3.09.2012
MUST READ: Why Climate Change is a Matter of National Security Consumer Energy Report
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I may bring down the wrath of the internet with this essay - I know from experience that talking climate change in a public forum draws out all the trolls.
Care about Your Heart & Lungs? You Should Care about Carbon Emissions (Driving Costs More than Gas Prices Show) cleantechnica
Posted: 09 Mar 2012 06:03 AM PST
Carbon emissions are horrifying little things, by which I mean tiny little particles of high octane nightmare fuel. It's now clear that carbon emissions are linked to heart and lung cancer. NAZI ISRAEL MURDERS. US PRESS, LICKS THEIR BALLS: Israeli Airstrike Kills a Militant Leader in GazaNew York Times
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By YAAKOV LAPPIN AND JPOST.COM STAFF Hamas says 2 more terrorists killed in 2nd IAF strike of the day; 1st strike kills PRC official Hanini, PRC chief Qaisi, who was at final stages of planning major terror attack against Israeli targets, says IDF.
Australia’s flood crisis was set to cost in excess of $530 million in New South Wales alone [AFP}
[AFP}
Australia’s flood crisis was set to cost in excess of $530 million in New South Wales alone
Australia’s flood crisis was set to cost in excess of $530 million in New South Wales alone
FG Gets $508m World Bank Grant For Erosion Control Leadership Newspapers
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Speaking yesterday at the proposed Nigerian Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP), the Minister of Environment, Hadiza Ibrahim Mailafia, said the seriousland degradation problems faced by Nigeria posed great threats to its social economic ...
Farmers hail value of conservation programsMinneapolis Star Tribune
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Or to hear environmentalists tell it: The landmark 1985 treaty to curb erosion is, well, eroding. That's the thrust of a report out Monday from the Environmental Working Group that warns early progress reducing soil erosion has stalled and in some ...
Ohio Quakes Probably Caused by Drilling-Fluid Well, Report Says Bloomberg
Bloomberg -
Earthquakes last year in Ohio were probably caused by wastewater from oil and natural-gas drilling injected into a disposal well, and regulations are needed to address concern about seismic activity, a state report said.
EPA Issues 2011 Fuel Economy Trends Report EP Magazine
EP Magazine -
The average fuel efficiency for new cars and light duty trucks has increased while the average carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions continue to decrease for the seventh consecutive year, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) annual ...
GOPigs believe that what you don’t know can’t hurt them. NYT Krugman
New York Times -
One way in which Americans have always been exceptional has been in our support for education. First we took the lead in universal primary education; then the “high school movement” made us the first nation to embrace widespread secondary education.
Waldrop: The spiritual 'tipping point' in global warning newsvirginian
Waldrop: The spiritual 'tipping point' in global warning
Germany to Install Record Solar Panels This Year, DIHK Says Bloomberg
Bloomberg -
Germany will probably install a record amount of solar panels this year even as the world's biggest market for the industry plans to cut subsidies, according to the DIHK national industry and trade chambers.
Solar energy-harvesting “nanotrees” could produce hydrogen fuel on a mass scale Gizmag
Gizmag -
Like forests, this structure maximizes the amount of solar energy that can be captured, with the vertical structures trapping and absorbing the light, while the flat surfaces reflect it.
Global installed wind capacity has grown at an average annual rate of nearly 27% over the last 10 years sacramento bee
Sacramento Bee -
By Kline & Company PARSIPPANY, NJ, March 8, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Global installed wind capacity has grown at an average annual rate of nearly 27% over the last 10 years, according to the recently published report Lubricants for Wind Turbines 2011: ...
Wind Energy Industry Boosted by Booming Repowering Market REVE
REVE -
Installed wind farm capacity is set to increase as wind power markets are expected to witness massive growth in multiple regions, following a temporary decline caused by the global recession.
Privately generated wind energy picking up RenewablesBiz
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Anchored into the ground by concrete footings and supported by steel cables on a 70-foot tower is the retired Newton public works employee's private source of wind power. "We're green, and we eventually want to get off the grid," Swank said about his ...
'Strong Women, Strong World:' Working to End the Cycle of Poverty and ... Christian Post
Christian Post -
WOV is a volunteer ministry of the well-known 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization World Vision. World Vision serves as a Christian humanitarian organization to tackle the challenges of global poverty and injustice in over 100 countries around the world.
It Takes Women to End Global Poverty Women's eNews
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By Cassandra Q. Butts Women produce half of the world's food, earn 10 percent of the world's income and own less than 1 percent of the world's property. The US Government's Millennium Challenge Corporation says its anti-poverty efforts aim to change ...
UN chief says anti-poverty goals can be metWNCT
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said there has been “broad progress” in achieving the Millennium Development Goals in reducing poverty, but some regions like sub-Saharan Africa are not seeing progress yet. (Reuters) By Reuters The world has been able ...
Closer Look: Deep Poverty in Retreat, Even Through the Great Recession New York Times
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By ANDREW C. REVKIN The good news that (happily) violated that norm and rippled in headlines this week came in a World Bank report showing a broad reduction in deep poverty and concluding that the great global recession did not increase poverty in the ...
Piedmont group on hunger strike to support undocumented immigrant
My Fox 8 -
Members from the group El Cambio, which translates to The Change, have been on a hunger strike since Monday night. “I feel so weak.
San Leandro students start hunger strike to protest school budget cuts Inside Bay Area
Inside Bay Area -
By Jason Sweeney Three San Leandro High School students announced Tuesday night that they are holding a hunger strike to protest the fifth year of budget cuts in the school district.
Two-month hunger strike leaves Iranian blogger weak Storyful
Storyful -
The Iranian blogger and government critic Mehdi Khazali entered his 61st day of hunger strike inside the notorious Evin prison in Tehran on Friday.
United Nations Hunger Strike By Tibetan Monks Enters 17th Day Village Voice
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9 2012 at 6:00 AM Today marks the start of the 17th day of a hunger strike outside the United Nations building in midtown for three Tibetan monks who are protesting China's repression of Tibet, and demanding that the UN recognize their homeland as an ...
Hunger-Striking Students Finally See Some Progress for University of Virginia ... AlterNet
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But they said they found strength and warmth in the growing support for the cause that had led them to launch a hunger strike. "It's hard not to eat," said Marguerite Beattie, a fourth-year psychology major, "but imagining what the workers are going ...
Israel must not bind itself to Netanyahu's vulgar rhetoric on Iran Haaretz
Haaretz -
Anyone who cares about Israel's future could not help but feel a chill upon hearing Benjamin Netanyahu's recent speech at the AIPAC conference - if not because of the gravity of the existential threat it described, then because of its sheer vulgarity ...
Gestapo Terrorize Ghetto: Israeli settlers uproot & take 100 Olive trees owned by Palestinian ... The Muslim News
The Muslim News -
Palestinian farmers, from the southern West Bank villages of Al Khadier and Beit Iskaria, announced that a group of [Israeli] settlers invaded on Thursday morning their lands and uprooted 100 young olive trees and took them away.
Israel's ex-spy chief says more efforts needed before considering attack on Iran Washington Post
Washington Post -
JERUSALEM - The recently retired head of the Mossad intelligence agency has said Israel must consider alternatives to a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, but another expert said Friday an Israeli attack could come within months.
Global warming has chilling effect on forest budgets Real Aspen
Real Aspen -
By Troy Hooper The warming climate is breeding more beetle-ravaged forest and prolonged fire seasons, US Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell testified before a Senate committee on Tuesday, as he fielded questions about the White House's proposed agency ...
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