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Can Mad Mens Don Draper save the planet?
2013-04-12 11:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: If shopping is America's national religion, then asking consumers to put their wallets away on Black Friday is pretty close to heresy. But that's exactly what outdoor-apparel company Patagonia did in 2011, though, taking out a full page ad in the New York Times that implored shoppers not to buy its top-selling R2 fleece jacket. Mindless consumption, even of a part-recycled and recyclable jacket such as the R2, is bad for the planet, the ad warned. "As is true of all the things we can make ......
Entire planet will soon have rapid deforestation detection system
2013-04-10 01:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: World Resources Institute (WRI) today unveiled a long-awaited tool that could revolutionize global forest monitoring, reports the UN Forum on Forests, which is meeting this week in Istanbul, Turkey. Global Forest Watch 2.0 is a platform that combines near-real time satellite data, forestry data, and user-submitted information to provide the most complete picture of the world's forests ever assembled. The system has been developed over the last several years as a collaborative effort between WRI...
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UK rewards polluters and locks up people who want to save the planet
2013-04-03 07:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: What if, instead of giving Marie Curie and Alexander Fleming Nobel prizes for their life-saving work on radiation and penicillin, they'd been thrown in jail? Or, instead of being awarded the Grand Croix of the Légion d'honneur for his work on the germ theory of disease, Louis Pasteur was imprisoned like Napoleon on Elba? It would be perverse to return the favour of great, public works by depriving people of their freedom. Yet that is just what we're doing in Britain right now. The contributions...
World Bank chief says global warming threatens the planet and the poorest
2013-04-02 10:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on Tuesday said climate change was a "fundamental threat' to global economic development as he called for a major new push to reduce extreme poverty over the next 17 years. The bank is in the middle of an internal debate over how to reshape its role in a world where the major developing nations -- the core "customers' for its loans and programs -- have become increasingly middle class and where states caught in civil war pose an intractable development problem....
The Coming Crash: Our Addiction to Endless Growth on a Finite Planet
2013-04-01 22:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Tara Lohan author of Water Matters: Why We Need to Act Now to Save Our Most Critical Resource interviews Richard Heinberg about ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth. If you want to understand how much energy costs, don`t look at your electric bill; instead get a copy of the new book Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth. This massive coffee table book contains hundreds of arresting images showing the effects of our energy choices, including oil spills,...
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