Ethics
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Time for action is now | Greenpeace Australia Pacific
www.greenpeace.org via @ConservationSA &bull 4 Hours AgoSydney, Australia - An unlikely coalition representing millions of Australians has urged politicians from across the spectrum to put a price on pollution and take action on climate change. The joint statement to the Independent MPs and all political parties… Full Story »
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I am happy that truth has come out: Pachauri - India - The Times of India
timesofindia.indiatimes.com via @kshypptl &bull 5 Hours AgoCleared of financial wrongdoing, R K Pachauri, who heads the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, is weighing reforms put forth by a UN-ordered probe.You have emerged unscathed out of the accusations about your role as chairman of the IPCC... In the case of Sunday Telegraph, I had to pursue the case legally. I had no choice but to retain a firm of legal specialists who are strong on defamation cases and they pursued it. They (Telegraph) have also agreed to pay the legal fee of something like 53,000. It didn't happen by itself, which is unfortunate. They had published a… Full Story »
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Global leaders: Taking action on climate change is a moral responsibility
oregonstate.edu via @TerraOSU &bull YesterdayCORVALLIS, Ore. - While the scientific and economic evidence for combating environmental destruction may give us compelling reasons for acting, Kathleen Dean Moore argues that there are also powerful moral reasons to act - reasons based on justice, compassion, and care for future generations. More than 80 global leaders writing on the moral obligation to act to mitigate climate change have contributed to "Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in… Full Story »
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The Conversion of a Noted Ostrich
ieet.org via @ecohouses &bull YesterdayHe's back and generating as many headlines as ever. After years as the world's leading climate change critic, "sceptical environmentalist" Bjorn Lomborg is now saying that we need to put it at the top of our priority list. What's that, he has a new book out? Indeed, and in Smart Solutions to Climate Change, Lomborg, an adjunct professor at Copenhagen Business School in Denmark, goes so… Full Story »
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Ethical Consumption: Choosing sustainable cosmetics
www.justmeans.com via @SATSProjects &bull YesterdayAkhila is a Justmeans staff writer for CSR and ethical consumption. As an IEMA certified CSR practitioner, she hopes to highlight a new way of doing business. She believes that consumers have the immense power to change 'business as usual' through their choices. She is a Graduate in Molecular Biology from the University of Glasgow, UK and… Full Story »
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Climate Change And Bad Neighbors
www.tnr.com via @Jonathan_Todd &bull YesterdayJonathan Chait approvingly quotes from another blogger the argument that emitting carbon dioxide is like spraying water on your neighbor's house and says, therefore, that principled conservatives, as defenders of property rights, ought to either demand that emitters stop or else reach an agreement with their neighbors for mutually acceptable compensation. Metaphors applied to the specific ethical question of carbon emissions often employ some version of the thought experiment "polluting the neighbor's… Full Story »
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Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Sep. 2nd 2010 The Daily Bayonet
dailybayonet.com via @dailybayonet &bull YesterdaySockeye salmon sock it to Suzuki, greenwashing corporations boycott their own boycott when faced with a counter-boycott and Greenpeace gets whacked by Greenland and unfriended by Facebook. Despite outspending the Koch brothers by a factor of 3 to 1, Gore's Repower America points to the $100 million spent on conservative causes as the reason the green movement failed to achieve well, anything. Note how Repower America calls the Koch bro's 'infamous', yet they have been upfront and open about spending their cash, whereas the world still wonders how Al raised $300 million for his pet cause. How about it Al,… Full Story »
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Climate Change Chocolate Update: Change Observer: Design Observer
changeobserver.designobserver.com via @DesignObserver &bull YesterdayA year ago we wrote about Climate Change Chocolate, a 3.5-ounce chocolate bar packaged by Lunar Design that was among a new batch of interesting and innovative products and services being sold on websites as carbon offsets. The sweet is… Full Story »
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Celebrate Green Blog
www.celebrategreen.net via @CelebrateGreen &bull YesterdayAssists in the production of a low-tech, low-cost, ceramic water purifier that field experience and clinical test results have shown this filter to effectively eliminate approximately 99.88% of most water born disease agents. Even though we're not big shoppers, we love going to trade and craft shows where we discover clever or new-to-us ideas by people who are moving toward sustainability. Last year, at one show, we came such a company, Namaste Glass. Loved the name and loved that they are making glass items on their property in rural Cottage Grove, OR, where their house and studio are powered 100%… Full Story »
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Credibility 'Gap': Oilsands boycott could increase global warming - EcoSeed Community Blog post
