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The Green Files > June 30, 2009

Full Circle Associates » Monday Video: The Seed and Online Ecosystems

[Nancy White's Full Circle Blog] In other words, our online interactions are by necessity part of an ecosystem. While the individual may appear to have supremacy, this is a process that requires many players.

Missives Of An Iconoclast - Sustainable Ecosystems and Community News:

[Missives Of An Iconoclast] And for the last 40 years, most of my peers have found it very easy to laugh at me and call me stupid. And yet most of my peers who were laughing at me when I was back at Fort Lewis college in Durango Colorado are no longer laughing.

Posted at 02:33 PM

June 30, 2009

Full Circle Associates » Monday Video: The Seed and Online Ecosystems

Posted at 02:34 PM

Missives Of An Iconoclast - Sustainable Ecosystems and Community News:

Posted at 02:33 PM

June 29, 2009

Feldman Dedicates Eco-Friendly Concert To Michael Jackson ...

[ecorazzi.com :: the latest in green gossip] The former actor turned musician/eco-activist wore a Jackson-style buttoned regal jacket and told the crowd to give 30 seconds of silence in memory of his close friend. His band Truth Movement was performing in Los Angeles at a gig .

Posted at 12:35 PM

Inhabitat » Sizzling Summer Shop Picks for Eco-Friendly Celebrating

[INHABITAT] Another inspiring finalist in our Spring Greening Contest is Kumvana Gomani, who created this beautiful little bird brooch from recycled aluminum. To make it she

Posted at 12:32 PM

June 27, 2009

Eco Efficiency : Ecopreneurist

[Ecopreneurist] Ecopreneurist provides news and advice on sustainable and social entrepreneurship. Learn about new green products and services for the LOHAS demographic, and get marketing and branding assistance for your green start-up business.

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Inhabitat » ANNOUNCING: Our Pimp My Eco-Ride Winner!

[INHABITAT] Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments.

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June 26, 2009

Congress Matters ::

[Congress Matters] Included in this amount is a $142 million rescission from EPA prior-year STAG account funds, based on an Inspector General report of unliquidated obligations and $18 million in reductions from a number of requested increases for EPA administrative functions. The bill terminates $28 million for a new initiative in Federal aid in wildlife restoration program due to concerns about implementation of the program.

Posted at 03:03 PM

Beyond Management: The Personal Learning Environment ~ Stephen's ...

[Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily] In this presentation, I mix the presentation of the theory - chaos, complexity and mesh networks - with the practical technical development leading toward the personal learning environment. A second audio file is also available.

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June 25, 2009

A Colorado vacation shows why environmentalism matters ...

[greenrightnow.com] With its wealth of park lands, varied terrain, and caravan-friendly roads, Colorado presents excellent opportunities for this kind of eco-exposure road trip. I loaded up the car recently to see how much I could squeeze into a week or so of vacation time, and was surprised at the result.

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Hit & Run > Free-Market Environmentalism in the New York Times ...

[Reason Magazine - Hit & Run] Comments to "Free-Market Environmentalism in the New York Times": Add a comment â†“. Naga Sadow | June 24, 2009, 11:44am | #. I'm blown away! Really? I've long had the idea that if enviromentalists(whatever that may mean) had begun using ...

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June 24, 2009

.eco TLD being proposed to ICANN - Domain Name News, The Domain ...

[Home] eco bidder Big Room,Trevor Bowden ,told for InternetNews.com that "A lot of eco-information that companies produce about themselves or their products is dispersed and difficult for consumers to find, so we want to be a transparency solution," Bowden said. "We could ask registrants whether their product has an eco label or if their company produces a sustainability report."

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Inhabitat » Inhabitat's Pimp My Eco-Ride Contest Closes Tomorrow!

[INHABITAT] A Green Design Blog, Sustainable Design Blog, Future-forward design for the world you inhabit - your daily source for innovations in sustainable architecture and green design for the home.

