Weekly Web Roundup
- Kim Ranney
- Sr. Online Marketing and Production Associate, New York City
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- Posted April 24, 2009 in The Media and the Environment
- President Obama issues an Earth Day proclamation sounding a call for protecting the environment, developing renewable energy and creating measures to fight global warming (read the full proclamation here).
- Switchboard readers share what Earth Day means to them.
- Robert Redford compiles a special slide show of the beautiful, fragile American West.
- Michael Pollan announces NRDC's Growing Green award nominees.
- The EPA publishes preliminary analysis of the Waxman-Markey draft (Climate Progress, Green Inc., Switchboard).
- The town of Sandpoint, Idaho, is re-localizing itself and preparing for life without oil.
- Electric vehicle makers agree on universal standard plug for charging.
- Virgin becomes first airline to voluntarily report greenhouse gas emissions.
- Starting this summer, San Diego will finance residents' solar panels through fixed interest rate loans.
- NOAA reports that concentrations of CO2 and methane rose in 2008.
- The Daily Green honors Frances Beinecke with the Heart of Green Lifetime Achievement Award.
- The tiny, electric Peapod car went on sale this week.
- A new study examines the environmental impact of spam email.
- Whole Foods is turning retail banners into handbags.
- Senators Kerry and Inhofe introduce legislation requiring the EPA to assess options for cleaning up black carbon, a pollutant that's harmful to humans and warms the climate.
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