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


    Climate Change: The Next GenerationAuthority 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 ...
    9 hours ago
  • China’s stimulus: after the binge, the hangover?


    Global DashboardAuthority 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 ...
    1 day ago
  • Philanthropy’s Place in Travel


    Where's the Travel Answer ManAuthority 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 ...
    2 days ago
  • World’s most energy-efficient supercomputer recognized


    Thaindian NewsAuthority 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 ChoiceAuthority 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 UpdatesAuthority 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 NZAuthority 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 DashboardAuthority 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.  ...
    4 days ago
  • Are You REALLY Aware of Your Options?


    JVBloggerAuthority 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 MuseumAuthority 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 NewsAuthority 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 ...
    5 days ago
  • Water Scarcity, Food Security Concerns Prompt Global Land Grab


    Circle of Blue | WaterNewsAuthority 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 ...
    5 days ago
  • Costco drops banhammer on Coke products


    The Inquisitr EntertainmentAuthority 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 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 ...
    6 days ago
  • Resistance-1, Allowing-0


    Good Vibe BlogAuthority 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 ...
    1 week ago
  • Mugged in Barcelona…on the way to Copenhagen


    Kings of WarAuthority 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.  ...
    1 week ago
  • What do you do about local businesses who Twitter but don’t follow back?


    flowing motionAuthority 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 ...
    1 week ago
  • Nuclear Fallout: Nevada Takes Hard Look at Contaminated Groundwater From Historic Testing Grounds


    Circle of Blue | WaterNewsAuthority 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. ...
    1 week ago
  • Greetings from Sunny Sweden


    Open Source EcologyAuthority 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 ...
    1 week ago
  • Madagascar Cancels Water Deal with Saudi Arabia


    Circle of Blue | WaterNewsAuthority 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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