World / Environment
Pushing a Power Portfolio
Week in Review / by / October 30, 2009
As alternative energy funding plans are rolled out, a long-running debate over nuclear rages on Earth and in space.
Now In Environment
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Much Ado About Carbon Offsets
Five experts debate if carbon offsetting is the quick, efficient way to decarbonize the global economy, or the loophole that will derail such efforts.
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Finding Fish
Six experts discuss the global fisheries crisis; the economic, political, and social pressures that contributed to it; and what it will take to make fish stocks bounce back.
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The Great Climate Change Pay-Off
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called on wealthy nations to cough up $100 billion for climate aid. But with no firm commitments, could money be the deal breaker in Copenhagen?
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The Lesser Evil: Nuclear or Coal?
Should we depend on coal or nuclear? Five experts discuss how clean coal works, how dangerous nuclear waste really is, and whether the root of the problem is money.
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Scientific Flip-Flop
Five experts debate the roots of GM opposition, the role of big agribusiness, and whether we’ve achieved real scientific consensus.
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Economic Advice for the Planet
Protecting the environment, some say, is a drag on economic growth. Kristen Sheeran directs a new network of economists who aim to prove them wrong.
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In Seeds We Trust
Because science won’t save us if biodiversity fails, a global effort is underway to collect and cache the genetic resources contained in seeds.
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Forests for the Trees
Five experts discuss paying countries to keep forests intact, what role carbon markets should play, and how to protect the people whose lives depend on trees.
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Al Gore’s New Marching Orders
The Climate Project began as a public education campaign. A foot soldier reports back from a recent summit, where Gore's environmental activists were issued a new directive.
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Is There a Better Word for Doom?
Six experts discuss the merits of framing climate change, the language that troubles them, and the inherent bias of any chosen word.
Catalyst
The Environmental Revival
Which modern enviro concepts are throwbacks to the past? Four experts discuss the technologies, laws, and states of mind that have their roots in the first wave of the environmental movement.
Bibliologue
A Manifesto for the Planet
Author and environmental icon Stewart Brand on four green heresies, developing-world ingenuity, and the new face of environmentalism.
Catalyst
Here Comes the Sun (and Wind)
Four experts discuss the balance between pristine land and renewable energy, the pros and cons of photovoltaics versus solar thermal, and how much rooftop solar can help.
Now on SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
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World
Sad Sacks
As a UK adviser is fired over politically unpalatable advice and an English teacher is suspended over an article about animal sexuality, the fate of facts is on the line.
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Ideas
Sweet Obesity
As obesity rates soar, Americans are consuming more low-calorie artificial sweeteners. But do artificial sweeteners actually help people lose weight?
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Books
Books to Read Now
November releases feature the mysteries of Grigori Perelman, the evolutionary origins of reading, and strategies for containing strains of flu.





























