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Walk Score Launches Bike Score (By Sarah Goodyear, The Atlantic Cities Blog, 5/14/12) Living Planet Report 2012 From WWF Looks At Ecological State Of The Earth (The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 5/14/12) Carbon capture leak simulated in sea off Scotland: Thousands of kilos of carbon dioxide will be injected into the seabed to simulate effects of a leak on the marine ecosystem (By Erin Hale, The [UK] Guardian, 5/14/12) Clean Energy as Culture War (By David Roberts, Grist.org, 5/14/12) North Dakota: riding the oil rush - Oil has brought money and jobs to this sparsely populated region - but residents fear a ban on fracking will stop the boom (By Suzanne Goldenberg, The [UK] Guardian, 5/14/12) Heartland Institute's Insurance Project To Depart After Controversial Billboard Campaign (The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 5/11/12 updated 5/14/12) An Inconvenient Lawsuit: Teenagers Take Global Warming to the Courts (By Katherine Ellison, The Atlantic Magazine, 5/9/12) Antarctica Oil Spill: Endless Sea, Wrecked Brazilian Ship, Leaking And Trapped In Ice (By Federico Quilodran, The Associated Press as reported by The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 5/9/12) Why There's No War Between Drivers and Cyclists in the Netherlands (By Sarah Goodyear, The Atlantic Cities, 5/8/12) Conservative thinktanks step up attacks against Obama's clean energy strategy: Confidential memo seen by Guardian calls for climate change sceptics to turn American public against solar and wind power (By Suzanne Goldenberg, The [UK] Guardian, 5/8/12) Yes Merle-The Good Times Were Really Over for Good: Cheap Oil Built 'The American Way' but All the Cheap Oil is Gone (By Guy Gold, Yahoo Voices, 5/7/12) The Only Thing That Will Stop Global Warming Is A Massive Economic Downturn (By Liz Klimas, Business Insider, 5/7/12) |