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Readers, Send Us the Savvy Ways Your Community is Fighting Climate Change! : TreeHuggerYou don't have to be named the greenest in the world like Freiburg, Germany or smashed by a tornado in order to earn a green renovation like Greensburg, Kansas to be a community fighting climate change. Globally, town and city residents alike are chipping in large and small in this battle. ...
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Agriculture and climate change: Why farms may be the new forests | The EconomistAgriculture and climate change In the war against climate change, peasants are in the front line Into battle in the eco-war FOR people who see stopping deforestation as the quickest climate-change win, Copenhagen seemed a success. Although there is still work to be done on the initiative ...
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Stephen Petranek counts down to Armageddon | Video on TED.comTalks Stephen Petranek counts down to Armageddon Post to: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on digg Share on Delicious Share on Reddit Share on StumbleUpon Share on Blogger Share on MySpace Embed this video: Email ...
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Hong Kong’s Water Security - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.comHong Kong’s Water Security Drinking water has rarely been a concern in Hong Kong where the supply has historically been plentiful and affordable. But a series of droughts in China, including some earlier this year, has raised concerns that Hong Kong’s water supply might not be as secure as ...
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Emissions Reductions: The Gap Between Policy and Science | The Green Economy Post: Green Careers, Green Business, SustainabilityWhile the scientific evidence for climate change grows, the policy responses have so far had little or no impact on the build-up of emissions.
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My Favorite Green Technology | GreenBiz.comNo offense to those working hard to bring wind, solar or geothermal energy to scale, or to people who are jazzed about energy efficiency, but I’m going to end my blogging for 2009 by saying that I am really excited about electric cars. It’s my favorite green technology, and one that’s on the ...
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Harnessing the Sun to Store the Wind - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.comHarnessing the Sun to Store the Wind Electricity from renewable sources can be like a perfect luncheon served at 4 a.m., a nice thing but far more appreciated at a different hour. Electricity is hard to store, though, which is why nearly all of it is consumed at the instant it is generated, ...
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Catastrophic flood of the Mediterranean after the Messinian salinity crisis : NatureThe Mediterranean Sea became disconnected from the world’s oceans and mostly desiccated by evaporation about 5.6 million years ago during the Messinian salinity crisis1, 2, 3. The Atlantic waters found a way through the present Gibraltar Strait and rapidly refilled the Mediterranean 5.33 million ...
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How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room | Mark Lynas | Environment | The GuardianHow do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room As recriminations fly post-Copenhagen, one writer offers a fly-on-the-wall account of how talks failed • Ed Miliband: China tried to hijack climate deal • The key players and how they rated Copenhagen was a disaster. ...
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7 Tipping Points That Could Transform Earth | Wired Science | Wired.comWhen the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issue its last report in 2007, environmental tipping points were a footnote. A troubling footnote, to be sure, but the science was relatively new and unsettled. Straightforward global warming was enough to worry about. But when the IPCC meets ...
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