Do the Oscars matter? Ask The Cove director. Photo by Todd Wawrychuk, courtesy of ©A.M.P.A.S. Yesterday the Academy Awards announced the nominees for the big Hollywood Oscar extravaganza on March 7. Of course, Avatar is among the ten candidates in the Best Motion Picture of the Year category, tying with the Iraqi drama, The Hurt Locker, for highest number of nominations. As a frontrunner, the record-breaking blockbuster of all-time is getting out its "controversial" environmental message, and the sci-fi epic stands a good cha...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Image credit: Good NYCT, MBTA, WMATA, BART: Which is the biggest, best, public transit system in the country? Good presents a new infographic that puts them next to each other for a face off....Read the full story on TreeHugger

Marian Hopkins of Business Roundtable is author of this guest opinion post. In his State of the Union address this week, President Obama re-emphasized his Administration's commitment to addressing energy and climate change issues. Experts agree there's no one path to tackling these challenges - it's going to take a combination of traditional and alternative sources. That's why the President advocated for a "new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants" as part of a broad-based strategy to reduce emissions and increase our nation's energ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

There relationship between greenhouse gases, aerosols, and climate sensitivity is much more complex… Photo: Codo via flickr.

While there may be consensus among mainstream scientists that climate change is definitely happening, and that human activity is responsible for it, the science is undoubtedly complex and research continues to refine our understanding of all the different elements of the equation. BoingBoing points out that one onging discussion is about how sensitive the clima…Read the full story on TreeHugger

John Mackey believes that skinny people live longer; he personally eats like a bird. Now he is offering a graduated "healthy discount" to employees with lower cholesterol levels, lower blood pressure and most controversially, lower body mass index. As the Village Voice puts it, the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance is not amused. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger