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Exploring sustainability along social, economic and environmental planes.
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Worldchanging: Bright Green: Walk Score Adds TransitWalk Score Adds Transit Popular walkability ranking now includes bus stops and rail stations. Walk Score , which has become the most widely-used measure of pedestrian friendly neighborhoods in North America, has added a new trick: they're now incorporating transit data into their ...
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A Paradigm Shift: Empowering Uganda through Bio Sand Water Filteration Systems: An Introduction | GOODA Paradigm Shift: Empowering Uganda through Bio Sand Water Filteration Systems: An Introduction Posted by: Amit Bapat on November 6, 2009 at 12:15 pm Let me introduce myself first. I’m a graduate student in Industrial Design from the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA. I’ve ...
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Costing the Earth: Investing in protecting the planet - CNN.comEco Solutions Costing the Earth: Investing in protecting the planet (CNN) -- Coral reefs around the world are worth a staggering $172 billion dollars a year to the global economy. But the wealth of the oceans' reefs, and their amazing monetary value, is on the verge of being destroyed. ...
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BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Where countries stand on CopenhagenThere are just over four weeks to go before the Copenhagen conference intended to agree a new international framework for controlling greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The final round of preparatory talks in Barcelona has revealed deep divisions between some of the key participants. Use this table ...
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How green are our cities?How green are our cities? The key number in measuring that now is the per capita emission or how big a carbon footprint an individual leaves. The developed world pegs lndia's per capita emission at 1.7 tonnes. But a study by a non-profit organization of 40 Indian cities says it is much lower ...
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How green are our cities?Once again points to the fact that per-capita resource consumption is the key number to measure.boabjohn added 2 days ago
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The Great American Bubble Machine : Rolling StoneBeing a sucker for conspiracy theories I found this quite good. Surprised me to find it under the Rolling Stone umbrella.Darcy Bross added 4 months ago
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3House Democrats win key test vote on climate bill - Yahoo! NewsRepublicans have apparently (or willfully) forgotten "the largest tax increase" brought on by oil speculation that THEIR deregulation enabled. Nor can they apparently look beyond their nose (or where it was in the last century!) to similar "tax increases" if big oil and big coal continue to ...JDP added 4 months ago
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3Asia Challenges the U.S. for Green Tech Supremacy - Yahoo! NewsWill the Republican "NO" machine ensure that the USA falls behind the rest of the world in the most important technology race of this new century ... in order to protect their special interest masters (the current crop of energy companies)?JDP added 4 months ago
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Shumei Natural AgricultureExcellent NGO promoting sane agriculture methods from JJapan. Similar to permaculture and biodynamics. Wholistic, integrated, localised food production.boabjohn added 5 months ago
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