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Ed Norton The trend - setting solar activist, whose work with BP has spawned an imitator or two, has popped up in a variety of green spots, like Global Green's Oscar soiree, San Francisco's Green Apple Festival, and even Vanity Fair's 2006 «Green Issue.»

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The most recent Global Green Economy Index (GGEI), produced by the US consulting firm Dual Citizen, looked at 60 countries and 70 cities and ranked them based on their overall green economic performance, which includes energy efficiency, climate leadership, and investment in clean technologies like recycling, renewable energy, and green chemiGreen Economy Index (GGEI), produced by the US consulting firm Dual Citizen, looked at 60 countries and 70 cities and ranked them based on their overall green economic performance, which includes energy efficiency, climate leadership, and investment in clean technologies like recycling, renewable energy, and green chemigreen economic performance, which includes energy efficiency, climate leadership, and investment in clean technologies like recycling, renewable energy, and green chemigreen chemistry.

Outside groups like Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation — which offers sustainable housing to residents of the Lower Ninth Ward — Global Green USA and AmeriCorps all helped bring about a sea change in consciousness about sustainable housing and renewable energy, Cantin says.

For example, if you are primarily interested in green energy investments, and would like to invest in an ETF or mutual fund, consider the objectives of the fund, in addition to assessing it relative to an alternative energy benchmark index such as the S&P Global Clean Energy Index (SPGTCLEN), NASDAQ Clean Edge Green Energy Index (CELS), or World Alternative Energy Index (WAEXgreen energy investments, and would like to invest in an ETF or mutual fund, consider the objectives of the fund, in addition to assessing it relative to an alternative energy benchmark index such as the S&P Global Clean Energy Index (SPGTCLEN), NASDAQ Clean Edge Green Energy Index (CELS), or World Alternative Energy Index (WAEXGreen Energy Index (CELS), or World Alternative Energy Index (WAEXPDC).

Christian Aid wants to see leaders commit to making a big shift in the flow of global finance - away from dirty energy sources like coal, and towards green investment.»

As a testament to that quality, more than 50 leading global coffee, tea and cocoa brands have partnered with Keurig, joining beloved owned brands like Green Mountain Coffee Roasters ® and The Original Donut Shop ® coffee to offer consumers vast personal choice from 500 + varieties.

In a green paper released today, the Tory leader stated that reducing global poverty is essential to tackling major world threats like climate change and terrorism.

We like to think of green, carbon - absorbing vegetation as our ally in the fight against global warming.

The global co-op trend mixes rich colors like olive green and chocolate brown with crochet and embroidery to get that well - travelled look.

Given that Toyota's global boss, Akio Toyoda, is a genuine rev head, green - lighting projects like the new Toyota Supra, it wouldn't be surprising if he sanctioned a high - performance version of the brand's best - selling car.

A Hollywood institution since 1957, we're also committed to improving the communities we serve through things like our partnership with Global Green and the sustainable vegetable garden we built with Helen Bernstein Elementary.

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I recently discovered Green Global Travel, a very popular and fairly new American travel blog that focuses on eco-travel and is growing like wild fire.

Thursday was World Environment Day, and the green messages were flowing all around, including one from Alain Robert, a French stuntman and activist who scaled the jungle - gym like exterior of The New York Times headquarters to hang a banner about the human cost of global warming.

Also, we (my organization, Kids vs. Global Warming) are going to be holding training sessions in February - May of this year to train kids from San Francisco to San Diego to be leaders in give a version of my presentation, to green their schools, start activism projects (like SLAP, Sea Level Awareness Project), and lead a GWAT (global warming action team) in their sGlobal Warming) are going to be holding training sessions in February - May of this year to train kids from San Francisco to San Diego to be leaders in give a version of my presentation, to green their schools, start activism projects (like SLAP, Sea Level Awareness Project), and lead a GWAT (global warming action team) in their sglobal warming action team) in their school.

