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Media
Green Media List Launches as Tool for Green and Sustainable Companies (CSRwire, Aug. 28)
BBC news chiefs attack plans for climate change campaign (Guardian, Aug. 27)
Sir David Attenborough: Saving life on our fragile planet earth (Independent, Aug. 27)
Green Living & Social Trends
Trying to Connect the Dinner Plate to Climate Change (N.Y. Times, Aug. 29) Free site registration required
The Energy Costs of Cooling and Heating a Home (NPR, Aug. 27)
Knowing your carbon impact increasingly important (San Jose Mercury News, Aug. 27)
Top 10 green gadgets (Guardian, Aug. 23)
Tipping point for hybrids? (Straight.com, Aug. 23)
Business & Economy
Green Supply Chains a Growing Goal, Execs Say (GreenBiz, Aug. 29)
 Office Depot Lowers CO2 Emissions by 10 Percent (GreenBiz, Aug. 29)
Cogeneration at SC Johnson Prevents Greenhouse Gas Emissions Equivalent to Driving Around the Earth 7,630 Times (CSRwire, Aug. 27)
Ethical clothing takes organic sales to £2bn (Telegraph UK, Aug. 27)
New Tool Helps Companies Green Their Business Air Travel (GreenBiz, Aug. 27)
Wells Fargo Invests in Solar, Loans Money for Green Projects (GreenBiz, Aug. 27)
Commentary
A sampling of editorials relating the the environment. Views expressed do not necessarily reflect the opinions of National Geographic.
Time to tune in to the real world (BBC News, Aug. 28)
The green VW (L.A. Times, Aug. 27)
What It Costs Us [The coal industry] (Washington Post, Aug. 26) Free site registration required
Can't stand the heat? ["Blame elected officials who remain in denial on global warming"] (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Aug. 24)
Exxon seeks legal sympathy over Valdez (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Aug. 23)
Water flows downhill ["Congress must undo the harm done by the Supreme Court to the Clean Water Act"] (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Aug. 22)
Forgo bottled water -- and soda -- to save the planet (Cornell, Aug. 22)
Ecosystems & Biodiversity
Indonesia Seeks Plan to Save Rare Tigers, Elephants (ENN/Reuters, Aug. 29)
China Claims Sighting of Rare River Dolphin Thought to Be Extinct (ENN/AP, Aug. 29)
Study links CO2 to demise of grazing lands (L.A. Times, Aug. 28)
Corals And Climate Change (TerraDaily/SPX, Aug. 28)
Species in serious decline [U.K.] (Guardian Unlimited, Aug. 28)
Waterways that inspired literary gems at risk (Telegraph UK, Aug. 27)
Biologists Bring Puffins Back to Maine (ENN/AP, Aug. 27)
Saving the remarkable kakapo from extinction (ENN, Aug. 27)
Indian Ocean sees smallest tuna catch in 11 years (ENN/Reuters, Aug. 27)
Emphasis on conifer forests places multiple species at risk (ENN, Aug. 27)
Brazil reviving endangered Amazon manatee (Yahoo News/AFP, Aug. 24)
New optimism for panda survival (BBC News, Aug. 24)
Group to Meet, Launch Frog-Saving Effort (ENN/AP, Aug. 24)
Golf Projects May Leave Mexico Wildlife High and Dry (National Geographic News, Aug. 24)
Rare Japanese Dugong Threatened by U.S. Military Base (National Geographic News, Aug. 24)
Pygmy Elephants Threatened by Logging, Oil Palm Plantations (ENN, Aug. 23)
New arrival for DR Congo gorillas (BBC News, Aug. 22)
Scientists ask: Where have all the dolphins gone? (PhysOrg/AFP, Aug. 22)
Emergency Gorilla-Protection Force Deployed in Congo (National Geographic News, Aug. 21)
Technology
$100K Award for Sustainability Opens for Nominations (GreenBiz, Aug. 28)
A Better, Cheaper Way To Make Biofuels: Algae (ENN, Aug. 28)
Blood, Sweat Could Power New Paper Battery (NPR, Aug. 27)
Pollution
Crowd says no to more waste at Hanford [Nuclear waste in Oregon] (Tri-City Herald, Aug. 28)
Team Tracks Antibiotic Resistance From Swine Farms To Groundwater (TerraDaily/SPX, Aug. 27)
Polluted China rivers threaten "sixth" of population (ENN/Reuters, Aug. 27)
Smog Smothers Japan, Experts Point to China (Planet Ark/Reuters, Aug. 27)
$1B cleanup of Alaska bases drags on (Yahoo News/AP, Aug. 24)
Great Lakes Waste Issues May Kill BP Refinery Plan (Planet Ark/Reuters, Aug. 24)
Study Links Air Pollution To Premature Births (ENN, Aug. 24)
Noise pollution can kill, says study (Herald UK, Aug. 23)
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Public Opinion & Surveys
Poll: No change despite CO2 fears (Guardian, Aug. 27)
Eco-slackers feel the pressure to keep up with Green-Joneses (Times UK, Aug. 24)
Green Building
