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Education and Youth Success PEG: Agenda for January 22, 2013 meeting is available.
2013-01-15 02:38:59| PortlandOnline
PEG members will be provided with a guided tour of the newly published Comprehensive Plan Working Draft (Part 1), and will discuss draft goals and policies in the context of education and youth success.
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Keeping a growing Austin green and weird is no easy task
2013-01-11 20:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: A few months ago, an Austin writer took to the pages of the New York Times to fret about the fate of his city. Austin, it seems, is getting too big for its famously weird britches. Not too long ago, an older gentleman fond of wearing high heels and a thong in public ran for mayor three times, Richard Parker wrote. Now, Austin has a Grand Prix racing track, restaurants teeming with celebrities, and yuppies crowding out families. [I]n the wake of the Armstrong debacle, its hard not to think that...
Throwing our food away: Up to 50% of the food produced worldwide is wasted
2013-01-11 00:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A new report titled Global food, waste not, want not published by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers has found that 30 to 50 percent of all food produced in the world never reaches a stomach. The authors of the study warn that these figures are quite conservative. The large amounts of land, energy, fertilizers and water that are wasted in the food production have not been accounted for. In developing countries this waste is mostly due to inefficient harvesting methods, poor storage and transportation...
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Neighborhood Centers PEG: Agenda for January 17, 2012 meeting is available
2013-01-10 21:54:52| PortlandOnline
PEG members will discuss the draft Urban Design Framework and the topic of the design and scale of new development in centers and corridors.
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Year's best overall diet is ...
2013-01-08 17:28:17| Biotech - Topix.net
For the third year in a row, the DASH Diet Eating Plan has been named the best overall diet by U.S. News & World Report.
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