Bioneers offered many outstanding speeches by leaders in all areas of the green movement. Covering politics, inventions, renewable energy, biomimicry, women's rights, indigenous peoples' rights, social activism, and many other areas, the talks provided conference goers inspiration and motivation.

Gathered here are just a few of the favorites. ...

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Before somebody points it out in the comments, yes, I do realize that being "on target" doesn't necessarily mean that these countries will actually meet the emission caps set under the Kyoto Protocol. However, given all of the backtracking and inertia that have characterized recent climate dealings, it is a sign of progress — however slight.

This post points out the parallel risk of under-regulating the financial industry and undercutting established environment protections. You may not like it; but the analogy is apt. Both strategies have us headed over a cliff.

Twenty-plus years of aggressively deregulating the financial industry and the culture of consumerism, together, have led the world into an economic crisis that harms innocents and guilty alike.

Photo: Indigenous activists protesting lack of representation in UNFCCC at last year's climate talks in Bali (AP/Ed Wray)

Photographs by Agaton Strom

The American Museum of Natural History is unveiling its much anticipated Climate Change exhibit today, giving the public an opportunity to take an in-depth, engaging look at the most notorious and ill-understood environmental issue of our time.

photo: Bernd Sieker

As Renewable Energy World correctly points out, the International Energy Agency “isn’t exactly a hotbed of progressive thought” when it comes to renewable energy. But it seems that the IEA is slowly coming around. In a recent report the agency touts the benefits of feed-in-tariffs as a comparatively inexpensive and effective tool in promoting renewable energy deployment.

Although, sadly, kitchens everywhere rapidly become gross (as pictured), products for cleaning are rapidly greening. Case in point: the Clorox Green Works line has had remarkable sales growth, since introduced in early 2008. Forty million dollars worth of sales is an amazing market gain in such a short time: especially for a company with a brand name built on the root word "chlorine," a term that has long represented chemical anathema to a faction of traditional environmentalists. What a parable of brand power.

photo: Chandra Marsono

Now that the legislative dust seems to have settled and the issue of renewable energy tax incentives resolved, at least for the time being, in the United States it might be tempting to overlook the following announcement coming out of Gainesville, Florida, but you shouldn’t.