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| Amazon Deforestation Trend On The Increase
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon forests has flipped from a decreasing to an increasing trend, according to new annual figures recently released by the country's space agency INPE. ...continue...
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2009-01-05 - energy - United States
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| Why Obama's green jobs plan might work
Some states -- including Michigan -- already see renewable energy as their future: It's the only sector that appears to be making room for more employees despite the recession.
While De ...continue...
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2009-01-05 - environment - United States
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| What's an 'environmental externality'?
If I buy bread from you, when you want to sell it to me, and we agree on a price, that's a deal between the two of us. Now imagine that you getting up early to bake bread wakes two people who woul ...continue...
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2009-01-04 - sustainability - International
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| 6 Reasons Why Nuclear Power Can't Save Us
A new book shows that it is not just the cost of nuke plants and their deadly waste that is the energy source's only problems. An excerpt from The Transition Handbook: From oil dependency to local ...continue...
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2009-01-03 - food - United Kingdom
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| Food needs 'fundamental rethink'
A sustainable global food system in the 21st Century needs to be built on a series of "new fundamentals", according to a leading food expert. Tim Lang warned that the current system, d ...continue...
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2008-12-23 - development - International
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| Carbon Markets - What's In It for the Poor?
Climate experts meeting in Poznan, Poland, promised to create a new pot of carbon-credit gold for the rural poor as guardians of rural lands and forests. But there are many who warn that the gold will ...continue...
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2008-12-23 - climate - International
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2008-12-15 - climate - United States
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| Tiny MIT ecosystem may shed light on climate change
MIT researchers have created a microbial ecosystem smaller than a stick of gum that sheds new light on the plankton-eat-plankton world at the bottom of the aquatic food chain. The work, reported in th ...continue...
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2008-12-15 - climate - European Union
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| Climate deal slammed as a 'mirage'
European industry and the power generation sector in eastern Europe are the big winners coming out of deliberations between EU premiers and presidents on the bloc's climate package. EU leaders wer ...continue...
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2008-12-12 - energy - Africa
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| Charcoal in the Mist ? Alternatives Exist !
Decades ago, on the forested slopes of the Virunga Volcanoes area, Dian Fossey carried out her well-known research on the life and behaviour of the endangered mountain gorillas. Her memoirs "Gori ...continue...
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2008-12-11 - energy - Africa
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2008-12-08 - climate - International
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| U.N. climate talks leave youth out in the cold
There’s plenty of hot air filling the sprawling conference centre that houses the U.N. climate change talks this week and next in Poznan, Poland. But many of the 500 or so youth participants in ...continue...
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2008-12-08 - development - International
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| Access to Finance the Key to Helping the Poor
At the Doha Conference on Financing for Development, Ricarda McFalls, Managing Director of the WBCSD Development Focus Area, stressed that access to finance was one of the cornerstones of a thriving S ...continue...
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Babbage Cabbage is a new form of empathetic living media used to communicate social or ecological information in the form of a living slow media feedback display. In the fast paced modern world people are generally too busy to monitor various significant social or human aspects of their lives, such as time spent with their family, their overall health, state of the ecology, etc. By quantifying such information digitally, information is coupled in
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Our recent report on the annual value of coral reefs and mangroves in Belize - put at between US$150-196 million, or between 12 and 15 per cent of the country’s GDP - raises a very topical question. At a time when governments are handing
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Hope Floats for "Carbon Sinks"
As of November 24, 2008, the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is up to 387.968 ppm1, the highest it’s been for at least 650,000 years, and the rate of increase is ever accelerating. Scientists believe that these devastating continue..
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Financial innovation for a planet in peril
Now that a new promising US president will take office on January 20th, 2009, a window of opportunity has widened for transformative leadership, accelerated international cooperation, and political momentum in support of profound change. Fundamen continue..
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The Cash in Your Trash: the Value of Recyclables
The current economic crisis is affecting the environmental movement in the U.S. and Europe. While the economic crisis has the potential to motivate the creation of more green jobs, and an increased commitment to the development of alternative energie continue..
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