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  Scotland bids on floating wind farm

  Statoil, Norway’s largest energy company, plans to build a demonstration site to test its “floating” offshore wind turbines. This move is based upon the success… | Read the full article ›

  By Lucy Meskill (14 days ago) 8 comments

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  Statoil

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  Renewable energy, Renewable, Technology, Wind turbine, testing, Alternative energy

  Web News

  guardian.co.uk: Environment , bbc.co.uk , Healthy and Green Living (38 comments) 

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  Microbe managing the gulf spill

  A host of tiny microbe managers have taken up the cleanup effort in the Gulf of Mexico. According to an Article in The New York Times, hoards of heroic hydrocarbon-chewing… | Read the full article ›

  By Lucy Meskill (28 days ago) 6 comments

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  BP

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  Down

  Web News

  NYT: Environment , cnn.com , Green on HuffingtonPost.com (910 comments) 

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  Largest Oil Leak in Midwest History

  These are some mighty dark days for oil. In the wake of the still unfolding BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, news of another massive oil spill in the U.S. is mighty bad news… | Read the full article ›

  By Lucy Meskill (36 days ago) 7 comments

  Companies

  Environmental Protection Agency

  Web News

  detnews.com , battlecreekenquirer.com , edition.cnn.com , freep.com , TreeHugger 

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  Bat populations in the U.S. plummet

  My neighbor's barn loft was once host to more than 3,000 bats. At dusk they would swarm out in a great river, riding low over the fields to feed, then disperse upward to capture… | Read the full article ›

  By Lucy Meskill (39 days ago) 6 comments

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  Conservation

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  A National Ocean Policy, good news for beleaguered seas

  If there was ever an element that needed defending, it is the element of water. These days, our oceans are particularly at risk. For too long we have functioned under the "out of… | Read the full article ›

  By Lucy Meskill (42 days ago) 6 comments

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  Water, carbon dioxide, National, Food, Emissions, Renewable, Air, Ocean Acidification, natural

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  Water

  Web News

  NRDC: Switchboard , Greenlight | OnEarth Magazine, from NRDC , Green on HuffingtonPost.com (355 comments) 

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  Why we love cool roofing

  It seems that light-colored rooftops and roads really can curb carbon emissions and combat global climate change, according to a study by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National… | Read the full article ›

  By (43 days ago) 6 comments

  People

  Steven Chu

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  Global warming, Greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, Global, National, Emissions, Land

  Web News

  newscenter.lbl.gov , ScienceDaily: Earth & Climate , Yale Environment 360 

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  Five easy ways to avoid harmful chemicals

  "Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us." Henrik TikkanenThere are so many harmful pollutants in our environment that we have little, immediate,… | Read the full article ›

  By Lucy Meskill (46 days ago) 5 comments
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  Feature How we can green our Summer

  Summertime is here and it's time to get our green in gear. Typically summer is a time where we waste a great number of resources, like water to fuel our summer fun and energy to… | Read the full article ›

  By Lucy Meskill (63 days ago) 12 comments
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  Clean your plate or else, a new green dining trend?

  When it comes to food, it really costs to waste. With world hunger on the rise, that skillfully wielded parental diatribe from a generation or so ago about "starving children in… | Read the full article ›

  By Lucy Meskill (78 days ago) 10 comments

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  Carbon footprint, Conservation, Consumerism

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  Feature How to pick your noise and tweet it

  In a world where news is noise and there is plenty of it to go around, it is important to practice discretion. Global warming, climate change, environmental innovations, gains and… | Read the full article ›

  By Lucy Meskill (79 days ago) 10 comments

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  Conservation, Global