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Rainforest advocates in Indonesia. One thinker claims the modern environmental movement has played little role in staving off the catastrophes it predicted in the 1970s. Photo <a href="http://flic.kr/p/aaj1bD">Rainforest Action Network (Flickr)</a>

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Sustainable Energy

Don't panic, environmentalists: A richer world can be a better one

Forty years ago, a shocking report tagged economic growth as the catalyst for environmental collapse. Now, a new article claims the world's responses to that forecast failed to make things better.

A Pangbourne woman shops for donated, used clothes at an Oxfam shop. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/theboybg/4717773246/in/photostream/">Ben Geach (Flickr)</a>

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Does recycling old clothes reinforce consumerism? And should we care?

One of England's biggest retailers thinks it can sell more clothes by making it easier to recycle old ones.

Yesterday's news could be tomorrow's biofuel. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ljb/26549528/lightbox/">Lisa Batty (Flickr)</a>

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Power to the paper: Pulp-powered batteries are in the works

Why not do something useful with those stacks of holiday cards languishing at home? Like re-charge your cell phone.

Informal trash collectors may gain "green" jobs in the formal sector with the closure of the world's largest trash dump. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/associationbasmati/2885924570/"> basmati - authentic help (flickr)</a>

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Diverting garbage to a recycling plant leaves out a key player: dump dwellers

Does your old lunch bag go in the garbage or the recycle bin? For hundreds of thousands of garbage scavengers worldwide who make a meager living by collecting, recycling and reselling trash, that decision is worth its weight in cash.

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