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Environmental Policies

Although it's not much in vogue to praise President Obama, this week he gets my thanks for launching what history may record as one of the most significant steps to mitigate climate change taken by any...

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Cities Take the Heat for Global Warming

Five years into his presidency, Barack Obama is finally addressing the most serious issue facing the planet: climate change. Of course, this week's proposed Environmental Protection Agency orders that...

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Biodynamic Farming: Poop in a Ram's Horn

Friends of Life in the Boomer Lane belong to a food coop. When they are out-of-town, she and Now Husband receive their share (30lbs of root vegetables). Or an extra loaf of bread. The bread (and...

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This Is the Year to Grow Your Own Food

As farmers' markets pop up around the country, many Americans browse the stacks of multi-hued carrots, peppers and tomatoes and think, "I wish I could grow something like that." There's a common...

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Nuclear Giant Exelon Blasts Wind

Exelon's Christopher Crane wants Congress to kill a wind tax break, despite the fact the nuclear industry wouldn't be viable today without decades of federal subsidies. Corporate executives often tout...

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The Moon and Stars Watch Over the Wines of Avignonesi

The sun, moon and stars shine over the vineyards of Avignonesi as they do everywhere else in Tuscany, but the owner and winemakers of this 495-acre estate in Valliano di Montepulciano (below) probably...

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The 'Smartest' Cities in the World

by John Wogan, CNTraveler.com A few visionary communities around the world are leading a revolution in "smart" urban planning. They're incorporating technology and environmentally friendly practices...

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Holy Pig! Put Down the Pork!

That's DISGUSTING!! From "I Love Bacon" t-shirts to events like the NY Bacon Fest, it's clear that pork is on the minds -- and plates -- of many foodies. But while pork is tantalizing taste buds,...

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Milan's EXPO 2015 'Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life' Also Feeds the Mind

Some events leave lasting impressions. I daresay that anyone who has visited Italy has returned with fond memories of their trip. Well, next year there will be one more reason to go -- and a compelling...

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Why Are These Six States Defending Horrific Cruelty to Animals?

Egg Industry Magazine has predicted that 2015 will be "the year of the lawsuit." The reason, though the magazine would not frame it precisely this way, is that the egg industry is trying to defend the...

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Water Powers Urban Life

Sao Paulo, Brazil with the credit to Scott Warren There's good news and bad news for cities. The good news is that a new study of more than 200 global cities published this week in the Journal of...

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Dug In on Drug Use in Horse Racing Industry

The integrity of international cycling has been tarnished because of confirmed cases of doping at the highest rungs of the industry, with Lance Armstrong's remarkable record nullified because of his...

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Why Are We Laughing at Things That Make Chickens Suffer?

Originally posted at ASPCA.org It's not unusual -- though frankly still bizarre -- to see live and personified chickens in fast food commercials that encourage their own processing and consumption...

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Diane Feinstein's Unsettling Victory

For a Democrat, Dianne Feinstein's had a surprisingly troubled history with environmental organizations in her home state of California. And speaking as someone who's voted for her a few times now,...

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The Five Biggest Threats to Our Oceans

When I give talks about how we have degraded our oceans to the cusp of catastrophe, people often ask me what they can do. If you want to save the oceans, by all means eat only sustainably sourced fish...

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Kellogg and General Mills Should Come Clean About Their Climate Lobbying

This week the Obama administration announced its most ambitious effort yet to crack down on dangerous carbon pollution from U.S. power plants. As the Washington Post reported on Monday, "the...

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Taking Climate Change Seriously

Climate change is about people, not just science and politics -- it is an inter-generational ethics issue. The earth is the Lord's, and in Genesis, God entrusts us with caring for Creation. The earth...

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Leader of Attack on Obama Global Warming Plan? Rudy Giuliani's Firm

After the attacks of September 11, 2001, New York's Rudolph Giuliani became "America's Mayor," mobilizing his city and standing as a defiant foe of the forces of terrorism. Then, after the devastating...

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Fighting Climate Change With Sensible City Planning

  It is almost a tautology to declare that our future, and that of our children and their children, depends on how we shape our communities for the 21st century and beyond.  Here in the US, we’re going...

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Why the Carbon Rule Is a Bigger Deal than the Media Understands

The headline in Tuesday's NYT gave the top-line evaluation of the Obama Administration's power plant carbon rule: "Hopes Modest for Carbon Rules." Environmentalists had hoped that the Administration...

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