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Canada: Party leaders avoiding inconvenient truths about climate change
2015-10-09 21:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Gazette: Canadas per capita greenhouse gas emissions are among the highest in the world. Our national emissions have been increasing steadily, with the exception of the global recession from 2008 to 2010. Absent significant policy change, Canadas emissions are projected to continue to rise. Against that backdrop, voters are undoubtedly encouraged by the ambitious targets and proposals for regulatory or carbon pricing policies that have been advanced in this election campaign. Yet despite that debate, the...
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#ThingsGentrifiersDo Places Spotlight On The Harsh Truths Of Gentrification
2015-01-06 05:06:27| Grocery - Topix.net
The hashtag "Things Gentrifiers Do" trended on Twitter Monday evening and shed an honest light on what happens when gentrification takes over a predominately black or brown neighborhood. While most may associate obvious gentrification with the addition of a Whole Foods Market, a Wal-Mart or a newly added bike lane, those who participated and added to the hashtag Tweeted the small intricacies and differences that now play a huge part in the day-to-day of lifelong residents of neighborhoods who must now deal with rising rent prices, the shutting down of local businesses and being pushed out of an area they one called home.
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In Senate race, claims sometimes cloud truths on environment
2014-09-13 23:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Detroit Free Press: Terri Lynn Land and her allies say Gary Peters is profiting from the very pollutant he railed against being piled next to the Detroit River last year -- petroleum coke. Peters and his supporters say its Land and her allies who are linked not only to that three-story-high pile of pet coke, but also to high levels of pollution in a southwest Detroit neighborhood. Both those claims and more are part of an environmental argument thats become a central theme in this falls U.S. Senate race in...
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Part II: Three Truths about Public’s Perception of Genetic Modification
2014-06-30 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
ANALYSIS - The use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the American food system is controversial, write Oistein Thorsen and Garret Higgins, both with trie.
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Three Truths about Public’s Perception of Genetic Modification
2014-06-25 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
ANALYSIS - The use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the American food system is controversial. Public discourse of GMO has been characterized by polarization and inflated rhetoric, write Oistein Thorsen and Garret Higgins, both with trie.
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