community.ecoseed.org via @renesmee0621 &bull YesterdayWe're all for corporate social responsibility, but we wonder if Walgreens, The Gap, Levi Strauss and Timberland are aware that they may be contributing to global warming by joining the naive Forest Ethics boycott of fuel derived from Alberta's oilsands. According to a study released… Full Story »
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The Ethics of Gold
Triple Pundit &bull Yesterday
By Ron Robins: Founder & Analyst - Investing for the Soul. Originally published at Alrroya.com. The rising price of gold stands as the ethical barometer of the mismanagement of our fiscal, monetary, and currency systems. Gold is in the early… Full Story »
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Meet Dru Lawson of Solstis Electric Bikes
Planet Green (Discovery Channel) &bull Yesterday
Dru Lawson is passionate about the environment whilst also being an avid fan of motor sports - two interests that may initially seem incompatible but which Dru has smartly brought together in his new business Solstis Bikes. This is the year in which Dru left ethical fashion behind to pursue his aim of giving people a wider choice in sustainable transport. Dru has set up Solstis in London as a retailer of electric bikes and motorcrafts that caters for every type of biker from the city commuter to the trail racers. Solstis supplies electric bicycles, scooters and powerful… Full Story »
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Policy Innovations
www.policyinnovations.org via @hbeynon &bull YesterdayBy Carolyn Kousky, Olga Rostapshova, Michael Toman, and Richard Zeckhauser Harvard researchers present qualitative analysis of three options for mitigating the risk of climate mega-catastrophes: drastic abatement of greenhouse gas emissions, geo-engineering, and large-scale advance adaptation. By investing in sustainable… Full Story »
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Travel Plans in Your Future? Try TripSketch Green Traveler for Nokia
blog.ovi.com via @NokiaUS &bull Sep 1, 2010If you have travel plans in your future - and here's hoping you do! The app comes to Ovi Store from the U.S.-based TripSketch Corp., and offers eco-savvy tips and guidance about hotels, dining, attractions and more for 79 different cities in the United States, Canada… Full Story »
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Resurgence Article - The Tragedy of Biodiversity
www.resurgence.org via @MonicaBarcellos &bull Sep 1, 2010If the International Year of Biodiversity has shown us just one thing, it is that we need to stand up for all of Nature and not just those aspects someone somewhere has decided are the more deserving, says conservationist Paul Evans. In 2002 the world committed itself to arresting the decline of biodiversity by 2010. Perhaps that was an ambition to change the way we think about Nature rather than a realistic target, but anyway it didn't work. The erosion of biological diversity is happening faster than climate change around the world and yet has far less political purchase. This… Full Story »
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Green Property Investment
www.ipinglobal.com via @propertyguruGB &bull Sep 1, 2010As we all become more environmentally responsible and more focus is placed on climate change through the government and media, then more "green" investment ideas and products come on the market. They allow investors to make decisions not based solely on financial consideration but also take into account the ethical implications that come with their chosen investment. Green property investment is a term that covers any property investment that… Full Story »
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One E-reader Equals 22.5 New Books
Utne Reader - Environment &bull Sep 1, 2010
It is easy to write-off e-reader devices-such as Amazon's Kindle, Barnes Noble's Nook, and Sony's Reader-as wasteful gadgets further fueling our throwaway economy. E-readers are made from plastic, silicon, and heavy metals and will one day lie in non-biodegradable purgatory… Full Story »
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Stealing the Future, The Ethics of Dust, and Networked Sprawl
World Changing &bull Sep 1, 2010
Please note that comments will remain open for only 14 days after the article is posted. While previous comments will remain visible, attempts to post new comments after this period will fail. This helps stop comment spam, so your forebearance… Full Story »
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Book Review: Hunting: In Search of the Wild Life, Edited by Nathan Kowalsky
Sustainablog &bull Sep 1, 2010
Wiley-Blackwell's series of philosophy books for general readers, Philosophy for Everyone, aims to serve general, non-expert readers without actually treating them as "dummies" or creating watered-down, one-size-fits-all philosophy. The risk such an endeavor always faces is to end up serving nobody while trying to serve everybody, failing to satisfy either the experts or the neophytes. In the anthology Hunting: In Search of the Wild Life (affiliate link), editor Nathan Kowalsky brings together an impressive list of both heavyweights and lightweights from philosophical academia, as well as writers from other fields, many (okay, most) of them being active hunters. The goal:… Full Story »
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Our Daily Green: Literary Green
ourdailygreenlife.blogspot.com via @FreshGreenKim &bull Sep 1, 2010One of the most environmentally friendly forms of publishing are ebooks. No trees are sacrificed for the pleasure of reading. Our Daily Green is sharing a free publication with you today (more green, saved). Several of my writing colleagues are… Full Story »
