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Ditch your car keys and tie up your laces. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/damiel/41670962/">Geir Halvorsen (flickr)</a>

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Fight Global Warming: Ditch Your Keys and TIe Up Your Shoes

Does your neighborhood influence your driving habits?

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Dr. Jim Jarvie on Climate Change and the Problems it Posses for Food Security

Dr. Jim Jarvie is Director of Mercy Corps' Climate Change, Environment and Natural Resources unit, based in Torino, Italy

By the summer of 2008, the price of rice had increased five times from the average price in 2005. Photo: Thatcher Cook for Mercy Corps

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Responding to the Global Food Crisis

The following post is from One Table, a Mercy Corps campaign to fight world hunger by investing in the world's women.

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The Roots of Green Living

Are the people who've lived on this planet the longest the best-suited to protect it?

Liza O’Reilly thinks so.

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Black Carbon Second-Leading Cause of Climate Change

Wood-burning cook stoves, diesel engines and coal plants are the primary emitters of black carbon — and the second-leading contributor to warming temperatures. It's estimated that black carbon is responsible for 18 percent of the atmosphere's warming.

Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bangladeshboat/2043454833/">BBC World Service (flickr)</a>

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Will Climate Funds Weather the Economic Storm?

Recently, decades of climate change warnings seem to have gained traction in political circles. Long-overdue conversation about the environment is finally underway; but is political will enough to enact environmental legislation in the face of a full-fledged economic crisis?

A group of gypsies on a street corner in Dhaka. Photo: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/advanidhaka/2726225260/">A@Dhaka (flickr)</a>

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As Simple as a Conversation

The Brooks World Poverty Institute is holding a conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh about adapting cities to climate change. But it's not what they're talking about that's revolutionary, it's who's doing the talking.

Photo: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/pbo31/2140042925/">pbo31 (flickr)</a>

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Don't Forget the Green Movement Now!

Things in the U.S. have been looking bleak these last few months. First it was rising unemployment, followed by skyrocketing oil and food prices, and then turmoil on Wall Street. Through this series of bad news, the environmental movement has taken a back seat.

Condoms prevent transmissions of disease, and could be key to population control. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gchicco/2604456566/">Rampant Gian (flickr)</a>

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Condoms and Climate Change

CIA director Michael Hayden recently identified one of the biggest threats facing the U.S., something that occurs over 215 million times a day — sex.

The Green Wall for the Sahara Initiative will plant a wall of trees to stop the spread of the Sahara. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dalegillard/2300775067/">Dale Gillard (flickr)</a>

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The Great Green Wall ... of the Sahara?

Ever heard of the Great Green Wall?

Concerns about the rapid southern spread of the Sahara desert have prompted African nations to build a wall – out of trees.

Global warming gives knowing weather patterns new economic impacts. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gara/272385517/">Stefan Gara (flickr)</a>

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New Take On Temperature

No global temperature change for ten years sounds too good to be true.

Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/barbaradoduk/2425562257/in/photostream/">unity.project</a>

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Champions of Earth

April 22 marks the 38th celebration of Earth Day. In honor of the day, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) is presenting its Champions of Earth award.

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Floating Crops

Rural farming communities in Bangladesh are finding creative ways to deal with the effects of climate change. Traditional farming has become difficult due to issues like excessive use of irrigation coupled with poor drainage and abnormal

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Lest We Forget Those Who Suffer

The problems associated with global climate change have been and will continue to be felt most dramatically by the poor, not the rich.

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China/EU Alliance 'Could Be Key to Low-carbon Energy'

A recent report indicates that China and the EU can and should meet future energy demands in a sustainable and cooperative fashion.

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