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Cities need the resilience to face future Sandys
2013-05-13 11:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Whether or not Hurricane Sandy had a connection to climate change, climate change will make future Hurricane Sandys more common, imposing enormous costs on cities. Since we seem to lack the will to reduce this threat by cutting greenhouse-gas emissions, we should at least make ourselves more resilient to severe weather. So it's encouraging to see cities and states worldwide work on better protecting themselves from storms. Rotterdam, for one, has set a goal of being "climate-proof" by 2025....
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Sustainability and Living Cities
2013-05-13 03:46:00| National Real Estate Investor
What is the responsibility of real estate owners, investors and developers, asks Kate Brown, group director of sustainability at Grosvenor, to the future of our planets environment, given that buildings create more than 40 percent of the worlds carbon dioxide emissions? read more
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05.09.13 -- Wireless Bridge Provides Ultra Low Latency Backdoor Into Radio-Congested Cities
2013-05-08 02:39:46| wirelessdesignonline News Articles
05/09/13Wireless Design Online Newsletter
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Sustainable cities: cutting emissions and opening up data
2013-05-07 14:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: If your first boss was Bill Clinton, for most of us it would be downhill from there. But not for Conor Riffle. The young American's first job out of college was for the Clinton Foundation in 2006. Tasked with jetting around the world with the president, to understand where the foundation could best focus its efforts on climate change, it was a meeting in London with Ken Livingstone which set Riffle on his current course. The London mayor was setting up the C20 group of world cities (which became...
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3 Cities Where Unemployment Is Rising and 3 With Big Job Gains
2013-05-05 18:09:15| Air Courier - Topix.net
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