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The revelation that invading and occupying Iraq was driven entirely by oil comes as no surprise to many.
There’s seldom any satisfaction in proving someone wrong, especially if it’s someone you respect. It’s a sad and tragic vindication for those of us who tried to reason with our blindly idealistic friends and family that the Iraq [...]
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The Iraq War Was About Oil. Any Questions?
July 9th, 2008 by Max Gladwell · No Comments
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Keeping Better Books: One Tree Per Read
May 19th, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 2 Comments
Eco-Libris balances your reading footprint
If you’re a tree, you curse the day the printing press was invented. For people, though, it sparked a revolution (some might say a renaissance) in thought and fueled a mass enlightenment that continues to this day. The downside to reading, one might argue, is that it consumes all of those [...]
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Tonight’s Word: Declaration of Warming
May 15th, 2008 by Max Gladwell · No Comments
Colbert calls out McCain on his greenwashing
“We need to think of global warming as an invasion of our homeland by heat. All we have to do is build a border fence made out of air conditioners.”
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Max Gladwell Top 10: 4/20/2008
April 27th, 2008 by Max Gladwell · No Comments
The top 10 stories of the week (4/20/2008), as viewed through the Max Gladwell lens
1: Food Shortages: How will we feed the world
“Bob Watson, the chief scientist at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, puts the rise in the price of commodity crops such as wheat down to a number of factors: [...]
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Earth Day Montage
April 22nd, 2008 by Max Gladwell · No Comments
Images, videos, logos, jokes, and messages from this 38th Annual Earth Day celebration, featuring NASA, YouTube, Obama, StumbleUpon, and more…
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Flock Browser: Eco Edition
April 22nd, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 3 Comments
Flock debuts special eco-edition browser for the social web
The self-described “social web” browser, Flock, launches a special Eco Edition with 10% of proceeds going to an eco cause selected by users.
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“Green is Universal” Hits the Airwaves
April 18th, 2008 by admin · 2 Comments
Media conglomerate NBC Universal will air a week’s worth of “green-themed content” across its 42 NBCU brands and 28 websites, all under the aegis of “Green is Universal”. It’s quite the double entendre. Festivities start this Sunday, April 20th.
This will mark the network’s second “green week”, and if memory serves the first one often came [...]
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Earth Day Takes Over MySpace
April 15th, 2008 by admin · No Comments
The IMPACT channel – and the MySpace home page – is going to look a little different on Earth Day: it’s going dark to save energy and symbolize that the actions we take in our everyday lives can help preserve the planet.
As part of the Earth Day celebration, the IMPACT channel will be streaming the [...]
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Max Gladwell Tops on Digg.com/environment
April 15th, 2008 by admin · No Comments
We dug (digged?) a story about Amazon tribes using Google to battle illegal loggers and ultimately deforestation in the most sensitive part of the planet, which is affecting all of us. See the Digg page and Digg it for yourself. At the time of posting, we had 408…wait, 409 Diggs. Let’s get some more. And [...]
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Picking Green Produce is a Numbers Game
April 13th, 2008 by admin · 1 Comment
Have you ever looked at two bins of apples, one labeled “organic,” and the other “conventional,” and wondered if the apples might not be the same? I have. And since discovering a little secret of the produce industry, I’ve found that you really have to be a detective in the aisles these days.
The secret is [...]
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