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(author unknown), NPR Topics: Environment
After a tornado nearly destroyed Greensburg, Kan., in May, city leaders came up with a revival plan: make it the greenest town in America. Among the projects are new homes and buildings that are more efficient than the ones they replaced....
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Dec 27, 2008
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Catherine Makino , IPS Inter Press Service - Environment
TOKYO, Jul 4 (IPS) - Japan wants countries to reconsider biofuels as an alternative technology to fight climate change by using fuel cell cars at the Group of Eight (G8) Summit on Jul. 4-7. The vehicles will transport the leaders of the world's major industrialised nations when they gather on the...
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Jul 04, 2008
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(author unknown), Reuters: Environment
BERLIN (Reuters) - None of the G8 countries have come close to fulfilling their pledges to fight climate change with the United States, Canada and Russia lagging especially far behind, a study published on Thursday found....
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Jul 04, 2008
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(author unknown), Reuters: Environment
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia should adopt a broad-based emissions trading scheme that includes energy and transport but which also compensates industries whose offshore rivals do not adopt emissions curbs, the country's climate change adviser said on Friday....
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Jul 04, 2008
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(author unknown), Reuters: Environment
TOKYO (Reuters) - G8 leaders will agree to take their own initiatives to reduce or abolish import tariffs on industrial goods that aid efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions and thus help fight global warming, Japan's Asahi newspaper said on Friday....
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Jul 04, 2008
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(author unknown), NYT > Environment
Japan’s single-minded dedication to reducing energy use, which dates to the 1970s, has given it the potential to play a rare leadership role on a pressing global issue....
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Jul 04, 2008
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(author unknown), NYT > Environment
A study using 17 years of satellite measurements suggests that the movement of glacial ice is not as rapid as had been feared....
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Jul 04, 2008
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Mark Weisenmiller , IPS Inter Press Service - Environment
TAMPA, Florida, Jul 3 (IPS) - Environmentalists in Florida are excited over the state's planned 1.75-billion-dollar buyout of 187,000 acres of land owned by the United States Sugar Corporation as part of a restoration of the vast Everglades wetlands, although many of the details of the deal remain sketchy....
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Jul 03, 2008
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(author unknown), IdealBite.com Blog
Like Jen, I tend to reserve the aluminum antiperspirant junk for "special" occasions when I know that I may experience some modicum of stress - usually social anxiety, which is only made worse by thoroughly unattractive underarm sweat stains. So, sure, it works, but another sorry side effect of using it...
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Jul 03, 2008
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(author unknown), Reuters: Environment
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Protesters chained themselves to a coal conveyor at one of Australia's largest power stations on Thursday in a protest against climate policies ahead of a major report on emissions trading....
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