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Watch the Audi Green Police Super Bowl Commercial

The Audi A3 TDI commercial stole the Super Bowl show, at least when it comes to green-themed ads.

Asian water wrangles

Pollution and water scarcity threaten livelihoods in central-south Asia. But, argues Michael Renner, international efforts could help to forge a solution.

To flourish, school gardens need more than photo ops

by Sarah Bernardi

This post originally appeared on Ed Bruske’s Slow Cook blog.


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A new American environmentalism and the new economy

by Gus Speth

Editor’s note: The following is the 10th Annual John H. Chafee Memorial Lecture, delivered at the National Council for Science and the Environment in Washington, DC, on January 21, 2010.


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Why It May Cost Us More NOT to Eat Organic

Health care should start with the USDA and healthy eating.

Nominate Your Local Hero for a Heart of Green Award!

Help us identify who deserves to win a Heart of Green Award!
See profiles of the 2009 nominees

The unheralded significance of the Audi “green police” ad

by David Roberts

Is it me or were the   Super Bowl commercials this year unusually ugly, misogynistic, and, worst of all, unfunny?  Some of America’s biggest corporations seemed to be trying to play to Teabag America, and the results were as bitter as the teabaggers themselves. Amidst the dreck was a commercial from Audi featuring the “green police.” Here it is:

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Show: Chemical Law & Urban Parrots

Congress is thinking about changing how we manage chemicals in this country. Rebecca Williams reports on one Senator's plan for a new law. And... when you think parrots, you think of lush, green jungles... not concrete jungles. But that's where one colony of parrots has been living - in Brooklyn. Samara Freemark set out to find the birds in NYC.

Palin bashes ‘cap and tax’ and commends Obama on nuclear

by Lisa Hymas