Environmentalists and patrons are in an uproar over a recent discovery that, according to corporate policy, Starbucks shops around the country waste millions of liters of water every day. Making this fact even more upsetting is that Starbucks has a demeanor of being a green business and very environmentally aware, contradicting recent findings.
24.3 liters of […]

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California’s official state reptile, the desert tortoise, is under attack yet again. However, this time the attack isn’t based on disease or predators. Despite the tortoise’s protection under both federal and state endangered species acts, the Bureau of Land Management has issued a proposal to transfer 365,906 acres of the tortoise’s natural habitat (the Western […]

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Dell Computers Listen to Bloggers About Packaging Waste

After angry rants from tech bloggers across the country, Dell has decided to take heed and listen concerning their unbelievable waste in shipping tiny electronic products.
Dell has already made the claim it wants to be the greenest technology company in the world. At FORTUNE Brainstorm: GREEN, CEO […]

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Radiohead Reduces Carbon Footprint on Tour

Longtime environmentalists and influential rock band Radiohead is doing more to lower its carbon footprint as it sets off on a world tour this summer to promote its latest album, In Rainbows.
As Radiohead travels from Dublin to Florida to Tokyo, the band has taken care to make sure that touring […]

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Illegal Clearing on the Rise, Brazil to Increase Monitors in Rain Forest

Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called for an emergency cabinet meeting at the presidential palace, in which other government representatives, including the Environment Minister Marina Silva, were present to discuss the situation with Brazil’s rain forests. It seems that emergency […]

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Americans and Nigerian Detained, Turned Out to be Part of Film Crew

Four people from Seattle and a Nigerian man accompanying them were detained for supposedly traveling illegally in southern Nigeria, according to officials.
Security forces that have been fighting militants in the Niger Delta have barred outsiders from going near the region, with the vast wetland […]

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President Bush Delivers Climate Change Speech

President Bush changed his views on global warming, proposing the new yet vague target of stopping greenhouse gas emissions by 2025.
Among the other changes Bush called for include reducing emissions from electric power plants. “To reach our 2025 goal, we will need to more rapidly slow the growth of power […]

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