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Opinion: Why Aren't Environmentalists Cheering Higher Gas Prices?

As gasoline prices continue to rise faster than station owners can update their signs, so too have calls to do something about the problem. Some Democrats are calling on President Barack Obama to uncork the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help ameliorate the pain at the pump. Republicans are renewing calls for more domestic...

When It Comes to Being Green, Browne Is No Pretender

"It's my favorite guitar, and I'm not just saying that." Legendary singer/songwriter Jackson Browne is cradling the beautiful new Jackson Browne Signature acoustic guitar, hand-crafted for him by Gibson, backstage after unveiling it at the recent NAMM music trade show in Anaheim, Calif. "And in the same way Gibson makes...

Two Decades Later, Hole in the Ozone Layer Still Not Fixed

(Oct. 26) -- Fixing the hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica was supposed to be environmentalists' finest hour. In the late 1970s, an insidious, commonplace group of chemicals (chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs) was discovered to be causing horrible damage to the ozone layer. Governments were informed, CFCs were banned in...

Bottle Boat Completes 9,000-Mile Pacific Journey

(July 26) -- There are messages in bottles -- and then there are messages that are bottles. A crew of environmentalists has sailed a catamaran made from recycled soda bottles across the Pacific Ocean, arriving in Australia today after a 130-day journey intended to "highlight solutions to protect our oceans and beat...

Activists Seek UCLA-Cal Black Out

Usually when College Football fans hear "blackout" they think of some Thursday night football game in the Big East or ACC where the home team wears all-black jerseys and ask all the fans to don black to the night game as well.In the case of the October 20th UCLA-Cal game, the words "black out" will have a whole new...

Background on environmentalists

Environmentalism is a broad philosophy, ideology and social movement regarding concerns for environmental conservation and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the concerns of non-human elements.

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