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For the ‘Almost Vegetarians’

June 13th, 2008 · No Comments


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Tags: environment · global warming · Carbon emissions · Food · Environmental cost of meat · Carbon footprint

Starbucks’ designing a greener store format

June 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I have to admit that I am a talk radio junkie. I was just getting up this Saturday and since my usual talk radio was in re-broadcasts, I was listening to the Oprah and Friends radio network.
The founder, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Starbucks, Howard Schultz, was on the radio. […]

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Tags: miscellaneous · environment · global warming · Sustainable Development · Carbon footprint

Vegetarianism and climate change

June 4th, 2008 · No Comments

One of the most respected discussion programs on the BBC, Newsnight, focused last night on the statement made by Yvi de Boer, the head of the UN climate agency, who recently said: “The best solution would be for us all to become vegetarians”. The UN official was responding to criticism that measures to tackle climate […]

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Tags: global warming · Environmental cost of meat

US presidential candidates and climate change

May 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Last week we blogged about the US presidential candidates’ stance on climate change, and concluded that Obama and Clinton were very similar, although we thought Clinton was somewhat more advanced because of her views on nuclear power, which she rejects unless improvements are made.
However, No Impact Man has written a blog that got us thinking […]

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Tags: global warming · Climate change · US presidential elections

Presidential candidates on climate change

April 28th, 2008 · No Comments

As the American presidential election approaches, we decided to have a look at the candidates’ stance on climate change. Is there any hope in sight? Well, it can’t get any worse that Bush’s (non)policies, so, yes, I guess there is some hope as long as we don’t get the Republican John McCain, as he supports […]

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Tags: global warming · Climate change · US presidential elections