Expect a hundred comments about how climate change is a hoax, reminding us of how much snow fell this month, the non-shrinking glaciers or hacked emails. They will probably be from people who will not even bother reading Al Gore’s long op-ed in the Sunday New York Times. If they did, they would find that he addresses all of these issues. To summarize it, he writes:

If only it were true, it would be a great relief;
The errors in the reports and the emails are embarrassing, but do not change the overall picture;
Global warming puts more moistu…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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photo via ENBOTS Climate change denier Marc Morano used to work for climate change denier Sen. James Inhofe but now he runs his own website dedicated to putting out misleading or false information on global warming. This past week, Morano traveled to the Conservative Political Action Conference, known as CPAC, to deliver his usual conspiracy theories and denials of reality. Media Matters captured on video some of his greatest hits. …Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Which celebrity can’t believe that only 1% of the world’s cotton is fair trade organic? When dining out: Is it more eco-friendly to clean your plate, or save some for later? Wanna see the most detailed image of earth on earth? Today’s Eco-Beat has the scoop on all the latest green news and tips.

Emma Watson Doesn’t Know How to Relax During her down time on the set of “Harry Potter 7,” Emma was busting out the art supplies to work on her fair trade organic clothing line with PeopleTree. Says Emma: “In between takes, I sketched and painted. Inspiration came from all sorts of places.”

Glenn Beck Believes in Global Warming!? Yes, that Glenn Beck. According to an interview with USAWeekend, he even believes it’s man made: “You’d be an idiot not to notice the temperature change… I’m willing to do anything but use the CFLs. […]

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image: Yale University Another study on Americans’ attitudes towards global warming from the Yale Project on Climate Change has been released. Classifying people’s attitudes into six categories of concern and awareness, the study found that while nearly half believe strong action needs to be taken, the amount who think it’s all a hoax has doubled. Interestingly though, nearly everyone supports regulating carbon dioxide as a po…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Renowned architecture firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill (AS+GG) recently completed the investigation phase of a massive plan to “decarbonize” Chicago’s Loop. The firm’s goal was to assess variables such as the age, use, condition, and energy consumption of the 500 buildings in this central core area of the city. Carried out in cooperation with the Chicago Climate Action Plan, the monumental project calls for a retrofit of half the city’s commercial and residential buildings to result in a 30% reduction in energy use by 2020. AS+GG took on this tall order with very well thought-out, research based, holistic ideas that beg to be implemented.

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