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Reposted from 2008. Happy New Year! By John DeFore New Year’s Eve is upon us, an occasion when even teetotalers may be tempted to toss back a couple of stiff drinks. Celebrants concerned with the origins of their booze are in better shape than ever this year, with enough organically produced spirits available to intoxicate the whole ...read more

Photo: Istock related articles By TDG Community Most women want great skin, but what most people don’t realize is that their skin is exposed to far more than they imagine. Your skin is a layer of porous fabric, a living, breathing organ exposed to free radicals and pollutants that act as hidden skin gremlins. Read on to ...read more

Annie Leonard related articles By TDG Community The following is reprinted with permission from Earth Island Journal. In December 2007, Annie Leonard released the online video The Story of Stuff, which, in a lively graphic style, sums up her past 20 years in global pursuit of the truth about the things we buy, use, and throw away. Written by ...read more

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I had the pleasure of dining not once but twice in Copenhagen with protector of the oceans Jean-Michel Cousteau. He was kind enough to grant me a short interview in between speaking events, and talks here about the true cost of climate change: the hundreds of millions of people who will be forced to relocate ...read more

Jason Hartke is the Vice President of National Policy for the US Green Building Council (USGBC). In this brief interview, shot at the Bright Green Forum during the COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen, Jason talks with Evan Kopelson about the USGBC's policy imperatives, and how green building technology can help developing countries avoid energy inefficiencies ...read more

The decade will end on a low note for conservationists working to protect Florida's endangered population of manatees, as the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's Fish and Wildlife Research Institute documented 419 manatee carcasses in state waters so far this year, the most for any year since record-keeping began in 1974. MIAMI - A ...read more

mackenziegasproject.com Natural gas exploration and production has been on a tear in recent years, thanks to the explosion of drilling in shale gas fields across the United States and the first glimmers of a boom in Europe. At the same time, natural gas production in neighboring Canada has been declining due to aging conventional gas ...read more

suspendab32.org A campaign aimed at suspending the implementation of California’s ambitious global warming law says it will cost the state jobs. Four years after California’s Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed off on the nation’s farthest-reaching global-warming law, a campaign is heating up to keep it from taking effect. In the latest salvo, Dan Logue, a Republican State ...read more

Merchant shipping is vital to global trade, but the sector’s huge ocean-going vessels are often powered by highly polluting bunker fuels. Now some major companies are talking about low-carbon alternatives that might someday replace to bunker fuels entirely — including nuclear-powered ships. In a speech reported earlier this month by Lloyd’s List, … Read the ...read more