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Honorees have been selected for the inaugural Building Memphis Awards
2013-01-26 05:09:42| Air Courier - Topix.net
Presented by CB Richard Ellis Memphis, Building Memphis is designed to be a broad commercial real estate recognition program honoring projects that have created a positive community impact in the areas of investment, new jobs, environmental leadership, renovation or revitalization.
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Climate Change Resurfaces in President's Second Inaugural Address
2013-01-25 23:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: In his remarks at the 57th presidential inauguration, President Barack Obama discussed a topic Americans hadn't heard much about since his November victory speech -- climate change. In the nationally televised speech following his oath of office, Obama elevated the issue of climate change into the top tier of his second-term priorities, alongside gun control and immigration reform. "We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and...
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In inaugural address, Obama makes a moral case for action on climate change
2013-01-23 03:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: President Obama had mentioned climate change in prominent speeches before Monday. In his November victory speech, he spoke of protecting Americas children from the destructive power of a warming planet. At his first inauguration, he promised to harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. But in his remarks Monday after taking the oath of office, Obama chose to make a moral case rather than an economic or national security one for taking action. We...
Obama's lofty inaugural ideals on climate change, gay rights run into reality
2013-01-23 02:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: President Barack Obama's lofty ideals from his inaugural address ran smack into reality Tuesday on the first working day of his second term. Twenty-four hours after Obama pledged to tackle climate change and called for gays and lesbians to be treated equally under the law, the White House struggled to back up his sweeping rhetoric with specifics, raising questions about how much political muscle he'll put behind both issues. Republicans were already signaling their unhappiness with Obama's...
Expanding Coal Exports Test Obamas Inaugural Climate Pledges
2013-01-22 23:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Following surprisingly forceful statements on the threat of global climate change by President Barack Obama during his second inaugural address on Monday, campaigners here are expressing cautious optimism that a second Obama administration will be able to see through some of the substantive actions on carbon reduction that largely eluded the president's first term. "We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations,"...
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