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NY City To Ease Building Regulations for Green Building Elements
New York City is preparing to allow a broad range of exceptions to its stringent building code for improvements to buildings that will make them healthier and cheaper to run while emitting less carbon. The City calls the new rules "Green Zone" regulations. Read More...
Keystone: A Pipeline in the Wrong Direction
Several hundred people have elected to get themselves arrested by demonstrating in front of the White House against the proposed Keystone pipeline, designed to carry oil from Canada’s tar sands in Alberta to Gulf Coast refineries. Much of the state of Nebraska – hardly a liberal environmental bastion – is against its passage through... Read More...
We Could Do It: 77% Renewables World-Wide by 2050
Against all the "it can't be done" people, the UN has provided an authoritative timeline for the world to get its act together climate-wise by 2050. Read More...