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VIDEO: Preparing Portland Schools
2013-11-05 23:46:31| PortlandOnline
Short video documentary made by three Grant High School students about the seismic retrofit at Alameda Elementary.
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Courtney's Cake Creations preparing to set up shop
2013-11-02 08:40:09| Furniture - Topix.net
For Courtney Jacobson, a dream of owning her own bakery was years in the making and came with many dud recipes.
Preparing for extreme weather
2013-10-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Aljazeera: Hurricane Katrina wreaks havoc on the Gulf Coast in 2005. Superstorm Sandy brings destruction to the East Coast in 2012. Heavy rains in the middle of the country lead to flooding in the rugged Rocky Mountains in 2013. Each crisis brings greater urgency to preparations for the next storm. Scientists disagree on whether climate change is causing these cataclysms, but agree that humans, whose carbon emissions have altered the environment, need to change their thinking and habits to reflect the new,...
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Preparing for inevitable: What we still dont understand about natural disasters
2013-10-27 10:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: Some natural disasters -- the earth-shattering, world-ending kind -- we can`t prepare for. But smaller disasters, cataclysmic on a local scale, strike all the time. And yet each time they do, they never fail to take us by surprise. The problem isn`t so much that we can`t anticipate disasters, says geologist Susan W. Kieffer, but that the public, and policy makers, don`t understand the way they work as well as they should. In "The Dynamics of Disaster," Kieffer, a professor emerita of geology at...
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United Kingdom: How David Cameron is preparing to disappoint everyone on "green levies"
2013-10-23 15:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: David Cameron caused a furore at Prime Minister's Questions today by declaring that "we need to roll back some of the green regulations and charges". Leaving aside the wisdom of such a spectacular U-turn from a Prime Minister who once declared people should "vote blue, go green", the key question is whether such a move will work, both politically and economically. On both fronts the answer is a categorical no. As I've argued previously, axing green levies will do little to help those struggling...
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