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Feeding its people, India also confronts huge climate change challenge
2013-01-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: India has to find a new model of development if the twin challenges of job creation and climate change are to be met, says an Oxford University academic, Barbara Harriss-White, of the Oxford Department of International Development. "At present economic development in India is looked at very much in terms of catching up with Europe and East Asia", says Professor Harriss-White, a South Asia expert and part of an Oxford-based team investigating greenhouse gas emissions in India's informal economy...
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Industry Buzz: People, Strategy and Promotions
2013-01-29 22:55:55| ENR.com: Headline News
Updates and tidbits for construction firm owners and executives
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Look At the Polls People, Rejecting Keystone XL Is a Political Winner for President Obama
2013-01-28 14:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline have made a bombproof environmental case against project. There is a lot of conjecture about KXL, but facts are facts. Keystone XL is an export pipeline; it will increase global warming emissions; and it will benefit giant oil and gas companies that already have a vice-like grip on our political system. But thus far opponents of KXL--of which I'm one--have yet to make a political argument against KXL that sticks. After all, KXL has become a political hot potato,...
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Helping Borneo's indigenous people fight for their forests
2013-01-28 03:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: In the 1980's and 1990's more timber was removed from the rainforests Borneo than from all of Africa and South America combined. This tragic loss of habitat, with its attendant loss of wildlife and indigenous cultures, has gone largely unrecognized in the United States. Joe Lamb, a Berkeley-based writer, activist, and arborist, has worked to change that. In 1991 Lamb founded The Borneo Project to draw attention to the forgotten rainforest and the indigenous peoples who have been fighting to keep...
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People on the Move
2013-01-25 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
People on the Move spotlights trailblazers in standardization, highlighting their latest achievements, advancements, and contributions to the standards community. The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) accredited standards developer (ASD) and organizational member, has named three individuals - two of them current staff members - to the position of vice president. CEA promoted Siri Tyler to vice president of finance and Karen Chupka to vice ...
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