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Oakland Puts a Big Stop on Massive Coal Project
2016-07-05 02:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Real News Network: On June 27, the Oakland, California City Council voted unanimously to block the handling and storage of large shipments of coal at a new proposed portside terminal. Joining us now to discuss the environmental justice victory in Oakland is Irene Gutierrez. She is an attorney in Earthjustice's California regional office, and much of her work has involved this issue. This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. SHARMINI PERIES: So, Irene, let me start by asking you, how did you do...
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What If We've Got Big Data and Analytics All Wrong?
2016-07-04 17:00:00| TechNewsWorld
Every once in a while I run into a little company that comes at an existing market as if the folks already in it are idiots -- and sometimes they are right. Here's the thing: What often happens is a company breaks out in a segment, and everyone groups around that company's ideas and emulates them. Few initially stand up and say, "Wait a minute -- what if they're wrong?"
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KappAhl increases sustainability range in "big step" for business
2016-07-04 12:59:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Nordic value fashion retailer KappAhl says it has taken a "big step" in creating a sustainable business by increasing the proportion of its sustainability labelled fashion range from 24% to 38% over 12 months.
Why a half-degree temperature rise is a big deal
2016-07-04 04:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Phys.Org: The Paris Agreement, which delegates from 196 countries hammered out in December 2015, calls for holding the ongoing rise in global average temperature to "well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels," while "pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C." How much difference could that half-degree of wiggle room (or 0.9 degree on the Fahrenheit scale) possibly make in the real world? The European Geosciences Union published a study in April 2016 that examined the impact of a 1.5...
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Climate change: big four banks' lending to Australian renewables projects falls
2016-07-04 03:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australias big four banks lending for Australian renewable energy projects has tumbled in the first half of 2016, despite all of them spruiking their continuing support for the sector. Based on public announcements from the banks and their customers, the activist group Market Forces has found only two financing deals were closed this year in the Australian renewables sector. The National Australia Bank lent money to a windfarm in South Australia and both NAB and Westpac helped finance one...
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