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Global Warming Organic News
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| G8 countries urged to reduce emissions by half | In a small but significant step, the environment ministers from the G8 nations asked their leaders to set a goal of halving emissions by the year 2050. | May 29, 2008 |
| Higher food prices could be a good thing | The rise in food prices may turn out to be a good thing if it causes innovations in the field of food production. | May 22, 2008 |
| Biotech giants claim to have the answer to climate change | Despite growing doubt from governments and citizens alike across the globe about the safety and efficacy of genetically engineered crops, some of the worlds largest biotech companies have launched hundreds of patents for "climate-ready gene altered crops. | May 19, 2008 |
| Ever-green investing | Al Gore and Generation Investment Management raised $683 million for a new Climate Solutions Fund. | May 08, 2008 |
| Dust Bowl II? | Researchers at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies raise concerns that climate change and population growth could cause conditions similar to the Dust Bowl crisis of the 1930s. | May 07, 2008 |
| Global warming not hitting close enough to home | Even eco-conscious consumers just don't "get" how global warming has an impact in their daily lives. | May 02, 2008 |
| CDC says global warming a serious public health concern | Centers for Disease Control (CDC) finally told the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming that there is "strong scientific evidence" that climate change will have a "significant impact on health." | May 02, 2008 |
| Blue is the new green | Adam Werbach, former president of the Sierra Club, calls for environmentalists to stop waving their green flags and broaden their reach in order to solve overwhelming problems like global warming. | May 02, 2008 |
| The right biofuel | This New York Times OpEd piece implores readers and industry not the "throw the baby out with the bathwater" where biofuels are concerned. In some cases, the writer says, the environmental, economic and human woes biw being blamed on biofuel production are grossly misrepresented, or simply untrue. Unfair trade policy that artificially bolsters the value of corn-based ethanol is the biggest problem, he says, adding that the right kind of biofuels can provide a necessary bridge to developing technology. | Apr 25, 2008 |
| It's not easy being green | Eco-author Michael Pollan ponders whether it really matters if we reduce are carbon footprint if some Doppelganger across the globe is casting carbon footprints that rival Charles Barkley. His conclusion? Yes it matters, and setting an example can have a snowball effect--just what we need to help cool the planet | Apr 25, 2008 |
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