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Five ways Americans can save water through food choices

As eaters and consumers, Americans can profoundly reduce water waste and water consumption through the food choices they make. Here are five ways American food consumers can help save water.
2012's 'good news' stories

2012 saw jobs returning to the US, health concerns improve in historic numbers, and more.
Eight ways $100 oil may affect you
Ideas for a better world in 2011

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For consumers, more incentives to go green

Buy a computer, help plant a tree. Do such offers live up to their promise?
Global warming law will boost California economy, study finds

But business groups are still concerned about the costs of the landmark emission caps.
Schools consider propane-fueled buses

Soaring costs prompt some to consider cheaper, greener fuels – but upfront costs can be steep.
GOP sees advantage in offshore oil drilling

Republicans pack the House with tourists to make their case as polls show it could work.
GOP sees advantage in offshore oil drilling

Republicans pack the House with tourists to make their case as polls show it could work.
An urban marsh’s unfinished saga

New York’s Jamaica Bay serves as a microcosm for the world’s wetland woes.
Can plug-in hybrids ride to America’s rescue?

The engineer behind many electric-car advances says oil’s days may be numbered.
Beijing lawyer fights for pollution victims

Xu Kezhu took pollution for granted – until she saw the clean skies of Europe.
Case of sonar's effects on whales heads to high court

At issue: Can a judge enforce environmental rules at the expense of national defense training?
The race for nonfood biofuel

High gas prices and politics push companies toward the ‘holy grail’ of biofuel: cellulosic ethanol.
Carbon cuts: how costly?

Economic harm is top concern in Senate debate over bill.
Delisting of wolves raises hackles

With wolves’ numbers rising, federal government – and many in West – want to take them off endangered species list. Environmentalists warn that it’s too soon.
Senate weighs cost of acting, and not acting, on emissions

It doesn't come down to polar bears, it comes down to cost – and while the cost of acting is steep, the cost of inaction appears to be steeper, experts say.
The Monitor's View: A thin-ice way to save polar bears

A court-forced decision on polar bears is not the way to impel Americans to cut emissions.
'Oil Shockwave' scenario: How the U.S. might deal with a terrorist strike

Prices suddenly shoot up to $160 a barrel. Former US officials gathered at Harvard University discuss how they'd respond.
Just how 'green' is that shirt?

An 'organic cotton' label doesn't make it 'carbon free.' But a new factory in Sri Lanka moves a step closer to that claim.
Just how 'green' is that shirt?

An 'organic cotton' label doesn't make it 'carbon free.' But a new factory in Sri Lanka moves a step closer to that claim.
U.S. eyes shift away from corn ethanol

Worried about high food prices, Congress tries to push the biofuel industry to use nonfood crops.
US eyes shift from corn ethanol

Worried about high food prices, Congress tries to push the industry to use nonfood crops.
Can states cut carbon? EPA says no.

California's bid to set tougher auto-emissions standards has been stymied by the Bush administration. Now the courts will decide.
Can states cut carbon? EPA says no.

California's bid to set tougher auto-emissions standards has been stymied by the Bush administration. Now the courts will decide.