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Fashion for the Forests

Gucci Group commits to saving Indonesia’s rainforests 1
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago There’s a new fashion trend this fall: saving rainforests and preserving a livable climate.
Hey, Look, a Forest!

Report: Forest conservation can be as reliable as other ways of reducing pollution 2
Posted 1 month ago Experts increasingly agree that pollution reductions from forest conservation are as easy or easier to track than those from other sources, such as energy.
Brazil’s Lula vows to slow rate of Amazon deforestation 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Tuesday he will offer to reduce the pace of deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rain forest by 80 percent by 2020 when he attends December's global climate talks in Copenhagen.
Sting sends a Rainforests SOS 0
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Seeing REDD

If REDD can’t save this…. 2
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago The new forest part of the climate change treaty (called REDD) under negotiation this week here in Bangkok may end up calling it carbon savings and subsidizing its destruction.
Wait, there were highlights?

Umbra’s top ten Climate Week moments 1
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago Harrison Ford’s new earring, origami rainforests, flash mobs, crackdowns, Survivaball-wear, and so much more! Umbra Fisk does NYC’s Climate Week. Don’t miss her 10 Best Moments from the Big Apple’s climatic extravaganza.
Umbra’s top ten Climate Week moments 0
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Not your daddy’s offsets 6
Posted 2 months ago
A new report, "Forging the Climate Consensus: Domestic and International Offsets" makes clear exactly how important a role high-quality offsets play in maintaining the integrity of climate legislation -- and how they could allow an international climate agreement to achieve far stronger emissions reductions targets than would otherwise be possible.
The Grist List: From Heath to Health

Heath Ledger harpoons whaling, and more 3
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
He's no joker: Before his death, Heath Ledger created a grim music video about whaling for Modest Mouse.
Is hindsight 20/20?

Learning from past civilizations 2
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
To understand our current environmental dilemma, it helps to look at earlier civilizations that also got into environmental trouble. Our early 21st century civilization is not the first to face the prospect of environmentally induced economic decline. The question is how we will respond.
The Negotiators

The Non-Concession concession? 1
Posted 4 months, 4 weeks ago
Henry Waxman and Ed Markey seem to have mastered the art of the non-concession concession: striking deals with potential opponents in ways that meet their needs while minimizing (though not entirely eliminating) the negative impacts.
How Waxman-Markey tackles climate change by saving forests 1
Posted 4 months, 4 weeks ago
One of the little-known ingredients of the deal that allowed the American Clean Energy and Security Act, H.R. 2454 to pass the Energy and Commerce committee was a breakthrough on protections for the world's vanishing tropical forests.
Would you like frogs with that?

Frogs in the forest: the new canaries in the coal mine 4
Posted 5 months ago
Today Grist devoured frogs for lunch -- well, not exactly. We sat down with conservation biologist Dr. Kerry Kriger of the newly minted nonprofit Save the Frogs! on his stop in Seattle during a country-wide speaking tour. As one of the lone voices raising the alarm for amphibians, Kriger dished about the worst disease ever to hit wildlife, why it's such a big deal that one-third of amphibians are threatened with extinction, and just how many people actually are having frogs for lunch.
The political economy of climate policy

Understanding offsets 6
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Carbon offsets have come under fire from critics who believe the Waxman-Markey climate bill is too weak.
Cocaine production threatens Peruvian rainforest 2
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
Prince Wales on Deforestation

Princes, frogs partner to save rainforests 0
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Prince Charles, along with his princely sons, celebs, and frogs, has launched an international online campaign to save the rainforests. Savvy with social networks like MySpace, the Prince's Rainforests Project connects tropical deforestation with the battle against climate change. Watch His Royal Message.
Prince of Wales annexes MySpace to save the rainforests 0
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
The Green Divorcee

Environmental Organizing as Solution to Family Discord 0
Posted 7 months ago
Prince Charles introduces his rainforests project 0
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Letter from Europe

A teaching moment at the G20 summit 0
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
While G20 leaders at the London summit failed to take climate change seriously, Prince Charles told it like it is at an event calling for protection of rainforests.