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If were to win the climate struggle, we must remain in Europe
2016-06-12 10:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Our security and prosperity depend on a successful response to climate change, the most urgent challenge of our time. So does any prospect of a transition to a way of living together that is just and sustainable. And if we fail on climate, we lose the very capacity to shape our destiny that makes sovereignty worth having. Todays European Union is, yes, tired, damaged and in need of reform. But without the EU the climate struggle would have been lost already. It was almost lost at Copenhagen...
Coral reef tourism in danger as reefs struggle to adapt to warming
2016-06-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
IPS: A recent UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) report on world heritage sites in danger from climate change received widespread media attention after the Australian government requested the removal of a chapter on the Great Barrier Reef. However the Great Barrier Reef is not the only coral reef at risk from climate change. The report described how coral reefs all around the world are being directly effected by warming waters and acidification associated with changes in...
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Inside one mountain town's struggle to move off coal
2016-06-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: On a sunny afternoon in this rapidly growing mountain city, craft-beer drinkers line up for a "pubcycle tour" on a 13-person pedal-powered trolley on wheels. They depart just a few blocks from one of Asheville's certified green restaurants that uses solar panels, buys wind-power credits and composts its waste. Within walking distance is an organic furniture store and a vegan restaurant that makes its own kombucha and feeds the homeless for free. In the middle of a red region, Asheville is a...
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Retailers struggle to shift from cheap and fast to sustainable
2016-06-08 14:04:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The Foreign Trade Association's inaugural Sustainability Conference has highlighted the need for cooperation and dialogue throughout the supply chain to achieve tangible results and long-lasting improvements in human rights, environment and trade policy. And, as Jozef De Coster reports, it also heard how European retailers are struggling to transition from cheap and fast to sustainable.
Lonely struggle of India's anti-nuclear protesters
2016-06-06 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Behind the Lourdes Matha church in Idinthakarai, a fishing village at the southern tip of India, five women have abandoned their chores to protest at the Kudankulam nuclear power plant. Today is day 1,754 of their relay hunger strike, which began when the plant was fuelled in 2011. Celine, 73, is among the five protestors, who take it in turns to go without food. Not a single government, not a single political party is willing to take up our cause, she says. Only Mother Mary can save us now....
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