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June 23, 2009

Memex 1.1 » Blog Archive » Thinking about climate change (contd.)

[Memex 1.1] in practice I think Tim O’Reilly is right: what will happen is that we will invent who new industries based on green technology.

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Worldchanging: Bright Green: Closing the Climate Change Accounting ...

[Worldchanging: Bright Green] That's why the new Carbon Counter's not just a gimmick. By showing us all the day-to-day environmental toll of our actions it will, in one small way, help move decision-makers from Washington to your kitchen table to attach real, honestly-measured prices to those actions.

Posted at 02:33 PM

June 22, 2009

BBC - Mark Mardell's Euroblog: Greenpeace spoof

[Mark Mardell | The Reporters] The blog of Mark Mardell, the BBC's Europe editor.

Posted at 12:45 PM

Swimming towards a coal ship - Greenpeace campaigners block coal ...

[Greenpeace UK blogs] Coal ship 3 Around midnight three of my colleagues eased themselves off one of the Greenpeace inflatable speedboats and into the cold water of the river Medway in Kent. It's difficult to imagine what must be going through your mind in .

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June 20, 2009

Half Sigma: How global warming people silence critics

[Half Sigma] "If a meteorologist can't speak to the fundamental science of climate change, then maybe the AMS shouldn't give them a Seal of Approval. Clearly, the AMS doesn't agree that global warming can be blamed on cyclical weather patterns," Cullen wrote in her December 21 weblog on the Weather Channel Website.[Note: It is also worth taking a look at the comments section at the bottom of Cullen's blog, very entertaining.] This latest call to silence skeptics of manmade global warming has been the subject of discussion at the annual American Meteorological Society's Annual conference in San Antonio Texas this week.

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Blogs @ The Charleston Gazette - » Blankenship challenges Hansen ...

[Coal Tattoo] So then, this is why the rate of warming (when warming occurs) at the water vapour canopy is actually slightly lower than the rate of warming at the earth’s surface: it is because the water vapour is always and only ever the RESULT of temperature, never the cause of it, and being further from the earth where the albedo effect actually converts short-wave radiation into long-wave (heat) radiation, it necessarily loses the heat energy which brought it into being at a faster rate than does the earth’s surface (where the heat is being created).

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June 19, 2009

White House Follow-up on Global Climate Change Impacts | Twilight ...

[Twilight Earth] Dr. Anne Waple, with the US Global Change Research Program, offers a follow up to the Global Climate Change Impact Report.

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Half Sigma: Government lying about "climate change"

[Half Sigma] Pielke writes that the Obama administration “climate change” report misrepresents his research to create the false impression that there’s an increase in hurricanes and other types of violent weather. He also mentions various other anomalies, and conflicts of interest by one of the authors.

Posted at 03:04 PM

June 18, 2009

Eco-friendly Wedding Ideas - Green Daily

[Green Daily] If you're practicing reduce, reuse, and recycle in your everyday life, there are lots of resources to make your wedding equally eco-friendly. And if you are a recent green convert, planning wedding is a great way to learn about sustainable practices that you can continue to use long after you've finished picking the bird seed (we don't use rice anymore, it's bad for the birds) out of your veil.

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Curbed LA: Eco-Village Still Fighting LAUSD Over Parking Lot

[Curbed LA] Curbed LA : The Los Angeles Neighborhoods and Real Estate Blog.

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June 17, 2009

Social Entrepreneurship - Change.org: Creating Ecosystems for ...

[Change.org's Social Entrepreneurship Blog] Andrew Wolk has a short but important post up about his recent attendence at the Future Trends Forum in Madrid, Spain. In it he shares one of his major take-aways about a new take on collaboration:

Posted at 02:35 PM

Alien Life: Deep-sea ecosystems and 'The Science of Aliens'

[Alien Life] Somehow as a child I always thought we'd have a space station and lunar base by the early 1980s with man on Mars within the decade of that; I envisioned myself as a spacecraft pilot, ferrying passengers to and fro between Luna, Mars and the asteroid belt.

