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VIDEO: How energy saving can save pounds
2014-11-15 19:01:31| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
It is thought the UK needs to improve energy-saving measures in over 13,000 existing homes a week if it is to meet its greenhouse gas commitments.
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Surprising reasons be optimistic about saving forests
2014-11-14 02:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: In the 1990s, the world watched with alarm as vast tracts of tropical rainforest were torn down for timber and croplands, dug up for minerals and energy, and flooded for hydroelectric projects. Conservation groups, governments, philanthropists, and institutions like the World Bank collectively spent billions of dollars on programs to stop the carnage. But as viewed from satellites high above Earth's surface, those efforts barely dented deforestation rates. Nearly a decade and a half into the 21st...
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Saving the Planet, One Meal at a Time
2014-11-10 08:27:15| Agriculture - Topix.net
My attitude toward becoming a vegan was similar to Augustine's attitude toward becoming celibate -- "God grant me abstinence, but not yet." But with animal agriculture as the leading cause of species extinction, water pollution, ocean dead zones and habitat destruction , and with the death spiral of the ecosystem ever more pronounced, becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.
Book Talk: E. O. Wilson's Bold Vision for Saving the World
2014-11-02 14:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Edward O. Wilson has been called the heir of Darwin. His relationship to National Geographic stretches back to 1939, when, as a ten-year-old boy, he read about insects in the magazine and made up his mind to be an entomologist. Last year, at the age of 84, he was awarded the National Geographic Society's highest award, the Hubbard Medal. In his new book, The Meaning of Human Existence, he ranges far and wide across biology, artificial intelligence, and philosophy. Speaking from his home near Boston,...
The metal detectors saving marriages
2014-10-31 00:59:57| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The metal detectorists saving marriages
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