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1. Searching For A Pristine Forest? - Don't Hold Your Breath.
2. Uranium – "Yellow Monster" – Threatens Grand Canyon
3. Moen Drips Green Following the Three Rs
4. China's Renewable Energy Stimulus Sends Solar Stocks Skyrocketing

Searching For A Pristine Forest? - Don't Hold Your Breath.

2009-04-10 21:43

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Garden of Eden. Image credit:UK HardLine, excerpted. Would you like to visit a pristine forest? A forest untouched by the hand of (wo)man? Well, you can't. Not because I won't let you, but because there isn't one. ...

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Uranium – "Yellow Monster" – Threatens Grand Canyon

2009-04-10 21:17

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Canyon mine exploration. Image credit:Robert Tohe Stacey Hamburg remembers the day in the fall of 2007 when she was cruising up Arizona's Route 64 toward the South Rim of the Grand Canyon and saw a helicopter flying low and slow, back and forth just above the tops of pinon trees. "This helicopter was not out tracking antelope, but was scouting for uranium," she told me. Stacey is the conservation organizer for the Sierra Club's Grand Canyon Protection Campaign. ...

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Moen Drips Green Following the Three Rs

2009-04-10 21:16

Design & Architecture

Moen's Envi Eco-Performance Showerhead uses about 30 percent less water than a normal-flow showerhead. Image supplied by Moen. I went to a press meeting with Moen this week and came away with a ton of green facts about the well-known company who produces bathroom fixtures. Was I taken in by the allure of a shiny presentation? Did the swag make me want to praise the company to anyone who will listen? Nope. I'm tough to please when it comes to eco-issues, and I'm not afraid to out greenwashing. But the science and math geek in me can't deny the...

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China's Renewable Energy Stimulus Sends Solar Stocks Skyrocketing

2009-04-10 20:55

Business & Politics

Photo via the Guardian Say that three times fast. China just announced that it is drafting a stimulus plan to boost its renewable energy industries. Perhaps inspired by some other nation that recently decided to use government funding to bolster a fledgling renewable energy industry, China's plans immediately boosted the country's biggest solar and wind power companies' stocks. So what's China's big renewable energy plan?...