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| Wal-Mart Live Better Index
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| posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008
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To support Wal-Mart’s ongoing commitment to helping customers save
money and live better, Wal-Mart established the Live Better Index in
April 2007 with its first focus on the environment. The sustainability
Live Better Index follows the adoption rates, or penetration across a
particular product category, of a sampling of eco-friendly products
based on Wal-Mart sales data. These products were selected because
consumers can make a conscious decision to purchase them for their
environmental benefits versus other products in the same category. The
overall adoption rate of these products serves as a nationwide trend
indicator of consumer demand for green products.
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| Preparing For Hard Times
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| posted on Monday, May 05, 2008
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For three years, my husband has talked about taking to the hills. About
buying a smallholding on Exmoor where, with our four-year-old daughter,
we can safely survive the coming storm -- famine, pestilence and a
total breakdown of society. I would wait for his lectures to finish,
then return to my own interests. I had no time for the end of
civilisation. As an editor on a glossy magazine until a few months ago,
I was too busy. There was always a new Anya Hindmarch bag to buy, or a
George Clooney premiere to attend. But recently, I've wavered. Much of what he has been predicting has
come true: global economic meltdown, looming environmental disaster, a
sharp rise in oil and food prices that has already led to the rationing
of rice in the US, and riots in dozens of countries worldwide.
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| Oxygen-Poor Ocean Zones Are Growing
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| posted on Monday, May 05, 2008
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Oxygen-starved waters are expanding in the Pacific and Atlantic as
ocean temperatures increase with global warming, threatening fisheries
and other marine life, a study published today concludes.
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| Why Bother?
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| posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008
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Why bother? That really is the big question facing us as individuals
hoping to do something about climate change, and it’s not an easy one
to answer. I don’t know about you, but for me the most upsetting moment
in “An Inconvenient Truth” came long after Al Gore scared the hell out
of me, constructing an utterly convincing case that the very survival
of life on earth as we know it is threatened by climate change. No, the
really dark moment came during the closing credits, when we are asked
to . . . change our light bulbs. That’s when it got really depressing.
The immense disproportion between the magnitude of the problem Gore had
described and the puniness of what he was asking us to do about it was
enough to sink your heart.
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| How Many Earth Days Do We Have Left?
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| posted on Friday, April 25, 2008
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The four overriding goals of PLAN B 3.0 are to stabilize climate and
population, eradicate poverty, and restore the earth's damaged
ecosystems. Failure to reach any one of these goals will likely mean
failure to reach the others as well.
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| Researchers Fear U.S.-Mexico Fence Will Endanger Species
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| posted on Sunday, April 20, 2008
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The debate over the fence the United States is building along its
southern border has focused largely on the project's costs, feasibility
and how well it will curb illegal immigration. But one of its most
lasting impacts may well be on the animals and vegetation that make
this politically fraught landscape their home.
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| More On Green Funerals
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| posted on Sunday, April 20, 2008
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It's no longer enough to live a greener life—now people are being
encouraged to be environmentally friendly when they leave the Earth too.
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| Why Flowers Have Lost Their Scent
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| posted on Sunday, April 20, 2008
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Pollution is dulling the scent of flowers and impeding some of the most
basic processes of nature, disrupting insect life and imperilling food
supplies, a new study suggests.
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| James Lovelock's Dire Forecast For The Future
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| posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2008
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The weather forecast for this holiday weekend is wildly unsettled. We had better get used to it. According to the climate change scientist James Lovelock, this is the beginning of the end of a peaceful phase in evolution. By 2040, the world population of more than six billion will have been culled by floods, drought and famine.
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