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• Small, sustainable and profitable

  You don’t have to be big to go green 0

  Posted 15 hours, 6 minutes ago By Sharon McLoone

  Author Jennifer Kaplan talks with Grist about her new book, "Greening Your Small Business: How to Improve Your Bottom Line, Grow Your Brand, Satisfy Your Customers -- and Save the Planet" Read More

• And in this corner ...

  Lomborg v. Monbiot: liveblogging the Munk debate on climate change 9

  Posted 21 hours, 47 minutes ago By David Roberts

  Today I'll be liveblogging a debate on how the world should respond to climate change. Arguing for a vigorous response will be Elizabeth May, head of Canada's Green Party, and noted author/thinker George Monbiot. Arguing for giving climate change a low priority, or no priority at all, will be Bjorn Lomborg (who needs no introduction) and former Thatcher government official Lord Nigel Lawson. You can watch the debate -- and the liveblogging -- as it happens by clicking on this post! Read More

• nearly grown

  The localization of agriculture 3

  Posted 18 hours, 18 minutes ago By Lester Brown

  In the United States, there has been a surge of interest in eating fresh local foods, corresponding with mounting concerns about the climate effects of consuming food from distant places and about the obesity and other health problems associated with junk food diets. This is reflected in the rise in urban gardening, school gardening, and farmers’ markets. Read More

• Nice firepower, wrong targets

  Annie Leonard misses the mark in her new video, “The Story of Cap-and-Trade” 34

  Posted 18 hours, 25 minutes ago By David Roberts

  The greenosphere is all abuzz about a new video from Annie Leonard, creator of The Story of Stuff. It's being billed as a definitive debunking of cap-and-trade, but it's more like a perfect representation of all the confusion and misplaced focus that plagues the green left right now. Read More

• E15 or Fight!

  EPA punts on raising ethanol “blend wall” 0

  Posted 19 hours, 29 minutes ago By Tom Laskawy

  In a nutshell, ethanol companies have been struggling mightily during the recession. In response, industry group Growth Energy petitioned the EPA to allow gasoline to contain up to 15 percent ethanol rather than the current 10 percent. This demand also had the strong support of the big farm groups as well as of USDA Chief Tom Vilsack himself. Having already delayed its response to Growth Energy's petition once, the EPA was due to give a response today. And it was ... a punt. Read More

• Mark your carbon calender

  December 19—the day after COP15 0

  Posted 21 hours, 8 minutes ago By Terry Tamminen

  What happens on Dec. 19 -- the day after climate talks finish up in Copenhagen -- and beyond? Terry Tamminen has a handy cheat sheet to help you understand what to look forward to in the years ahead. Read More

• 36 years and countless converts later....

  More power, less roadkill: How one professor’s landscape has shifted 6

  Posted 2 days, 19 hours ago By Erik Hoffner

  Ever toy with the idea of looking up an old professor to see how things have changed? Twenty years after taking Environmental Studies 101 in my first semester of college, I did just that. Read More

• overshooting

  Never-give-up fighting spirit: lessons from a grandchild 7

  Posted 1 day, 16 hours ago By James Hansen

  How refreshing, on cold, windy Thanksgiving Plus One Day, which we spend with our children and grandchildren, when I went outside to shoot baskets with 5-year-old Connor. Connor is very bright, but needs work on his hand-to-eye coordination. I set the basket at a convenient height for him, but his first several shots banged off the backboard off-target. Then he said, very brightly and bravely, "I don't quit, because I have never-give-up fighting spirit." Read More

• Wen the climate is willing, but the action is weak

  E.U. pushes China further after pledge to slow carbon intensity 2

  Posted 1 day, 17 hours ago By Agence France-Presse

  The European Union said Monday that cataclysmic climate change cannot be averted without Chinese leadership, but China's lead climate delegate, Wen Jiabao, stood firm in pushing for the rich world to take the lead. Beijing said last week that by 2020 it would curb emissions per unit of GDP by between 40 and 45 percent compared to 2005 levels. Read More

• Shocking developments on the farm

  Do diesel-based farmers dream of electric tractors? 10

  Posted 1 day, 18 hours ago By Tom Laskawy

  Tom Laskawy muses on the potential for electric tractors in the coming age of Peak Oil. Read More

• A wild ride

  Copenhagen climate summit (part 1): the expectations 2

  Posted 1 day, 22 hours ago By Jake Schmidt

  As we are quickly approaching the final stretch before the Copenhagen climate negotiations (just a week to go before it begins), Jake Schmidt offers a quick summary of where the past 2 years of international negotiations have taken us and where we are headed. Read More

• Organic farming has a major part to play in a low-carbon world

  Soil carbon—a blind spot in the debate on carbon 5

  Posted 1 day, 23 hours ago By Emma Hockridge

  COP15 looks like it may well be a cop out. The world was disappointed when it became clear Barack Obama would not get climate protection legislation through the U.S. Senate, endangering any meaningful global agreement. But a much earlier cop out came when agriculture failed to make it onto the agenda at all. Read More

• Why buying cheap energy certificates worsens climate change 23

  Posted 1 day, 23 hours ago By Auden Schendler

• Ask Umbra on ditching dirty things 6

  Posted 3 days ago By Umbra Fisk

• On ‘climategate’ 42

  Posted 3 days, 9 hours ago By David Roberts

• Climate deniers, hold your fire! 22

  Posted 3 days, 20 hours ago By Andrée Zaleska

• China, India, U.S. commit to seal Copenhagen deal 2

  Posted 6 days, 2 hours ago By Keith Schneider

• Chuck Norris on Copenhagen 30

  Posted 6 days, 19 hours ago By Tom Athanasiou

• The U.S.-India climate ‘partnership’ 0

  Posted 6 days, 21 hours ago By Jonathan Zasloff

• Obama headed to Copenhagen, sets the bar for success 43

  Posted 1 week ago By Bill Scher

• Martha Stewart blisters meat industry in Thanksgiving show 20

  Posted 1 week ago By Tom Philpott

• For McCain, it’s really all about the fake snow 1

  Posted 1 week ago By Tom Philpott

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