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Waste Wise: Grading Our Composition
2013-01-27 19:49:00| Waste Age
Waste composition can be tool to evaluate realistic policy goals for diversion. Waste Wise read more
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Is rebuilding in hurricane zones wise?
2013-01-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Francisco Chronicle: Denise Tortorello, a real estate agent at Riviera Realty in Point Pleasant, N.J., said she can't tell yet where property values are headed since Hurricane Sandy demolished a string of beach towns built on a slender strip of barrier islands in the Atlantic. "I'm sitting in my office, and I'm looking at the National Guard right outside out my window," she said. On a December day, the temperature outside was 65 degrees. Just south in Mantoloking, second homes sell for up to $10 million. Many were...
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02.27: Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures
2013-01-15 02:38:00| Powells Books Events Calendar
In Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures (Crown), science writer Virginia Morell takes us on a dazzling odyssey into the inner worlds of animals. With 30 years of experience covering the sciences, Morell uses her formidable gifts as a storyteller to transport us to field sites and laboratories around the world, introducing us to pioneering animal-cognition researchers and their surprisingly intelligent and sensitive subjects. She probes the moral and ethical dilemmas of recognizing that even "lesser animals" have cognitive abilities such as memory, feelings, personality, and self-awareness — traits that many in the 20th century felt were unique to human beings.
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On Budget Deficits and CO2 Binges and Wise Investments
2013-01-09 18:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Here`s a post, once again, on the human habit of kicking the can down the road - sometimes very different cans, depending on the person and the problem at hand. On Facebook (you can follow my output here), I posted the following excerpt from Tom Friedman`s latest column, "The Market and Mother Nature": I am struck by how many liberals insist on reducing carbon emissions immediately, but, on the deficit, say there is no urgency because no interest rates rises are in sight. And I am struck by...
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