FUKUSHIMA: THE STORY OF A NUCL...

Jun 12, 2015 by

FUKUSHIMA: THE STORY OF A NUCLEAR DISASTER

[Translate]   By Louise Rubacky   TRUTHDIG The New Press To see long excerpts from “Fukushima” at Google Books, click here....

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WE’RE STILL HERE, YA BAS...

Jun 12, 2015 by

WE’RE STILL HERE, YA BASTARDS

[Translate] (Image: Nation Books)”There is no other cavalry coming. …We are the cavalry.” So says a New Orleans...

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Mark Ruffalo to Jon Stewart: W...

Jun 12, 2015 by

[Translate] The actor and environmentalist is backing Stanford Professor Mark Jacobson in his campaign to ditch fossil fuels and go...

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WOMAN PLUNGES INTO DEEP END OF...

Jun 12, 2015 by

WOMAN PLUNGES INTO DEEP END OF DOWNSIZING

[Translate] LIFE EDITED I stood staring at three framed documents: My veterinary school diploma, the certificate that acknowledges...

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A LOOK AT THE “TRADER...

Jun 12, 2015 by

[Translate] AMERICANS FOR A SAFE FUTURE June 12, 2015 Dave Johnson After a narrow and suspenseful 217-212 approval Thursday on a...

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McKIBBEN TO CLINTON: NOW IT...

Jun 12, 2015 by

McKIBBEN TO CLINTON: NOW IT’S REALLY TIME TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE

[Translate] Marc Nozell An Open Letter to the Democratic frontrunner By Bill McKibben   GRIST Dear Secretary Clinton — In your...

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WHY MOBY WANTS YOU TO STOP SHO...

Jun 12, 2015 by

WHY MOBY WANTS YOU TO STOP SHOWERING

[Translate] by Natasha Geiling CLIMATE PROGRESS   Skip Showers For Beef, a new grassroots project born of the California drought,...

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Bloomberg Bombshell: ‘Climate ...

Jun 12, 2015 by

Bloomberg Bombshell: ‘Climate Change Deniers Will Be Giant Money Losers’

[Translate] by Joe Romm CLIMATE PROGRESS CREDIT: Mercer   A major new global financial report finds that investors who remain...

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SCIENCE: TAR SANDS AND LIMITIN...

Jun 12, 2015 by

SCIENCE: TAR SANDS AND LIMITING CLIMATE CHANGE ARE INCOMPATIBLE

[Translate] Climate Scientists Say Tar Sands Development And Limiting Climate Change Are ‘Incompatible’ by Katie Valentine CLIMATE...

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Site Visit: The Redevelopment ...

Jun 11, 2015 by

Site Visit: The Redevelopment of a Cleveland Corridor Links Art, Education, Healthcare and Communities

[Translate] METROPOLIS MAGAZINE  PMPoint of View Annie-Marie Lubenau Photograph: © Rien Van Rijthoven (Courtesy: Stanley Saitowitz,...

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DOES HYDROPOWER MAKE SENSE IN ...

Jun 11, 2015 by

DOES HYDROPOWER MAKE SENSE IN A WARMING WORLD?

[Translate] At the Hoover Dam, new hydropower turbines are being installed at a lower elevation to prepare for future shortages in...

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CALIFORNIA IS SINKING FASTER T...

Jun 11, 2015 by

CALIFORNIA IS SINKING FASTER THAN EVER, THANKS TO MASSIVE OVERPUMPING OF WATER

[Translate] Shutterstock By Nathan Halverson  GRIST This story was originally published by Reveal from the Center for Investigative...

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THE UN SURPRISES EVERYONE WITH...

Jun 11, 2015 by

THE UN SURPRISES EVERYONE WITH A BREAKTHROUGH DEAL TO SLOW DEFORESTATION

[Translate] Shutterstock By John Light  GRIST A surprise deal emerged from U.N. climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany, this week:...

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After Iraq-Syria Takeover, the...

Jun 11, 2015 by

[Translate]  DEMOCRACY NOW http://publish.dvlabs.com/democracynow/ipod/dn2015-0611.mp4?&start=1918.0&end=2986.0 A year ago...

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ELIZABETH WARREN: OUR POPULIST...

Jun 11, 2015 by

ELIZABETH WARREN: OUR POPULIST AGENDA – IN HER OWN WORDS

[Translate] AMERICANS FOR A SAFE FUTURE Sen. Elizabeth Warren has become the most visible leader of the growing populist movement...

