Sustainable Development

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• Climate Scientists Say Destabilization Much Worse than IPCC Reporting

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 501
  A group of 26 climate scientists , including 14 members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN-backed world-leading climate science peer-review institution, are now reporting that climate destabilization is occurring much faster than the IPCC’s landmark reports have so far shown. The ...
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• Copenhagen Diagnosis Report Summary (transcript)

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 501
  Surging greenhouse gas emissions: Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels in 2008 were nearly 40% higher than those in 1990. Even if global emission rates are stabilized at present –day levels, just 20 more years of emissions would give a 25% probability that warming exceeds 2 o C. Even with zero ...
  14 hours ago

• Canada & the Environment

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 137
  Quebec - a North American leader - Quebec at Copenhagen See related posts under Environment & Energy ; Arctic ; Biofuels ; Oil ; Canada & the Climate Change Conference (Bali) ; Liquid Asset The Canadian dean of the discipline, the University of Alberta’s David Schindler, wrote in 2006 that ...
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• Bjorn Lomborg’s “The Copenhagen Consensus Center, a think tank” hopefully will not be the tone-giver of the aimed for COPENHAGEN CONSENSUS.

  
  Sustainabilitank — Authority: 484
  Our website dealt already with the topics brought forward and the persona of Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish idol of the American right. We keep wondering who actually supports his activities – could it be that the support comes just from pay by lobbying-for-business-interests media like The Wall Street Journal, that hired ...
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• UN-HABITAT Executive Director wins “Nobel Prize for the Environment”

  
  WASH Names in the News — Authority: 104
  UN-HABITAT’s Executive Director Anna Tibaijuka was given the coveted Göteborg Award for Sustainable Development on 24 November 2009. Widely known as the “Nobel Prize for the Environment”, she shared the 2009 award with Enrique Peñalosa, the former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, and the world renowned hero of the ...
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• Worth an article – my November 2009 tweets

  
  Sustainable development and much more — Authority: 126
  I am committed since January 2007 to bring you each month a selection of the latest headlines and best researches on sustainable development, climate change and the world energy sector . However, I don’t blog as much as I would like to and generally write around 25 posts per month. However, many more great news ...
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  Andrew: Inside & Insights — Authority: 119
  My Read of the Month:Title:  Harvard Business Review on Green Business Strategy (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)Author: Harvard Business School PressPublished: 2007Genre: Economics/Sustainable DevelopmentRatings: This is a book that presents a compilation of dissertations on environmental sustainability as ...
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• Support Cycling and Pedestrian Access for the Proposed I-90 Bridge (And Get A Great View Along the Way)

  
  REALNEO for all - Regional Economics Action Links North East Ohio — Authority: 446
  Despite public support and an obligation to evaluate cycling and pedestrian access to the proposed Interstate 90/71 Bridge from tremont to downtown, the Ohio Department of Transportation refused to do so.In response, a bunch of cycling and community groups took on the responsibilities ODOT dropped.  Come out next ...
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• A Green Project: Reclaiming a Barn

  
  EbioAnt — Authority: 143
  By johndamm Reclaiming a Barn My business partner and I decided to invest in a project that would provide cash flow, profitability, and ultimately an asset at the end. We decided to purchase a 115 year old bourbon barn, dismantle it, and sell the material that was dismantled. We had no previous experience ...
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• Americans throw away enough food every year to feed 200 million adults

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  The amount of food Americans throw away has risen by approximately 50 percent since 1974 according to a new study in PLoS ONE . American now waste on average 1400 calories per person everyday, equaling 150 trillion calories a year nationwide. Considering that the average person requires approximately 2,000 calories ...
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• Food Stamp Use Soars, and Stigma Fades

  
  REALNEO for all - Regional Economics Action Links North East Ohio — Authority: 446
  New York Times MARTINSVILLE, Ohio — With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children. It has grown so rapidly in places so diverse that it is becoming nearly as ordinary as the groceries ...
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• Brand IIT and IIM Grab Lion’s Share of Awards at The Al Gore Sustainable Technology Venture Competition™ 2009 at IIT Kharagpur, November 6-7

  
  What's With The Climate? — Authority: 128
  In a superb conflation of technological brilliance and management excellence, Brand IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) and IIM (Indian Institute of Management) shone at the 2009 Al Gore Sustainable Technology Venture Competition™ India (www.cicerotransnational.com/agstvc.html), Asia’s first and most prestigious ...
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• $7 spent on family planning can reduce CO2 emissions by one ton that values $32 in carbon trade. So, the cheapest way to control emissions is to control population explosion. The Condom is a tool to be discussed seriously in Copenhagen, and also as part o

  
  Sustainabilitank — Authority: 484
  Looking through clippings from 2009: Can Condoms help fight climate change?  Yes, and they should, wrote an editorial  of  medical journal Lancet! In addition to boosting the health, standard of living and human rights of women, encouraging the use of contraception also will help save the planet. The ...
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• Is Dubai facing widespread default on major debt?

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 501
  Dubai is the jewel of the Arabian peninsula, the region’s financial capital and a city of global importance. Exorbitant wealth has become something like a national sport there, and major institutions there took the position that they could outlast the global financial panic without substantial government ...
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• Wanted, urgent: Next-Gen Jacque Cousteaus to be our tour guides to Planet Ocean!

  
  Moving Images, Moving People! — Authority: 122
  As my Australian diver friend Valerie used to say, the trouble with many of us land-lubbers is that we have ‘no idea what’s going on in the sea that covers three quarters of our planet’. Yet what we do – and don’t do – affects the fate of the sea and all its creatures and [...]
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• Mega-batteries to store green energy

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 501
  The Modesto Irrigation District (MID) will test the applicability of  mega-battery technology for storing clean energy produced from wind farms, for more effective and well-timed distribution to Pacific coast states. Primus Power Corp. will use a new $14 million federal grant, along with other investment channels ...
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• Which state is the most progressive in sustainable energy? Why?

  
  REALNEO for all - Regional Economics Action Links North East Ohio — Authority: 446
  * Ohio* Pennsylvania* West Virginia* California* Oregon* Arizona* Other--please explain
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• Looking from Burkina Faso North to Copenhagen – Climate Change and Africa’s Urbanization.

  
  Sustainabilitank — Authority: 484
  Climate Change Impacts: Prevention and Management Challenges for Sahelian Cities. Dr. M. Badolo, Science Application and Dissemination Institute 27/11/2009   http://en.cop15.dk/blogs/view+blog?blogi… Urbanization and vulnerability dynamics to climate change in the Sahel. Since the 1973 widespread drought, ...
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• Competition time!

  
  LEISA's Farm — Authority: 115
  posted by Karen Hampson I have noticed a preponderance of competitions lately. I think they are useful to know about for (at least) two reasons: they provide an opportununity for organisations to access funding or other support, and they are a source of inspiration and good ideas for the rest of us. Here is a ...
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• "We will demand that our leaders take us and this property serious and FIX IT" - "Citizen" Ed Hauser, May 26, 2006

  
  REALNEO for all - Regional Economics Action Links North East Ohio — Authority: 446
  In reviewing REALNEO for material on the historic Cleveland U.S. Coast Guard Station, to accompany these November 25, 2009, photographs and Thanksgiving Day Pans of the Coast Guard site, I came across the May, 2006, REALNEO discussion "COAST GUARD IDEAS" about what should be done with the site... with a lengthy ...
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