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Worldwide electricity production vulnerable to climate and water resource change
2016-01-04 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Climate change impacts and associated changes in water resources could lead to reductions in electricity production capacity for more than 60% of the power plants worldwide from 2040-2069, according to a new study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change. Yet adaptation measures focused on making power plants more efficient and flexible could mitigate much of the decline. "Hydropower plants and thermoelectric power plants--which are nuclear, fossil-, and biomass-fueled plants converting...
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The rise of the millennial industry requires radical change
2016-01-04 19:14:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
As he refocuses his business on the next generation, consultant David Birnbaum explains why he believes the global garment industry is breaking apart - and how competing in the internet age requires retailers and brands, the big internet players, the 'itsy-bitsy' internet industry, and the supplier factories to take an honest look at the problem and try to create realistic solutions.
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Here's the secret to making people care about climate change
2016-01-04 12:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Heres a depressing statistic if youre worried about climate change: 63 percent of Americans say theyre concerned about the issue, but only 47 percent think the government should do anything about it. That divide, known as the attitude-behavior gap, isnt all that uncommon. And activists and politicians have tried all kinds of strategies to address it. Theyve appealed to peoples better nature (Help save the children!) and to their self-interest (Youll get a tax write-off!). Each...
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Departures Change Execs at Smucker
2016-01-04 03:03:00| Food Processing
Byrd retires, West leaves, so executives shuffled.
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Clean Air and Climate Change: Two Books to Get You Going
2016-01-03 05:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: A couple of years ago, my extended family gathered for Thanksgiving in Los Angeles. Looking across a splendid vista over the city, my 40-something nephew asked me, "Is it true that 40 years ago you couldn't see the hills on the other side?" Progress, I thought, that he really had no idea how smoggy it used to be. And that's a source of satisfaction for one who spent his career working to clean the air. But progress brings a new burden: to tell the history of how the air got cleaned up. And to...
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