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June 16, 2009

AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points » Blog Archive » GA and the ...

[AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points] To look into the impact that GA has on the environment and vice versa, we put a team of our editors to work on a special report in the July issue of AOPA Pilot. The package looks at ways you can reduce your impact on the environment while flying–in some cases while reducing your operating costs.

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Regents Prep - Regents Prep Living Environment - Living ...

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June 15, 2009

Oregon Natural Resources Report » Flawed soil designation bill ...

[Oregon Natural Resources Report] As a result of an extremely broad definition of “agricultural land” and “forest land” in Oregon administrative rules (specifically, LCDC’s Goals 3 and 4), nearly 97% of all privately owned rural land in Oregon is zoned for farm and forest uses. The end result is that thousands of acres of private property in Oregon is miszoned as farmland or forestland based solely on NRCS soil classifications, regardless of whether the property has ever been used for commercial agriculture or forest uses. These miszonings have devastating impacts on private property owners, who are stuck with property that cannot be used for any productive use as a result of NRCS soils data and LCDC zoning.

Posted at 12:35 PM

WhirledView: More on the Natural Resource Horror Show

[WhirledView] (Read the chapter on “The Crisis of Profligacy” in Andrew J. Bacevich’s The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism.)

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June 13, 2009

Abrupt Climate Change Could Drag Monsoon Over the Ocean ...

[TreeHugger] photo: Ken Bosma via flickr About three months ago we learned of new research from Purdue University showing that climate change is likely shift the onset of the monsoon 10-15 days later in many parts of South Asia and.

Posted at 03:04 PM

Climate change nonsense

[The Adam Smith Institute Blog] An awful lot of nonsense about climate change is spouted, as we know. I think the thing that bugs me the most though is that people don't seem to be understanding the very reports they rely upon for their logic and calls to action.

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June 12, 2009

Global warming hogwash: Plans to save us are actually wasteful

[Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com] Whenever you hear a politician start a sentence with, “If we can put a man on the moon …,” grab your wallet.

Posted at 03:05 PM

Global Warming Petition Signed by 31478 Scientists by Ron Paul

[LewRockwell.com] There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.''

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June 11, 2009

Burger King Franchises Call Global Warming 'Baloney' - Watching ...

[Watching the Watchers] The store signs for MIC Burger King franchises were used to sell bull manure with their miscellaneous beef byproducts, announcing that "Global Warming is Baloney." (Fried bologna is a delicacy in the south...

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World Climate Report » Sulfates and Global Warming

[World Climate Report] One may also speculate that the recent lack of a significant overall brightening may favor a more moderate temperature increase in the early 2000 compared to the 1990s, when brightening has more substantially added to the greenhouse-induced warming [Wild et al., 2007, 2008]. Overall global warming since the turn of the millennium may therefore be more readily attributable to the enhanced greenhouse effect, and no longer suppressed by surface solar dimming as in the period from the 1950s to 1980s or enhanced by surface solar brightening as from the 1980s to 2000.

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June 10, 2009

YID With LID: James Hansen--> Global Warming's Hoaxmaster

[YID With LID] On a hot summer day in June 1988, Hansen, the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, came to Washington to announce before a Senate committee that "the greenhouse effect has been detected and it is changing our climate now."

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June 09, 2009

The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : ACORN Enters the Highly ...

[AmSpecBlog] ACORN's deputy director of national operations, said his group - the largest grassroots community organization of low- and moderate- income people in the United States - was inspired to join the Climate Equity Alliance and work with groups such as the Sierra Club after seeing the vulnerability of cities such as New Orleans to rising sea levels and more intense climatic events. The group, which lobbies for affordable housing and improved education in urban areas, is also encouraged by the hope of "green jobs," environmentally sustainable employment opportunities.

