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Davos 2013: Four simple environmental ideas to consider
2013-01-24 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: The World Economic Forum 2013 has spawned an impressive collection of reports that build a strong case for prompt and substantial action on climate change, development and sustainability. The Global Risks Report 2013 warns that stresses on economic and environmental systems are on a collision course that could pose unprecedented challenges to global and national resilience. The Green Investment Report warns of the dangers of surpassing 2°C of warming and calls for investing US$700 billion...
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Recipharm AB International Environmental Award 2012 Won by
2013-01-24 09:28:53| Appliances - Topix.net
DamiA BarcelA3, Director of the Catalan Institute for Water Research and research professor at the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Studies .
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From Activist to EPA: A Q&A with New Director for the Office of Environmental Justice
2013-01-23 21:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Matthew Tejada has been tapped as the EPA's new Director for the Office of Environmental Justice. As executive director of the Air Alliance Houston for five years, Tejada fought against pollution in poor neighborhoods surrounding Gulf Coast ports. Expected to begin his new role in early March, he'll have no shortage of challenges ahead. As EHN's series, Pollution, Poverty, People of Color, highlighted last summer, a legacy of lingering environmental problems and new dangers are jeopardizing people...
Are Biomass and Biofuel Environmental Solutions for the Future?
2013-01-23 15:30:52| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Industrial businesses looking to reduce their landfill contributions are turning in increasing numbers to biomass processes. But what exactly are biomass and biorefineries? And how will they change manufacturing procedures?
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Report: Evidence backs greater role for environmental 'precautionary principle'
2013-01-23 11:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Policymakers and businesses have been urged to take a more cautious approach to the development and deployment of new technologies, following the publication today of a major new report arguing that early warnings from scientists about the environmental impacts of new technologies are often entirely justified. The 750-page study from the European Environment Agency (EEA) provides an update to the Late Lessons report of 2001, which explored how new technologies were later found to have harmful...
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