New roof technology could save you money (ENN, Aug. 29)
France promises green World Cup (ENN/Reuters, Aug. 28)
Call for 'green-home' cash bonus (BBC News, Aug. 28)
Citigroup to spend $232M on Green Data Center (GreenBiz, Aug. 28)
Former President Bill Clinton to Keynote Greenbuild Conference (ENN, Aug. 28)
Weather Channel Latest Network Going Green with LEED HD Studio (GreenBiz, Aug. 24)
Builders overestimate cost of going green - WBCSD [See full study here] (Environmental Finance, Aug. 23)
U.S. & Government
Energy Department to aid biofuels creation (TerraDaily/UPI, Aug. 28)
Environmentalists Seek to Ground Hawaii Superferry with Court Order; New Protest Held (ENN/AP, Aug. 28)
BLM Launches Effort to Facilitate Renewable Energy Development on Federal Lands (ENN, Aug. 27)
U.S. says steep climate curbs may not be needed (Yahoo News/Reuters, Aug. 27)
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Release $27M Draft Recovery Plan for Ivory-Billed Woodpecker (ENN/AP, Aug. 24)
Financially Strapped Forest Service Battles Growing Problems of Trash and Off-Road Vehicles (ENN/AP, Aug. 24)
Rule to Expand Mountaintop Coal Mining (N.Y. Times, Aug. 23) Free site registration required
Exxon takes spill appeal to the Supreme Court (Anchorage Daily News, Aug. 23)
Stricter US Refinery Emission Rules Not Needed - EPA (Planet Ark/Reuters, Aug. 23)
Judge Orders Reports on Global Warming (N.Y. Times, Aug. 22) Free site registration required
International
China's Wall becoming less and less Great [Desertification] (ENN/Reuters, Aug. 29)
Brazil Trys To Calm Europe's Environmental Concerns (ENN/Reuters, Aug. 28)
Massive investment needed to combat climate change: UN (Yahoo!/AFP, Aug. 28)
India and China urged to cut emissions (Guardian, Aug. 28)
Climate Talks Start With Calls for New Global Deal (Planet Ark/Reuters, Aug. 28)
Merkel presses China on climate (BBC News, Aug. 27)
China to spend $925 million on clean energy (ENN/Reuters, Aug. 27)
What is the Kyoto Protocol? (Planet Ark/Reuters, Aug. 27)
China Mulls Law to End Caps on Water Pollution Fines (Planet Ark/Reuters, Aug. 27)
EU Helps Cameroon Fight $100 Million/Year Illegal Logging (Planet Ark/Reuters, Aug. 24)
Bush climate meeting must stay within UN fold: official (Yahoo News/AFP, Aug. 23)
Climate fight must be won in developing nations: UN (Yahoo News/Reuters, Aug. 23)
Britain to miss carbon emissions targets: study (Yahoo News/AFP, Aug. 23)
SKorea sets up greenhouse gas fund (Yahoo News/AFP, Aug. 23)
Six U.S. States and Two Provinces Join to Set GHG Goal (GreenBiz, Aug. 23)
Climate Change
Study Says Greenhouse Warming Was Main Cause of Unusual Heat in 2006 (ENN/AP, Aug. 29)
Mankind to Blame for Warming but Can Slow Damage, UN Says (ENN/Reuters, Aug. 29)
Indonesian peatlands seen playing key climate role (ENN/Reuters, Aug. 28)
As Predicted, Global Warming Fuels More Tropical Rainfall (Yahoo!/LiveScience, Aug. 28)
Super Hurricanes Coming, Experts Warn Communities (ENN/Reuters, Aug. 27)
Climate Change Is a Mixed Bag for Inuit (ENN/AP, Aug. 27)
Cap and Trade versus Carbon Tax (EurActiv, Aug. 27)
As Alps Warm, Ice Melts and Mountains Crumble (NPR, Aug. 27)
Swiss Town Guards Itself Against Climate Hazard (NPR, Aug. 27)
Quarter-Degree Fix Fuels Climate Fight (N.Y. Times, Aug. 26) Free site registration required
Will oceans surge 59 centimetres this century - or 25 metres? (Globe and Mail, Aug. 25)
Climate Change to Strain China Food Supply By 2030 (Planet Ark/Reuters, Aug. 24)
Flatter oceans may have caused 1920s sea rise (New Scientist, Aug. 24)
Global Warming Causing Mediterranean Sea to Rise, Threatening Egypt's Lush Nile Delta (ENN/AP, Aug. 24)
Climate change goes underground (ENN, Aug. 23)
Saltier North Atlantic should give currents a boost (New Scientist, Aug. 23)
Energy
Energy efficiency seen easy way to aid climate: U.N. (ENN/Reuters, Aug. 28)
Engineers Perfecting Hydrogen-Generating Technology (ENN, Aug. 27)
Ice, Cold, Ecological Risks May Hamper Arctic Oil Rush (National Geographic News, Aug. 24)
Biofuel surge - bane or boon? (Edie, Aug. 24)
Arctic Oil Rush Sparks Battles Over Seafloor (National Geographic News, Aug. 23)
Physicist Seeks Alternative Fuels (Online Newshour, Aug. 23)
Renewable energy can save East Asia two trillion US dollars in fuel costs (EnergyDaily/AFP, Aug. 23)
Startup's plan: To make fuel from algae (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Aug. 21)
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