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Washington Gas Energy Services And Sterling Planet Present $132,000 To Chesapeake Bay Foundation At Annual Earth Day Tree Planting
2013-04-20 09:00:00| pollutiononline News Articles
Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF), Washington Gas Energy Services (WGES) and Sterling Planet will celebrate and strengthen the organizations’ unique partnership today with an annual tree planting, held this year in Union Bridge, Md. A combined contribution of $132,000 will be presented to the CBF-directed Carbon Reduction Fund, with $88,000 donated by WGES and $44,000 by Sterling Planet
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Population: Why Empowering Poor Women Is Good for the Planet
2013-04-19 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: Population used to be the environmental issue to end all environmental issuesand Paul Ehrlich was responsible. In 1968 Ehrlich, a demographer, and his wife Anne published The Population Bomb, which warned that overpopulation was going to turn the world into a Malthusian hellscape. The bookwhich was written partially at the suggestion of David Brower, then executive director of the Sierra Clubwas influential and popular, selling over two million copies. What it wasnt was rightthe Ehrlichs failed...
Stalling on a Burning Planet: World's Energy as Dirty as it Was 20 Years Ago
2013-04-17 18:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Common Dreams: The world's lack of progress on low-carbon energy should be "a wake-up call" to avoid a path towards catastrophic global warming, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a grim assessment on Wednesday. Despite much talk by world leaders, and despite a boom in renewable energy over the last decade, the average unit of energy produced today is basically as dirty as it was 20 years ago, stated IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven. IEA gave its sobering findings in its annual report...
Alltech Symposium to Discuss Feeding People, Protecting the Planet
2013-04-15 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Can the agriculture industry feed the world while sustaining its land, air and water? Terms such as "carbon footprint," unheard of ten years ago, now pepper the pages of newspapers and magazines and are gradually making their way into legislation.
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Alltech’s 2013 Symposium to Discuss Feeding People While Protecting the Planet
2013-04-15 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Can the agriculture industry feed the world while sustaining its land, air and water? Terms such as "carbon footprint," unheard of ten years ago, now pepper the pages of newspapers and magazines and are gradually making their way into legislation.
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