Tag: pollution
member name: Ethan G.
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August 13, 2007 09:08 PM EDT --
The United States is full of technological nooks and crannies, bright new ideas and old ones that have never been fully utilized, oodles of potential innovation. An idea is useless, however, unless . . .
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September 10, 2007 11:06 PM EDT --
When I was a teenager, in an Indiana town, we had a unique way of getting around: walking and bicycling. This was in the days when there were relatively few cars, when kids would never think of getting . . .
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March 31, 2007 06:32 PM EDT --
The purpose of an editorial page is to debate the great issues of the day. And surely one of the greatest issues of the 21st century is, and will increasingly be, global climate change. In . . .
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November 05, 2007 08:55 PM EST --
The environment doesn’t recognize international boundaries. Vast dust storms from China blow over neighboring countries and reach as far as the United States. Israel and neighboring . . .
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February 28, 2007 10:25 PM EST --
Roads have hidden costs, side-effects that harm communities and public health. Nevertheless, choosing highways first has been the American paradigm for at least the last 50 years. In these days of . . .
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March 15, 2007 10:50 AM EDT --
A sizzling fajita, piled with grilled steak, chicken, and shrimp, sends a lustful burst of yearning through me, just before I gobble it down. True, I feel a bit sick if I think about the bloody . . .
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May 14, 2007 09:54 PM EDT --
In 1999, when the Senate rejected by 95-0 the Kyoto Climate Treaty designed to reduce global warming gasses, treaty opponents made a good point. Kyoto excluded developing countries, such as China . . .
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December 31, 2007 08:25 PM EST --
We are living in a time of escalating extremes. Climate change devastation may be arriving faster than expected, but wondrous new technologies may allow us to stop the worst.
Global climate skeptics . . .
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March 24, 2008 03:30 PM EDT --
The word is now out: many biofuels, such as corn ethanol, actually cause global warming according to two studies published in Science in February. Why? Their production leads to clearing of . . .
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June 02, 2008 11:26 AM EDT --
The U.S. Senate is debating a major environmental bill: The Climate Security Act. Unfortunately this bill is fatally flawed because it uses the convoluted, easily manipulated cap-and-trade process . . .
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December 03, 2007 07:40 PM EST --
The Kyoto Treaty, intended to decrease global warming, is set to expire in 2012. Leaders from around the world are meeting in Bali , Indonesia to discuss what will replace it.
The Kyoto Treaty . . .
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June 17, 2008 09:07 AM EDT --
Renewable energy is expanding voraciously and will do so even faster, according to experts at a Worldwatch Institute panel ( Tipping Point ). Wind power is already in the midst of an explosion, . . .
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April 07, 2008 02:58 PM EDT --
My wife and I recently had the privilege of viewing our four legged hopping friends in all of their diversity at the exhibit Frogs: A Chorus of Colors, at the National Geographic Museum (in downtown . . .
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June 05, 2007 10:46 AM EDT --
The fight against cataclysmic global climate change and for energy independence has many fronts. Innovative technologies are being developed by businesses large and small. One such company . . .
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July 17, 2007 09:40 PM EDT --
All of the bad news and horror stories about the environment and climate change can make one feel hopeless. What is one person to do? It helps to realize that we are all in this together, . . .
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August 07, 2008 03:35 PM EDT --
I’ve just finished reading James Speth’s The Bridge at the Edge of the World, which includes a powerful analysis of our environmental dangers along with a visionary approach to solving them. Unlike . . .
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January 14, 2008 08:57 PM EST --
I've had chronic rhinitis--that is, nasal congestion--for as long as I can remember. Doctors have recommended a succession of drugs, including pills and inhalers, to treat the symptoms. A month or . . .
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February 09, 2008 02:42 PM EST --
Two great environmental champions have, for me, long smacked of hypocrisy. One is Robert F. Kennedy Junior, a great advocate of clean energy—until it comes to wind farms off the coast of his . . .
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November 19, 2007 04:15 PM EST --
Ever feel the urge to make bold decisions that influence the future of the world? To balance economic and environmental factors through tough negotiations? Now you can, if only in play. . . .
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December 17, 2007 10:46 PM EST --
Rockville, Maryland, my adopted home town, is an example of how poor planning, centered on the automobile, has ruined community living in many parts of the United States. Urban and suburban areas are . . .
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