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Save the date for Gaining Ground: A New Film on Food Justice and Feeding Our Communities Sustainably
2013-05-06 21:46:21| PortlandOnline
Gaston sees uptick in building projects; official says, 'I think it’s our time'
2013-05-06 16:02:58| Grocery - Topix.net
Motorists crossing the South Fork River on Wilkinson Boulevard see a major earth-moving project that's making way for a new complex of luxuary apartments and commercial space.
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When It Comes to Fighting Climate Change, We Need All the Tools in Our Tool Belt to Win
2013-05-01 23:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The passing of another Earth Day seems to have some pundits waxing nostalgic. One such pundit, Nicholas Lemann of the New Yorker, wrote a glowing piece about the hundreds of thousands of Americans who turned out for the first Earth Day in 1970. He even went as far to say that the absence of grassroots action in today's environmental movement allowed Congress to sidestep climate legislation in 2009 and 2010. The groundswell of support for the first Earth Day was indeed a potent force. It was the...
PPG Industries' research at Harmar could revolutionize how we illuminate our lives
2013-04-28 09:31:09| Chemicals - Topix.net
At PPG Industries' research center in Harmar -- a place where floor-to-ceiling glass windows and skylights allow natural light to flood the lobby, corridors and employee cafeteria -- researchers are working to develop materials for use in new lighting systems that have the potential to slash electricity use in the U.S. The study of glass, coatings ... (more)
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This faith in the markets is misplaced: only governments can save our living planet
2013-04-24 09:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In other ages, states sought to seize as much power as they could. Today, the self-hating state renounces its powers. Governments anathematise governance. They declare their role redundant and illegitimate. They launch furious assaults on their own branches, seeking wherever possible to lop them off. This self-mutilation is a response to the fact that power has shifted. States now operate at the behest of others. Deregulation, privatisation, the shrinking of the scope, scale and spending of the...
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