global warming

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Will Obama take on food?

In the months leading up to the election, food activists (see the video by The White House Organic Farm Project, a.k.a. TheWhoFarm.org below) have been salivating over the possibility that they could convince the next president to turn up some sunny expanse of White House lawn and put in a lush and leafy organic farm. The bounty of veggies could feed not only the first family but also Washington's needy and fresh-food-deprived school children.
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Last minute Bush Administration actions

On November 4, from the White House to state houses and the unsung offices of Soil & Water Conservation and Public Utility Districts, American voters elected what is likely an unprecedented number of pro-environment candidates.
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How Would You Spend It?

Congress passed the bailout plan with a price tag of nearly a trillion dollars, but the ink was hardly dry on this new Monopoly money when quite a few experts began to predict it wouldn't be enough. Some estimates hope the "investments" that taxpayers will make in bad debts could ultimately turn a profit, but how likely is that?
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New Lessons from Old Europe

Scientists tend to distrust conclusions that are not based on empirical data and adequate sample sizes. So take what I'm about to say with a large grain of salt, since it is neither empirical nor based on sufficient data.
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When Coal Makes You Thirsty

Much is written about our oil addiction, but we are addicted to another fossil-drug — coal. And while oil steals the breath from our kids and incentivizes our bad behavior around the world, coal is the major contributor to global warming and one other surprising side-effect — thirst.
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Be the change

In March 2008, I went to Mumbai with a congressional delegation led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. We went in search of an answer of how to fashion an international agreement on climate change from today's Indian leaders. But I didn't find the answer from today's Indian politicians; I found it from long-gone Indian revolutionary, Mahatma Gandhi.
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From Fire to ICE

When the fire community contemplates global warming, most know what it means. It means more fires, more big fires, more damaging fires, fires in places that have few now, and megafires everywhere. It means or should mean more engines and air tankers, more hotshots and fire teams, more funding, more prophylactic prescribed burns, more research - always more research.  It means more prestige, perhaps glory, to firefighters as first-responders and defenders against a fiery madness. The warmed new world to come will be today's world in a crock pot or turning over a spit.
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Dalai Lama on Global Warming

On the same week I encountered the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi, I had the once in a life time chance to meet a world figure who lived, and led, a community in what must be considered the closest thing to Shangri-La we westerners can comprehend. When she was about twelve years old, my wife Trudi wrote a seventh grade paper about Shangri-La. To her at the time, it was almost an imaginary place of high peaks, prayer flags, and ever-present scent of jasmine flowers. She never dreamed that one day she would actually find such a place in real life.

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