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Eco-briefs | Religious organization commits to divesting from fossil fuel companies
Religious organization commits to divesting from fossil fuel companies...
Eco-briefs | Appeal of BLM drilling projects in Wyoming advances in...
An administrative judge at the Interior Board of Land Appeals in Wyoming has ruled against a Bureau of Land Management request to dismiss an appeal filed by the Wyoming Wildlife Federation and the National Wildlife Federation. The two conservation groups have ...
Biking with a healthy boost
When Jim Turner founded Optibike, a local electric bike manufacturer, he initially geared marketing toward the environmental benefits of swapping a car for a bike — even one powered with electricity. Turner looked to his own experiences and his own life, and ...
Rally to protest dolphin hunting Aug. 31
In 2009, the documentary The Cove released onto the world the story of a small town in Japan where dolphins were being herded into a shallow, hidden cove to be hunted and captured. The film won an Academy Award and acclaim at Sundance. But this year, on Sept. 1, the ...
Wind turbines may lure bats into fatal errors
Scientists might just be about to answer one of the great puzzles of biodiversity and renewable energy: why one of nature’s most agile flyers, a creature with the most sophisticated ultrasonic tracking system, should be so fatally attracted to wind turbines...
Eco-briefs | Greenpeace continues to detox retailers
The presence of toxins in various clothing brands has met its opposition, and it is growing by the thousands. Greenpeace’s Detox campaign, launched in 2011, was created in an effort to get the fashion industry to eradicate toxins from its products by 2020...
Eco-briefs | Colorado third among top LEED states
The U.S. Green Building Council has announced the top 10 states for new Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certifications in 2012, and Colorado landed third on the per-capita list...
