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Innovation of the Week: Climate Smart Seaweed Farming

By Matt Styslinger - De '10 - Worldwatch Institute At the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in...

We are Facing the Greatest Threat to Humanity: Only Fundamental Change Can Save Us

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Maude Barlow / Alternet Quite simply, human-centered governance systems are not working and we need new economic, development and environmental policies.

The Serengeti Highway

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Shared by: Jen M. - the Green Pages - on December 28, 2010  Most of us will only ever see a lion... Buffalo photo by    etravelphotos Editor's comment: The Dominion of man over the natural world is nearing completion. Notice, one reason for the highway is to get at material needed to make batteries for hybrid vehicles, widely considered by modern society as a "green" endeavour! Sadly, our assault on Mother Earth will only cease when human populations themselves, through one means or another, are brought within sustainable proportions. l.p.

Sacrificing the Rainforest on the Altar of Energy

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By Milagros Salazar * Inter Press Service LIMA, Dec 27, 2010 (IPS/IFEJ) - The construction of five hydroelectric... Tambopata, Peru.  (Photo: k lichstig)

Temperature Rising

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A Scientist, His Work and a Climate Reckoning By JUSTIN GILLIS - De '10 MAUNA LOA OBSERVATORY, Hawaii — Two gray machines...

Ottawa Kept in Dark 
on Abnormal Fish Found 
in Tar Sands Rivers

Josh Wingrove - THE GLOBE AND MAIL De 17'10 EDMONTON— Hundreds of deformed fish found in...