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A Global Green New Deal for Sustainable Development
2013-11-11 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Eight decades ago, during the Great Depression, newly elected U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt introduced the New Deal consisting of a number of mutually supporting initiatives of which the most prominent were: A public works programme financed by deficit financing A new social contract to improve living standards for working families, and Regulation of financial markets to protect assets of ordinary citizens and to channel financial resources into productive investment. Today,...
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More than half of UK palm oil meets "sustainable" standards
2013-11-11 10:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: More than half of palm oil imported into the UK to be used in products such as cosmetics, food and fuel now comes from sustainable certified sources, marking a step forward for the government's commitment to use only sustainable palm oil by 2015. According to a new report by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to be released today, the proportion of sustainable palm oil coming into Britain has more than doubled since 2009, when it stood at 24 per cent. The government...
USDA Announces Cool Planet And The Bioenergy Alliance Network Of The Rockies Receive $10M To Develop Sustainable Biofuels From Beetle-Killed Wood
2013-11-11 03:31:57| pollutiononline News Articles
Cool Planet Energy Systems, a developer of small scale bio-refineries for the conversion of non-food biomass into biofuels and soil enhancing biochar, as a member of the Bioenergy Alliance Network of the Rockies (BANR), was awarded a grant by the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to develop the scientific underpinnings for using beetle-killed wood as a sustainable feedstock for distributed bio-refineries
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B-Line: Sustainable Urban Delivery
2013-11-08 23:20:38| PortlandOnline
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Levi Strauss unveils new sustainable line born out of innovation lab
2013-11-08 12:54:04| Apparel - Topix.net
From its newly minted innovation lab in San Francisco, Levi Strauss & Co. on Wednesday unveiled its newest, most thoughtful line of men's clothing yet: Dockers Wellthread.
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