President Barack Obama is endorsing nuclear energy like never before, trying to win over Republicans and moderate Democrats on climate and energy legislation.

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Obama’s new climate card: nuclear power

Image from livejournal Being an environmental activist is serious business. And even more so in Russia right now. Ten days ago TreeHugger wrote about the paper mill in Lake Baikal in Siberia that had been re-opened on Prime Minister Putin’s orders. The privately-owned mill had been closed down in 2006 because it was pumping toxic waste into the lake. But alas, in Putin’s Russia, when an oligarch wants something, he gets it, and the pulp and paper factory was suddenly declare… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Russian Environmentalists’ Office is Ransacked

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr Backs Vertical Farming

Proposed aquaponics facility at Lorain, Ohio. Image credit: Access to Aquaponics There might be some debate right now as to whether aquaponics can be regarded as organic , but that hasn’t stopped Bevan Suites, whose Access to Aquaponics starter kits I wrote about last year, from keeping busy. In fact, Acc… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Aquaponics Grows Up? Worldwide Aquaculture Plans Major Facilities

Environmentalists in Istanbul urged Turkish banks to withdraw support for the Ilısu Dam project and cheered the opening of a new organic market. Photos by (left) the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review and (right) Jennifer Hattam. Istanbul welcomed the new year with the opening of its third organic market and the 135th birthday of its historic Tünel funicular, the world’s … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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January Eco-Tidbits from Turkey

Image: Clouds Seeded Over Las Vegas Flickr, Saschapohflepp In an opinion piece in the Jan. 27 online issue of Nature (paid content), scientists from Canada and the United States argue that internationally coordinated research and controlled field-testing of geo-engineering options to block the sun should start immediately. Most likely, you heard the economic benefits already on the

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Experts Advocate International Geo-enineering Research and Governance

“Pimp my FEMA trailer.” Image credit: SwampPlot.com FEMA has put the notorious Katrina Trailers, some 100,000 of them, up for auction; and the bidding has apparently driven down prices for the new models. Hence, lobbyists for the Recreational Vehicle Industry Association have suggested sending empty Katrina trailers to Haiti as a ‘humanitarian gesture.’ The Haitian government, as stressed and desperate as it is, isn’t falling for it. Per a CBS station , ” Haitian Culture and Co… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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US Trade Group Wants Stanky, Formaldehyde-Laced FEMA Trailers Sent To Haiti

It’s been a hive of activity at Davos as business leaders and politicians discuss some of the biggest global issues on the table in 2010. It’s clear from conversations and many of the sessions that carbon is still a burning issue here.

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Climate Change and Concerns About Carbon Remain Burning Issues in Davos

Subsurface injection of biosolids, aka “sludge.” Image credit :CCUA.info This strange tale is a synopsis of a lengthy story related by the Chicago Tribune . Dozens of municipalities in north eastern Illinois – including such Chicago suburbs as Joliet, Bartlett, and Batavia – are required to remove radium from public water before distributing it to customers. These communities get their water from deep wells. Radium co… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Joliet Illinois Wants To Dump More Radium On Open Lands

PETA activist dressed as a seal gets her just desserts as another costumed crusader, Salty, attacks poor seal hunt protester PETA activist Emily La… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A Pie for a Pie in Newfoundland As PETA Gets It In The Face