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Statistical Analysis Shows 2 Degree Temperature Rise Zones in North America
Climate scientists have made it easy for skeptics to poke holes in theories about global warming. Every model includes slightly different assumptions, conditions, calculations, or other parameters — leading to differing results. Skeptics point at the differences to justify their conclusion that nothing is known with certainty.
A new advanced...
Betty White, Washington DC: Star Heads To Capitol To Talk Passion For Animals At Smithsonian & National Zoo
Actress Betty White is headed to Washington and her agenda includes donkeys and elephants – but not the kind roaming on Capitol Hill.
First stop is the Smithsonian Institution, followed by the National Zoo to see the pandas, harmonica-playing elephant and other animals.
On Thursday, the 90-year-old actress visits the Smithsonian Associates, an educational...
10 Hottest Sustainable Denim Companies for Men’s and Women’s Jeans
As The New York Times pointed out last year, organic cotton isn’t the up-and-coming fabric for denim that it once seemed to be — but that doesn’t mean your eco jean options have disappeared.
Here are 10 denim options that take sustainability beyond organic by looking at the entire process from start to finish.
Vintage
The most sustainable...
On Our Radar: China’s Air Pollution
Efforts to reduce air pollution in Beijing during the 2008 Olympic Games yielded immediate benefits for cardiovascular health, researchers report. [The Atlantic]
The American consulate in Shanghai begins issuing its own air quality readings, reporting that particulates are significantly worse than government statistics indicate. [The Standard]
Chesapeake...
12 Steps To Long-Term Travel
Do you travel as often as you please? Would you hate me if I told you that I did?
Three years ago, I would’ve answered “yes” to the first question and responded to the second with a slap across the face. Unemployed and broke, I was also bitter: I wanted to travel the world more than anything, but assumed long-term travel to be a luxury...
DIY Greenhouse made using recycled windows
Early that autumn morning, I knew it was going to be a great day: I dropped my toast, and it landed honey-side up! Then in the morning newspaper, I saw an announcement for a public auction of “dozens of used aluminum storm doors.” I could hardly wait to hitch up my trailer.
My bid was $4 when the auctioneer said, “Sold! How many do you want?”
“All...
Eco Wine Review: Wrath 2010 Ex Vite Pinot Noir
Wrath’s 2010 Ex Vite Pinot Noir is complete, with lots of black cherry and red raspberry. A bit fuller than your typical Pinot, this wine is as drinkable as it is food friendly. It’s also vegan. It retails for $38 and can be purchased at Wrath’s website.
If it were a sunny 75 degrees here in San Francisco, this is the wine I’d...
How to start a tool library
It might seem a little risky to lend out a bunch of power tools to those who probably don’t know how to use them. After all, tools can be dangerous, people can be idiots, and we live in an exceptionally litigious society. For some strange but very understandable reason, those concerns alone have been more than enough to effectively end many community...
Will London be the Greenest Olympic Games Ever?
When London won the bid to host the 2012 Olympics, their aim was to make it the greenest, cleanest and most sustainable games ever held. Now with just barely two months left, the host city is scrambling to make good on its promise.
As with most sporting events, the ‘greenness’ can only be evaluated after the games conclude. However, if the April...
Sudan must end clampdown on media amid arrest of journalist
The Sudanese authorities must halt the ongoing harassment of independent media, Amnesty International said after a prominent journalist was re-arrested and copies of a national newspaper seized in Khartoum on Tuesday.
Faisal Mohammed Saleh, a columnist with several national newspapers who has reported in 2011 on the alleged rape of an activist by National...
