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Photo from Indonesia: Greenpeace activists working with locals to halt drainage by constructing dams on peatlands. This will prevent the peatland from...

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In Treehugger - Posted 4 days ago

(Photo from the International Institute for Sustainable Development)I have participated in a number of international conferences, including United Nat...

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In Treehugger - Posted 4 days ago

(Photo of rice paddy farmers from WETecol)Earlier this month, the important UN Ramsar Convention held its 10th meeting in South Korea. Some 2000 deleg...

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In WorldChanging - Posted 6 days ago

The topic of wildlands is an emotional issue for many residents across the United States. Immortalized in iconic photographs, timeless paintings and o...

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In Environmental Graffiti - Posted 1 week ago

Image: RoadnottakenKatydids are fascinating little buggers, er, bugs. More than 6,400 species exist so it's not surprising they come in a range of sha...

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In The Green Skeptic - Posted 1 week ago

Our very survival will demand invention and innovation on a scale never before seen in the history of human civilization, Van Jones writes in his bo...

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In GreenStrides - Posted 1 week ago

About a year ago, a new hotel in Greensboro, NC opened its doors for business but this was no ordinary hotel. Built to high-performance green bui...

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In Worldwatch Institute - Posted 1 week ago

An Israeli water engineer was sitting under a tree one day when he noticed a leaking faucet slowly drip water to the tree's roots, a nearly 50-year-ol...

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In Switchboard, from NRDC - Posted 1 week ago

The Bureau of Reclamation was conceived at the start of the 20th century (originally as the Reclamation Service) to meet the needs of a world that no ...

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In Switchboard, from NRDC - Posted 1 week ago

The election of Obama as President provides a transformational opportunity to make good on the promise for an America where every person, regardless ...

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