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Living Green Articles

Article:	No More Plastic Bags	View Article
Published:	9/29/2008 by New York Times	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 48 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Living Green & Waste Management

Article Details: Westport, Conn., became the latest of a handful of communities to ban some plastic bags. The bags, which have only a brief, useful life, can survive forever in landfills and are of enormous concern to not only environmentalists but local officials who are running out of places to put their trash. Americans use and dispose of at least 100 billion bags every year. And about only 5 percent of all plastic bags are recycled nationwide.

Article:	GoGreenTube.Com: The Environmental Community’s “YouTube”	View Article
Published:	8/8/2008 by Green.TMCnet.Com (by Michael Dinan)	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Geo Energy Network 101 days ago	Add Comment
Category:	Living Green

Article Details: Go Green Tube - Broadcast Planet Earth, the brainchild of Michael Shell, a 45 year old resident of Simi Valley, California bases its design on the popular YouTube site – but focuses on videos dealing with environmental issues...

Article:	It's not easy being green	View Article
Published:	7/23/2008 by CNN	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Shayon 117 days ago	Add Comment
Category:	Living Green

Article Details: You might want to go green, but how do you know what you're buying is truly ethical? Greenwash -- the ignoble art of misleading consumers about a product's true green worth -- is on the rise. But thanks to the work of increasingly vigilant regulators, some of the more curious and downright spurious claims are being weeded out.

Article:	Land, Water and Conflict	View Article
Published:	7/7/2008 by Newsweek (Jeffrey Sachs)	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 137 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Food & Global Warming

Article Details: The world will experience a growing risk of conflicts over food, energy and water in coming years. The population rises each year by about 80 million people, with most of the increase in impoverished regions already facing environmental stress. Climate change, water scarcity and tighter oil supplies will add to the stresses. The tendency might be to look to the military for solutions. We'll need to keep in mind that engineers and doctors will be the only ones who can truly keep us safe.

Article:	High tech to low, world's green methods are many	View Article
Published:	7/2/2008 by CNN	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Shayon 121 days ago	Add Comment
Category:	Living Green

Article Details: From the simplest methods to the most technologically advanced, the strategies employed around the world to be more environmentally friendly and reduce reliance on fossil fuels are as varied as the people that inhabit the planet.

Article:	Honey Bee Crisis Could Push Food Prices Even Higher	View Article
Published:	6/26/2008 by Huffington Post (Stephanie S. Garlow)	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 142 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Food & Animals

Article Details: Food prices could rise even more unless the mysterious decline in honey bees is solved, farmers and businessmen told lawmakers Thursday. Bee pollination is responsible for $15 billion annually in crop value. In 2006, beekeepers began reporting losing 30 percent to 90 percent of their hives. This phenomenon has become known as Colony Collapse Disorder.

Article:	Energy fears looming, new survivalists prepare	View Article
Published:	5/24/2008 by AP - Yahoo (Samantha Gross)	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 168 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Fossil Fuels & Living Green

Article Details: Convinced the planet's oil supply is dwindling and the world's economies are heading for a crash, some people around the country are moving onto homesteads, learning to live off their land, conserving fuel and, in some cases, stocking up on guns they expect to use to defend themselves and their supplies from desperate crowds of people who didn't prepare.

Article:	World Facing Huge New Challenge on Food Front - Lester R. Brown (Earth Policy Institute)	View Article
Published:	4/16/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 212 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Food & People And Politics

Article Details: A fast-unfolding food shortage is engulfing the entire world, driving food prices to record highs. Population growth, increased affluence and demand for more grain-intensive livestock products, and the use of more grain to produce ethanol for cars have contributed to rising food prices, spreading of hunger, social unrest and political instability. If food security cannot be restored the number of failing states will likely increase dramatically, threatening the very stability of civilization it

Article:	Group finds 6 million pounds of trash on world's beaches - H. Josef Hebert (AP)	View Article
Published:	4/15/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 216 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Living Green & Waste Management

Article Details: A report by the Ocean Conservancy catalogues nearly 7.2 million items (6 million pounds) that were collected by volunteers on a single day in September as they combed beaches and rocky shorelines in 76 countries. The volunteers collected nearly 2.3 million cigarette butts, filters and cigar tips; 587,827 bags; more than 1.7 million food wrappers, containers, lids, cups, plates and eating utensils; and nearly 1.2 million bottles and beverage cans.

Article:	Food crisis will take hold before climate change, warns chief scientist - James Randerson	View Article
Published:	3/7/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 253 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Food & Biofuels

Article Details: Food security and the rapid rise in food prices make up the "elephant in the room" that politicians must face up to quickly. Professor John Beddington said the global rush to grow biofuels was compounding the problem, and cutting down rainforest to produce biofuel crops was "profoundly stupid". It is very hard to see a world growing enough crops to produce renewable energy and at the same time meet the enormous demand for food to alleviate poverty.