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Meat vs. Climate: The Debate Continues

At least since a 2006 United Nations report asserted that livestock is responsible for a full 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions — a higher percentage than that caused by transportation — a debate over meat consumption and climate change has been cooking.

The latest round involves a recent editorial in the Archives of Internal Medicine by Barry M. Popkin, a professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina. In it, Mr. Popkin revisits several studies linking meat not just with heart disease and other health issues, but also with worldwide consumption of energy and water resources — and global warming.

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Saudi Minister Urges Caution on Renewable Energy

Fears about energy security, and last year’s oil price spike, have sparked a serious push for renewable energy in the United States, the world’s largest oil consumer.

The trend is apparently making the world’s largest oil producer, Saudi Arabia, nervous.

Speaking at a major energy conference earlier this month, Ali Al-Naimi, the Saudi oil minister, offered an impassioned defense of oil, which he called “an enabler of progress and prosperity.” He cautioned that the current economic crisis — and the uncertainties over future oil consumption — could force producers to trim their supplies, and hence could cause a new price shock.

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Ontario Introduces Green Stimulus Funds

With the province reeling from steep manufacturing employment declines, the Ontario government introduced a $24 billion stimulus budget on Thursday that includes $593 million in green-economy spending, as well as $2.6 billion for transit projects, mostly in the Greater Toronto region.

While Ontario’s 1.1 percent year-over-year job decline through January 2009 is well below the rate in the United States of 2.9 percent, the province’s export-oriented manufacturing sector has contracted by 11.1 percent, comparable to losses felt in states such as Indiana and Ohio.

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Cape Wind Navigates Shifts in Market

The controversial and long-delayed Cape Wind project — which could become the first offshore wind farm in the United States — is inching forward.

The next milestone is a decision by the Interior Department about whether to issue a lease for the project (something that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar discussed during an interview with The New York Times last week).

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Cutting Carbon Dioxide, Not Profits

As the momentum grows to limit carbon emissions, some critics, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, are warning about the high cost of climate policies on the economy.

But according to Richard Moss, who heads the climate program at the World Wildlife Fund, many companies would actually benefit from reducing their carbon emissions by lowering their energy costs.

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Going ‘Green’ Leads To Lean Times

The front-page article “EPA ready to control greenhouse emissions; Proposed finding could widen regulatory agency’s reach, a move opposed by industry” (3/24, A-1) is alarming, to say the least. President Obama’s EPA is ready to say that carbon dioxide is basically poisonous, and all “greenhouse gas” emissions should be and will be regulated. Congress will also get involved with actual legislation. This is all in response to the Bush administration, which “sidestepped” the issue.

Tags: Conservation | Energy | Environment | Permalink

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Study Forecasts 297,000 Green Jobs

Establishing standards for the amount of the nation’s energy to come from renewables will create lots more jobs like these, a new study says.

The debate over the potential for green jobs creation in this country continues.

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Keep Thinking Green!

As gas prices start to drop, the alternative fuel buzz seems to go down with it, making green fuel advocates a bit exasperated.

When gas is $4 a gallon, even the biggest SUV fans are looking for a biodiesel station or checking out hybrid prices. With current prices down to a remarkable $1.91 for regular gas, everyone seems content with fossil fuels once more.

Tags: Alternative Fuels | Alternative Transportation | Hybrid Vehicles

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Eco-Tourism

India is a land of contrasts. Exotic, exhilarating and enigmatic.

I was traveling with VegVoyages Vegetarian Adventures through Rajasthan on the way to the ancient Jain temple at Ranakpur, one of the five holiest sites of this Hindu sect, when we stopped for a few days at an incredible retreat.

Aranyawas (Ar-an’ ya-vas) is a lush eco-retreat in the Aravali Mountains, nestled in a wild mountain valley surrounded by rugged terrain, enormous rock outcrops and waterfalls.

Tags: Eco-Tourism | Green Practices

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Google and the Grid

Google has teamed up with GE to bring us up-close and personal to the smart grid. They’re developing a personal energy information application called the Google PowerMeter that will show us our energy consumption in near real-time.

We will know how much energy we’re using, which appliance is using more energy, and find out once-and-for-all just how much energy and money we save by unplugging all of those appliances not in use.

