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NY City To Ease Building Regulations for Green Building Elements

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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

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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

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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...

GREEN BOOKS

Water: Our Most Precious Resource: by Marc Devilliers. This highly readable report on the looming global water crisis is amazingly informative on water issues around the world from China to Texas.