"Green Crime: Stealing Solar Panels"
"Solar panels are expensive and increasingly in demand. And now, many communities are learning of their solar array's value the hard way – they're being stolen."
Source: Environment Report, 10/05/2009
People & Population
Court Finds EPA Fails To Investigate Civil Rights Complaints
"U.S. EPA's Office of Civil Rights has shown a systemic refusal to address allegations of discrimination in the use of agency funds, according to a unanimous three-judge panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals."
Source: Greenwire, 09/21/2009
EPA Expands Energy Conservation Push with Churches
The estimated 370,000 houses of worship in the US could reduce energy consumption as much as 30%, so EPA is offering incentives, resources, and tools as encouragement.
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Parks In Parking Spaces
On September 18th, thousands of people around the world will spend the day sitting in parking spaces - without their cars - as part of an annual event called "Parking Day." The idea is to spark a conversation about how we're using our public spaces. The Environment Report's Nora Flaherty attended last year's Parking Day, and here's what she found.
Source: Environment Report, 09/17/2009
"Are Condoms the Ultimate Green Technology?"
"More children equal more carbon dioxide emissions. And recent research has resulted in renewed coverage of the notion that one of the cheapest ways to curb emissions in coming decades would be to provide access to birth control for tens of millions of women around the world who say they desire it."
Source: Dot Earth, 09/17/2009
Could Smart Meters Allow Privacy Invasion?
The Philadelphia Inquirer explores the implications of an electric meter that knows when you are sleeping, when you are awake, and a lot more besides.
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"Clash in Alabama Over Tennessee Coal Ash"
Perry County, Alabama, which is very poor and almost 70 percent black, is landfilling the coal ash from a spill in Tennessee in December 2008. County leaders are glad of the revenue and jobs it will bring, but some think the community "has been too easily persuaded to take on a wealthier, whiter community’s problem."
Source: NYTimes, 08/31/2009
"For Early Man, It Wasn't Easier Being Green"
"Archaeologists who study early hunter-gatherer societies are discovering that even the simplest cultures altered their environments, whether they meant to or not."
Source: NPR, 08/27/2009
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