Long - time greens are painfully aware that the arguments of global warming skeptics are like zombies in a»70s B movie.

[24] Odwyer's Magazine describes Exxon's efforts as misleading: «ExxonMobil, absurdly praised in August by Forbes as «green company of the year,» was discovered the same month by the New York Times to have given major funding to industry groups like the now - defunct Global Climate Coalition, an organization that had silenced its own scientific reports and falsified information for more than a decade.»

The question I would like answered, is whether the Greens and the wide array of energy dogmatists who cheer them on, actually understand — let alone support — any of the energy technologies that underpin the capacity of the two global superpowers to enter into the «Climate Pact» in the first place?

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With many renewable sources of power, like wind, now cheaper than fossil fuels, it has become clear that preventing global climate change is green in all definitions of the word.

While BP is far from a green company and is not even greenwashing itself like it was in the «Beyond Petroleum» days, this reminds some climate policy observers of the late 1990s corporate defections from the Global Climate Coalition, when companies were no longer denying the urgency of climate change nor the scientific consensus underpinning that urgency.

The illustrious green movement who killed nuclear power in 1970s and brought about global warming by scrubbing shade - producing particulates from smokestacks and tailpipes are now bent on using a ginned up catastrophic climate change scenario to keep the price of oil elevated in order to keep the profit incentive alive for stupid expensive alternatives like windmills and ethanol from corn.

The number of governments, private corporations, organizations, scientists and technologies concerned with meeting the challenge of climate change and global warming have increased beyond expectations in the past decade and continues to create an army of «green fighters,» like Green Peace, but the impact on large numbers of people have not reached a critical mass to reverse the present warming trgreen fighters,» like Green Peace, but the impact on large numbers of people have not reached a critical mass to reverse the present warming trGreen Peace, but the impact on large numbers of people have not reached a critical mass to reverse the present warming trends.

After all, if John McCain hadn't thrown a tantrum and changed his mind about the merits of tackling global warming, cap - and - trade very well could have passed and those inside - the - Beltway greens would now look like geniuses.

Global Green would like to thank our partners who helped promote the Green School Competition including: Alliance for Climate Education, Center for Ecoliteracy, Environmental Charter Schools, Facing the Future, Global Youth Action Network, Green Education Foundation, Healthy Child Healthy World, Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools, NAACP, Roots and Shoots, Project Learning Tree, Dream in Green, Green schools Initiative, National Beta Club.

When I am proven right, the Climate Change Department will be swept away; Britain's annual deficit will fall by a fifth; the bat - blatting, bird - blending windmills that scar our green and pleasant land will go; the world will refocus on real environmental problems like deforestation on land, overfishing at sea and pollution of the air; the U.N.'s ambition to turn itself into a grim, global dictatorship with overriding powers of taxation and economic and environmental intervention will be thwarted; and the aim of science to supplant true religion as the world's new, dismal, cheerless credo will be deservedly, decisively, definitively defeated.

It seems clear enough from evidence of the geologic past that before the earth started ringing like a bell every 120K years from glacial to interglacial with the former dominating the other 10:1 in persistence, the Eocene optimum 50 million years ago the earth was ice - free, green from pole to pole, it was about 11F warmer overall, with the most dramatic warming in the highest latitudes (right where you'd want it if you could ask for it), and atmspheric CO2 was several times what it is today, which makes sense in light of much warmer global ocean not able to hold as much CO2.

Warmists around the world like Gore, Naomi Klein, Oreskes, Suzuki, Sierra Club, 350, Rockefeller Brothers Fund — the uber - rich Green global Socialists — have been on Tony Abbott's case for the last two years — as has Obama himself, who admonished him publicly here at the G20 conference.

Only a tiny number of people are actually dictating the global environmental agenda but they are capable of punching far above their weight because they have infiltrated the right institutions (Allen's Oxford University; Oreskes's Harvard; the various IPCC working groups, etc), because they are lavishly well funded by the Green Blob (the Climate Accountability Institute, for example, is part financed by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund) and because like all hard - left entryists they are supremely well - organised and fanatically dedicated.

