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Tallying the environmental cost of meat
2014-08-24 06:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Japan Times: What are the costs of the meat we eat the hamburgers, pork chops and chicken breasts? Not the price we pay for ground beef and so on, but the full costs of meats: the environmental and societal impacts, from birth to burger, and beyond. Some impacts of raising, slaughtering and eating beef come to mind quickly, while others are far less obvious. This summer, while in the United States, I quickly gained a couple of kilograms. This happens every time I visit and spend a lot of time eating and drinking...
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TCEQ Approves Nuclear Waste Site Expansion Despite Environmental Concerns
2014-08-22 17:12:54| Waste Management - Topix.net
In a quiet, private vote yesterday , the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality voted to approve a Dallas-based chemical waste management company's request to triple capacity at its West Texas disposal site.
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Water And Agriculture Leaders Plant Seeds For Environmental Progress In Rare Collaboration
2014-08-22 11:26:15| pollutiononline Home Page
The US Water Alliance issued a report recently highlighting common ground and innovative strategies between agriculture and water and wastewater utilities to reduce nutrient pollution in the Mississippi River Basin.
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Burned birds become new environmental victims of energy quest
2014-08-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NBC: Birds singed in midair by a solar thermal power plant in the Mojave Desert known as "streamers" for the smoke plume they emit viscerally highlight the reality that the quest for energy almost always causes some form of environmental harm, even through technologies considered green and clean. The same power plant that's creating streamers was nearly derailed due to concerns about its potential impact on habitat for rare desert tortoises, for example. Wind power projects routinely kill birds...
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Actioning environmental pledges: Strategic engagement with suppliers...
2014-08-21 09:56:10| Agriculture - Topix.net
Synthesis Group director: 'Are you looking for strategic partnerships or simply just vendors? The term that you give to the relationship that you hold carries a significant weight in terms of the success' Strategic partnerships with ingredients suppliers, not simple vendor contracts, will prove critical to the success of environmental programs like ... (more)
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