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Media
FORTUNE Names the "Green Giants" of Big Business in Its First Ever Green Issue (Business Wire, Mar. 21)
The CBS Report That Helped 'Silent Spring' Be Heard (Washington Post, Mar. 21) Free site registration required
All Creatures Great, Small ...and Endangered [Discovery's "Planet Earth"] (N.Y. Times, Mar. 18) Free site registration required
Green Living & Consumer Trends
How Toxic Is Your Car? (GreenBiz.com, Mar. 20)
Call for new energy rating labels (BBC News, Mar. 19)
£25 fridge gadget that could slash greenhouse emissions (Guardian, Mar. 17)
Business & Economy
10 green giants [Companies companies going beyond what the law requires to be green] (Fortune, Mar. 21)
Chemical reaction [DuPont's goal: to improve the environment and make a fortune doing it] (Fortune, Mar. 21)
Agrifood Giant Nearly Rivals Carmakers On Emissions [Tyson Foods] (TerraDaily/AFP, Mar. 21)
Blueprint for green business [Profile of Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard] (Fortune, Mar. 21)
U.S. institutional investors sign pact urging Congress to enact 'green' legislation (International Herald Tribune, Mar. 20)
Tourism villain and victim on climate change: UN tourism body (Yahoo News/AFP, Mar. 20)
Snowy resorts turn on the green (Oregonian, Mar. 19)
Consumer electronics firms seek edge by going green (Yahoo News/AFP, Mar. 18)
Climate shift [Some environmental groups are sitting down with big business.] (Boston Globe, Mar. 18)
Auto Industry Leaders Discuss Climate Change with Congress (ENN/AP, Mar. 15)
Silicon Valley group wants big push for alternative energy (San Francisco Chronicle, Mar. 15)
Saving the world - one plastic bag at a time (Fortune, Mar. 15)
When Organic Isn't Really Organic [Natural food producers seek non-GMO certification for their products] (Time, Mar. 14)
Guidebook for Sustainable Purchasing Released (GreenBiz.com, Mar. 14)
Wal-Mart To Score Electronics Suppliers' Sustainability (GreenBiz.com, Mar. 13)
Business, Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction Come Together (U.N. Chronicle, Mar. 13)
Chocolate Giant Commits to Responsible Supplier Code [Hershey] (SocialFunds.com, Mar. 8)
Competitive Advantage on a Warming Planet (Harvard Business Review, Mar. 2007)
CSR Programs are Only as Good as Your Communications [Marketing corporate social responsibility] (GreenBiz.com, Mar. 2007)
Commentary
Hollywood's Climate Follies [Op-ed by Robert Samuelson] (Washington Post, Mar. 21) Free site registration required
Global warming: No alarmism needed (Tacoma News-Tribune, Mar. 20)
Protect Florida's coastline, economy (Miami Herald, Mar. 19)
Whose Ox Is Gored? [John Fund accuses Al Gore of "exaggerations and hypocrisy"] (OpinionJournal.com, Mar. 19)
Save the Polar Bears, End the Hunts [Op-ed by Fred O'Regan of International Fund for Animal Welfare] (Washington Post, Mar. 19) Free site registration required
Taming Fossil Fuels (N.Y. Times, Mar. 17) Free site registration required
The bear facts [Response to Bush Administration global warming policies] (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Mar. 14)
Ecosystems & Biodiversity
American Croc No Longer Near Extinction (ENN/AP, Mar. 21)
Shock of the new [Scientists should think twice about releasing new species in the wild] (Guardian, Mar. 21)
River Dolphin Closer to Extinction Despite Reports, Experts Say (National Geographic News, Mar. 21)
Cyclone Science Shows Rainforest Impacts And Recovery (TerraDaily/SPX, Mar. 21)
Medspiration Project Branches Out To Support Biodiversity (TerraDaily, Mar. 20)
World's most important crops hit by global warming effects (Independent, Mar. 19)
Warming Imperils Md. Species (Washington Post, Mar. 19) Free site registration required
Birds And Buffalo Back But Iraqi Marshes Still Under Threat (Spacewar/AFP, Mar. 19)
Acid Oceans Threatening Marine Food Chain, Experts Warn (National Geographic News, Mar. 17)
Climate change shifts sheep shape (BBC News, Mar. 17)
G8 assesses cost of species loss (BBC News, Mar. 16)
World-heritage label for Denali on hold for now (Anchorage Daily News, Mar. 16)
Activists Promise No-Holds-Barred Fight over Brazil River Project (ENN/AP, Mar. 15)
Battle To Save Tasmanian Devil from Extinction (ENN/AP, Mar. 15)
Africa losing forest faster than any other continent (SciDev.net, Mar. 15)
