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• Capturing the massive social benefits of fuel efficiency requires regulation 0

  Posted 10 hours, 28 minutes ago By Michael A. Livermore

  This Friday is the deadline for public comments on the stricter vehicle efficiency standards from EPA and the Department of Transportation. The docket is likely to be overrun with statements for and against the regulation that would make cars and light trucks 30 percent more efficient in 5 years. Read More

• It's a roux story

  How to turn your turkey carcass into a spectacular gumbo 0

  Posted 11 hours, 59 minutes ago By April McGreger

  Foodie sites are now brimming with recipes for the Thanksgiving feast. As usual, April McGreger's thinking ahead. She delivers the goods on what to do with the turkey leftovers. Goodbye, mundane sandwiches; hello, delicious gumbo. Read More

• Don't Miss Climate Change Ground Zero Showdown

  Copenhagen, U.S.A. December 7 0

  Posted 15 hours, 46 minutes ago By Jeff Biggers

  On Dec. 7, the opening day of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Americans from around the country will converge for a historic protest at climate change ground zero for our nation -- the Appalachian coalfields. Read More

• hedging on a pledge

  Obama administration may (finally) offer greenhouse-gas targets 3

  Posted 15 hours, 21 minutes ago By Jonathan Hiskes

  Provisional targets could let the Obama administration work around the Senate roadblock and bring pledges to Copenhagen, a top negotiator says. Read More

• A hot topic for the classroom

  Environmental education in Guinea Bissau 0

  Posted 16 hours, 49 minutes ago By Tim Bromfield

  In Guinea Bissau, which ranks 10th from the bottom on the U.N.'s Human Development Index and where life expectancy is 47, there are perhaps more pressing concerns than educating people about climate change. However, the International Union for Conservation of Nature is doing just that. Read More

• Calling All Wildcats

  This Friday, don’t just Buy Nothing—use nothing! 1

  Posted 17 hours, 51 minutes ago By Umbra Fisk

  The organizers of Buy Nothing Day, an annual attempt to counter the rampant consumerism of Black Friday, are notching things up this year, calling for a 24-hour "wildcat strike" against consumption. Find out how to join in. Read More

• From wreaths to positions

  City preps and countries posture ahead of Copenhagen talks 4

  Posted 2 days, 19 hours ago By David Turnbull

  As Copenhagen prepares for December, a strange combination of Christmas lights, clean energy expos, evergreen wreaths, and security barriers have begun to crop up around the city. It's an exciting time to be in Copenhagen reflecting on a year of intense pressure, activity, and engagement around the world. The last time I wrote, I was convincing myself, and others, that all was not lost for December. Now, on this bright and sunny day, I'm as convinced as ever that world leaders can achieve an ambitious… Read More

• Jobs we can believe in

  Merkley wants Senate jobs bill to help finance building efficiency retrofits 5

  Posted 3 days, 3 hours ago By David Roberts

  Last week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid met with the chairs of six committees that might have some hand in developing the clean energy bill. The question at hand was whether the bill should be pushed back in favor of a short-term focus on finance reform, jobs, and the deficit. Though John Kerry argued vigorously that the clean energy is a jobs bill that won't grow the deficit, it looks like he lost out and there will be some kind of standalone jobs bill in the interim. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.)… Read More

• ClimateGate alert!

  FOX News and TrollCat agree: Global warming is BUNK! 13

  Posted 3 days, 13 hours ago By Brad Johnson

  Right-wing bloggers reacting to trumped up denier story have become indistinguishable from TrollCat. Read More

• Infrastructurally unsound

  Grist Exclusive: Will Whole Foods’ new mobile slaughterhouses squeeze small farmers? 6

  Posted 3 days, 10 hours ago By Tom Laskawy

  For years, small-scale poultry farmers have had trouble processing their birds for market. Grist has learned that Whole Foods is looking to solve just that problem. But will the retail giant's effort squeeze the very farmers it's designed to help? Read More

• Meat Wagon

  Uh-oh: Tamiflu-resistant swine flu rears up in the U.S., U.K. 1

  Posted 3 days, 10 hours ago By Tom Philpott

  Ever since evolution of the swine flu virus accelerated in 1998, virologists and veterinary-science have warned that factory hog farms create the ideal conditions for generating novel viruses. Read More

• Won't you run come see St. Judy's Comet

  Friday music blogging: Harper Simon 0

  Posted 3 days, 10 hours ago By David Roberts

  I have a huge, huge soft spot for Paul Simon. Simon & Garfunkel was one of the first bands I ever got into (like when I was eight) and I still love virtually everything Simon's ever done. My musical tastes were shaped by his knack for catchy melodies and pretty harmonies. I'm one of the 12 people that bought the soundtrack to his Broadway play. So I was both excited and trepidatious about the musical debut of his son (with his first wife) Harper Simon. Read More

• John McCain’s troubles are the world’s troubles 7

  Posted 3 days, 10 hours ago By Jonathan Hiskes

• Skeptics claim global warming is fake after top scientists’ emails hacked at CRU 32

  Posted 3 days, 11 hours ago By Ashley Braun

• New photography project provides stark proof of melting glaciers on the roof of the world 1

  Posted 3 days, 14 hours ago By Joseph Romm

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• Ecological farms: the only real way to feed an increasingly hungry world 6

  Posted 3 days, 18 hours ago By Debbie Barker

• Home Economics of the JP Green House, Part 1 0

  Posted 3 days, 19 hours ago By Ken Ward

• No to Obama’s agrichemical industry man, yes to Bed-Stuy Farm 1

  Posted 4 days, 6 hours ago By Tom Philpott

• Climate talks timeline: From 350 to Kyoto to Copenhagen and beyond 0

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• Copenhagen 101: The essentials on the climate talks 2

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