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#1 Bring Back the Electric Car
Wouldn't it be great if your family car was electric, and you could just plug it in instead of taking it to a gas station? Well, you can't go out and buy one from your local car dealer right now, but there are dozens of companies working on an improved electric battery...
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#2 Go Organic
It wasn’t long ago that most Americans thought of organic food as something only “health nuts” ate. But today, about one in four U.S. families buy organic products every week.
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Sun Mar 30, 2008 5:41 pm
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#3 Here Comes the Sun
Do you think solar power is just a dream for the future? Then you have got a pleasant surprise coming: Reliable solar technology is available right now.
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Sun Apr 20, 2008 12:02 am
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#4 Support Sustainable Forestry
Old forests feel magical. It seems like they have always been thereÉand somehow they will survive forever, no matter what we do. But that is an illusion. About 95% of the ancient forests that existed in America 200 years ago are gone.
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Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:39 am
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#5 Save the Coral Reefs
Once you've seen a coral reef, you'll never forget it: the intricate patterns, the vibrant colors. But coral reefs aren't just beautiful; they're one of the Earth's most valuable habitats.
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Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:48 pm
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#6 An Invisible Threat
You can't see mercury floating in the air, but it's there and there's a chance it's affecting your health.
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#7 Vote for the Earth
If we want to protect the environment, we’ve got to have government support. On every level—local, state, national—it’s elected officials who determine which regulations get enforced, which laws get priority, and which new industries or technologies get subsidized. We need to make sure those elected officials are on our side.
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#8 The Law of Nature
The endangered species act is something we can all be proud of. The problem is, it hasn’t always been enforced…and powerful lobbies are trying to destroy it.
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Sun Apr 06, 2008 3:03 am
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#9 The Right Tree in the Right Place
You’ve heard it many times: One of the best things you can do for the environment is to plant a tree…or, even better, a whole bunch of trees. That’s because trees are amazing pollution-fighters, water-savers, and soil-savers. They’re home to living creatures. They help save energy. But “planting trees” doesn’t just mean randomly putting seeds or saplings into the ground.
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#10 The Cool Cities Campaign
Sierra Club’s Cool Cities campaign, “solving global warming one city at a time.” The idea is simple: Citizens work with their mayors to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, using strategies like energy efficiency, renewable energy, and green fleets.
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#11 They Paved Paradise
The water flowing off your walkway, your roof, and your driveway, and rolling down the street. Watch it literally go down the drain. That water is called runoff, and as it moves toward the sewers it picks up oil, pesticides, garbage, and dirt particles called sediment.
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Sun Apr 06, 2008 8:31 pm
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#12 Save Your Energy
Of all the different strategies we can use to tackle global warming and air pollution, energy efficiency is the quickest, cheapest, cleanest, and easiest.
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#13 Think Globally, Eat Locally
People are starting to notice that there are hidden environmental costs in routinely transporting food across a continent or halfway around the world. The result is a new way of thinking about what we eat, known as the “local foods” movement.
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Thu Mar 27, 2008 5:17 am
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#14 God's Green Earth
Is protecting the environment a religious issue for you? Do you see it as a way of honoring God’s creation and serving humankind? If you do, you’re part of an important movement: faith-based environmentalism.
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#15 Up The Creek
According to the EPA, about 40% of all streams and rivers that have been tested in the U.S. aren’t safe for activities like fishing and swimming.
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#16 Growing Warmer
If you’re a gardener, you might know something a lot of people don’t: Global warming is already changing nature. Maybe you’ve noticed that plants are leafing out and blooming earlier…or that birds and butterflies are breeding and migrating earlier…or that “new” birds are showing up at your backyard feeder.
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#17 Grow a Green Marketplace
When you hear the term “green products,” you probably think of things like energy-efficient lightbulbs and environmentally friendly cleaners. They’re important, of course…but new, improved consumer items aren’t the only way to “go green.”
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Thu Apr 03, 2008 4:06 am
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#18 Park it Here
Whatever their size, urban parks are beloved for the benefits they provide, like recreation and refuge.
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Wed Mar 12, 2008 10:10 pm
kenwells
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#19 Save the Whales…Again
The idea of protecting whales was so prevalent during the 1970s and ’80s that it has become a cliche. That was so long ago, you might assume we’ve already saved the whales and moved on to other things. Unfortunately, you’d be wrong.
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Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:58 pm
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#20 Too Much Gas
The U.S. has one of the lowest fuel economy standards of any industrialized nation in the world.
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#21 Support Fair Trade
The agricultural regions of Africa, Latin America, and Asia are some of the most ecologically sensitive areas in the world. The people who live and farm there are also some of the world’s poorest. The only way they can afford to keep protecting the Earth for us is if they have a secure market for what they grow or make, and can earn a decent wage at it. By buying Fair Trade Certified™ products, you give them that opportunity.
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Fri Mar 21, 2008 6:43 am
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#22 Clean Up The Mines
Mining is one of the most polluting industries in the world, largely because few of us pay attention to it. As a result, companies that dig for gold, copper, bauxite, and other ores get away with decimating some of the most sensitive areas.
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#23 Drop by Drop
Experts predict that water is going to be “the oil of the 21st century.” Actually, that may be an understatement.
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#24 Build It Green
When you think of the major causes of climate change, you probably think of car emissions, factories, or power plants. Most people don’t realize the impact of buildings on global warming.
