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The Solution Is the Soil: How Organic Farming Can Feed the World and Save the Planet

2014-10-10 04:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Ecology: ne man, backed by many, marches on Washington to tell lawmakers and the world that 'there is hope right beneath our feet.` Just over a week ago, the executive director of the Rodale Institute, Mark 'Coach` Smallwood, set out from the group`s research farm in eastern Pennsylvania on a 160-mile journey to Washington, DC with a walking stick, a brimmed hat, and a simple but profound message: We can not only stop climate change. We can reverse it. When Smallwood makes his expected arrival in the...

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How Megacities Have Taken Over the Planet

2014-10-07 19:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: With more and more of the world`s population moving into urban centers, the number of such areas with more than 10 million people has exploded in the last quarter century. In 1990 there were only 10 of these "megacities," with about seven percent of the global population. Now there are 28, according to the UN report on World Urbanization. The total number of people living in megacities has grown from 153 million to 453 million during that period, says the UN report. About 12 percent of the world`s...

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USDA Issues Conditional Commitment For $91MM Loan Guarantee To Cool Planet

2014-10-06 08:28:12| pollutiononline Home Page

Cool Planet Energy Systems recently was issued a $91MM conditional commitment from the United States Department of Agriculture for a loan guarantee to support construction of the company's first commercial manufacturing plant

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