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Positive Boarding at Heathrow: tackling delays with smart data
2013-09-19 01:00:00| Airport Technology
Heathrow Airport's Positive Boarding project uses smart data tracking to improve departures punctuality and improve the passenger experience. Technology experts from Heathrow and its project partner Atkins explain how the system works, and how it fit
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Naomi Klein 'waging ideological war' instead of tackling climate change
2013-09-18 17:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Naomi Klein is more interested in "waging ideological warfare" than tackling climate change, according to one of America's biggest green groups. In a letter to the Guardian responding to the Canadian author's recent comments that big green groups were more damaging than "climate deniers" because of their relationship with big business and lobbying for market-based fixes to global warming, Eric Pooley, senior vice-president for strategy and communications at the Environmental Defence Fund, said...
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Australian wine industry tackling climate change
2013-08-07 13:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Phys: Wine businesses around the country are taking steps to offset the potential effects of climate change, a study has found. Associate Professor Jeremy Galbreath, of the Curtin Graduate School of Business, surveyed 532 Australian wine companies in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. Participants were asked about their knowledge of climate change and the measures they were taking in order to mitigate the potential impact on their industry. Dr Galbreath says the study was not aimed at gauging...
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United Kingdom: Fracking: tax breaks raise questions over agenda for tackling climate change
2013-07-19 01:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Providing tax breaks to the frackers can be justified by the government as a way of trying to develop an industry that could eventually provide Britain with lower-cost and lower-carbon energy if all goes fantastically well. In the US, the shale "revolution" has cut natural gas prices by almost 75% and allowed a reduction in carbon emissions as gas has displaced coal in the generation of electricity. But that coal has been exported to Britain and Germany to be burned over here. A new domestic...
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Comment: Tackling the issue of subcontracting in Bangladesh
2013-07-15 17:51:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Time and time again, Western apparel brands and retailers whose products are found in fire-damaged or collapsed factories say garments were being manufactured there without their knowledge. Perhaps, says Doug Miller, the time has come to look more closely at buying practices - often the root cause of sub-contracting.
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