What’s the Point of Daylight Time?
Eliminating daylight time would accord with President-elect Barack Obama’s stated goals of conserving resources and reducing climate change.
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A Resounding Vote for Open Space
Come January, we will remind Harry Reid of his promise to support a public lands measure and of the voters’ clear commitment to preserving open spaces.
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Honesty About Ethanol
For the sake of the planet, not a particular industry, the E.P.A. must give an unbiased, accurate accounting of ethanol emissions.
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Jason S. Grumet
Jason S. Grumet, the executive director of the National Commission on Energy Policy, is being considered for a position as an energy and climate adviser.
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A Seafood Snob Ponders the Future of Fish
With wild fish harder to catch, what is served up at your local market is often little better than swimming tofu.
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River Otters Reappearing on Nassau County’s North Shore
A semi-aquatic mammal rare on Long Island for 200 years, has turned up on Nassau County’s North Shore.
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Carl D. Keith, a Father of the Catalytic Converter, Dies at 88
Dr. Keith was a co-inventor of the three-way automotive catalytic converter a major advance in eliminating the toxic tailpipe emissions that once blanketed cities in smog.
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Aren’t There Enough Trails?
A new plan to allow snowmobiles into Yellowstone is a bad and barely acceptable compromise.
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Pact Would Open River, Removing Four Dams
The agreement, which would open more than 300 miles of the Klamath River, provides a formal framework to defuse deeply emotional arguments that have echoed through the Northwest.
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Map Upon Map: New Dimensions in What Maps Can Do
How the virtual planet becomes our index to what we know about the actual planet.
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Everglades Deal Now Only Land, Not Assets
A slimmed-down deal intended to rescue the Everglades allows United States Sugar Corporation, the company selling 181,000 acres of land to the State of Florida, to stay in business.
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Groups ‘Party for a Cause’ to Help Charities
An annual event that has raised more than $40,000 for Heal the Bay, a nonprofit organization devoted to cleaning up the beaches of Southern California.
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Preservation of Shoreline Forest Seen as Helped by a Bankruptcy
A property local officials and environmental groups have hoped to preserve happens to be owned by a subsidiary of Lehman Brothers, now bankrupt.
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PREFAB FRIDAY: Blu Homes
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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Throne Speech promises further investments in infrastructure proj...
Canada’s fiscal fundamentals will allow it to endure economic challenges and further investments in infrastructure and labour will play key roles in protecting its economic security, according to the Throne Speech.
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New Guide Explains Why and How Businesses Should Partner with NGOs
Calif. Businesses Join Chorus of Support for Climate Laws
VC Calls Green Building Technologies "Bright Spot" in Economy
Magazine and blog with information and ideas about energy, a resource for businesses who want to be more informed electricity users.
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