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Nation's Largest Net Zero Plus Commercial Building Retrofit Starts Construction
2015-07-14 04:09:40| econline News Articles
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 11 and the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Electrical Contractors Association announced recently that construction has begun on the nation’s largest Net Zero Plus commercial building retrofit at their Electrical Training Institute in Los Angeles County
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Schank and Davis: Follow Reagan's lead on nation's highways
2015-07-10 22:10:08| Trucking - Topix.net
The federal transportation program has lacked sustainable funding for so long that states and localities, which rely on federal funding for about 45 percent of their capital investments, cannot make effective long-term planning decisions. Can you name the U.S. president who raised taxes during a recession to fund increased infrastructure investment? Must be a real liberal, right? Actually, it was none other than Ronald Wilson Reagan, in 1982.
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Coastal Nations, Megacities Face 20 Feet of Sea Rise
2015-07-09 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: If, as suggested by a comprehensive new review in the journal Science, 2°C of global warming will lock in at least 20 feet (6 meters) of eventual sea level rise, what would 2°C of warming (3.6°F) mean for the future and heritage of global nations and cities? It would mean a world we don't recognize, one losing more than 444,000 square miles of land, where more than 375 million people live today. China, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, is home to by far the largest share of those...
OU Students Use Nation's Weather Radar Network To Track Bird Migration At Night
2015-07-07 06:30:08| rfglobalnet News Articles
Using the nation’s weather radar network, two University of Oklahoma doctoral students have developed a technique for forecasting something other than the weather: the orientation behavior of birds as they migrate through the atmosphere at night. The students have discovered a way to use the latest dual-polarization radar upgrade to measure broad-scale flight orientation of nocturnal migrant birds—a promising development for biologists and bird enthusiasts.
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1955 piece honors nation's history - Sat, 04 Jul 2015 PST
2015-07-04 10:39:28| Railroads - Topix.net
Dear Readers: Happy Fourth of July! Here's one of our favorite pieces, originally written in 1955 as a public relations advertisement for the Norfolk and Western Railway company magazine and updated in 1976. Although some of the statistics have changed over the years, the sentiment remains the same.
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