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'Largest-ever' climate-change march rolls through NYC
2014-09-22 15:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: More than 300,000 people marched through the streets of New York City on Sunday in what organizers called the largest climate-change demonstration in history. With banners, flags, floats and drums, protesters at the "People's Climate March" overwhelmed midtown Manhattan in flocks of vivid color, demanding action ahead of the United Nations Climate Summit this week. "I'm totally passionate about our planet and what's happening with our life here," said Heather Snow, 57, a massage therapist from...
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400,000 Converge on Manhattan Demand Climate-Change Action
2014-09-22 05:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: At the Peoples Climate March in New York City on Sunday, a 4-ft.-tall walking banana was passionately articulating his feelings about wind turbines. "They can make things run just by the wind," said 9-year-old Danny Haemmerle, who dressed up as the yellow fruit to attend the march with his family. "And my parents don`t have to pay as much," added his brother Eddie Haemmerle, 11, sporting a lime green wig. The Haemmerles were joined by an estimated 400,000-strong crowd that flooded the streets...
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Thousands expected NYC for largest climate-change march in history
2014-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Celebrities, activists and political leaders are expected to join more than 100,000 people in New York City on Sunday for what organizers say will be the largest climate-change march in history. The Peoples Climate March has been endorsed by more than 1,400 organizations, including environment, faith and justice groups, as well as labor unions. Students have also mobilized marchers at more than 300 college campuses for the event, which calls on world leaders to do more to confront the threat...
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NYC Council announces climate-change legislation
2014-09-20 07:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: New York's City Council proposed a package of bills Friday to slash greenhouse gas emissions, shrink the carbon footprint of city operations and reduce the number of cars on the road. The legislation, which builds on environmental initiatives undertaken over the past decade, was announced ahead of next week's United Nations climate summit. "As we have seen, when New York takes action the rest of the world pays attention and it is my hope that we can serve as a model for cities all across the world...
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A Little Touch of Climate-Change Despair
2014-08-15 05:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Do methane bubbles in the Arctic signal a new level in our dangerous game with climate change? I was passing through Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport last Sunday, on my way home with my two sons. We'd just spent the past 13 days in the Republic of Congo, visiting the Mbendjele forest people, a forest concession and a very fine national park, in order to experience life in Africa. It had been a great experience, made more special by the absence of technology: No social media in the forest. Arriving...
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