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03.04: Rachel Cantor & Jeremy Bushnell

2014-02-18 23:35:12| Powells Books Events Calendar

In the spirit of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Rachel Cantor's A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee's Guide to Saving the World (Melville House) is a hilarious dystopian novel about a world ruled by fast food companies, where book clubs lead the revolution. With the outlandish humor of Kevin Smith's Dogma, Jeremy Bushnell's debut, The Weirdness (Melville House), reveals the dark underbelly of the New York literary scene — an imaginative novel about finding meaning in life, confronting your biggest critics, and discovering that a boring life might be the best life of all.

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Rachel Maddow Exposes Dirty Deal in Duke Energy Toxic Coal Ash Spill

2014-02-14 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: Hear the latest on the 73 Olympic-size swimming pools worth of toxic sludge that Duke Energy dumped into North Carolina waterways starting Super Bowl Sunday in this Rachel Maddow interview with Michael Gerrard, professor of environmental law at Columbia University. Gerrard talks about a North Carolina federal investigation into this coal ash leak disaster. For more information on this third largest coal ash spill in U.S. history, read Waterkeeper Alliances four-part series: part one, part two,...

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World Bank climate change envoy Rachel Kyte on new mission

2014-01-26 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Financial Times: On a wintry morning in Washington DC (the area is awaiting a fresh blast of Arctic air and a 40F plunge in temperatures) Rachel Kyte, World Bank Group vice-president and special envoy for climate change, answers the door to her clapboard house located just outside the city limits. Kyte is enjoying some time at home but is preparing for another gruelling trip across the globe, culminating in back-to-back meetings in Davos. This month she took up her new vice-president post after World Bank president...

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