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• Copenhagen climate conference’s giant globe: A sign of things to come?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  An enormous white globe dangled in Copenhagen’s Bella Centre, the location of the world’s largest ever leaders’ summit on climate change, could be an unintended yet chilling sign of things to come. An observant attendee made it clear by scribbling on the giant model of the earth that its designers forgot to ...
  4 days ago

• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
  5 days ago

• The strange spectacle of too many heads of government

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  There are around 120 heads of government at the Copenhagen climate talks, so many that it’s hard to keep track of the exact number. Their presence has been trumpeted as a sign of the world’s commitment to tackling climate change. But in return for showing up, they all want a chance to address the conference – ...
  5 days ago

• Auxiliary verbs at 10pm and the scarcest resource – sleep

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The issues are global and urgent, but the bureaucracy can sometimes be mind-bogglingly slow and petty. After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a ...
  5 days ago

• Can you trust the science?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Today we pose the question to our virtual panel of experts, “How far can we trust the science of climate change?” Join the debate and leave your comments below. Bjorn Lomborg , statistician and author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist”: The vast majority of climate scientists tell us that increases ...
  6 days ago

• Rainy Taiwan faces awkward water shortage

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
   Chronically rainy Taiwan faces a rare water shortage as leaders ask that people on the dense, consumption-happy island of 23 million finally start changing habits as dry weather is forecast into early 2010.  Taiwan, a west Pacific island covered with rainforests and topical fruit orchards, is used to rain in ...
  1 week ago

• Are the Copenhagen climate talks failing?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  In the last few days it has seemed like the only thing everyone can agree on in Copenhagen is that time is running out. The heads of state start arriving today and descend in full force on Thursday. Negotiators say they don’t want their leaders arguing over the placement of a comma or a set of brackets, and so ...
  1 week ago

• Change must start from grassroots, Schwarzenegger tells COP15

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The COP15 conference on climate change will be a success even if no deal comes out of it, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Tuesday in Copenhagen. “It depends on what your definition of a deal is,” Schwarzenegger told the media. “The important thing is to move the agenda forward.” The ...
  1 week ago

• High drama after YSR son’s antics on Telangana (Parliament Roundup)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) There was high drama in parliament Tuesday after Congress MP Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy made common cause with his bitter rivals, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), to press for a united Andhra Pradesh, even as he said he stood for a “Golden Telangana” - without specifying what he meant by [...]
  1 week ago

• I am for united Andhra, Golden Telangana: YSR’s son (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) The Telangana issue saw the rift among Congress MPs from Andhra Pradesh widen Tuesday as those supporting separate statehood sought action against party colleague Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy for “colluding” in the Lok Sabha with Telugu Desam Party (TDP) MPs opposed to dividing the ...
  1 week ago

• Congress MPs seek action against YSR son

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) Congress MPs from Telangana region Tuesday sought action against against Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, son of late chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, for “colluding” in the Lok Sabha with Telugu Desam Party (TDP) MPs opposed to a separate Telangana state.A delegation of the MPs led by Madhu ...
  1 week ago

• What can ordinary people do to slow climate change?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Today’s expert panel discusses the question, “What can ordinary people do to slow climate change?” Join the discussion and let us know what you think. ************** Gidon Eshel , physics professor at Bard College: What can ordinary people do to slow climate change? A lot. Which is extremely important ...
  1 week ago

• Climate skeptic: We are winning the science battle

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  - Dr. Fred Singer is the President of The Science & Environmental Policy Project and Professor Emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia. The views expressed are his own - The International Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) charter states that the organization’s purpose is to look for ...
  1 week ago

• Coke says green strategy will win business

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Having an integrated clean technology strategy will be a big part of winning business in the 21st century, a Coca-Cola executive told Reuters.com on Monday, and its investments in refrigeration will likely have the biggest impact on that strategy long-term. The worlds biggest soft drinks maker has hooked up with ...
  1 week ago

• Looking for a colorful desktop nameplate

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 627
  Looking for a colorful/artsy name plate to sit on an office desk. Does such a thing exist? If so, where? And if not, what might be some possible substitutes? Id like to get this as a gift for someone who was recently promoted-- one of those desk name placards seemed like a nice way to recognize the person in their ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sikhs burn effigy of controversial sect leader in Amritsar during Punjab Bandh

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  By Ravinder Singh RobinAmritsar, Dec.7 (ANI): Supporting the public call to observe closure across Punjab, thousands of activists of various Sikhs organizations set ablaze effigy of Ashutosh Maharaj, the controversial sect leader, who heads the Nurmahal-based (near Jalandhar) Divya Jyoti Jagriti Sansthan, on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bangaloreans protest to access green spaces

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Bangalore, Dec 1 (IANS) With placards in hands and shouting slogans, around 250 people protested against the Karnataka government’s proposed plan to make ID cards mandatory to enter Cubbon and Lalbagh parks, two of city’s sprawling green spaces.The protestors, mostly children from poor families, gathered near ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Art of Inclusive Language

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 579
  Inclusive language can be a virtual minefield for writers, where any misstep can result in offending the reader. Even if the writer lives with chronic illness or disability, the possibility of offending others is ever-present.Did I say that right… “lives with chronic illness or disability?” I ask because I’ve ...
  4 weeks ago

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