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MaxRedline: Global Warming News

[MaxRedline] All told, the auditors estimated that DOE could save more than $1.5 million annually on energy bills if the staff just implemented the government’s own power-saving guidelines. And that’s just at the seven facilities surveyed, the report noted.

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June 08, 2009

Scoop: Video: Key Feels the Heat in climate change action

[Scoop NZ - Politics] Morning commuters are being stopped to sign Oxfam’s Feel the Heat climate change petition and watch world-renowned ice carver Victor Cagayat at work. At lunchtime, members of the cast of Shortland Street will work the crowd, urging them to make their voices heard and tell Government to take a stronger stance in the international climate change negotiations culminating in Copenhagen in December.

Posted at 12:36 PM

World News Australia - Fielding challenges climate change causes

[World News Australia] Senator Fielding has recently returned from a trip to the US where he met with climate change sceptics who blame global warming on solar flares not human activity or carbon emissions.

Posted at 12:33 PM

June 06, 2009

Climate Change | MetaFilter

[MetaFilter] This is strangely reminiscent of Zero Punctuation - maybe it's the English accent and arch tone. He's a lot more laid-back, though he needn't be .

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Climate change

[The Scottish Government Freedom of Information - Latest Disclosures] "I am delighted to see for myself the impressive efforts to motivate communities into acting on climate change. It is heartening to see so many people gathered to support, learn and showcase ways that little changes can have such a huge .

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June 05, 2009

Worldchanging: Bright Green: Energy and Global Warming News for ...

[Worldchanging: Bright Green] The Worldchanging comments are meant to be used for further exploration and evaluation of the ideas covered in our posts. Please note that, while constructive disagreement is fine, insults and abuse are not, and will result in the comment being deleted and a likely ban from commenting.

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Headline: 'Did Global Warming Help Bring Down Air France Flight ...

[NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias] The Global warming mess is loaded with fearful people that use projections and predictions as actual proof for their religious values. Exageration is a form of dishonesy. See the charges by the Countrywide executive yesterday. Weatherman are our current astrology culture. They do the same as palm readers. In Egypt all causation was tied back to certain false gods. The frog, the son the moon or the god du jour. Today ice, cold heat drought and floding are tied to the god du jour called global warming. I run their data on a computor that survived y2k demons.

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June 04, 2009

Yale study: Most polluted ecosystems recoverable

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Xandros Discusses Application Stores and Ecosystems | JAVA ...

[Latest News from JAVA Developer's Journal] Who: Denis Angleton, Cary Harper, and Jeremy Norris of Xandros; What: "Application Stores and Ecosystems with Java(TM) Platform, Enterprise Edition Technology"; When: Tuesday, June 2, 8:30 PM - 9:20 PM; Where: Esplanade 305, ...

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June 03, 2009

Global Warming Conference: A Warning on Warming Predictions » The ...

[The Foundry] By creating an illusion of positive feedback, the IPCC scientists significantly overestimate warming predictions. If the climate system is as sensitive as the IPCC report says it is, then carbon dioxide would have a very strong effect on warming and cooling.

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Feldstein on global warming - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com

[Paul Krugman] Martin Feldstein has been making sense on macro issues, but this is a really bad column, on multiple levels.On the most basic level: Waxman-Markey eventually calls for a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by more than 80 percent, so looking only at the 10-year target, for about a 15 percent reduction is deeply misleading.Beyond [...]

Posted at 02:33 PM

June 02, 2009

Scoop: Humans Freeze on World Environment Day

[Scoop NZ - Politics] The Freeze is supported bymany individuals, community organisations and businesses,including Oxfam, 350 Climate Action, WWF New Zealand andGreenpeace New Zealand. Some members of parliament are alsoplanning to participate.

Posted at 02:37 PM

Hydrogen Cars: Saving the Environment's a Gas | Xconomy

[Xconomy] Cruising north on Interstate-5 in a Chevy Equinox hardly sounds like a reason to be excited, but I felt lighter than air yesterday. That may just be an effect of the hydrogen fueling the car, or perhaps just the giddy sensation that comes from driving the future of General Motors on the same day their future looks so uncertain.

