Environmental Literacy included in Obama’s new Education Budget: Historic First
Together with their legislative sponsors, the No Child Left Inside Coalition today cheered President Obama’s budget as a historic moment, noting that environmental literacy has been included in the U.S. Department of Education budget for the very first time.“This budget takes an important step toward boosting [...]

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LimeGreen Earth, Inc. announced today that it will offset the carbon emitted by President Obama’s flight on Air Force One to the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP15 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The conference, which began on December 7, has brought together diplomats from 192 nations to discuss the global reduction of carbon emissions.

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The title says it all, Models Rachel Alexander, Dorothea Barth-Jorgensen, Shannan Click, Olya Ivanisevic, Alla Kostromicheva, Heidi Mount, Crystal Renn, Cameron Russell, Rianne Ten, Haken Nicole, Trunfio Hanne & Gaby Odiele reveal almost all in a video (after the break) to highlight the organisation 350.

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With military forces increasingly having to consider their environmental impact, QinetiQ has been awarded a £1.5 million, three year Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to develop and deliver PyTEC™ – an ISO containerised Pyrolysis Waste Disposal System – to the US Army.

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World Wildlife Fund issued the following statement today from Keya Chatterjee, acting director of WWF’s climate program: “We welcome the clear statement from President Obama about the urgency of climate change and the promise that the US will do its part, by providing funding for adaptation and mitigation. We’re encouraged by his statement that [...]

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The administration will announce tomorrow that it will blend the new California standards with existing Corporate Average Fuel Economy rules into one standard for 2016. Light trucks would have to meet a 26.2-mpg standard, and that automakers will not challenge the rules so long as there is a fixed timetable and a national standard for [...]

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Senior legislators from the G20 bloc of the world’s biggest economies launched an international commission in Washington Monday to help lay the political groundwork for a global deal on climate change in Copenhagen this December.
The International Commission on Climate Change and Energy Security was established by the Global Legislators Organisation (GLOBE), an international alliance of [...]

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Gore calls on scientists everywhere to get more involved in their communities and especially politics. We as a species cannot afford to wait any longer to act…

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President Barack Obama was sworn in on January 20, and his inaugural address called for the expanded use of renewable energy to meet the twin challenges of energy security and climate change. Noting that “each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet,” President Obama looked [...]

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California’s top climate change official on Wednesday predicted President Barack Obama’s administration would let the state impose its own tough limits on greenhouse gas emissions from cars by May, in what would be a victory for environmentalists.
California asked the new Environmental Protection Agency chief to revisit the Bush administration’s 2007 decision that denied the state’s [...]

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