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Photo courtesy of FreeFoto.comShirley: Color me cynical, but when giant agribusinesses fall over one another in a rush to board the corn ethanol train, I tend to view the situation with something…

The numbers are in and sadly they weren’t quite what we were hoping for. Despite the huge amount of emails you sent to MEPs, asking them to support a ban on inefficient light bulbs across the EU (and thank you for that!), not enough signed up to adopt the declaration.

We needed 400 MEPs across Europe to put their names down to this bright idea to take it forward. Yet despite a frantic round of last-minute phone calls from our European campaigners to their MEPs, we only saw 197 signatures before the deadline.

It doesn’t mean this is the end of the road – far from it. We’ll still be lobbying the EU to push for energy efficiency legislation and working on national governments to pull their fingers out. And if you’ve joined the 7steps programme, you’ll already know what else you can do for the energy [r]evolution. If you haven’t, are you waiting for hell to freeze over? No, wait, that doesn’t quite work…

Hungry? It's said that women "eat" or ingest 6 pounds of lipstick over their lifetime. If that's the case, then we want to make sure that we are eating the best lipstick…

Today we’re going to talk about small businesses and their role in laying the foundations for clean and ecologically sensitive industries in this country. Our guest is a long-time advocate of the…

Seattle-based Earth Organic Baby Basics was started by Kate McIntosh Quinn, a former Hollywood stylist, in 2005. Quinn focuses on organic cotton clothing that cares for the earth while still being…

Graphic courtesy of Wakarusa Music FestivalI spoke on Tuesday about the Wakarusa Music Festival's Sustainability Symposium that took place on Saturday of the festival. Moderated by…

Max Lindberg: GO's master podcasterEditor's note: When I introduced Max to you a week and half ago, I noted that he'd be producing a new podcast series titled "Greening the Golden…

A Decade of Global Warming As a general principle, it seems that the older we are, the more difficulty we have wrapping our brains around the truly alarming timetable accelerations we’re now being given by experts in everything from climate change to species loss to poverty alleviation. To put it simply, things are getting worse more quickly than we thought, and much more quickly than we’re making things better. Prospects of planetary collapse we once thought native to the next century, or the century after that, are looming as possibilities for the next decade or two. Things are spiraling seriously downwards, so we need to change our thinking and move with a speed unseen since World War Two. Our understanding of climate change, in particular, has morphed quickly this year. We now understand that our deadline to undertake serious steps might best be measured in years, a decade at best, and that action needs to be dramatic and sustained. But our popular culture has not, to put it mildly, caught up to this new reality. That’s why this MTV video is powerful and welcome, driving home artistically the magnitude of the problem and the brevity of a decade (3,650 days… (more)

(Posted by WorldChanging Team in Media at 10:31 PM)

On Sunday, the Western Governor’s Association unanimously passed a resolution titled “Transitioning the West to Clean Energy and Energy Security.” The document highlights the need for diverse energy…