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• Lester R. Brown: A hotter planet means less on our plates

  
  Climate Change: The Next Generation — Authority: 142
  A hotter planet means less on our plates by Lester R. Brown, November 22, 2009 As the U.N. climate-change conference in Copenhagen approaches, we are in a race between political tipping points and natural ones. Can we cut carbon emissions fast enough to keep the melting of the Greenland ice sheet ...
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• China’s stimulus: after the binge, the hangover?

  
  Global Dashboard — Authority: 516
  China won much praise (and prestige) for its prompt and bold response to the unfolding global financial crisis, announcing a fiscal stimulus package worth 14% of its GDP in November 2008, well ahead of other major economies (this compares with a fiscal expansion of 2.5% of GDP for the US, 4% for Japan and Germany, and ...
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• Philanthropy’s Place in Travel

  
  Where's the Travel Answer Man — Authority: 427
  Elevate Destinations has announced the launch of theme based donor travel for independent philanthropists interested in exploring and investing in issue-specific areas. The trips will focus on such issues as:. Coastal and marine preservation. Rainforest conservation. Cultural survival. Water scarcity. HIV/Aids ...
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• World’s most energy-efficient supercomputer recognized

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 716
  Washington, November 21 (ANI): The high-performance computer QPACE (QCD Parallel Computing on the Cell) has been recognized as the most energy-efficient supercomputer in the world. QPACE is at the head of the Green500 list, which provides a global ranking of energy-efficient supercomputers. For a long time, in the ...
  2 days ago

• Protecting the environment by giving it an economic value?

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 161
  For years, many have argued that our current economic system does not fully capture the cost of the environment. The price signal, for example, should be an indicator of resource scarcity or other environmental concerns, but often does not capture the full costs. (Current climate change is perhaps a clear indication ...
  3 days ago

• H2Orb Controls Water Leakages

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 592
  Water is the most essential source of living. Millions of life has been affected in the past and it still continues to do so in many parts of the world due to scarcity of water. Nevertheless, we do at times become careless and waste a large amount of water in our everyday use. Sometimes, a large quantity of water goes ...
  4 days ago

• The path to true abundance lies within

  
  Prana Flow NZ — Authority: 116
  All you truly need lies within, delve into your infinite depths We live in an infinitely abundant universe. This is a fact. Stare up at a clear sky night and try and count the stars. Cut open a capsicum and try and count the seeds. Stand on the corner of Lambton Quay and Willis Street and try and count the ...
  4 days ago

• How we talk about climate change

  
  Global Dashboard — Authority: 516
  At a dinner on UK climate policy last night, there were – as always – several people around the table lamenting the fact that in generally messing up on how they communicate climate change to  a sceptical public, policymakers have in particular failed to make more of the ‘green collar jobs’ argument.  ...
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• Are You REALLY Aware of Your Options?

  
  JVBlogger — Authority: 118
  Leonard Peikoff said, “The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era’s dominant ideas. In times of crises, these men need the guidance of some kind of theory; but, being unfamiliar with the field of ideas, they do not know that alternatives to the popular theories are ...
  5 days ago

• Temporary.cc

  
  Tomorrow Museum — Authority: 422
  “For each unique visitor it receives, Temporary.cc deletes part of itself. These deletions change the way browsers understand the website’s code and create a unique (de)generative piece after each new user. Because each unique visit produces a new composition through self-destruction, Temporary.cc can never be ...
  5 days ago

• Himalayan people feel heat of climate change (Feature-Countdown to Copenhagen)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 716
  By Joydeep GuptaNew Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) Munni Rawat, a 50-year-old homemaker in Uttarakhand state in the Himalayas, does not know about the climate summit in Copenhagen next month. But she does know that climate change has dried up the stream in her hillside village in northern India.“There has hardly been any rain ...
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• Water Scarcity, Food Security Concerns Prompt Global Land Grab

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 534
  Area nearly the size of France purchased, leased for food production around the world Africa, South America, parts of Europe targeted by cash-rich, food-poor nations So far most land deal inquiries have been in Africa. But the economic collapse in Latin America in the early 2000s sparked private investment ...
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• Costco drops banhammer on Coke products

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 740
  Costco has taken a surprising stance in a pricing dispute with the Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Company, banning Coke products from Costco stores. A Costco executive confirmed the ban to the AP , citing the disagreement over pricing, but refusing to comment further on the ongoing dispute. Coke told the AP that they ...
  6 days ago

• Marketers, NNPC trade blames as fuel crisis worsens – Vanguard

  
  Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority: 151
  Long fuel queues have hit Lagos State and other major cities across the country, as the problem of logistics hinders efforts by the Pipeline Products and Marketing Company, PPMC, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to discharge products from its imported cargoes for distribution to ...
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• Resistance-1, Allowing-0

  
  Good Vibe Blog — Authority: 116
  For “good” medical reasons, Joe’s vet put him on a restrictive diet about three weeks ago.  No more free feeding; no more table scraps. (She and a neurology specialist determined that an extra 20 pounds pressured nerves that were damaged in an old car accident, causing tremors and other unpleasant side ...
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• Mugged in Barcelona…on the way to Copenhagen

  
  Kings of War — Authority: 515
  Following on from Pat Porter’s licence to stray a bit (but perhaps as I can demonstrate in the conclusion to this post, only a bit) I wanted to share the following thoughts on the current negotiations on climate change. A diplomat from a country in sub-Saharan Africa went to Barcelona for an important conference.  ...
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• What do you do about local businesses who Twitter but don’t follow back?

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 437
  Internet reciprocity and local business Tell me, what is my obligation to help a local business who won’t help anyone else? Or if I am at work, what is my obligation to help a colleague who won’t help anyone else. Reciprocity norms under scarcity and abundance My instincts are all wrong.  I come from a country ...
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• Nuclear Fallout: Nevada Takes Hard Look at Contaminated Groundwater From Historic Testing Grounds

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 534
  The Yucca Flat area of the Nevada Test Site is scarred with subsidence craters from underground nuclear testing. View larger image. Decades of nuclear weapons testing has contaminated an estimated 1.6 trillion gallons of groundwater in the Nevada desert, a region where clean water is scarce and getting scarcer. ...
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• Greetings from Sunny Sweden

  
  Open Source Ecology — Authority: 413
  Sweden is not exactly sunny at this time of the year, but the Nordic people are lovely. So far, it’s been a mind-blowing experience at the Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit (FSCONS 2009) . One cannot explain it in writing – not even by watching the videos – because it is the atmosphere of freedom and ...
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• Madagascar Cancels Water Deal with Saudi Arabia

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 534
  Madagascar’s government has ended a water export deal with Saudi Arabia because it was opposed by environmental, civil society groups in the country. A proposed deal to export water from the Faraony River in Madagascar to Saudi Arabia has been canceled, Global Water News Watch reports. The deal would have ...
  1 week ago

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