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Social media and green tech helps create sustainable communities

2014-02-10 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Recent flooding and other extreme weather events are the most obvious signs that unless we live more sustainably we will face increasingly biblical consequences. Literal storms have arrived within a dreadful economic climate, leading to cuts that threaten the social care, health and other services that an ageing and unhealthy population relies on in increasing numbers. Industrialisation and hi-tech financial markets helped get us into this mess. Now technology, if used to empower people and communities,...

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High prices sending Bay Area renters and homebuyers to outlying communities

2014-02-09 05:39:20| Real Estate - Topix.net

Squeezed by astronomical home prices and rents that are almost as unaffordable, a growing number of Bay Area residents are pulling up stakes and trading long commutes for cheaper housing.

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Local communities can benefit from generating their own electricity

2014-02-08 17:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Independent: From the protests against proposed fracking sites in the West Sussex village of Balcombe to widespread opposition to wind farms, communities are split by proposed energy generation projects. In a bid to win support for fracking, the Government has offered generous cash incentives to communities based near possible hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, sites and is working to engage communities early on in the process. This comes on top of the subsidies already available to local communities for generating...

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