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AUDIO: How will cities thrive in 2013?
2013-01-21 13:48:52| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Think tank, The Centre for Cities, suggests councils should invest in housing to get the economy moving
Mayor Bloomberg: Cities can lead climate change action
2013-01-21 06:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg has called for the cities to lead the way in combating climate change while also having a swipe at the USA`s coal consumption. Speaking at the Transforming Transportation event in Washington DC said the first step to making changes was to build a constituency that wants a change and cities were the best place to start. Every year governments gather to discuss climate change and they have done next to nothing, said Mayor Bloomberg. Its the cities that are...
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Canada: WWF puts B.C. cities on short list for efforts in fighting climate change
2013-01-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vancouver Sun: Vancouver, Stockholm and Chicago are on the short list for the World Wildlife Fund's choice of the city doing the most in the world to combat climate change, but the ultimate winner could be Colwood, population 16,000. The small Vancouver Island community was named Thursday as one of the finalists for the World Wildlife Fund's Earth Hour City Challenge for their actions to combat climate change. Colwood joins Vancouver, Surrey and 14 other cities from around the world in the final round of the...
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Sprint to expand 4G LTE to 28 more cities in coming months
2013-01-17 21:13:23| CNET News.com
The wireless carrier said 4G LTE will show up in smaller cities like Branson, Mo.; Oxford, Miss.; and Paris, Texas. [Read more]
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Lethal air in Asia's poisonous cities
2013-01-17 15:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Air pollution in Beijing has been described as "apocalyptic" this week with people choking their way through murky streets, short of breath and their eyes stinging from toxic air. But Beijing is just one of hundreds of cities, largely in Asia, where poisonous air is now the fastest growing cause of death in urban populations. In the past few months there have been acute air pollution incidents reported in Bangladesh, Iran, Afghanistan, Nepal, and Pakistan. In Tehran, the desperate authorities...
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