Tag: Insights
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Patagonia’s Yvon Chouinard a Leader in Social and Environmental Excellence
spearI had the distinct honor Sept. 12 of meeting the founder of Patagonia, Inc., Yvon Chouinard, who was visiting my hometown of Cleveland to receive the Inamori Ethics Prize from …
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Industry Funded Fracking Study Fatally Flawed
Today, the Center for Energy and Environmental Resources released a study funded by the Environmental Defense Fund and the natural gas industry that stated two things: that the sample size it looked at …
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Southern Leg of Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Flunks Climate Test Too
What the report fails to mention, however, is the central fact that it is the 485-mile southern leg of Keystone XL already being constructed in Texas and Oklahoma—not the pipeline’s proposed northern leg—that will give TransCanada strategic access to …
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Incinerating Trash is a Waste of Resources
Many urban areas have built or are considering building waste-incineration facilities to generate energy. At first glance, it seems like a win-win. But it’s a problematic solution …
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What Do Palm Oil, Orangutans and Girl Scout Cookies Have in Common?
In 2007, two kids in Michigan set out to earn their Girl Scout Bronze Award by raising awareness about the endangered orangutan …