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Blogs: Sustainability

Fri, Jun. 01, 2007
Posted by the Inkslinger

Pretty City

White Rhino, who currently is lost in the woods of the Left Coast, forwarded this post from the Cool Hunter about Dongtan, a new 100% eco-city being built in China. The pedestrian-oriented city will get all its energy from renewables, and the only greenhouse gases it will produce will come from its...
Tue, Apr. 03, 2007
Sustainability
Posted by the Inkslinger

Greenpeace to Kleenex: Blow On This

This is funny (unless you're a tree)… A week ago, deforestating tissue-maker Kimberly Clark was in New York’s Times Square filming interviews with passing pedestrians for their new "Let It Out" Kleenex ad campaign. The idea is that people are supposed to tell Kleenex about something that upsets...
Wed, Nov. 01, 2006
Sustainability
Posted by Jeffrey Hollender

Fact Check on Global Warming!

Yesterday, Treehugger posted a much-needed look at the new Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change, a comprehensive British report on Global Warming that’s been big news elsewhere but has scarcely caused a ripple here in the complacent waters across the pond. The Stern Report...
Mon, Oct. 09, 2006
Posted by the Inkslinger

Living on Borrowed Time

Today is International Ecological Debt Day. That is, today marks the day of the year when the world's annual demands for earth's natural resources outstrips the planet's annual ability to sustainably provide them and our annual impacts on the biosphere exceed the annual ability of the planet to...
Thu, Jun. 22, 2006
Posted by Gregor

Floating Through the Jungle Primeval

Sorry we couldn't post until now. We were hoping to get an audio log entry out last night, but as you can imagine, 20th century communications are a spotty proposition in a place as far removed from the beaten path as the Amazon basin. We had perhaps the most incredible day yesterday that it's...