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The dirty little secret to tackling climate change
2013-04-18 12:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Crikey: Forget the carbon price, forget the opposition`s Direct Action climate plan. Australia could probably meet its targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions without either, provided we did one thing. But you won`t hear the politicians talk about it. A statistical analysis by Crikey, based on data released this week, indicates that if Australia`s high population growth rate were reined in, the country would already be meeting its targets to cut pollution. In fact, we`d probably be under those targets....
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Samsung Plays Dirty in the Comments Section
2013-04-18 01:34:14| PC Magazine Cell Phones Product Guide
The allegations that Samsung hired people to post negative comments about HTC brings attention to the flaws of online review systems.
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Samsung Plays Dirty in the Comments Section
2013-04-17 22:56:22| PC Magazine: the Official John C. Dvorak RSS Feed
The allegations that Samsung hired people to post negative comments about HTC brings attention to the flaws of online review systems.
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Stalling on a Burning Planet: World's Energy as Dirty as it Was 20 Years Ago
2013-04-17 18:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Common Dreams: The world's lack of progress on low-carbon energy should be "a wake-up call" to avoid a path towards catastrophic global warming, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a grim assessment on Wednesday. Despite much talk by world leaders, and despite a boom in renewable energy over the last decade, the average unit of energy produced today is basically as dirty as it was 20 years ago, stated IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven. IEA gave its sobering findings in its annual report...
Meet the woman who shut down Chicagos dirty coal plants
2013-04-15 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Last summer, clean-air activists celebrated the shutdown of Chicagos notorious Fisk and Crawford coal power plants, which ended the Windy Citys distinction as the only U.S. metropolis to house two operating coal facilities. The victory came thanks to a dogged grassroots battle waged by residents of Little Village and Pilsen, the predominantly Latino, working-class neighborhoods bearing the brunt of the plants pollution. Today, the woman who spearheaded that battle, lifelong Little Village resident...
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