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April 15th - 21st - National Environmental Education Week - Greening STEM: The Environment as Inspiration for 21st Century Learning Obama Administration Must Say No to Industry Loopholes in Natural Gas Fracking Standards (By Frances Beinecke, Natural Resources Defense Council - Switchboard Blog as reported by CommonDreams.org, 4/15/12) NASA Climate Change Letter Belongs To Long Tradition Of Fake Expertise (By Lucia Graves, The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 4/13/12) A Data-Driven Case for Walkability (By Kaid Benfield, The Atlantic Cities - Neighborhoods Blog, 4/13/12) Insurance Giant Lloyd's of London Warns Of ‘Unique And Hard-To-Manage Risk' Of Arctic Ocean Oil Drilling (By Kiley Kroh and Michael Conathan, Thinkprogress.org - Climate Progress Blog, 4/12/12) Mexicans try two wheels to beat car culture (By William Booth, The Washington Post, 4/11/12) Chris Christie's gas tax foolishness: By not budging on decades-old taxes, Republican governors keep gas artificially cheap -- and create big problems (By Will Doig, Salon.com, 4/11/12) Karl Rove Group That Absurdly Blames Obama For Rising Gas Prices Was Bankrolled By Top Oil Speculator (By Stephen Lacey, Thinkprogress.org - Climate Progress Blog, 4/11/12) The Crisis in American Walking: How we got off the pedestrian path. (By Tom Vanderbilt, Slate.com, 4/10/12) The High Cost of Losing Urban Trees (By Nate Berg, The Atlantic Cities Blog, 4/9/12) The Earth Is Full: Economic and Energy 'Transformation' Needed to Save Planet: '20 year war-like mobilization' needed to transition to sustainable energies and economies (By Common Dreams Staff, CommonDreams.org, 4/9/12) The Folly of Big Agriculture: Why Nature Always Wins - Large-scale industrial agriculture depends on engineering the land to ensure the absence of natural diversity. But as the recent emergence of herbicide-tolerant weeds on U.S. farms has shown, nature ultimately finds a way to subvert uniformity and assert itself. (By Verlyn Klinkenborg, Environment 360, 4/9/12) Record Warm March Temperatures Continue Record-Breaking Periods:
More than 15,000 warm
temperature records broken during March Debate Over How to Teach Evolution and Climate Change (Reported by Diane Rehm, NPR - The Diane Rehm Show, 4/9/12) |