]> http://www.greenedia.com/latest Conservation Sector - Latest Blog Articles at http://www.greenedia.com en http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/190203?rsstype=latest&cid=53 As you may have gathered, the idea of city-wide carbon neutrality by 2030 has gained a lot of steam here in Worldchanging's home base of Seattle. Our City Council has embraced it as a goal (though it's wrestling with the timeline) and some of our... Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:54:21 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/190203?rsstype=latest&cid=53 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/190053?rsstype=latest&cid=53 Jessica Biel, Kenna, and Emile Hirsch attend Summit on the Summit premier at the Tribeca Grand Hotel in NYC. Credit: Dimitrios Kambouris/WireimageWe have been covering the Summit on the Summit expedition, to raise awareness of the global clean water... Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:08:26 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/190053?rsstype=latest&cid=53 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/190055?rsstype=latest&cid=53 ISO bright ideas. Photo by Paul Keller via Flickr.If you want to get people to boost their personal energy efficiency, you should appeal to their vanity, their inner couch potato, their wallets, and their competitive nature. That's the strategy that ... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:16:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/190055?rsstype=latest&cid=53 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/190111?rsstype=latest&cid=53 We're going to float / Through the criss cross of the mountains / Watch them fade to nothing / When the world ends / You know that's what's happening now - Dave Matthews, When the World Ends I remember Dave Matthews... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:10:52 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/190111?rsstype=latest&cid=53 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/190058?rsstype=latest&cid=53 photo via flickrThere's a lot of grim climate news, of course, but the EU keeps moving forward. On Friday, the European Commission announced that the EU, which is made up 27 member countries, is on track to meet its goal of generating 20 percent of ... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:53:02 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/190058?rsstype=latest&cid=53 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/earth-blog/190029?rsstype=latest&cid=53 TAKE ACTION!Rainforest Action Network [search] is a key supporter of failed Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) [search] efforts to sustainably log tens of millions of hectares of primary and old-growth forests for lawn furniture, toilet paper and othe... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:43:43 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/earth-blog/190029?rsstype=latest&cid=53 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/190064?rsstype=latest&cid=53 Acid ocean SOS. Image credit:Alaska Marine Conservation CouncilUS EPA has decided to consider ways that US states can, under already delegated authorities, curb pollutants that may otherwise add to the power of global warming's evil twin: Ocean Ac... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:36:32 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/190064?rsstype=latest&cid=53 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/190072?rsstype=latest&cid=53 Image credit: marfis75/FlickrTanzania and Zambia, conservationists fear, may receive special permission from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to auction off a combined total of 112 tonnes of stockpiled ivory. Though... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:12:26 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/190072?rsstype=latest&cid=53 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/190115?rsstype=latest&cid=53 Since the first Earth Day 40 years ago -- and despite incredible progress on myriad environmental problems -- America is now faced with a failing energy policy that continues to reward polluters, undermines the health of the American people, thr... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:10:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/190115?rsstype=latest&cid=53 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/190116?rsstype=latest&cid=53 NRDC has been working in China for over twelve years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental governance and public participation, and green supply chain issues. This China Environmental News A... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:05:19 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/190116?rsstype=latest&cid=53 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/190117?rsstype=latest&cid=53 Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said today that she is putting on hold her effort to block EPA's determination that carbon pollution is a danger to public health and the environment. This is a strong indication that she doesn't think a majority of the ... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:20:49 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/190117?rsstype=latest&cid=53 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/190120?rsstype=latest&cid=53 Forty years ago this spring, we were a nation divided by war in Vietnam. The Chevrolet Monte Carlo got 11 miles to the gallon. Simon and Garfunkel were making their way up the charts with Bridge Over Troubled Water. And the NRDC was just a hand... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:43:37 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/190120?rsstype=latest&cid=53 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/190123?rsstype=latest&cid=53 Ah, Home Star the legislative proposal that has eaten all my time over the last six months. What more is there to say? Creates jobs! Slashes energy use! Saves money!All of that was said today and more, during a hearing in the Senate Energ... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:40:53 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/190123?rsstype=latest&cid=53 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/dot-earth/189733?rsstype=latest&cid=53 A pioneer in energy efficiency is poised to have an energy unit named for him.... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:37:56 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/dot-earth/189733?rsstype=latest&cid=53 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/190124?rsstype=latest&cid=53 In a reprise of the debate between NRDC's Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Massey Coal CEO Don Blankenship over mountaintop removal coal mining, the Washington newspaper The Hill published dueling pieces by both adversaries in today's edition. Back in J... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:15:49 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/190124?rsstype=latest&cid=53 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/190206?rsstype=latest&cid=53 by Warren KarlenzigLast post I covered some guiding principles for urban resilience planning in the face of climate change and diminishing resources (especially fresh water and oil). Considering these guidelines, what aspect of U.S. metrodevelopment ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:43:39 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/190206?rsstype=latest&cid=53 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/190209?rsstype=latest&cid=53 There was a time, not long ago, when the idea of a national low-carbon growth strategy for India would have been hard to imagine. Low carbon was seen to be at loggerheads with India's ambitious economic development agenda and was too controversial ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:41:46 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/190209?rsstype=latest&cid=53 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/greenpeace-weblogs/190014?rsstype=latest&cid=53 I can still remember the glow on our teenage faces as we gathered around the Greenpeace logo, ready to discuss our first action as a newly founded 'Greenteam'. The issues then? Energy efficiency in our school and people who didn't recycle. I m no lo... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:04:24 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/greenpeace-weblogs/190014?rsstype=latest&cid=53 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/worldwatch-institute/190181?rsstype=latest&cid=53 There was a time, not long ago, when the idea of a national low-carbon growth strategy for India would have been hard to imagine. Low carbon was seen to be at loggerheads with India's ambitious economic development agenda and was too controversial... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/worldwatch-institute/190181?rsstype=latest&cid=53 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/189761?rsstype=latest&cid=53 03/10/2010 - Proposed federal energy efficiency jobs provisions would create about 333,000 jobs in 2010 and then 184,000 jobs in 2011 as funding begins to ramp down, according to a new analysis released by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient... 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