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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 28, 2009

  Link between global dimming and warming baffles scientists
MOSCOW. (Andrei Kislyakov, for RIA Novosti) - The latest research by European scientists, climatologists and astronomers suggests that the so-called global dimming, or the gradual reduction in the amount of global direct irradiance at the Earth's surface, observed for several decades after the...... [view]
Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 22, 2009

  Big drop in Caribbean reef fish linked to coral loss
CHICAGO, USA (AFP): The number of fish living in Caribbean reefs has dropped significantly since 1995, after decades of stability, and is likely due to a significant loss of coral, a study published Thursday found. Researchers examined data from 48 different studies of 318 reefs across the...... [view]
Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Feb 6, 2009

  Contradictions between the politics of Obama and ethics
Reflections of Fidel: THE other day I noted some of Obama’s ideas that point to his role within a system that is the negation of every just principle. There are people who throw up their hands in horror at the expression of any critical opinion of this important figure, even when it is...... [view]
Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Dec 17, 2008

  The unjustifiable destruction of the environment
Reflections Of Fidel: CAN capitalist society avoid it? News about the issue is not encouraging. In Poznan, they are discussing the project to be presented in December of next year in Copenhagen, where the agreement that will replace the Kyoto Protocol will be discussed and voted on. The...... [view]
Posted By:  TheaWhitman
Posted On:  Dec 9, 2008

  I can has mitigation targets?: New computer opens door to diplomacy
So, I was eating semi-delicious COPcake (is it cheesecake? is that a raisin? what is this chocolaty substance?) outside the "Apollo Butterfly" room where I'd been waiting 30 minutes for a 45 minute meeting to start when someone asked me, "Is that the new MacBook?" I turned around and saw a...... [view]
Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Dec 5, 2008

  Will UN conference in Poznan save the climate?
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) - One more UN conference on climate change started in Poznan, Poland December 1 to end December 12. Delegations from 192 countries will draft recommendations which would update or succeed the 1997 Kyoto protocol. Kyoto-1 must be...... [view]
Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 7, 2008

  Who will run the world?
By ANN FLORINI: Barack Obama's election comes at a moment when a new bit of conventional wisdom is congealing. It concerns the end of America's global dominance. True, freewheeling American-style capitalism has not acquitted itself proudly of late. And America's military superiority has not...... [view]
Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 3, 2008

  The battle of hope and experience
From The Economist print edition: Will America choose the old hero who favours tax cuts for business and the rich and backed George Bush’s wars? Or the young man who promises health care for all, a swift exit from Iraq and more money for the average worker? As America’s financial system...... [view]
Posted By:  CSRwire
Posted On:  Sep 24, 2008

  CSRwire Weekly News Alert
Carbon Disclosure Project Highlights Climate Risk in Launch at Merrill Lynch In a stroke of symbolic irony, the global launch of the 2008 Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) took place at the offices of Merrill Lynch, the company that folded into Bank of America last week for mismanaging its...... [view]
Posted By:  Binetou
Posted On:  Sep 7, 2008

  Le Climat otage de la finance !
Pour la première fois dans son histoire, le système économique est confronté à une crise environnementale qui, par son ampleur, pourrait menacer sa survie. Le changement climatique, présent dans presque tous les médias, est maintenant à l'ordre du jour de la plupart des rencontres...... [view]
Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jul 16, 2008

  THE POWERLESS POWERS
Reflections of Fidel: THIS is a serious subject. The summit meeting of leaders of the eight most highly industrialized powers on the planet took place July 7-9 at a mountain retreat on the banks of the Toyako, a lake formed inside a volcanic crater located in the north of the island of...... [view]
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  Youth With A Vision
Submitted By:   Ssemambo
Website:  http://www.youthwithavision.info
Phone:  00256-772872403
E-mail:  stevekewaza@yahoo.com 		  Vision:   Our Vision is a world where poor children too are nurtured and supported into responsible adults at an early stage as important actors, most active, innovative, accountable and committed to the reconstruction of a......
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  City:   Masaka
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  Choosing walking over driving whenever I can.
Submitted By:   laurakenyon
Committers:  213
Date Created:  2007-11-01 		Description:   Motor vehicles are a major source of carbon monoxide: 65% of emissions in OECD countries are from cars! They are also directly linked to global warming, and because of their dependency on oil, they are also linked to all the political, economic, environmental and social instabilities related to oil extraction. Sometimes we cannot avoid using motor vehicles to get around, but each time we choose walking over driving we are all doing our part to reduce the negative effect of motor vehicles on our world.
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