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Is it just me, or is the word "green" approaching it’s sell by date? I know I’m getting a bit tired of all things green, and I really need this color association to hold on to its hip cachet. It would be a minor disaster for me if green was more like the...
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Last month Canada announced it would ban the sale of baby bottles made with polycarbonate plastic – the hard, shiny durable plastic used in countless consumer products ranging from baby bottles and refillable water bottles to bike helmets, eye glasses,...
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Senators John McCain and Hilary Clinton are among many in Congress clamoring for a gas tax “holiday” as fuel prices rise and the summer driving season fast approaches. Never mind that they focus entirely on poor consumers and fail to discuss the...
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ISTANBUL—The workshop I’ve been attending in this ancient city drew 31 people—ranging from a member of the British parliament to a Dutch women’s rights advocate to a Hungarian environmentalist—to talk about whether it makes sense to bring...
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Hello Island Press readers! It's a pleasure to be asked to contribute a few thoughts about environmental careers for the blog. I hope that these thoughts spark some conversation.
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Here in Oregon where I live, our May 20th primary season is in full swing. Back on Super Tuesday many of us assumed that by now, the candidates would have long been chosen. But for the first time in forty years, at least on the left side of the aisle,...
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Last week I visited Walmart’s annual sustainable packaging conference in Bentonville, Arkansas. I learned that the first such meeting took place in a conference room in Walmart’s headquarters just three years ago and 50 people attended. The 2008 version...
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Last Saturday evening my wife and I took our terminally ill cat to an animal hospital, where a veterinarian put him peacefully to sleep as he sat on my lap. I wasn’t really a cat lover when we adopted him seven years ago, but this unusually affectionate...
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Postcard from high in the Andes Cordillera of southern Ecuador, three degrees south of the equator: “The stakes are high for conservation, indigenous peoples, and sustainable development in this small but oil- and mineral-rich Andean country....And,...
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On May 1, eleven conservation groups filed suit in Arizona federal court asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to reclaim leadership for the Mexican wolf reintroduction effort rather than shifting the management to an oversight committee. With...