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November 06, 2009 By: Rainforest Alliance
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New York - Experts warn that any international climate treaty or national climate legislation that fails to address forest and land use issues thoroughly and without delay will not be effective. To drive that point home, representatives of the nonprofit sustainability group the Rainforest Alliance will attend the Copenhagen climate treaty conference December 7-18.
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November 06, 2009 By: GLOBE-Net
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Governments at the federal, provincial and municipal levels are increasingly adopting green building initiatives in an effort to meet several challenges, including the fluctuating cost of energy as well as the looming prospect of climate change.
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November 05, 2009 By: Center for Biological Diversity
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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.- A subsidiary of Massey Energy has begun mountaintop-removal coal-mining operations on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia, the only peak in Coal River Valley that hasn't been blasted away for mining. Blasting for the mine is taking place 200 yards from the Brushy Fork coal slurry impoundment, which holds 8 billion gallons of toxic coal sludge above the Coal River community.
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November 03, 2009 By: The Maryland-Asia Environmental Partnership's
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Baltimore, November 2, 2009. Over 200 leaders from Maryland government, business, and academia are expected to gather on the evening of December 3 at the Miller Senate Office Building in Annapolis to pay tribute to The Maryland-Asia Environmental Partnership's (MD-AEP) 2009 Environmental Leadership Series hosts. The evening program will showcase Battelle; Coca-Cola Enterprises; I.M. Systems Group; Spiralcat of Maryland; University of Maryland College of Agriculture and Natural Resources; University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES); University of Maryland's ESSIC (Climate Change Center); and Zephyr Environmental Corporation.
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November 03, 2009 By: Earth Policy Institute
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"Can we change fast enough? When thinking about the enormous need for social change as we attempt to move the world economy onto a sustainable path, I find it useful to look at various models of change.," says Lester R. Brown, President of the Earth Policy Institute, in a recent release, "Three Models of Social Change" "Three stand out. One is the catastrophic event model, which I call the Pearl Harbor model, where a dramatic event fundamentally changes how we think and behave.
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