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Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:47 am
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#25 Born to Be Wild
America has set aside just a fraction of the wilderness that’s needed to buffer the effects of global warming, sprawl, and our burgeoning population.
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Thu Apr 03, 2008 10:31 pm
Click for Wilderness
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#26 Down the Drain
We’re taking one of our most basic necessities—clean water—for granted.
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Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:49 am
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#27 For the Birds
Many of us take the birds in our backyards for granted, because it seems there are so many of them around. But according to the National Audubon Society, even many of our common birds are in trouble, while many rarer species are in danger of disappearing entirely.
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#28 Teach Your Children
About 20% of the U.S. population spends their days inside elementary and secondary schools. You probably assume these schools are safe for our kids (and their teachers), but it turns out that more than half of them have serious air quality problems.
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#29 Make New Dirt
You probably already know that composting is a way of recycling organic material, letting it become soil as a part of nature’s cycle…instead of dumping it in a landfill, where it’s actually prevented from enriching the Earth.
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Sun Mar 30, 2008 5:14 pm
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#30 Consider the Alternatives
Have you ever watched a pinwheel spinning in the breeze? That’s “alternative” energy. Felt the heat of the sun on your face? That’s alternative energy.
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Sun Mar 30, 2008 5:46 pm
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#31 It's a Plastic World
Take a look around your home and try counting the things made of plastic. It could take you all day—plastic is used in practically everything we buy. Plastic is a miracle material, but it has serious environmental drawbacks.
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Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:42 pm
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#32 Home on the Refuge
There’s no feel-good way to spin it: Animals and plants need places to live, and modern society is destroying those places. Unchecked development, pollution, and global warming are all degrading or eliminating the habitat that animals.
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#33 All Aboard!
Have you taken a trip by train lately? Probably not. Although railroads have long been a major part of passenger transportation systems all over the world, in the U.S. they were generally considered irrelevant—until recently, when Amtrak’s ridership began setting records each year.
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Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:37 pm
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#34 Save the Wetlands
Most of us don’t know much about wetlands—even though they’re critical to our planet’s environmental health.
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#35 We've Got Chemistry
Modern chemistry has undeniably made life easier. We’ve been able to grow more food per acre…prevent fires…make perfect scrambled eggs with easy cleanup - but many are damaging ones.
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Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:27 pm
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#36 What's Bugging You?
Synthetic pesticides have become a health and ecological disaster, and as they’re overused, weeds, insects, and bacteria build resistance to them. Fortunately, there are effective alternatives. As consumers, we should encourage farmers to use them, and learn to use them in our own homes.
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#37 Save the Living River
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Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:04 pm
Jplapinger
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#38 Greener By the Dozen
Wouldn’t it be nice if government, schools, and big business took the environment into account when they made decisions about spending our tax money or their profits?
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Sun Mar 30, 2008 4:38 pm
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#39 Over The Top
Mining companies are blowing the tops off the Appalachian Mountains to get coal…to feed the power plants…to supply the electricity we use to power our TVs, appliances, and lights.
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#40 The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
There are persistent pollutants that have to be eliminated, like the toxic chemicals that come from smokestacks. But there's an equally important threat to our oceans that sounds so ordinary, it may be hard to believe. It's garbage.
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#41 "It's Alive!"
Genes from bacteria, viruses, plants, animals, and even humans have been engineered into food crops.By manipulating the building blocks of life, genetic scientists have created life forms that could never develop naturally. Genes from bacteria, viruses, plants, animals, and even humans have been engineered into food crops.
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#42 Hook, Line and Sinker
In the last 50 years, about one-third of the fish we catch as seafood have disappeared. Take a moment to think about that. The main culprit? Our fishing methods.
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#43 Going, Going…
Extinction isn’t just a scary idea—it’s really happening, right now. In fact, experts say we’re currently in one of the largest extinction crises in Earth’s history.
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#44 A New threat to Rainforests
Like a lot of people, you might think it’s good news that big business is finally beginning to produce an alternative fuel. But in this case, it’s not. It turns out that agribusiness is so eager to “save the Earth” with biofuel that they’re tearing down rainforests which absorb CO2—to grow the crops that supply it.
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Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:29 pm
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#45 Do Your Share(s)
Most major polluters are big corporations—and the people they listen to most closely are their shareholders. Here’s the important part: Anyone can be a shareholder… including you.
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#46 Welcome to Solar City
Want to make sure your state and local taxes are spent wisely? Want clean air, local jobs, and lower electricity bills? Here’s one way to do it: Get your mayor and city council to switch to solar power.
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#47 Where, When, and How Many
Population growth is a controversial subject, but it’s really impossible to discuss saving the Earth without addressing it.
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Thu Apr 10, 2008 5:59 am
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#48 Turn Up The Heat
Are politicians really paying enough attention to global warming? From where we sit, it seems like the most serious environmental issue of our time…yet there’s been little action on it. How much glacier ice has to melt before Washington starts taking it seriously?
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#49 Target: Zero Waste
To some people, recycling represents both the strengths and weaknesses of the environmental movement: On one hand, it’s a successful grassroots effort that saves resources and reflects people’s willingness to make changes for ecological reasons. On the other hand, it’s a substitute for making real changes in the way we approach the whole concept of waste.
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Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:20 pm
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#50 Green Collar Jobs
What’s the best way to give Americans of all socioeconomic backgrounds a tangible stake in fighting for issues like global warming? Easy: Make it their livelihood.
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Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:45 am
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