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SLAM THE DOOR ON FAST TRACK!

Jun 11, 2015 by

SLAM THE DOOR ON FAST TRACK!

[Translate]   By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Moyers & Company | Op-Ed 7 May, 2014: AFGE joined other labor organizations to...

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THE CHALLENGES OF PROVIDING PU...

Jun 11, 2015 by

THE CHALLENGES OF PROVIDING PUBLIC SPACE WITH PRIVATE FUNDS

[Translate] THE DIRT by Liz Camuti In an age of ample private wealth and an increasingly constrained public sector, a number of...

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GBCI Launches SITES, its Newly...

Jun 11, 2015 by

GBCI Launches SITES, its Newly Acquired Rating System for Sustainable Landscapes

[Translate]  The Dirt Contributor The Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI) has launched its newly acquired SITES rating system,...

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EPA Moves to Regulate Airplane...

Jun 11, 2015 by

EPA Moves to Regulate Airplane Emissions Under Clean Air Act, Citing Danger to Human Health

[Translate] Commercial aircraft are the largest source of greenhouse gases in the transportation sector that aren’t currently...

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VIDEO: LEAKED TPP TEXT REVEALS...

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[Translate] WikiLeaks has published another portion of the text of the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. The text reveals...

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The Thing We Should Be Talking...

Jun 10, 2015 by

The Thing We Should Be Talking About When It Comes to the Democratic Presidential Field

[Translate]  Clinton, Sanders, O’Malley and Chafee agree on one thing: The urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and move away...

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YOU CAN BE PROSECUTED FOR CLEA...

Jun 10, 2015 by

YOU CAN BE PROSECUTED FOR CLEARING YOUR BROWSER HISTORY

[Translate] Juliana DeVries THE NATION Matanov and his lawyer Paul Glickman stand before Judge Marianne B. Bowler on Friday, May 30,...

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New Report Shows EPA’S Propose...

Jun 10, 2015 by

New Report Shows EPA’S Proposed Carbon Regulations Will Create Tens Of Thousands Of Jobs

[Translate] Climate by Samantha Page CLIMATE PROGRESS CREDIT: AP Photo/Jeff Gentner   By 2020, the Environmental Protection Agency’s...

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WHY THESE TINY ISLANDS ARE PLA...

Jun 10, 2015 by

WHY THESE TINY ISLANDS ARE PLANNNG TO SUE FOSSIL FUEL COMPANIES

[Translate] by Natasha GeilingCLIMATE PROGRESS   On Monday, the seven of the world’s wealthiest nations met in southern Germany and...

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KEEPING YOUR OLD CELL PHONE IS...

Jun 10, 2015 by

KEEPING YOUR OLD CELL PHONE IS HORRIBLE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

[Translate] by Katie ValentineCLIMATE PROGRESS CREDIT: AP Photo/Ben Curtis   The constant cycle of phone upgrades — in which...

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SENSORY OVERLOAD: HOW PEOPLE W...

Jun 9, 2015 by

[Translate] Adults and children with autism experience the world much differently than we do, so why don’t we design homes, parks,...

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A RARE LOOK AT THE NEW U.S. CO...

Jun 9, 2015 by

A RARE LOOK AT THE NEW U.S. COAST GUARD HEADQUARTERS

[Translate] THE DIRT   by Jared Green The General Services Administration (GSA) granted us a rare peak at a Level 5 security campus,...

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GREEN ENERGY IS SURGING, AND Y...

Jun 9, 2015 by

GREEN ENERGY IS SURGING, AND YOU’LL NEVER GUESS WHY

[Translate] By Juan Cole  TRUTHDIG Shutterstock This post originally ran on Juan Cole’s website. The adoption of wind and solar for...

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Our massive new monopolies: Am...

Jun 9, 2015 by

Our massive new monopolies: Amazon, Google and Facebook have the power to move entire economies

[Translate] Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos (Credit: Reuters/Carlo Allegri/Beck Diefenbach/AP/Matt...

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How Five Decades Of Legal Birt...

Jun 9, 2015 by

How Five Decades Of Legal Birth Control Have Changed Americans’ Lives

[Translate] by Tara Culp-Ressler THINK PROGRESS CREDIT: Shutterstock/Andrew Breiner   CREDIT: Shutterstock/Andrew Breiner In 1961,...

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