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Public Opinion & Surveys
Did Hollywood's Glare Heat Up Public Concern About Global Warming? [Results of Gallup's annual environmental poll] (Gallup, Mar. 21)
Green Building
How green grows my roof (Oregonian, Mar. 18)
His energy bill is $0.00 [Solar-hydrogen house] (Christian Science Monitor, Mar. 15)
Government
Gore Returns to Capitol Hill a Hero and a Target (Washington Post, Mar. 21) Free site registration required
The Governator's green agenda [Profile of Arnold Schwarzenegger] (Fortune, Mar. 21)
Bush, Edwards, activists focus on global warming (Yahoo News/Reuters, Mar. 20)
Global warming panel makeup questioned (Gannett News, Mar. 20)
House OKs bill to combat invasive species (Las Vegas Review-Journal, Mar. 20)
Material Shows Weakening of Climate Reports [White House edited government studies] (N.Y. Times, Mar. 20) Free site registration required
Oil spill rescue rule keeps sinking (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Mar. 18)
U.S. odd man out in climate consensus (Yahoo News/Reuters, Mar. 17)
Counties Launch Anti-Global Warming Plan (ENN/AP, Mar. 16)
Feds looks at climate impact on animals (Yahoo News/AP, Mar. 16)
New Hampshire Towns Press Washington on Warming (ENN/Reuters, Mar. 15)
International
EU to Use Taxation to Protect the Environment (Planet Ark/Reuters, Mar. 20)
Japan aims to lead post-Kyoto climate change fight (Yahoo News/AFP, Mar. 20)
Canada Says to Move Toward Kyoto Target (Planet Ark/Reuters, Mar. 19)
China must pursue sustainable development, top leaders warn (Yahoo News/AFP, Mar. 19)
British Columbia Aligns With California to Create a Green Bloc Along Pacific (Washington Post, Mar. 18) Free site registration required
Climate Change
Gore on Climate Change: Scientists Respond (NPR, Mar. 21)
Spread of Desert "May Cause Mediterranean Exodus" (Planet Ark/Reuters, Mar. 21)
Rising Sea Levels Threaten Indian Islands (Planet Ark/Reuters, Mar. 20)
Action on warming could curb nightmare impacts [Per U.N. draft report] (Yahoo News/Reuters, Mar. 19)
Tinkering with Earth's Climate to Stop Global Warming Raises New Risks, Scientists Warn (ENN/AP, Mar. 19)
Early critic of warming steps up activist role [Bill McKibben] (Boston Globe, Mar. 19)
Scientists blame Hollywood for increased fears over global warming (Daily Mail, Mar. 19)
Some scientists eye odd climate fixes (Yahoo News/AP, Mar. 18)
Carbon dioxide 'released, not stored' by soil (SciDev.net, Mar. 16)
Scientists Hunt for Solution to CO2 Problem [Carbon sequestration] (NPR, Mar. 16)
Antarctic Glaciers' Sloughing Of Ice Has Scientists at a Loss (Washington Post, Mar. 16) Free site registration required
Earth swelters in warmest winter since 1880 (New Scientist, Mar. 16)
Ice sheet complexity leaves sea level rise uncertain (New Scientist, Mar. 16)
Arctic ocean may lose all its ice by 2040, disrupting global weather (Guardian, Mar. 16)
In a Test of Capturing Carbon Dioxide, Perhaps a Way to Temper Global Warming (N.Y. Times, Mar. 15) Free site registration required
Climate change 'destroying glaciers' in Argentina (SciDev.net, Mar. 15)
Peru's alarming water truth (BBC News, Mar. 12)
Energy
Wind Power Demand Drives Vestas to Profit (Planet Ark/Reuters, Mar. 21)
Air, Water Powerful Partners in Northwest (Washington Post, Mar. 21) Free site registration required
Canary Island to be powered solely by renewables (Yahoo News/AFP, Mar. 20)
Utility and Sierra Club Deal Aims to Cut Carbon Dioxide (N.Y. Times, Mar. 20) Free site registration required
Big oil, big row [Controversy over links between oil companies and leading universities] (Guardian, Mar. 20)
Coal's future clouded by global warming debate (Yahoo News/AFP, Mar. 18)
Purdue Promises Biofuels Can Meet All U.S. Transport Needs (GreenBiz.com, Mar. 16)
Green Energy Enthusiasts Are Also Betting on Fossil Fuels (N.Y. Times, Mar. 16) Free site registration required
Catalyst could help turn CO2 into fuel (New Scientist, Mar. 15)
Pollution
Olympics: Beijing prepares emergency pollution shut-down (Yahoo News/AFP, Mar. 20)
WWF Says Pollution, Dams Threaten Rivers (ENN/AP, Mar. 20)
Cities with Less Smog See More Green (Business Week, Mar. 19)
Study Shows European, Russian Pollution Sullies Arctic (ENN/Reuters, Mar. 16)
Global Sunscreen Has Likely Thinned [Less sunlight blocked by pollution and dust] (Spacemart, Mar. 16)
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