Tags: Business News | Clean Tech | Consumer Awareness | Sustainable Products | clean energy

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A Homegrown Garden For Us All

The days are longer. The sunshine’s stronger. And shoots and buds are wrestling their way through the dark, warming earth.

Spring is here, and it holds special promise this year. Whether you’re a steward of the land or a seed-starting gardener, we need look no further than the White House for inspiration: The Obama family is planting a vegetable garden in their new lawn.

Tags: Family Time | Food | Health

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Green Gardening 101

You can’t get much greener than growing your own vegetable garden. You’re saving transportation fuel and best of all, you know exactly what your food has gone through to get to your table. Here are a few ways to be sure that you’re making your garden the greenest it can be.

Pest Control
It’s a terrible feeling to go into your garden and see your precious veggies with little bug-sized bite marks in them. Before you plot revenge with a bottle full of poisonous pesticides, here are some alternatives:

Tags: Food | Gardening | Health

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Back To Your Roots: The Ancestral Diet

As a holistic health counselor, I always looking at many factors to help a client figure out which foods are best for her to eat.

Which foods will make her feel most energetic, grounded, and balanced? Which foods will help her reach her ideal weight, give her radiant skin, lower her cholesterol?

One place I go first for answers is examining what her ancestry is.

Taking a look at what our ancestors ate can clue us in about which foods work best with our own unique body chemistry.

Tags: Healthy Eating | Organic Food | Health

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The Cap and Trade Conundrum

In Obama’s recent address to Congress he called for the submissions of Cap and Trade policies for the United States of America. It looks as if by the end of 2009 the USA will be the last developed country to adopt a carbon trading scheme, but what will this scheme look like and what will be done with the money earned from the selling of permits?

In short, a Cap a Trade policy puts a cap on the amount of carbon industries and organizations are allowed to expel. These companies would buy pollution permits from the government, and can then buy and sell these permits amongst themselves, so that companies who can reduce more efficiently can sell excess permits to those who are unable to reduce in a financial feasible manner.

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Greening Your Lawn Mower

I can see the lawn mowing season on the horizon and I’m ready. I’ve got a reel mower and couldn’t be happier. No messing around with gasoline, no engine tune-ups, and best yet, no pollution.

If you’re jumping into the lawn care circuit for the first time or are contemplating a new lawn mower purchase, consider the merits of going electric or people powered.

Tags: Energy Efficiency | Landscaping

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Biomass: A Renewable Resource and Green Solution

When I think of biomass, I think of the silver DeLorean in “Back to the Future” where the professor was able to turn garbage into fuel for his time machine.

When that movie came out, the idea of using banana peels to power your engine was probably thought of as ridiculous. But today, humans can use all sorts of natural, renewable vegetation and substances.

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Economy Trumps Environment in Poll

My friend and colleague, Charles Blow, pointed me to this recent Gallup poll last night. Said the pollsters last Thursday:

For the first time in Gallup’s 25-year history of asking Americans about the trade-off between environmental protection and economic growth, a majority of Americans say economic growth should be given the priority, even if the environment suffers to some extent.

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Salazar Talks Guns, Parks and Solar Power

In an interview last Friday with The New York Times, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar promised “aggressive” pursuit of renewable energy projects on public lands, but provided no firm date for his department’s highly anticipated decision on the Cape Wind project in Massachusetts .

“From my point of view, I am not going to let political issues stand in the way of us moving forward with an energy program in the offshore,” he said.

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European Barriers to American Biodiesel

Amid persistent talk of global protectionism these days, with Mexico, Russia and India tightening up on imports for one reason or another, the energy sector appeared fairly immune from the barriers — until now.

A front page article in The Houston Chronicle Monday warned that the American biodiesel industry will suffer from European barriers (which my colleague, Kate Galbraith, took note of last week), and several Texas companies and the Port of Houston are preparing for heavy losses.

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E.P.A. Proposal Calls Greenhouse Gases a Danger to the Public

The Environmental Protection Agency has sent a proposal to the White House that would label carbon dioxide a danger to public welfare — a key precursor to regulating greenhouse gas emissions as pollutants.

The long-awaited finding, sent to the Office of Management and Budget, stems from a 2007 Supreme Court decision in which the agency was found to have the authority to regulate emissions that contribute to global warming.

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