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Sunday’s local newspaper reported that gasoline sales in Vermont were 13 percent below prediction in February of this year and almost 15 percent low for May.  I have no theories on the May swoon, aside from the toll continued high...

In the produce section at the grocery store the other day, I was pleased to see cherries are in season. I wasn’t pleased to see they cost nine dollars a pound. These were not organic cherries but conventional, pesticide-sprayed fruit....

A bipartisan group of western US governors – the Western Governor’s Association - has finally acknowledged that greenhouse gases are on the rise. They are now arguing that action is needed to reduce global warming. But here is the catch...

Great article from Business Week Magazine about how Exxon attacked Greenpeace through an organisation called Public Interest Watch. Although this was recently reported in the Wall Street Journal, what was not reported was the role of the shadowy PR firm...

We are facing at least a metre rise in sea-level by the end of this century, scientists have warned. Half of the Greenland ice cap and vast areas of Antarctica are destined to melt if climate change continues unabated. According...

So we now know that three-quarters of the American public is concerned about climate change (see blog below) and believes that Bush should be doing more. They are not the only ones. Earlier this month the Insurance Commissioners of the...

On the day that Tony Blair hosts a crisis Downing Street summit to address what he calls "the major long-term threat facing our planet", there is more bad news for the climate. The Guardian reports how "the Earth's temperature could...