The lead - up to the Green Climate Fund Since 2008, Friends of the Earth and many others have been calling for the establishment of a global climate fund - like the GCF - under the UN Climate Convention.

The alarmists at the IPCC and «Big Green» like to point to the gigantic icebergs produced by Antarctica as proof that global warming is directly melting the polar continent with high temperatures.

National green leaders, who had spent the previous year insisting that progress toward capping U.S. carbon emissions would ensure the successful conclusion of a global emissions - reduction agreement in Copenhagen, pretended like they'd never suggested that the United Nation's climate change conference could ever achieve such an outcome and praised Obama for ditching the United Nations and striking out to reach an agreement — any agreement — among major emitters.

The legislation's prominent defenders, like CAP's Joseph Romm, labeled green critics of the bill «global warming deniers» and told anyone who would listen that Waxman and Markey had pulled a fast one on the coal lobby.

When large corporations like AXA switch to renewables, we are collectively creating significant new demand but also more broadly helping to accelerate the global transition to green energy.

EDITION 12.40 Turns out, Americans are having second thoughts about global warming and, as a result, strongly favor policies that promote green technologies, like Tesla's planned network of Supercharger stations.

AGW skeptics are Holocaust deniers, children will never know what snow is, rivers will run red and «oceans will begin to boil, Earth will be like Venus, global warming is not a Left vs. right issue and, unlike our ancestors, we will be led to survival by high priests in green robes with computer models chanting anti-energy and anti-food slogans....

If you can provide something like the green agenda site for the One World Global Free Trade Corporate agenda.

Or Paul Driessen, the author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death, saying things like: «It's incredibly patronising and colonialistic to tell Africa that you can't develop because we're concerned about global warming» — while arguing that funding the fight against global warming «takes money away from spending on malaria».

The Green Divas are at it again: raising $ 50,000 to launch their global digital radio network, and take over the world (or something like it).

Governments, political parties, AGW alarmists, «green» industries, celebrities, mainstream media news outlets, TV networks like NBC, special interest groups — all of these close - knit groups have both personal and professional vested interests in keeping the myth of «man - made» global warming alive, and suffice it to say that they will work hard to «contain» this scandal.

Greens often note that the changing global climate will have the greatest impact on the world's poor; they neglect to mention that the poor also have the most to gain from development fueled by cheap fossil fuels like coal.

«The 13th annual Sustainable Design Awards were a tremendous success and we'd like to thank our guests for their support and enabling us to continue important work in community relief and environmental protection,» said Global Green USA president Matt Petersen.

Global Green is also urging the public to volunteer to help schools become greener by creating gardens (like they have at the White House), refurbishing classrooms, and participating in other volunteer activities in their local schools.

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Global Warming: Changing Co2urse has several articles in Sessions 2 & 3 that deal with issues like equity, socio - economic disparities, and green - collar jobs.

These green visionaries have kept up a vocal attack, approaching heavy - hitting topics like global

People like Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution; Jim Grant, whose global immunization campaigns saved millions of children; and Wangari Maathai, whose Green Belt Movement has planted millions of trees in Kenya and trained thousands of women to be leaders in conservation.

So we're not congratulating Mr. Obama as much as celebrating the coming of an era where science is highly regarded rather than shunned, global warming is put under scrutiny rather than laughed off, and ideas like renewable energy and green jobs are embraced rather than ignored.

In any case, trying to sheet home blame for the complete inadequacies in the response of mainstream political parties and institutions to serious global issues like climate change on the extremist of Right, Left and Green (which, despite the tendencies in that direction, doesn't strictly follow Left ideologies) looks increasingly like scapegoating.

Developing new green technologies — like cheaper solar panels or methods of extracting energy from ocean tides — is a top priority for combating climate change, because global carbon emissions can not be stabilized with existing technologies.