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The End of Pasta - Newsweek and The Daily Beast - 0 views

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  • “I don’t think there’s any question” that climate change is already affecting wheat production in North Dakota, says Roger Johnson, a former durum farmer who was the state’s agriculture commissioner from 1996 to 2009.
  • The televised horrors of Hurricane Sandy may help break the climate silence that still afflicts many Americans. “Mother Nature is better at bringing people to Jesus than any politician is,” notes Jay Fuhrer, the extension agent. But a fear of offending friends and neighbors still inhibits many. “The first thing we always talk about here is the weather, because it affects our lives so much,” says Donny Nelson. “But global warming, people just don’t get into it.”
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  • le underground locations, has given rise to a massive expansion of production. In November the International Energy Agency projected that the U.S. will become the world’s leading oil producer by 2020, surpassing even Saudi Arabia. The Bakken deposits are a big reason why.
  • In November the International Energy Agency projected that the U.S. will become the world’s leading oil producer by 2020, surpassing even Saudi Arabia. The Bakken deposits are a big reason why.
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McDonald's Celebrates 90 Groundbreaking Advancements in Environmental Practices Around ... - 0 views

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shared by CI Editorial on 27 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • 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.
  • CI Editorial on 27 Jun 12
     
    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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World Environment News - Diplomats agree on 'weak' text for Rio+20 green summit - Plane... - 0 views

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  • The text "has too much 'take note' and 'reaffirm' and too little 'decide' and 'commit'. (The) big task now for U.N. nations to follow up" on this, she added.
  • Expectations were low for the summit because politicians' attention is more focused on the euro zone crisis, a presidential election in the United States and turmoil in the Middle East than on the environment
  • The draft text omitted a clause calling for governments to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, which have nearly tripled since 2009, despite a pledge by G20 countries to eliminate them.
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  • Oil producing countries, including the United States, Venezuela and Canada, blocked inclusion of the clause, despite a huge social media push on Monday to include phase-out language in the text, with over 100,000 tweets on Twitter with the hashtag #endfossilfuelsubsidies.
  • An eagerly awaited decision on a governance structure for the high seas was also postponed for three years, after the United States, Japan, Canada, Russia and Venezuela opposed strong language to implement it.
  • "There's no commitment - it's like telling your girlfriend you promise to decide in three years whether or not to decide, whether or not to get married," said Susanna Fuller of the High Seas Alliance, a coalition of NGOs.
  • Measures already underway in major cities, the mayors said, are on track to reduce their combined emission of greenhouse gases by 248 million tons by 2020, an amount equal to the current annual emissions of Mexico and Canada together.
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Matthew Spiegl: Ocean Frontiers: A Film for Everyone Who Cares About the Sea - 1 views

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  • Science Knowledge on 31 Jul 12
     
    Lindsey Fong has a copy of the DVD if anyone wants to borrow!
  • CI Editorial on 01 Aug 12
     
    Thanks for letting us know. It may be a good film for the CI Women's Network or any other CI group to watch.
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"Horribly mutated" seafood found in Gulf Coast, likely caused by BP spill - 0 views

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  • Fishermen are finding fish with tumors on their heads, fish with missing eyeballs, fish with babies still attached to their bodies, and fish "with large pink masses hanging off their eyes and gills." 
  • CI Editorial on 27 Jun 12
     
    Fishermen are finding fish with tumors on their heads, fish with missing eyeballs, fish with babies still attached to their bodies, and fish "with large pink masses hanging off their eyes and gills."
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