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New initiative aims to create social change
2015-03-06 16:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: A new social enterprise initiative is inviting people to become involved in a fellowship that aims to connect people who share a vision and appetite for social change. Pioneers for Change will provide a six-month Fellowship that includes virtual mentoring and executive coaching alongside a two-day forum. The initiative aims to bring together wealth holders, entrepreneurs, investors, career changers and talented thinkers and do-ers to explore social innovation and impact. The forum aims to develop...
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On snowy D.C. day, Senate hearing on the Arctic turns to climate change
2015-03-06 16:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: There is only one bit of official business in the United States Senate Thursday, as a late-season snowstorm blankets Washington: A hearing on "opportunities for the United States to build on its status as an Arctic nation." The appropriateness of holding the hearing during a snowstorm was much remarked upon by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who convened a panel before the Energy and Natural Resources Committee that included two fellow Alaskans, a Mainer and a professor from Washington state....
GOP White House contenders: An early rundown climate change positions
2015-03-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Freshly formed snowball in hand, Republican Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma took the Senate floor last week. He was there to discuss the "hysteria on global warming," he said, citing the snowball and a frigid winter in Washington, D.C. as evidence that the climate isn't changing. The senator was roundly criticized for being out of touch with the science of global warmingwhich involves fiercer winter storms. His prop threw the Republican Party's views on climate change into sharp relief. While top...
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Climate change: why the Guardian is putting threat to Earth front and centre
2015-03-06 13:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Journalism tends to be a rear-view mirror. We prefer to deal with what has happened, not what lies ahead. We favour what is exceptional and in full view over what is ordinary and hidden. Famously, as a tribe, we are more interested in the man who bites a dog than the other way round. But even when a dog does plant its teeth in a man, there is at least something new to report, even if it is not very remarkable or important. There may be other extraordinary and significant things happening ...
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If enough of us decide that climate change is a crisis worthy of Marshall Plan levels of response
2015-03-06 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A voice came over the intercom: would the passengers of Flight 3935, scheduled to depart Washington DC, for Charleston, South Carolina, kindly collect their carry-on luggage and get off the plane. They went down the stairs and gathered on the hot tarmac. There they saw something unusual: the wheels of the US Airways jet had sunk into the black pavement as if it were wet cement. The wheels were lodged so deep, in fact, that the truck that came to tow the plane away couldnt pry it loose. The airline...
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