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The timing of these two stories was interesting. First, George Bush reported as signing off from the G8 with the line: ‘Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter‘. Picked up the Independent, Telegraph and across the blogs; Climate Progress or, perhaps, the Greenpeace US blog probably says it best:
193 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes until Bush [...]

Missed in the mass coverage of the G8, on Monday this week the Ecuadorian assembly approved a draft rewrite of its country’s constitution that would give enshrined rights to its nature and ecosystems within Ecuadorian territory.
This is, potentially, a pretty big story. Read the full draft of the rights given to nature. A couple of [...]