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Sydney dims down for Earth Hour climate change protest
2013-03-23 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Australia's biggest city, Sydney, has switched off its lights for an hour as the Earth Day climate change protest gets under way across the globe. A small crowd cheered and applauded as the skyline went dark. The Opera House was lit in a deep shade of green to symbolise renewable energy. The annual event is organised by WWF, the global environment campaign. It encourages cities and individuals to switch off non-essential lights for an hour at 20:30 local time. Critics have dismissed the...
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12 arrested during coal co. protest
2013-03-20 01:52:32| Energy - Topix.net
Protesters have again marched in St. Louis over plans to take away health care and pension benefits for retired coal miners.
Honduras: Activists Protest Lack of Transparency in Extractive Industry
2013-03-19 18:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The Honduran government's announcement of its plans to join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) has raised expectations as well as doubts, particularly due to the speed with which it aims to complete a process that has taken several years in other countries of the region. The EITI is a coalition of governments, companies, civil society groups, investors and international organisations that promotes better governance in countries rich in natural resources, through the publication...
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Ricken Patel: the global leader of online protest
2013-03-17 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Last week, a 36-year-old man named Ricken Patel gave the Commonwealth Lecture at the Guildhall in London. It was entitled "The opportunity of our time" and promised a "new politics, a new activism, a new democracy". The vaunting sense of optimism contained in those phrases is typical of Patel, a man who combines Panglossian platitudes with tough political nous to beguiling effect. He is not a politician, however, or some multimillionaire megalomaniac, but the founder and president of Avaaz, an...
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Online Petitions Protest Google Reader Shutdown
2013-03-15 02:34:32| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
The movement to save Google Reader has begun, with petitions popping up on Change.org and keepgooglereader.com.
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