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Hard truths about Uzbek cotton — latimes.com
The strongman regime is making huge profits on the backs of the nation’s children while ignoring calls to halt its violations of international labor regulations.
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Nike Resigns from Chamber Board
Nike announces it is resigning from the US Chamber Board of Directors.
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What If Climate Action Actually Accelerates Economic Growth?
Economics is not my strong suit, but I’m trying to wrap my brains around the economic discussion of climate action, and where it’s gone wrong, since it increasingly seems to me that there’s a strong argument to be made that climate action will accelerate the economy, not drag it down.
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Nation’s Largest Utility Leaves U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Over Climate Denial
Exelon CEO John Rowe announced that his company – the largest electric utility company in the United States – would not renew its membership in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because of its opposition to global warming action
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Most people would assume that 20 years from now when historians look back at 2008-09, they will conclude that the most important thing to happen in this period was the Great Recession. I’d hold off on that. If we can continue stumbling out of this economic crisis, I believe future historians may well conclude that the most important thing to happen in the last 18 months was that Red China decided to become Green China.
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Malawi windmill boy with big fans
The extraordinary true story of a Malawian teenager who transformed his village by building electric windmills out of junk is the subject of a new book, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.
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Green points for Hewlett Packard and Apple | Greenpeace International
Apple and Hewlett Packard get green points this month, as HP is rewarded in the latest edition of our Guide to Greener Electronics and Apple releases details of their greenhouse gas emissions. But the big points go to activist consumers for proving once again that public pressure creates positive change.
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Supermarkets get cold feet over fridge doors
What’s the biggest and easiest thing that supermarkets could do to cut their energy bills and reduce their carbon footprint? They all know the answer. Put doors on their fridges.
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WWF – Spain takes international water treaty past half way mark
Spain late last month boosted efforts to bring into effect an international treaty to share and protect rivers and lakes crossing or forming international borders, telling the United Nations General Assembly it was committed to jointly addressing issues of security, development and protection of the environment.
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Following Trash on Its Journey Through the Waste Disposal System – NYTimes.com
Karin Landsberg, 42, a self-described “eco-geek†in Seattle, was so curious that she invited researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology into her home last month to fish 12 items out of her garbage and recycling bins — a can of beans, a compact fluorescent light bulb — and tag them with small electronic tracking devices.
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A Timely Reminder of the Real Limits to Growth by Bill McKibben: Yale Environment 360
It has been more than 30 years since a groundbreaking book predicted that if growth continued unchecked, the Earth’s ecological systems would be overwhelmed within a century. The latest study from an international team of scientists should serve as an eleventh-hour warning that cannot be ignored.
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For the second time within twelve months, the conservative French Government has proposed raising the feed-in tariff for solar PV in the coming year. The Minister for the Environment, Jean-Louis Borloo, has announced that new feed-in tariffs for solar energy will come into effect as of 1 January 2010.
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GreenMonk: GreenMonk news roundup 10/03/2009 http://bit.ly/1gPeUn
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