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Shopko donates tools to local Habitat for Humanity

2013-06-25 23:15:13| Appliances - Topix.net

Shopko and Stanley Black and Decker have teamed up to donate nearly 100 power tools to Greater Green Bay Area Habitat for Humanity.

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GF2045: Brains, avatars, androids, and the future of humanity

2013-06-19 17:21:40| Extremetech

This past weekend in the New York arguably the most important conference of the year, Global Future 2045, was held. This might sound like an overstatement but no other conference exists that states grander goals, and then tries to chart the path to those goals through science.

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Farm Animal Diversity Declines as Accelerating Losses Threaten Humanity

2013-05-28 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

GLOBAL - The accelerating disappearance of Earth's species of both wild and domesticated plants and animals constitutes a fundamental threat to the well-being and even the survival of humankind, warns the founding Chair of a new global organization created to narrow the gulf between leading international biodiversity scientists and national policy-makers.

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Stressed Ecosystems Leaving Humanity High and Dry

2013-05-21 23:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Inter Press Service: Everyone knows water is life. Far too few understand the role of trees, plants and other living things in ensuring we have clean, fresh water. This dangerous ignorance results in destruction of wetlands that once cleaned water and prevented destructive and costly flooding, scientists and activists warn."We have accelerated major processes like erosion, applied massive quantities of nitrogen that leaks from soil to ground and surface waters and, sometimes, literally siphoned all water from rivers."...

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