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Macy’s will be installing 8 megawatts of solar power in 26 stores throughout California. The installation will be performed by SunPower, a solar cell manufacturer. Macy’s will buy the arrays for 11 of the stores. For the other 15 stores, Macy’s will purchase the electricity produced by the solar panels from a third-party financier who [...]
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Fortunately I found SierraSteve’s Sierra Visions blog, where I discovered a beautifully written poem “Oneness”. He penned this poem directly from his quiet, unpretentious soul. It spoke volumes. I asked Steven if he would write a poem for Climate of Our Future, thank-you Steven for your gift.
“Reflection in the Mirror”
While [...]
Climate Crisis Coalition
U.S. Senate Rejects Coal-to-Liquids Proposal. By David Ivanovich, the Houston Chronicle, June 19, 2007. “The Senate today rejected a measure, pushed by the U.S. Air Force, intended to provide incentives for revival of an 80-year-old technology that could convert coal into aviation fuel. With political unrest in far-flung locales able to disrupt world [...]
TreeHugger
Photo credit: Benjamin ChanOh George, George, George, whatever are we to do with you?
The Bush administration wants to cut 1.5 million acres from Northwest forests, previously protected under 1994’s Northwest Forest Plan, considered critical to the survival of the northern spotted owl. This will effectively reduce the owl’s habitat by 22 percent.
The proposal by our [...]
TreeHugger
While granting constitutional rights to trees, rivers and mountains may seem like a strange proposition to some, it makes perfect sense to Thomas Linzey, the executive director of the Community Environmental Defense Fund based in Chambersburg, PA. Linzey and his organization are working with municipalities across the country to gain legal standing for ecosystems by [...]
May 18, 2007Greenpeace
So. The day of reckoning has come – when we get to find out just how much of the climate change denial industry ExxonMobil is still paying for.
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TreeHugger
It’s no big secret that a lot of food gets wasted every year. Millions of tons of food (if not more), not only from leftovers but also from food products that go unsold or suffer weather-related casualties, are unceremoniously dumped into huge landfills where they are left to rot. Ever wondered what could be done [...]
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Jeffrey Sachs, the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and world-renowned anti-poverty crusader, has turned his prodigious attention to an issue dear to many of us in the TreeHugger community: environmental sustainability. Citing figures that project the world’s population to reach a staggering nine billion by 2050, with an average output of $20,000 [...]
Thank-you Nina Munteanu of The Alien Next Door blog, for awarding me with the Thinking Blogger Award (created by Ilker Yoldas of The Thinking Blog).
Here’s how it works:
1. if, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think;
2. link to this post, so that [...]
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