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China Is Leading the Race to Make Renewable Energy - NYTimes.comA shift to sustainable energy could leave the West reliant on China, much as the world now depends on Mideast oil.
Geoffrey Ames
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S.E.C. Says Companies Should Disclose Climate-Related Risks - NYTimes.comFor the first time, the Securities and Exchange Commission ruled that companies should warn investors of global-warming risks.
Geoffrey Ames
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Nature of Experience - Engaging Special Needs Learners Through the Natural WorldPolicymakers, researchers and educators are realising that in an increasingly urbanised world many children and young people are growing up in a ‘nature-deficit’ society, and that education has a key role to play in building a stronger relationship between the natural world and modern humanity.
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Handbook of Emerging Technologies for LearningHigher education is in the midst of transformative (but exciting) change. Over the next decade, the practices of teaching and learning “will undergo fundamental change”2 as universities and colleges respond to global, social, political, technological, and learning research trends. A duality of ...
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13Should Earth Scientists Take a ‘Hippocratic Oath’? | Wired Science | Wired.comBUT they missed the number one oath - I will not take money and/or employment from individuals, corporations, or nations with a predetermined and self-serving position on "the truth".JDP added 2 months ago
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13Mankind using Earth's resources at alarming rate - Yahoo! NewsSpace may be the only "frontier" with available resources. But we may not make it there before widespread collapse.JDP added 2 months ago
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8Living on Earth: Harnessing the SevernIf there's one thing we ought to have learned from the climate change generated by human activity, it is that we must take into account the potential for unintended consequences of our attempts to fix the previous problems we have created. Certainly, every effort must be made to avoid another ...Geoffrey Ames added 2 months ago
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13Climate Change About National Security, Not Just Hugging Trees -- Sphere News, Opinion and AnalysisDUH! Mainly Repbulicans (but also many Democrats) serving their corporate energy company masters have for years "buried their heads in the sand" about this. If we had reduced or eliminated our dependence on foreign oil as Jimmy Carter urged and attempted to implement (torpedoed by the Saudi's ...JDP added 2 months ago
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The Cahaba: A River of Riches | Science & Nature | Smithsonian MagazineAlso worth checking out: www.cahabariversociety.org (looks after the Cahaba, which, as you can see in the article, is hugely biodiverse, but which also is a major source of drinking water for a large portion of Alabama. Currently seeking new members/sponsors. Check them out.Daniel Monroe added 3 months ago
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