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Of Goats And Gardens: Making Sense Of Urban Agriculture In LA
2013-10-04 21:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Until recently, if you wanted to find out the rules for raising goats in Hollywood, bees in Bel Air or squash in a community garden in South Central Los Angeles, it would have been pretty tough - like standing in various lines at the DMV. Enter a dedicated group of urban planning graduate students at the University of California, Los Angeles. In six months, they waded through the bureaucratic nightmare of urban agriculture laws, ordinances and regulations in each of LA county's 88 cities, using...
Urban Outfitters Launches Local Music Program #UrbanAccess
2013-10-03 16:41:05| Apparel - Topix.net
Urban Outfitters announces the launch of its latest music initiative, #UrbanAccess, a localized program offering loyal Urban Outfitters customers, in multiple cities, access to exclusive sound check performances from bands hand-selected by UO.
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Hotter summers mean more health risks in urban heat islands
2013-10-02 15:35:48| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
OPB: On hot summer days, 74-year-old HelenRuth Stephens doesn`t dare leave her apartment. Not to get the mail or take out the trash. "You don`t do it because you`ll be breathless by the time you get back," she says. She suffers from asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Both affect her lungs. Hot weather drains her energy, she says, and makes it hard for her to breathe. Stephens is the type of person public health officials worry about as they`re preparing for climate change. That`s...
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10.03.13 -- MEMS Smart Phone Sensors Could Create Urban Seismic Network
2013-10-02 02:29:19| rfglobalnet News Articles
10/03/13RF Globalnet Newsletter
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Tiny Sensor Used In Smart Phones Could Create Urban Seismic Network
2013-10-01 10:57:11| rfglobalnet News Articles
A tiny chip used in smart phones to adjust the orientation of the screen could serve to create a real-time urban seismic network, easily increasing the amount of strong motion data collected during a large earthquake, according to a new study published by the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA).
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