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Americans connect dots between global warming and extreme weather - Capital Weather Gan... - 0 views

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    Most Americans get it: global warming is intensifying heat waves and extreme precipitation to some degree. That's the take away from a new public opinion survey from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication and George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication.
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The Myth of Sustainable Meat - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    For all the strengths of these alternatives, however, they're ultimately a poor substitute for industrial production. Although these smaller systems appear to be environmentally sustainable, considerable evidence suggests otherwise.
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Facebook Timeline For Brands: It's About Storytelling - Forbes - 0 views

  • As anticipated, Facebook Timeline for Pages was announced Wednesday. The buzz is deafening. Us social media types don’t lack opinions or channels to share them. Among my network, the chatter is mostly positive, obsessed with aesthetics of the interface, new navigation patterns and the placement of things like Apps, Photos and the like. But this, my “friends,” is not the real story here.
  • If you read between the lines, you’ll discover that the entire Facebook platform is organized around the generation and amplification of stories.
  • So don’t obsess about your new Timeline cover photo or how a user’s eyeball will scan your new page layout. Rather, spend that time to become the storyteller your brand deserves, because every brand has a story.
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Science must guide us towards a more sustainable future - SciDev.Net - 0 views

  • As economists in these countries struggle to handle vast deficits, they need reminding that the easy credit which, in part, led to the debt crisis, has fuelled a rapacious consumerism that has exacerbated the environmental crisis.
  • strengthening science advisory mechanisms and local governance.
  • for example, by establishing effective technology transfer mechanisms to get novel solutions to the marketplace where they can be disseminated, and by taking measures to fill the gap if the market fails.
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G.(reen)O.P.? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • This shift is best summed up by Glenn Prickett, the chief external affairs officer for The Nature Conservancy: “We spent the 20th century protecting nature from people, and we will spend the 21st century protecting nature for people.”
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