear to the Ground: What Oil Spill? Transocean Hands Out Bonuses for Best Safety Year Ever

Reports: Why the Reckless Republicans Win

Reports: Truth About a False Choice

Reports: The Collapse of Globalization

Cartoons: Overfishing

Reports: Spent Fuel’s Toxic Legacy

Arts and Culture: But What Whole Foods Really Always Wanted to Do Is ...

Reports: No Such Thing as Risk-Free Nuclear Power

Ear to the Ground: The Republicans’ War on the Environment

Ear to the Ground: Millions of Dead Fish Puzzle Californians

Reports: This Time We’re Taking the Whole Planet With Us

Ear to the Ground: Brazil Judge Blocks Amazon Dam

Ear to the Ground: Baby Dolphins Are Washing Up Dead Along the Gulf

Ear to the Ground: Valentine’s Day Roses Are Bad for Kenya

Reports: Fight for a World Without Coal

Reports: Can Obama Be Luke Skywalker?

Reports: The Food Bomb

Reports: Climate Benefits of Natural Gas May Be Overstated

Reports: Where Liberals Go to Feel Good

Reports: How Obama Can Define Moderation

Ear to the Ground: The Global Rush for Green Jobs

Reports: The House of Professors

Reports: ‘The Left Has Nowhere to Go’

Reports: A Snow-Filled Glimpse of America’s Future

Reports: Will Liberals Learn From Adversity?

Ear to the Ground: EPA Sharpens Its Regulatory Teeth

Reports: Award Recognizes Uncompromising Change-Makers

Ear to the Ground: Good News for the Places Where the Wild Things Are

Ear to the Ground: Senate Lets Sharks Keep Their Fins for Christmas

Ear to the Ground: Facebook Finds Your Face

Reports: Everything Is Negotiable, Except Nature

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Sues BP, Transocean for Damages ‘Without Limitation’

Reports: It’s Morning in China

Ear to the Ground: Climate Deal Is Struck in Cancun

Reports: Cancun, Climate Change and WikiLeaks

Cartoons: Climate Skeptic

Ear to the Ground: The Rigged Game of Climate Talks

Ear to the Ground: WikiLeaks Outs U.S. Diplomats’ Saucy Secrets

Reports: Cultural Rebirth in the Old World

Ear to the Ground: These Tigers Brought to You by Vladimir Putin

Reports: Power and the Tiny Acts of Rebellion

Reports: The High Cost of Low Prices

Ear to the Ground: R.I.P. Gulf Coral Reefs

Ear to the Ground: $100 Billion More for Climate Change?

Reports: The Tea Party and the Midterms

Ear to the Ground: Californians Put Down Their Joints, Give Jerry Brown Another Shot

Ear to the Ground: Schwarzenegger Won’t Say Whom He Voted For

Ear to the Ground: Halliburton Blamed for Shoddy Construction in Gulf Oil Disaster

Reports: Does a Bear Vote in the Woods?

Reports: Poison at the Tea Party

Ear to the Ground: BP and Other Polluters Pay for Senate Campaigns

Ear to the Ground: Two-Thirds of Benin Is Underwater

A/V Booth: Glenn Beck Is No Match for William Shatner

Ear to the Ground: Super Typhoon Slams the Philippines

Reports: A Generation of Termites

Ear to the Ground: Open Call: Obama’s Town Hall

A/V Booth: How Robots Clean Up an Oil Spill

Reports: Follow Wyoming on Fracking Regs

Ear to the Ground: Toxic Spill Reaches the Danube

Reports: Tea Party Socialism

Ear to the Ground: Solar Panels to Add Power to the White House

Reports: Reconstructing Los Angeles: A Journey to the Other Side of L.A.

Reports: FBI Raids and the Criminalization of Dissent

Reports: Retribution for a World Lost in Screens

Ear to the Ground: Nigerian Flooding Displaces 2 Million

Reports: The China Superpower Hoax

Ear to the Ground: Justice Dept. Hand-Slaps FBI for Spying on Greenpeace and Friends

Reports: A Little Missed Sunshine

Reports: The Carbon Racket

Reports: Do Not Pity the Democrats

Cartoons: Blame

Reports: Why Barack Is Behind

Ear to the Ground: Hundreds Dead in Guatemala Landslides

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Gets Cold Feet in Arctic Drilling

Ear to the Ground: The $8 Billion Oil Spill

Ear to the Ground: Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite (Update)

Reports: Lessons From a Low-Impact Week

Reports: The Billionaire Right-Winger

Reports: Rotten Eggs and Our Broken Democracy

Ear to the Ground: The Giant Cloud of Oil Hiding in the Gulf

Reports: Change Accomplished

Cartoons: Fresh Seafood

Ear to the Ground: Fishermen Test Troubled Gulf Waters

Ear to the Ground: Alabama to Sue BP

Ear to the Ground: Cindy Sheehan Challenges Robert Gibbs to Drug Test Duel

Reports: News at 11: How Climate Change Affects You

Reports: Lessons From the Oil Spill

Ear to the Ground: BP Pumps Money Into Relief Fund—It’s No Gusher

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan’s Flood Misery Continues

Ear to the Ground: BP Readies the Final ‘Kill’

Reports: Live Chat: Robert Scheer on Clinton Nostalgia

Cartoons: Global Warming Denial

Ear to the Ground: Dropping Temperatures Take Toll in Peru

Ear to the Ground: Recession Pinches Climate Change Progress

Ear to the Ground: Chinese Muffle Oil Spill Estimates

Ear to the Ground: Moscow Is Melting

Ear to the Ground: Time Magazine Puts Contrarian Spin on Spill

Ear to the Ground: Hottest Decade Makes Global Warming ‘Undeniable’

Cartoons: Tony Hayward’s Exit [A Cartoon From Slovakia]

Ear to the Ground: BP Puts a Price on Gulf Damage Control

Ear to the Ground: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Tony Hayward?

Ear to the Ground: Sen Dems Delay Climate Bill

Ear to the Ground: One-Third of U.S. Counties Face Water Shortage

Reports: We All Live on Turtle Island

Ear to the Ground: China Now Consumes More Energy Than Anyone Else

Ear to the Ground: Big Oil’s War on Earth

Ear to the Ground: How Clean Are Electric Cars? Depends on the State

Reports: Calling All Future-Eaters

A/V Booth: Pollution and Occupation

Ear to the Ground: Obama Contains His Optimism About BP’s Latest Cap Trick

Ear to the Ground: Typhoon Takes Aim at Already Soggy China

Ear to the Ground: BP Says the Hole Is Plugged

Ear to the Ground: Hey, Maybe This Cap Will Work

Reports: Obama’s Health Care Bill Is Enough to Make You Sick

Reports: Millions Watch Rich Guy Get New Job

Reports: Heat Wave Silences Climate Skeptics

Ear to the Ground: Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Flower Heaven

Reports: If Only Information Flowed as Freely as Oil

Ear to the Ground: Crisis of Capitalism

Ear to the Ground: Environmentalist Faces 3 Years for Hanging Banners

Reports: Freedom in the Grace of the World

Cartoons: July 4, 2010

Reports: A New Deregulatory Push in the Energy Heartland

Reports: Republican Worldview: It’s All Good

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