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Utah is going to a 4-day workweek to save energy

Posted by Jon from CNN

Shorter workweeks save energy.

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Beijing Turns Green Before the Olympics

Posted by Shemuses from

From shopping to driving to eating, Beijing residents are rearranging their lives to help save the environment just in time for the Olympics Games this August.

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Chinese Pollution = Increase in Cancer

Posted by bugaloo from

In attempting to increase its economic development, the Chinese regime has managed to increase its mortality rates. China is one of the most polluted countries in the world, if not the most polluted.

Statistics furnished by the World Bank are astonishing: 16 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world are located in China; 90% of urban groundwater in China is contaminated; it is estimated that circa 900,000 people die every year from air and water pollution.

Highly toxic heavy metals such as lead and mercury contaminate cultivable terrain thus poisoning the food, while the number of Chinese citizens who die due to lung cancer and other serious respiratory diseases is constantly increasing....

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HeraldTribune.com - News - News stories about Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties in Florida,

Posted by birdbgone from Heraldtribune

A courthouse in Manatee Florida was over-run with pest birds, so they decided to install the Bird Chase Super Sonic from Bird-B-Gone, Inc, a weatherproof sound deterrent that can cover between 1-5 acres.

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McCain energy bombshell: More oil + dirty coal. That’s Bush-li

Posted by dsnodgrass from Climateprogress

From Climate Progress, John McCain actually criticizes Obama for failing to "support more traditional use of coal..."

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Chews Wise: Supermarkets Fail Greenpeace Test on Fish

Posted by dsnodgrass from

Via Samuel Fromartz:

Greenpeace rated supermarkets for the sustainability of the fish they sell.

All failed.

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Dems Slam Mccain on Off-shore Drilling

Posted by wilflipson from firstread.msnbc.msn.com

In advance of McCain's energy speech in Houston, the Obama camp attacked the presumptive Republican nominee by saying he's “flip flopped” on drilling off shore and that his energy policy “does not represent the change we need.”

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New satellite photos show Amazon deforestation exploding

Posted by Jeff from Mcclatchydc

Brazil's DETER real-time monitoring system found that more than 430 square miles of forest, an area a bit smaller than the city of Los Angeles, vanished in the month of April, while about 2,300 square miles, larger than the state of Delaware, were destroyed between last August and April.

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Energy Probe - The Deniers: Our spotless sun

Posted by MikeS from

The battle over who has control of the thermostat in your house could become even greater.

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Canada House gives green light to biofuel bill| Canada| Reuters

Posted by MikeS from africa.reuters.com

Mandated ethanol requirements don't always make the best sense but Canada has officially joined the trend. The Green Party sees it as simply another handout to the biofuel industry without having any real impact on climate change. The bill still has to receive Senate approval before it can become law which in Canada, is generally a formality.

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Shark attacks have Mexico resort area in panic

Posted by Jeff from MSNBC

The article doesn't seem to mention overfishing of shark prey as a possibility but I suspect this is involved as well.

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Federal scientists probe decline of B.C. salmon runs

Posted by Shemuses from CBC

Salmon ecology is a complex puzzle: On the U.S. West Coast many salmon runs have completely collapsed, and in B.C. the situation is only slightly better. But in the North Pacific, including Alaska, Russia and Japan, many salmon runs are at or near all-time highs.

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