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8 Ways to Add Curb Appeal to Your Home
2014-08-01 17:27:08| The House Designers
August marks the first ever National Curb Appeal Month launched by Fypon and it had us thinking about ways to spruce up your homes curb appeal. Everything from your front door to your roof works to increase your homes curb appeal and makes your home feel more inviting. Whether you want to add a [...]
Carbon tax sought to curb global warming
2014-06-29 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Courier-Journal: A national tax on anything that produces carbon emissions - gasoline, airplanes and coal-burning power plants - is the goal of the new Kentucky chapter of Citizens' Climate Lobby, an international nonprofit group seeking to curb global warming. The tax would be revenue neutral, said Zaurie Zimmerman, an architect and Louisville native who spoke Saturday at the Kentucky chapter's first meeting. That means any collections would be returned in monthly payments to households, she said. As a result,...
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7 On Your Side: Curb appeal
2014-06-25 06:30:59| IT Services - Topix.net
The condition of your driveway can make or break your home's curb appeal. Angie's List offers some tips on how sealcoating your driveway can help protect it from summer weather.
Top court mostly upholds Obama bid to curb carbon emissions
2014-06-24 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday largely upheld the Obama administration's authority to curb greenhouse gases from major emitters like power plants and refineries in a ruling that nonetheless exempted some smaller sources from the regulation. On a 7-2 vote, the court rejected an industry-backed argument that most emitting facilities should not be regulated for greenhouse gases under one particular air pollution program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). But industry could claim...
Rerouting flights could curb environmental impact vapour trails
2014-06-20 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: A team of scientists have proposed extending flight routes to bypass contrail areas and as a result reduce the significant impact contrails have on the ozone layer. Extending the flight time, however, does raise further issues around increasing the amount of CO2 being emitted during the flight. The report argues contrails have a greater effect on climate change than direct plane engine emissions as they produce artificial clouds. The clouds, once formed, can trap heat in, which would otherwise...
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