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Posted on Friday, December 16, 2011 11:51 AM
Interactive Online Map Shows Potential Long-Term Climate Impact in Every State; Prompts Calls for Action
In 2011, there were at least 2,941 monthly
weather records broken in communities throughout the US., as detailed in
a new interactive extreme weather mapping tool and year-end review
released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council. The powerful
web-based tool allows Americans to draw the connections between climate
change ( http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/climatebasics.asp) and extreme weather in the cities and towns in which they live. |
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Posted on Tuesday, November 29, 2011 9:24 PM
Greater
reproductive choice and measures to reduce resource consumption and
waste are critical to reducing humanity's environmental impactAs
the global population surpasses 7 billion people sometime around the
end of October, addressing the challenges associated with a
still-growing world population will require a two-pronged response,
according to experts with the Worldwatch Institute. The combined
measures of empowering women to make their own decisions about
childbearing and significantly reducing global consumption of energy and
natural resources would move humanity toward rather than further away
from environmentally sustainable societies that meet human needs. |
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Posted on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 10:42 AM
The latest financial face-off in Washington is over a government
function near and dear to coastal hearts -- disaster relief. But the
scope -- and the potential impact -- of this battle could extend far
from the nation's shorelines... and perhaps to the heart of what most
people expect government to do. The immediate dilemma is disasters -- plenty of them, at this point
affecting every corner of this country. It's faster to name the states
that have not had a disaster declaration this year than all the others
(42 so far this year) who have endured snow, storms, floods and fires. |
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Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 12:07 PM
London, UK, 21 September 2011– Today,PUMA.Peaceannounced
a new annual art commission celebrating World Peace Day—an
international UN day of ceasefire, and a day for individuals,
organizations and countries to demonstrate acts of peace. PUMA.Peace,
for 2011, has commissioned seven
international artists and filmmakers to create original works focusing
on the strength of personal acts of peace and how each of us can
contribute to a better world. The films will be shown at peace events
globally, as well as at peace games—a PUMA/adidas tradition—in cities
from as far afield as Dubai, Herzogenaurach, Mexico City, San Diego, Subang, Tokyo and many more. |
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Posted on Tuesday, September 06, 2011 10:22 PM
Australia became the latest country to join the
global movement toward robust truth-in-labeling laws that protect
consumers by requiring that wine growing place names are reserved
exclusively for the regions where the wines come from. Most
Australian wine producers stopped using Champagne and other misleading
wine growing place names many years ago. On September 1, 2011,
Australian law officially reserved “Champagne” exclusively for wines
from Champagne, France. |
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Posted on Friday, September 02, 2011 11:28 AM
Washington, D.C. -
Global production of biofuels increased 17 percent in 2010 to reach an
all-time high of 105 billion liters, up from 90 billion liters in 2009.
High oil prices, a global economic rebound, and new laws and mandates in
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, and the United States, among other
countries, are all factors behind the surge in production, according to
research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute's Climate and Energy
Program for the website Vital Signs Online. |
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