6:53 pm in Business & Politics, global climate change, media, television, united states by TreeHugger
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As of late, Fox News has been particularly egregious in it's never-ending quest to sew doubt about the unequivocal scientific consensus that humans are causing the climate to warm -- see
the SpongeBob SquarePants debacle, the
moon volcano proof, the heat index nonsense, the list goes on. But this one takes the cake: ...
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12:27 pm in alternative energy, Business & Politics, california, conservation, renewable energy, solar power by TreeHugger
Bound to rile people up so keep your knee-jerk in check:
Mercury News reports on another example of the needs of balancing the equally pressing (and interlinked) needs of
expanding renewable energy projecting and conservation. The Santa Clara Audubon Society, the Sierra Club, and a group of local residents are suing to block construction of a 399 MW solar power plant on 3,200 acres in the Panoche Valley in California. Those opposed say the project w...
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9:41 am in alternative energy, Business & Politics, economics, poverty, renewable energy, solar, solar power, united kingdom, wind energy by TreeHugger
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When I posted an interview with
wind energy pioneer Dale Vince, one
Facebook commenter took issue with my references to his "hippie dropout" past, and the fact that he is now on Britain's rich list. The idea that we should be impressed by how his "...
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5:22 am in botanical, Business & Politics, endangered species list, ethical, fish, food, Food & Health, sustainable by TreeHugger
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In January, national treasure, chef and writer Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
spearheaded a campaign called "Fish Fight" in response to the "insane waste" caused by North Sea fishermen throwing back almost a million dead and dying fish every year.
He had a series of t.v. shows, a
themed week at a department store and
a petition to the Europe...
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10:02 pm in Business & Politics, coal, News, oil by TreeHugger
photo: John Norton via
flickr
It's been a bad stretch recently for dirty coal, the country's largest source of global warming emissions. First, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg
stepped up and contributed big time to the Sierra Club's fierce
Beyond Coal campaign. And now news comes that coal's share of U.S. electricity production during the first quarter of this 2011 added up to i...
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Tags: global warming
Image: Screenshot, Comedy Central
Global warming is a hoax whipped up by the media -- and so are the very laws of thermodynamics. So sayeth Stephen Colbert, in this supremely amusing segment on the latest in brain-dead global warming denial:
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Car makers do well in the public's perception of green companies. Illustration by 
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