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Paper industry spends $170 million to convince you to kill more trees
2015-09-16 22:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: I recently received an email from a publicist with a small note below the signature: Save a tree, it said. Please don`t print this email unless absolutely necessary. LOL, I thought to myself. Why would I print an email promoting a sustainable pee funnel? Why would I print any email? Her note seemed like a relic from the early 2000s, when we weren`t yet used to reading everything on screens and people still owned printers. Now, however, most of us write on paper so rarely that our hands start to...
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Realtors spent $5,000 on a private chef to convince Minecraft's...
2015-07-14 14:32:59| Real Estate - Topix.net
Realtors spent $5,000 on a private chef to convince Minecraft's billionaire creator to buy this $70 million mansion Markus Persson, a Swedish video game programmer best known for creating Minecraft, famously dropped $70 million for a 23,000-square-foot Beverly Hills mansion in December 2014. The purchase was a record for the area, and Persson reportedly outbid Beyonce and Jay Z, who had visited the home a number of times.
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What does it take to convince libertarians and conservatives that climate change is a problem?
2015-04-15 02:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: When it comes to climate change, there is an amazing confluence of policy preferences and scientific assessments. Those who generally favor aggressive regulatory interventions to address environmental concerns are convinced global warming is a serious (if not catastrophic) environmental concern, while those who generally oppose governmental interventions in the marketplace are skeptical of mainstream climate science. Each side of the policy debate has adopted a view of the science that confirms --...
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Eagle Mill developer, lawmaker look to convince state, feds what historic buildings are worth saving
2015-03-24 22:56:20| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
An architects rendering of the Eagle Mill revitalization project in Lee. The lighter colored buildings are original structures to be preserved; the darker building is the proposed 78-unit housing complex replacing warehouse-style facilities deemed unworthy of historic preservation, according to the developer.
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Eagle Mill developer, lawmaker look to convince state, feds what historic buildings are worth saving
2015-03-24 22:48:29| Paper - Topix.net
An architects rendering of the Eagle Mill revitalization project in Lee. The lighter colored buildings are original structures to be preserved; the darker building is the proposed 78-unit housing complex replacing warehouse-style facilities deemed unworthy of historic preservation, according to the developer.
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