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Oases of cool: Taking the heat out of urban living
2013-04-26 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: THE world's coldest capital might seem an unlikely spot for a geoengineering experiment designed to cool things down. But even though the average year-round temperature in Mongolia's capital, Ulan Bator, is close to freezing, the city has to endure sizzling summers coupled with deadly air pollution a combination that has forced the government to try a novel remedy. In November 2011, engineers began to drill a network of holes across 30 hectares of land north of the city and fill them with water....
Are People Living Near Fracking Sites Getting Sick?
2013-04-24 21:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: On April 11,Colorado State Rep. Joann Ginal`s (D-Fort Collins) House Bill 1275 was heard, and died, in committee in the Colorado State Legislature. Rep Ginal`s bill asked and proposed to answer a very honest and simple question, "Are people living near oil and gas drilling and fracking getting sicker than people who don`t?" And, the bill would have provided that information to the public in a short timeframe. Clean Water Action has a door-to-door campaign in the Denver metro area and across the...
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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...
Living with Chromebook: Giving Google's OS a second chance
2013-04-23 00:47:55| CNET News.com
Prologue: How long can I survive with only a cloud-based Chrome OS laptop? [Read more]
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Living with More Pollution: Why Race and Place Still Matter
2013-04-20 18:27:32| Waste Management - Topix.net
Healthy people and healthy places are highly correlated. The poorest of the poor within the U.S. have the worst health and live in the most degraded environments.
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