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Sorting Out the Junk

by The Green A-Team

Junk mail is annoying and harmful.

No, I’m not talking about the spam in your inbox, but the actual physical paper junk that jams our mailboxes each and every day.

Some 100 billion pieces of junk mail are received by Americans each year and the paper used to create this gob-smacking pile typically comes from endangered forests.

Everything related to junk mail is harmful to the environment: the paper production causes deforestation; it’s costly to print and distribute; even its recycling results in megatons of greenhouse gas emissions.

Before you convert your mailbox to a bird house, consider the ForestEthics Do Not Mail campaign at DoNotMail.org and sign the petition to stop junk mail for good.  Also, call the marketing companies who are sending it and have them remove you from their list permanently.

Stop junk mail and click here to learn more options for sorting out the junk.

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A Laser Focus on Greenhouse Gas:
Debate Destroying Data Emerges

by The Green A-Team

The door has slammed shut and the debate is over.  Climate change by human hands is real.

According to the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, industrial activity has irrefutably elevated global greenhouse gasses, reduced snowfall, increased temperature, and raised ocean levels higher than ever.

While stubborn skeptics, like big oil, are still claiming inefficiencies in the study, many have converted.

Troy Ribaudo, of the University of Massachusetts, has been researching the effects of the newest laser detection devices further supporting these climate conclusions.

At the forefront of science there is little question that these findings are indeed the final nail in the coffin regarding mankind’s impact on the environment.

For the full interview with Physicist, Troy Ribaudo, click here.

For daily updates on the climate crisis, check out the following links:

Climate Progress - An Insider’s View of Climate Science, Politics, and Solutions

Real Climate - Clmate Science from Climate Scientists

Desmog Blog - We’re here to clear the PR pollution that clouds the climate debate.

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Forest funding ‘could put billions in wrong hands’

by The Green A-Team

Full Guardian article here.

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Deforestation in a country is normally seen as an outsourced problem. As in it usually extends from outside investors who choose to log forests for profit. But now it seems that finding a solution for deforestation may be deterred from within.

In fact it is outside investors like Great Britain that are funding the efforts to stop deforestation. But in nations where there has been a history of political turmoil and still is in the same volatile state, it may not be the best idea to give money to political elite who may only squander it all; on things that will only contribute to carbon emissions nonetheless. People will have to realize that saving the natural world is not as easy as dropping some change in a salvation bucket.

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A climate threat from flat TVs, microchips

by The Green A-Team

Full Los Angeles Times article here.

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A new enemy is on the loose and it lives inside your television. It is not the Poltergeist kind but it is just as alarming. Microchips inside flat screen televisions contain a chemical called nitrogen trifluoride which can cause 17,000 times the damage carbon dioxide creates.

With flat screens continuing to rise in popularity, it is a wonder that officials are not doing more to control the substance. Many consider the procedure would be excessive because only about 2-3% of nitrogen trifluroide gets released during the manufacture of the microchips. This comes as no surprise for a people who have been firm believers of the mantra “Worry when it is too late”. Maybe Mom was right about sitting too close to the TV.

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Business Chiefs Urge Carbon Curbs

by The Green A-Team

Full BBC article here.

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Like a group of do-gooder Super Friends, 99 major international companies have formed a coalition. But they are not fighting evil, per se. They are asking the G8 nations to create a legitimate target for which the greenhouse gas emissions can be cut down to. They are also asking for a change in government policy so companies can be provided with the aid they need for climate adapting products and services as well as a global carbon system.

This plan of action can bring about two possibilities. For one thing, with every nation able to carbon cap and trade on the same level (including post-Kyoto nations) it will be easier to realize emissions goals and healthy business competition will certainly open up. However, each company will have different policies and competition for government aid may also arise. They may be friends now, but 99’s a crowd.

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