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Experts: Half of mammals in decline - World environment- msnbc.com
Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
One in two mammal species on Earth are in decline and at least one in four are at risk of disappearing forever, according to a scientific survey released Monday and whose sponsors described the trend as an "extinction crisis" in the making. "Mammals are declining faster than we thought,"
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Junk Mail Keeps the Post Office Alive
Posted by Jeff from Newsweek
The Postal Service lost $1.1 billion in its latest quarter. That number would be even larger if it weren't for direct mailings, which now constitute 52 percent of mail volume, up from 38 percent in 1990. Revenue from direct mail "is the financial underpinning of the Postal Service-it could not survive without it," says Michael Coughlin, former deputy postmaster. But 89 percent of consumers say in polls that they'd prefer not to receive direct-marketing mail; 44 percent of it is never opened.
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Orcas and Salmon say: A building ban near rivers?
Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
In a potentially far-reaching decision for more than 270 municipalities, the National Marine Fisheries Service said the federal flood insurance program that protects homes and businesses built in flood plains is illegal. The reasoning: Flood insurance allows development that harms salmon and, consequently, the orcas that eat salmon. Both are protected under the Endangered Species Act.
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Green the Bailout
Posted by Shemuses from New York Times
Many things make me weep about the current economic crisis, but none more than this brief economic history: In the 19th century, America had a railroad boom, bubble and bust. Some people made money; many lost money. But even when that bubble burst, it left America with an infrastructure of railroads that made transcontinental travel and shipping dramatically easier and cheaper.
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Voters in Ecuador Approve Constitution and Rights of Nature
Posted by Jeff from Washington Post
In a country rich with ecological treasures, including the Galapagos Islands and part of the Amazon rain forest, the constitution also calls on government to avoid measures that would destroy ecosystems or drive species to extinction -- the first such measure of its kind, according to Ecuadoran officials. The constitution would allow civil unions for gay couples.
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In Memoriam: Phil Clapp, Environmental Champion and Climate Leader
Posted by Shemuses from
Phil Clapp, 54, deputy managing director of the Pew Environment Group, died yesterday in Amsterdam of complications from pneumonia, which he contracted while on vacation. Obituaries of this gentle, humorous man who was one of the environmental movement's most effective Washington insiders are running today in both the New York Times and the Washington Post.
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Environmentalism is Still Dead
Posted by Shemuses from
We can no longer trust greens to save the planet. Their track record and anti-pragmatic approach demonstrates one thing above all else: environmentalism is still dead. It's time to lead or leave, and until greens are ready to grow up, we shouldn't take their marching orders. The moment is simply too urgent. Since 2004, greens have risen slowly but surely from "The Death of Environmentalism" pronounced by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus. "An Inconvenient Truth," a new Democratic Congress, the green marketing frenzy - it seemed that greens had risen from the grave throwing punches, and it was only a matter of time before the final "tipping point" on global warming action was reached.
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Ike Swamps Native Communities in Louisiana Bayous
Posted by Shemuses from
Weary evacuees filled rescue shelters, and local officials watched the costly damage mount from Hurricane Ike after its massive storm surge swamped Louisiana's coastline and flooded the bayou communities where much of the state's Native American population lives. Thousands fled the region as mandatory evacuations were ordered for low-lying portions of Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes, and those fleeing the storm included members of the United Houma Nation, the Pointe-au-Chien tribe, the Isle de Jean Charles Band and the Lafourche Band of the Biloxi-Chitimacha Confederation. Many of the Native Americans were among those living in some of the most vulnerable communities of the bayou including the Isle de Jean Charles...
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Sex, Drug Use and Graft Cited in Interior Department
Posted by Shemuses from New York Times
As Congress prepares to debate expansion of drilling in taxpayer-owned coastal waters, the Interior Department agency that collects oil and gas royalties has been caught up in a wide-ranging ethics scandal - including allegations of financial self-dealing, accepting gifts from energy companies, cocaine use and sexual misconduct.
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S&R interviews PCAP’s Bill Becker, Part 4
Posted by angliss from Scholarsandrogues
In the final part of 4, S&R talks with PCAP's Bill Becker about energy efficiency, fossil fuel development, so-called "clean coal", nuclear energy, and global warming deniers.
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The Top Ten 'Greenest' Schools
Posted by Shemuses from Alternet
Here are the top 10 colleges and universities that are doing the most to protect the environment.
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S&R interviews PCAP’s Bill Becker, Part 3
Posted by angliss from Scholarsandrogues
Bill Becker says that a plug-in hybrid as as important to national security as a tank and then proceeds to explain how global warming is now as dangerous to national security as belligerent nations.
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