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Weekly Web Roundup: carpools, clunkers, carbon traders

August 21, 2009

Posted by Kim Ranney in The Media and the Environment

Tags:
carbonemissions, cashforclunkers, globalwarming, mercury, plasticbag, tarsands, walkableurbanism

Cash for Clunkers ends on Monday. ZoomPool, a new social network, connects carbon-conscious people who want to carpool. Baoding, China, becomes world's first carbon positive city. An international climate conference for teenagers results in 14 specific projects to help...continued

Weekly Web Roundup

February 27, 2009

Posted by Kim Ranney in The Media and the Environment

Tags:
capandtrade, energyefficiency, kindle, localfood, mercury, MTR, obamaspeech, robertredford, solar, stimuluspackage

Green Inc., Grist and Climate Progress respond to President Obama's speech. Read Switchboard bloggers' reactions to it here. U.S. Circuit Court overturns a ban on mountaintop removal. The United States reverses policy by signing an international pact to reduce mercury emissions....continued

Weekly Web Roundup

December 19, 2008

Posted by Kim Ranney in The Media and the Environment

Tags:
endangeredspecies, energy, gastax, globalwarming, jellyfish, mercury, obama, peakoil, renewableenergy, solar, volt

The National Science Foundation releases a report  on the environmental causes and ramifications of jellyfish swarms.  New research ranks top alternative energy sources. Tom Philpott wonders whether the Obama administration will be the first to seriously regulate genetically-modified food....continued

Kim Ranney
Kim Ranney
Sr. Online Marketing and Production Associate
New York City
I'm a book lover, occasional fiction writer, avid snapshot taker and frequent traveler. I grew...
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