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Grassroots People Want to Avoid COOL Retaliation
2015-02-20 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CANADA - The chair of the Canadian Pork Council says the grassroots people of America don't want retaliation in response to US Mandatory Country of Origin Labelling, or the discrimination it creates against Canada and Mexico, writes Bruce Cochrane.
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Grassroots sports at risk from heatwaves due to climate change, report warns
2015-01-30 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change will threaten the viability of grassroots sport in Australia, and elite tournaments will have to adapt to rising temperatures, extreme rainfall and shrinking snow cover, a report has warned. The extreme heat policies of sports such as tennis, Aussie rules and cricket will have to dramatically improve to protect the health of competitors at all levels, the Climate Institute analysis concluded. The report, featuring a foreword from former AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou, warned...
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Pipeline builder advised to gin up fake grassroots support
2014-11-18 19:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: TransCanada Corp., the company seeking to build the Keystone XL pipeline, has teamed up with the world`s largest public relations firm to promote a proposed alternative pipeline that`s entirely in Canada. Greenpeace Canada obtained documents that the U.S. public relations firm Edelman drafted for TransCanada that outline a campaign to promote Energy East, the company`s proposed 2,858-mile pipeline that would transport crude oil from the Alberta tar sands to the east coast of Canada. The company...
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Responding to climate change from grassroots up
2014-11-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: As concern mounts over food security, two community groups are on a drive to mobilise average people across Antigua and Barbuda to mitigate and adapt in the wake of global climate change, which is affecting local weather patterns and by extension, agricultural production. "I want at least 10,000 people in Antigua and Barbuda to join with me in this process of trying to mitigate against the effects of climate change," Dr. Evelyn Weekes told IPS. Bhimwattie Sahid picks a papaya in her backyard garden...
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Problems and solutions: RTI innovates at the grassroots level
2014-10-06 02:22:34| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Nonprofit research institute RTI International held its 3rd annual Ideathon last week, which allowed its employees to pitch ideas to a panel of judges including the company's president and CEO. Employees from the various departments of the company's more than 3,700-person workforce and from RTI offices all over the country participated in Ideathon, some even traveling from Alaska and California.
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