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Intuit Spreads the Sustainability Love for Small Businesses

Intuit launched a small business sustainability assessment this month, hoping to shine a spotlight on the unsung good deeds performed by local companies throughout the U.S. Read the original here:...

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BP Shareholders Vote No on Oil Sands Transparency

BP shareholders rejected a resolution to report on the financial, environmental and social risks related to the company’s involvement in Canadian oil sands drilling. Read the original: BP Shareholders...

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Mexican Gray Wolves To Be Reintroduced Into The Wild In Mexico

Photo by contemplicity via Flickr CC While grey wolf populations in the northern US still face persecution — from delisting from the Endangered Species List that is leading to court battles to a cull...

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Pot Calls Kettle Black: Saudi Government Sues Over Canadian Ethical Oil Ads

Those clever shills for the tar sands industry, EthicalOil.org , have been running ads on the Oprah Winfrey Show and other networks that claim that by buying Saudi oil, “We’ve bankrolled a state that...

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Scott Alger’s Light Graffiti Portraits Capture the Energy of His Subjects

Read the rest of Scott Alger’s Light Graffiti Portraits Capture the Energy of His Subjects Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design , film photography , graffiti , green design ,...

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TransCanada to Move Ahead with Southern Section of Keystone XL Pipeline

Undeterred by Obama’s rejection of permit applications for the Keystone XL pipeline earlier this month, TransCanada have announced that they will move forward with the southern section of the...

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Former TransCanada Employee: Keystone XL is Poorly Built, “Will Likely Leak”

Despite the best efforts of the fossil fuel industry, the northern portion of the Keystone XL pipeline expansion is still in a holding pattern. What many people don’t realize is that the southern...

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Can collaboration clean up Canada’s oil sands industry?

Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) is striving to overcome serious environmental and social issues with oil sands production.  Here is the original post: Can collaboration clean up...

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VIDEO: Ethical Fur – Is It Possible? And Meet New York’s Wild Wolves!

Living in New York City, I often feel like I’m lacking nature in my life. Lucky for me, however I recently got offered the opportunity to go on an “animal adventure roulette” by  Subaru to check out...

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Is Canada Muzzling Journalists Over Tar Sands?

When U.S. journalist Emily Atkin flew into Fort McMurray, Alberta, to “see the tar sands,” her Canadian border control interview left her uncomfortable enough to investigate the experiences of others...

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Canadian Teen Finds a Way to Scrub Toxic Tar Sands Using 5th Grade Science

Canada’s Hayley Todesco has developed a method to speed up the detoxification of oil sands tailings ponds using 5th grade science. The 18-year-old Google Science Fair 2014 finalist won a $25,000...

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Keystone XL to emit 1.37 billion tons of greenhouse gases, EPA finds

If President Obama was looking for any additional reasons to veto the senate’s recent vote in favor of Keystone XL , the EPA just handed him what could be the defining argument against building the...

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Super-efficient straw-bale houses hit the market in the UK—piglets need not...

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Could WA’s proposed ban on orca captures end marine parks forever?

Killer whales in the entertainment industry have been the source of heated controversy for some time. In Washington state, lawmakers are now discussing the possibility of implementing a ban on the...

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How to Find Love Using Feng Shui This Valentine’s Day

Image via Shutterstock Although some consider Valentine’s Day to be a “Hallmark holiday”, I think it’s a great opportunity not only to do something special for your loved one but for yourself as well....

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Why is the FBI paying visits to American anti-tar sands activists?

It seems that being an anti-tar sands activist in the United States is getting to be a riskier business, as those opposed to the Canadian oil development have been getting unexpected visits from the...

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From garbage to garden: How Canada’s tar sands capital turns trash into...

The Canadian city best known as the epicenter of dirty oil from the tar sands is trying to green up its image by turning trash into vegetables for local food banks and farmers markets. For McMurray, a...

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100% electric passenger, vehicle and cargo ferry could help decarbonize sea...

Many ferries are powered by polluting diesel, but the European Union-funded E-ferry could offer a cleaner alternative: a medium-sized ferry able to transport trucks, cars, passengers and cargo with...

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RBS will cease financing new coal stations, Arctic oil, or oil sands projects

Several oil and gas projects will no longer receive financing from Britain’s Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Reuters reported . The bank said it won’t offer project-specific finance for Arctic oil and...

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Can collaboration clean up Canada’s oil sands industry?

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