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Glass houses, stones, etc. That’s the sort of lesson coming out from the latest round in the Greenpeace vs. Facebook skirmish currently afoot on the internet. To recap, briefly: In January, Facebook told the world it was opening a green data center, one that set a ...read more

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More and more home gardeners are interested in growing their own food this year. Plant nurseries and seed companies are already showing sales of vegetable seedlings and fruit trees on the rise this spring. For the most part, this is fantastic news. Bring me more garden geeks! But here’s my dilemma. Are home gardeners going ...read more

Originally posted on grist.org. Tom Friedman had a column over the weekend lauding a couple of American clean-energy innovators and entrepreneurs. Like almost all his green-focused columns, it’s good stuff. However! In the course of accomplishing his worthwhile objective, Friedman and one of his subjects both say something I just can’t let pass without comment. I ...read more

Around the world civilian rights to food and water are being eroded by the patenting of life forms and by privatization of water systems. Some farmers have been hit with law suits for patent infringement, while they were planting heritage seeds. The outspoken, multi-talented Vandana Shiva, joins us to talk about these and other issues ...read more

By Emily Chang, CNN March 9, 2010 12:23 p.m. EST Guangzhou, China (CNN) — Dogs bark and whine behind high chain-link fences, some of them gnawing the wire so hard they bleed at the mouths while cats packed into crowded cages cower in fear if anyone approaches. This isn't a pet store — it's a meat market in ...read more

Florida Fish and Wildlife officials said bear-resistant trash cans are the solution for black bears coming in contact with people. Experts said trash lures them out of the woods, and cutting off that supply will have bears looking elsewhere for food. The FWC is trying to convince state and local governments to work with waste management to ...read more

LONDON, United Kingdom — Construction and project-management firm Bovis Lend Lease announced today that, 10 months after installing 1e’s Nightwatchman software, it was already one-third of the way to achieving its corporate-wide energy efficiency goals. Putting the PC power management software to work on 3,000 computers ...read more

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By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now When Ric Richards recently acquired an aging McDonalds in Cary, N.C., he knew the place needed an overhaul. The 25-year-old store was fraying at the edges. LED lighting at Cary McDonalds Richards decided to give these particular golden arches a green touch. Once he’d decided that the building needed replacing, the decision to go ...read more

With Nevada’s Yucca Mountain facility apparently out of the picture as a nuclear waste repository, government nuclear experts say interim measures might be needed for a very long time. In a speech Tuesday delivered to about 2,700 industry executives, nuclear regulators and other experts gathered for a nuclear energy conference in Washington, Gregory B. Jaczko, ...read more