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environmentaldefense.org From December 3-14, over 180 countries are meeting in Bali, Indonesia, to discuss how to reduce global warming emissions, as soon as possible, and avert  dangerous climate change. Environmental Defense’s delegation has three main goals: help the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change countries create a 2-year road map for negotiating a new climate [...]

livescience Look at the newest “green” building in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, and you won’t see solar panels, so you might be forgiven for not recognizing it as an environmentally friendly structure. Instead, smart planning and design—and some smart technology—make the new building at the University System of Maryland’s Shady Grove campus in Rockville an [...]

WWF The devastating impact of global warming is already evident in Indonesia and will likely worsen due to further human-induced climate change, warns WWF. The review from the global conservation organization, Climate Change in Indonesia – Implications for Humans and Nature, highlights that annual rainfall in the world’s fourth most populous nation is already down [...]

AP Since President Bush slipped the seldom-heard term “switchgrass” into his 2006 State of the Union Address, the prairie grass has been in vogue. Because it’s a perennial crop, it needs less fertilizer, recycling nutrients at the end of every season. It also puts down a deep root system, which helps it combat soil erosion, [...]

reuters A protected colony of rare fruit bats in Cyprus has almost been wiped out by unidentified gunmen using them for target practice, conservation groups and authorities said on Thursday. Dozens of the mammals, which are under threat of extinction, were killed in a shooting spree in a fenced-off cave in the western district of [...]

 MSNBC www.makeitrightnola.org Actor-activist Brad Pitt greenlighted a bold initiative this summer to start making things better in New Orleans’ flood-devastated Lower 9th Ward. Now, he’s expanding on that with a new foundation called “Make It Right,” pledging that the first of at least 150 environmentally friendly homes will be ready by next summer. : Like [...]