Posted at 02:35 PM

The Green Files > June 30, 2009

Full Circle Associates » Monday Video: The Seed and Online Ecosystems

Missives Of An Iconoclast - Sustainable Ecosystems and Community News:

June 30, 2009

Full Circle Associates » Monday Video: The Seed and Online Ecosystems

Missives Of An Iconoclast - Sustainable Ecosystems and Community News:

June 29, 2009

Feldman Dedicates Eco-Friendly Concert To Michael Jackson ...

Inhabitat » Sizzling Summer Shop Picks for Eco-Friendly Celebrating

June 27, 2009

Eco Efficiency : Ecopreneurist

Inhabitat » ANNOUNCING: Our Pimp My Eco-Ride Winner!

June 26, 2009

Congress Matters ::

Beyond Management: The Personal Learning Environment ~ Stephen's ...

June 25, 2009

A Colorado vacation shows why environmentalism matters ...

Hit & Run > Free-Market Environmentalism in the New York Times ...

June 24, 2009

.eco TLD being proposed to ICANN - Domain Name News, The Domain ...

Inhabitat » Inhabitat's Pimp My Eco-Ride Contest Closes Tomorrow!

June 23, 2009

Memex 1.1 » Blog Archive » Thinking about climate change (contd.)

Worldchanging: Bright Green: Closing the Climate Change Accounting ...

June 22, 2009

BBC - Mark Mardell's Euroblog: Greenpeace spoof

Swimming towards a coal ship - Greenpeace campaigners block coal ...

June 20, 2009

Half Sigma: How global warming people silence critics

Blogs @ The Charleston Gazette - » Blankenship challenges Hansen ...

June 19, 2009

White House Follow-up on Global Climate Change Impacts | Twilight ...

Half Sigma: Government lying about "climate change"

June 18, 2009

Eco-friendly Wedding Ideas - Green Daily

Curbed LA: Eco-Village Still Fighting LAUSD Over Parking Lot

June 17, 2009

Social Entrepreneurship - Change.org: Creating Ecosystems for ...

Alien Life: Deep-sea ecosystems and 'The Science of Aliens'

June 16, 2009

AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points » Blog Archive » GA and the ...

Regents Prep - Regents Prep Living Environment - Living ...

June 15, 2009

Oregon Natural Resources Report » Flawed soil designation bill ...

WhirledView: More on the Natural Resource Horror Show

June 13, 2009

Abrupt Climate Change Could Drag Monsoon Over the Ocean ...

Climate change nonsense

June 12, 2009

Global warming hogwash: Plans to save us are actually wasteful

Global Warming Petition Signed by 31478 Scientists by Ron Paul

June 11, 2009

Burger King Franchises Call Global Warming 'Baloney' - Watching ...

World Climate Report » Sulfates and Global Warming

June 10, 2009

YID With LID: James Hansen--> Global Warming's Hoaxmaster

June 09, 2009

The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : ACORN Enters the Highly ...

MaxRedline: Global Warming News

June 08, 2009

Scoop: Video: Key Feels the Heat in climate change action

World News Australia - Fielding challenges climate change causes

June 06, 2009

Climate Change | MetaFilter

Climate change

June 05, 2009

Worldchanging: Bright Green: Energy and Global Warming News for ...

Headline: 'Did Global Warming Help Bring Down Air France Flight ...

June 04, 2009

Yale study: Most polluted ecosystems recoverable

Xandros Discusses Application Stores and Ecosystems | JAVA ...

June 03, 2009

Global Warming Conference: A Warning on Warming Predictions » The ...

Feldstein on global warming - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com

June 02, 2009

Scoop: Humans Freeze on World Environment Day

Hydrogen Cars: Saving the Environment's a Gas | Xconomy

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