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Green Chinese Entrepreneurs Striving to Be Effective Business Communicators
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Commemorating the International Day for Biological Diversity
http://www.wri.org/stories/2008/05/commemorating-international-day-biological-diversityCommemorating the International Day for Biological Diversity Today is the International Day for Biological Diversity. We are increasingly finding that “biological diversity”—life on earth, including the variability among living organisms within species and between species—is essential to human well-being. …
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A First-Hand Account of Illegal Logging in the Indonesian Rainforests
http://www.wri.org/stories/2008/05/first-hand-account-illegal-logging-indonesian-rainforestsA First-Hand Account of Illegal Logging in the Indonesian Rainforests On a recent trip into the rainforests of the Indonesian part of Borneo Island, our team got first-hand accounts of the effects, causes—and the possible solutions—to rampant illegal logging. …
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Fuentes de agua renovables
http://www.iccc.es/2008/07/04/fuentes-de-agua-renovables/a menos que la región sea suficientemente saludable para aplicar nuevas tecnologías en el uso del agua, su conservación y reutilización. Este mapa está basado en el análisis llevado a cabo por WRI para el “Pilot Analysis of Global Ecosystems: Freshwater Systems (PAGE)“. El primer mapa muestra que a partir de 1995, el 41% de la población, o 2300 millones de personas, viven en cuencas fluviales que sufren de
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Блогът на Мариян
http://mkaragyozov.blogspot.comEarth Policy Institute Green Left - Ausralia`s radical weekly newspaper Greenpeace International Institute for Energy and Environmental Research World Resources Institute World Wide Fund Worldwatch Institute Група за възобновяеми източници на енергия, околна среда и солидарност Пестете не само гориво
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strøtanker om bæredygtighed
http://a21.dk/blogområder med bundvendinger, hvor det oprindelige miljø bryder sammen på grund af iltmangel. I en omtale i Ingeniøren i dag betegnes Østersøen som ‘det mest døde hav i verden‘. WWFs paper tager udgangspunkt i data fra det amerikanske World Resources Institute, som viser, at et område i Østersøen på størrelse med Danmark (42.000 km²), er permanent uddødt, og at iltsvind i de varmeste somre rammer et areal på 100.000 km². På 11 år antallet af områder, som er berørt af bunddød som følge af
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EcoWorld - Editor’s Commentary
http://ecoworld.com/blogThe Wildlands Project Treehugger Trees Water People UN Food & Agricultural Organization US Dept. of Energy US Environmental Protection Agency WildAid World Coal Institute World Nuclear Association World Resources Institute World Wildlife Fund
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Doing Business Series Gets Slammed by World Bank Watchdog
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008163.html"So, what do you think about the IEG report?" I was g-chatting with my friend Smita the other night when she brought up the World Bank. "What IEG report? What's the IEG?" I replied, showing my ignorance of the latest Bank goings on (and of the acronym – it stands for Independent Evaluation Group
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Morning Ecology 1 July 2008, It's Morning Somewhere Edition
http://www.emilygertz.com/apartmentecology/2008/07/morning-e...Hurricane Watch: Insurers Raising Rates, Dropping Coast Communities on Forecasts of Future Storms (The Wall Street Journal) China Watch: Plastic Bag Ban Trumps Market and Consumer Efforts (Worldwatch Institute) When It Comes to Urban Transportation, Ingenuity Is the Key to Cleaner, Greener, and Smarter Cities (World Resources Institute) Architecture 2030 Cracks the Building Code (Solve Climate) Copenhagen to Join Congestion Tax Cities (Treehugger) India Unveils Solar-intensive Climate Change Plan (BBC News)
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Overhauling NextBillion.net - A Request for Proposal
http://blog.acumenfund.org/2008/07/01/overhauling-nextbillio...World Resources Institute
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NextBillion.net - A Request for Proposal
http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2008/07/01/nextbillion-net-...World Resources Institute
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Carbon is the New Black Gold
http://conservationfinancista.blogspot.com/2008/06/carbon-is...set intentionally by timber and agribusiness companies intent on clearing land for cheap, and ignorant of controlled burning techniques (some of which, ironically, had been practiced by locals for years). El Nino was a convenient excuse. According to “Trial By Fire: Forest Fires and Forestry Policy in Indonesia's Era of Crisis and Reform” by the World Resources Institute/Forest Frontiers Initiative, there were numerous disincentives for logging companies to operate more efficiently. The government charged tax on the timber exported not on the volume cut down, thereby offering no
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Particles of Dust
http://achirriishmaels.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/saharan-dust...hitting asthmatics especially hard. People wishing to exercise outdoors find it harder to breathe on “bad air” days. These reversible, short-term exposure consequences have long-term counterparts such as chronic coughing and lung cancer, says the World Resources Institute, and environmental research and policy firm, basing their findings on World Health Organization work. In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) tracks particles in the air as one of its pollution measures. Joseph Prospero of
