Four more carmakers join diesel emissions row
• http://www.theguardian.comMercedes-Benz, Honda, Mazda and Mitsubishi's cars are shown to emit significantly more NOx pollution on the road than in regulatory tests
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Solar and Wind Just Passed Another Big Turning Point
• BloombergWind power is now the cheapest electricity to produce in both Germany and the U.K., even without government subsidies, according to a new analysis by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). It's the first time that threshold has been crossed by a G7 eco
JetBlue To Test Farm-To-Tray-Table Concept At JFK Airport
• True ActivistJetBlue airline is opening its own farm at JFK airport to teach people about growing food and to improve the appearance of the terminal's exterior.
All Climate Change Is Local
• http://www.bloombergview.comWhen world leaders gather in Paris in December to negotiate a global agreement on climate change, they will have a powerful ally standing behind them and urging them onward: mayors.
The brand new $1billion ghost city in New Mexico with enough room for 35,000 people...
• dailymail.co.uk...where NOBODY will ever live
Costilla County suffering growing pains, as newcomers move to desert
• denverpost.comIn Costilla County, where miles of unoccupied desert are drawing residents who arrive with little but plans to make a new life, natives accuse newcomers of violating water rights, trashing the desert and ignoring land use regulations.
WaterStillar readies roll-out of scaleable solar water distiller
• gizmag.comIn a bid to help bring greater access to clean drinking water to the developing world, WaterStillar has created a solar-distillation system designed to produce clean drinking water from almost any source.
"Everyone Is Doing It": How Carmakers Manipulate Emissions Test Results
• http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler DurdenWith Germany's largest company by revenue, Volkswagen, deep in damage recovery mode, and the market still unable to decide just how systemic and profound the fallout will be from the emissions scandal...
Floating Garden Purifies The Water Of The US' Most Polluted Waterway
• True ActivistAn oasis of greenery is floating on the Gowanus Canal in New York City, purifying the water and brightening the murky waterway.
Shell Didn't Quit Alaska Out of the Goodness of Its Heart
• http://www.wired.comIn the history of Arctic expeditions, tenacity in the face of certain failure is a common theme. Almost as common is actual failure. What you don't see a lot are epic explorers--your Hensons, your Parrys, your Amundsens--packing up and going hom
This futuristic floating city will produce zero waste and house 7,000 residents
• http://www.businessinsider.comFrench architect Jacques Rougerie has designed a 3,000-foot-long, manta-ray-shaped vessel capable of hosting 7,000 people. The city of Mériens will be a floating university city for researchers and students.
There's a monstrous issue at the heart of the VW scandal that no one's talking about
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Erin BrodwinVolkswagen has had a rough time since being accused Friday of installing software in its cars that hid the amount of pollutants they were emitting.
China Will Launch Cap-And-Trade Program To Limit Carbon Emissions
• popsci.comThe program will make China the world's biggest carbon market
Branson outlines world powered by wind, solar power
• yahoo.comEntrepreneur Richard Branson outlined a vision of the world powered by renewable energy and said it would be "pretty dreadful" if a forthcoming UN climate summit is not a success.
Pope Francis wants climate action. What's the cost? (VIDEO)
• CNN MoneyPope Francis wasted no time calling on the United States to address climate change.
Tiny Motorized Robots Can Clean Carbon Dioxide Out Of Seawater
• popsci.comLove that flat water
Aspen, Colorado Becomes 3rd US City To Run On 100% Renewable Energy
• True ActivistAspen, Colorado will be running on 100% sustainable energy after 2015, an 84% increase from 2014.
Climate Skeptic Rupert Murdoch Just Bought National Geographic
• True ActivistThe National Geographic magazine has been a nonprofit publication since inception in 1888, but that ends today.
California to nationalize private farm land to build water tunnels to support Leftist desert cities
• Natural NewsState officials in California are preparing to "acquire" ?" the legal name for "steal," when a government does it ?" hundreds of farms in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta for a controversial, multi-billion-dollar underground water tunnel pr
This Zero-Waste Grocery Store Has No Packaging, Plastic Or Big-Name Brands
• True ActivistTo eliminate food-packaging waste before it even gets into the shopping cart is the success behind Original Unvertpackt, a new supermarket in Germany that takes things into zero-waste territory by encouraging consumers to tote reusable containers to
Obama Drills
• http://www.truthdig.comThe latest animation in Mark Fiore's award-winning series explores President Obama's visit to Alaska and his contradictory policies. Watch the clip and read the animator's thoughts on the topic, below.
Gasland: HBO documentary key driver of opposition to fracking, study finds
• http://www.theguardian.com, ReutersResearch indicates power of Oscar-nominated film that fueled rise in online searches, social media discussion, news coverage and activism, paper says
More Fukushima Deaths:
• truthstreammedia.com'Leukemia-linked Disorder' Killing Baby Seals Along California Coast
Record Fukushima radiation levels found on southern California coast
• http://www.naturalnews.comRecord radiation levels from the Fukushima power plant have been recorded off the coast of southern California. Radioactive cesium was measured on a beach between San Diego and Los Angelos
Your Radiation This Week No 19
• veteranstoday.comGood Day, this is "Your Radiation This Week." These are the recorded Radiation Highs that affected people this week around the United States and in your neighborhood. Let's get right to it.
Your Radiation This Week No 19
• veteranstoday.comGood Day, this is "Your Radiation This Week." These are the recorded Radiation Highs that affected people this week around the United States and in your neighborhood. Let's get right to it.
Federal judge blocks Obama's water rule
• thehill.comA federal judge in North Dakota acted late on Thursday to block the Obama administration's controversial water pollution rule, hours before it was due to take effect.
Environmental Police Agency
• Environmental Policy Alliance
Mine's owner says he tried to keep out EPA but was threatened with fines
• Popular LibertyThe owner of the Colorado's Gold King Mine says he tried to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from gaining access to his property, but that he relented after the agency threatened to pound him with ruinous fines if he refused.
