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McDonald's Celebrates 90 Groundbreaking Advancements in Environmental Practices Around ... - 0 views

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McDonald's best practices recycling business energy

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  • Reusing air conditioning condensation to water plants and clean. Repurposing advertising banners into fashionable tote bags. Recycling used cooking oil to power generators at a hospital. Today, McDonald's Corp. (NYSE: MCD) celebrates these and dozens more examples of passion and innovation in the 2012 Global Best of Green report.
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    Reusing air conditioning condensation to water plants and clean. Repurposing advertising banners into fashionable tote bags. Recycling used cooking oil to power generators at a hospital. Today, McDonald's Corp. (NYSE: MCD) celebrates these and dozens more examples of passion and innovation in the 2012 Global Best of Green report.
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Rio Earth summit: theatrics, but no big agreements | Nation & World | The Seattle Times - 0 views

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Rio+20 Hillary Clinton engergy greenhouse gas emissions

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  • Proposals set out at the beginning, such as providing universal energy access and doubling renewables by 2030, were left on the cutting-room floor.
  • Conservation International Vice President Carlos Manuel Rodríguez said he was encouraged that Scandinavian leaders pledged support for systems that would place an economic value on clean waterways, intact forests and other important ecosystems.
  • Grenada announced its transport and electricity sectors will use only clean-energy sources by 2030; Unilever promised to cut its greenhouse-gas emissions in half by 2020.
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  • Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addressed delegates Friday, in Obama's place. She spoke of forging partnerships that would harness "the power of the market" rather than relying solely on governmental action. "It should be said of Rio that people left here thinking, as the late Steve Jobs put it, not just big, but different."
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The Worldwide 'Thirst' For Clean Drinking Water : NPR - 0 views

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The Associated Press: Accounting for natural wealth gains world traction - 0 views

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green accounting" Pavan Sukhdev GDP

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  • What is a sip of clean water worth? Is there economic value in the shade of a tree? And how much would you pay for a breath of fresh air?
  • That study, started in 2007, has estimated the world economy suffers roughly $2.5 trillion to $4 trillion in losses every year due to environmental degradation. That's up to 7 percent of global GDP.
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Rio+20 Negotiators Report 'Progress,' NGOs Call It 'Weak' - 0 views

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Rio+20 oceans marine biodiversity food water energy fisheries civil society UNEP capitalism women youth

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  • More than 55,000 people from around the world and all walks of life are attending the summit. Some 130 world leaders are expected to participate in three-days of high-level talks opening June 20 that will result in a outcome document on sustainable development.
  • Rio+20 marks the 20th anniversary of the original UN Earth Summit in Rio, where countries agreed to a roadmap for environmental protection, economic growth, and social equity known as Agenda 21.
  • "The planet is running out of time - yet leaders are answering with weak words that don't even come close to the kind of commitments we need to ensure people everywhere have access to clean water, food, and energy," said Jim Leape, director general of WWF International.
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  • "the inter-linkages between food, water and energy,"
  • ocean protection
  • "Organizations are working to have strong text adopted on sustainable fisheries and small islands developing states, on really tackling illegal fishing, and a strong text on fisheries subsidies," she told reporters last week. "There's a good chance on there will be something on a high seas legal framework to protect areas of the high seas that are beyond national jurisdictions," she said. "Only the United States and Russia are opposed."
  • On Saturday, more than 80 countries, civil society groups, private companies and international organizations declared their support for the new Global Partnership for Oceans
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  • While fostering a global green economy has been a key goal of the UN Environment Programme for Rio+20, thousands of women this morning held a march in protest of the green economy, saying it does not go far enough and relies on the exploitation of women.
  • capitalism that values only what can be bought and sold.
  • youth delegates appeared with duct tape over their mouths to dramatize their request that the United Nations establish a high commissioner for future generations.
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E.P.A. Emissions Rules Backed by Court - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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emissions rules climate change greenhouse gas emissions court Clean Air Act global warming EPA Environmental Protection Agency limits

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  • “This is how science works,” they wrote. “The E.P.A. is not required to reprove the existence of the atom every time it approaches a scientific question.”
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