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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

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Posted 6 days ago

(A quick little Friday afternoon note.)Discussion of planetary boundaries is pretty surreal everywhere these days, but in the United States, the disconnect between reality and rhetoric has reached wha

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Posted 1 week ago

Here are three talks I found thought-provoking and inspiring. All three demand some attention (and probably some time after to ponder what was said), but all three are also new ideas from thinkers who

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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

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A blue-collar business embraces a green stormwater fix.by Lisa StifflerEditor's note 3/9: This profile is now available in PDF format here.On Seattle's 8th Avenue South in the Georgetown neighborhood,

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A climate action lesson from Denmark There's been a lot of ambitious talk lately about carbon neutrality. It's exciting stuff, but it's worth pausing to consider just how huge that challenge is. And

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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 econ

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More than one-third of the carbon dioxide emissions associated with consumer goods used in developed nations is actually emitted in other nations where the products are made, according to a new study.

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John Wilbanks, the founder of Science Commons, is in the midst of a big move. His division of Creative Commons, focused on opening scientific research and innovation, is now five years old and is bein

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A piece in the latest issue of Science shows that there's a considerable amount of methane (CH4) coming from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, where it had been trapped under the permafrost. There's

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