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Job Central: First Place Rental, Pizza Hut, Kellogg and More Hiring Locally

2013-04-28 16:37:36| Agriculture - Topix.net

Welcome to Job Central, our weekly column listing local job advertisements and descriptions.

Locally owned businesses can help communities thrive and survive climate change

2013-04-26 13:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: Cities where small, locally owned businesses account for a relatively large share of the economy have stronger social networks, more engaged citizens, and better success solving problems, according to several recently published studies. And in the face of climate change, those are just the sort of traits that communities most need if they are to survive massive storms, adapt to changing conditions, find new ways of living more lightly on the planet, and, most important, nurture a vigorous citizenship...

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Plan Regional Storm Protection But Act Locally, Officials Advise

2013-04-17 18:21:09| ENR.com: Headline News

Storm surge barriers could take a decade to build, so New Jersey and New York area officials are taking interim steps to make infrastructure more resilient to flooding.

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Planting Trees Helps Fight Climate Change, but mainly locally

2013-02-05 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environmental News Network: Afforestation, planting trees in an area where there have previously been no trees, can reduce the effect of climate change by cooling temperate regions, finds a study in BioMed Central's open access journal Carbon Balance and Management. Afforestation would lead to cooler and wetter summers by the end of this century. Without check climate change is projected to lead to summer droughts and winter floods across Europe. Using REMO, the regional climate model of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology,...

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