NewsRack: 'Environment' news in 'Sustainability-National' topic for user flenvcenter

Minneapolis' multilingual bike-safety campaign gets green light	24.5.2013	Star Tribune: Local

Court hears Hobby Lobby's challenge to part of health-care law	24.5.2013	Denver Post: News: Local
Federal judges peppered lawyers for the federal government and Hobby Lobby Stores Inc.
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Amy Whitley: Travel Green This Memorial Day Weekend and All Summer Long	24.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
Traveling green isn't limited to vacationers booking eco-lodge stays, safaris, and outdoor adventure tours. Anyone going anywhere can travel with less impact on the environment.
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Hobby Lobby tests birth-control coverage mandate	24.5.2013	Seattle Times: Top stories
In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. asked a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill.
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Climate change: Environmentalists question whether Gov. Jerry Brown's actions match his rhetoric	24.5.2013	San Jose Mercury News: National News
California Gov. Jerry Brown helped showcase scientists' new call to urgent action on climate change, but critics say he's diverting money away from that goal for the next year.
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Sneaker Life Cycle Impact	23.5.2013	Green Technology and Environmental Science News - ENN
The American term sneakers refers to footwear with a flexible sole made of rubber or synthetic material and an upper part made of leather or canvas. Sneakers were originally sporting apparel, but today are worn much more widely as casual footwear. A typical pair of running shoes generates 30 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions, equivalent to keeping a 100-watt light bulb on for one week, according to a new MIT-led life cycle assessment. A life cycle measures the environmental impact of the raw materials, processing, and transport to the final market as well as waste disposal. But what’s surprising to researchers isn’t the size of a shoe’s carbon footprint, but where the majority of that footprint comes from.
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India's hornbill conservator is awarded the "Green Oscar"	23.5.2013	Environmental News Network
The Whitley Awards is a prestigious international prize awarded annually to individuals working in nature conservation at a grassroots level. They were first awarded in 1994 and over the past two decades, the Whitley fund for nature has given almost £10 million ($15 million USD) to conservation and recognized 160 conservation leaders in more than 70 countries. These awards are known as the 'Green Oscars' and are often awarded to conservationists working in conflict-torn and developing countries. This year, the prestigious prize was awarded to Aparajita Datta's project, "threatened hornbills as icons for the conservation of the Himalayan forests of Arunachal Pradesh, India".
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What is Causing the Big Shrimp Die-Off in Asian Shrimp Farms?	23.5.2013	Environmental News Network
A cause of a mysterious disease devastating shrimp farms across Asia since 2009 has been tracked back to a strain of a bacteria native to coastlines around the world. The shrimp early mortality syndrome has perplexed experts for years, in a region where roughly one million people depend on shrimp farming for survival. So far countries officially reporting the disease — also referred to as acute hepatopancreatic necrosis syndrome — include China, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, but potentially it could affect shrimp farming further afield in Asia, as well as parts of Latin America and Africa.
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Court to hear case on whether Obamacare violates religious liberties	23.5.2013	MinnPost
A federal appeals court in Denver is set to hear argument on Thursday in a lawsuit charging that the Obama administration ’s requirement that employers provide contraceptive services in all mandated health plans violates religious liberty. The full 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals has scheduled an hour-long argument session to allow lawyers for the family-owned Hobby Lobby Stores to argue their case that the contraception mandate violates sincerely held religious beliefs of the company owners. The owners, the Green family, are evangelical Christians. The company already provides their 13,000 employees with health-care coverage, but it does not include certain kinds of birth control methods that are offensive to the Green’s religious beliefs. They particularly object to the provision of the so-called morning after pill, which they believe can be abortion-inducing. The case is one of 59 lawsuits challenging the contraception mandate that are pending across the county, and one of a handful to ...
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It's World Turtle Day!	23.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
From Vetstreet's Lisa Granshaw: May 23 is World Turtle Day, an annual event created to celebrate and increase awareness of turtle species around the world....
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Lyft lands $60 million in funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz	23.5.2013	L.A. Times - Technology News
Lyft lands $60 million in funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz
Linda Buzzell: Career Opportunities in the Emerging Sustainable Society	23.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
We're all part of the Make or Break Generation: Will we destroy our own life support systems beyond repair or will we quickly learn how to live and prosper in harmony with the rest of nature?
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Pesticide Producers Turn to 'Bee-Washing' to Fight Backlash	23.5.2013	Organic Consumers Association News Headlines
Pesticide makers have taken to framing themselves as stewards of the bees as backlash over their products' links to mass bee deaths grows. Click here to read this article
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Top 10 green buildings of 2013	23.5.2013	Business Operations \| GreenBiz.com
Half of the top 10 buildings chosen as exemplary green design for 2013 are in California, including a revamped warehouse in San Francisco.
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Navman Wireless technology controls costs, emissions for fleets	23.5.2013	Business Operations \| GreenBiz.com
The location-based tracking system is part of one bus company's strategy to reduce excessive idling and fuel consumption.
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9 things you need to know about GRI's G4	23.5.2013	Business Operations \| GreenBiz.com
Get a quick update on how the new GRI reporting tool has evolved in its latest iteration.
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Ants, plants and pitchers	23.5.2013	The Earth Times Online Newspaper - Health News
When these ants are hatched, they have only one role in life, to serve the pitcher plant as cleaners, trappers and underwater divers.
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Tesla Proves Critics Wrong	23.5.2013	NPR: Morning Edition
Three years ago President Obama's green energy loan program gave a $455 million federal loan to electric car maker Tesla. Critics bashed the loan as risky. On Wednesday, Tesla announced it had paid that loan back in full – and early.
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Jonathan Gold's best 101 restaurants in L.A.	23.5.2013	L.A. Times - Food & Dining
Queue up at a taco truck. Sip cocktails where Charlie Chaplin and George Clooney quenched their thirst. It's all part of why we love L.A. Queue up at a taco truck. Sip cocktails where Charlie Chaplin and George Clooney quenched their thirst. It's all part of why we love L.A.
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Sustainable purchasing gets its own umbrella organization	23.5.2013	Business Operations \| GreenBiz.com
The Sustainable Purchasing Council is creating a framework for sustainable purchasing mirroring the LEED system for green buildings.
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