Friends of the Earth’s blog is a staff-run blog that provides policy analysis, insight and commentary about the environment and other progressive issues, advances our campaigns, and builds momentum for a healthy and just world.
Sep. 10, 2012 / Posted by: Michal Rosenoer / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Michal rosenoer
Since my last post on the stupidity of using food for fuel, almost 300 members of Congress, state governors, organizations and private citizens have written to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson about our federal biofuels m...
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Sep. 7, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Bill waren
For 10 days, the Trans-Pacific Partnership -- a colossal, job-destroying free trade agreement -- will be negotiated in secret in Leesburg, Virginia. This massive trade agreement would threaten essential environmental protections as a favor to expl...
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Aug. 30, 2012 / Posted by: Marcie Keever / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Marcie keever
This week the extent of Arctic sea ice is at an unprecedented historic low, the smallest amount of ice cover since satellite measurement began in 1979. According to scientists, dramatic summer sea ice losses in five of the past six years, continuo...
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Aug. 23, 2012 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology / Tags: Eric hoffman, Genetic engineering
Here is the biggest problem I face every day: I want to eat an apple as a healthy snack to get me through the afternoon, but eating a whole apple is really too much for me given my busy schedule. I mean, who has time to eat a whole apple in today&...
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Aug. 21, 2012 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth, Publications / Tags: Climate finance, Karen orenstein
On the eve of the first board meeting of the UN’s Green Climate Fund, Friends of the Earth U.S. -- along with GAIA and the Institute for Policy Studies -- has released a report that begins to tackle the conundrum faced by just about every de...
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Aug. 16, 2012 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Adam russell, Keystone xl
Today, Tar Sands Blockade kicked off a sustained, direct action campaign to stop the construction of the southern section of the Keystone XL pipeline through Oklahoma and Texas. The grassroots organization, comprised of concerned landowners, farme...
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Aug. 10, 2012 / Posted by: Marcie Keever / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Cruise ships, Marcie keever
A cruise ship room tag from a Holland America vessel was found washed up with a concentrated amount of sewage and various plastic on Pond Beach in Nahant, Massachusetts last Saturday. The washed up waste was described as a “mass of rubber gl...
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Aug. 7, 2012 / Posted by: Michal Rosenoer / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Biofuels, Ethanol, Michal rosenoer
Today a bipartisan group of 26 senators urged EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to use her authority to reduce the corn ethanol mandate in the Renewable Fuel Standard. With record droughts spreading across the country, corn harvests are shrinking an...
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Aug. 6, 2012 / Posted by: Michelle Chan / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Carbon trading, Michelle chan
My husband is a self-described Olympics junkie, and our television has been on nonstop since the opening ceremonies. As a result, I have been barraged by the full spectrum of TV commercials -- all of them attempts to bathe corporate logos in the w...
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Aug. 6, 2012 / Posted by: Michal Rosenoer / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Biofuels, Ethanol, Michal rosenoer
If you haven't noticed from the frostbite-inducing air conditioning in your office yet, it's been hot this summer. Really really hot--and dry. In fact, more than half of the counties in the country have now been labeled "disaster areas" by the Dep...
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