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Starbucks’ designing a greener store format

June 7, 2008

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. He was [...]

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Vegetarianism and climate change

June 4, 2008

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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US presidential candidates and climate change

May 5, 2008

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 [...]

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Presidential candidates on climate change

April 28, 2008

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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The Pope and the environment

April 18, 2008

Pope Benedict’s visit to America, home to 66 million Catholics, has been generating a great deal of press. It’s great to see the focus he’s been putting on environmental and animal welfare issues, regardless of the restrictions I personally have with the Catholic church in other areas. But that’s the nature of politics: differing views [...]

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