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[KOMO - News - Local] The final report of the Climate Action Team calls for more energy-efficient buildings, compact urban development, better collection of recycled materials, using tolls to reduce driving and revising development rules to account for greenhouse gas emissions.
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[Global Warming - Climate is Changing] Task force suggests ways state can curb climate change (Seattle Times): Christine Gregoire has released final recommendations on how to curb climate change in Washington state. The report calls for more energy-efficient buildings, compact urban development, better collection of recycled materials, using tolls to reduce driving and revising development rules to account for greenhouse-gas emissions.
[Tackle Climate Change] Climate controls: "We don't want to discourage companies from making legitimate claims but want to reinforce the fact that they have an obligation not to mislead," Smith says. "Ambiguous or exaggerated claims risk generating scepticism and undermine the genuine initiatives that many businesses, including Shell, are taking to be greener." It is the second time in a year that Shell has found itself falling foul of the ASA's mounting concern, and follows an ASA ruling in December on a Shell poster showing flowers rather than smoke coming out of factory chimneys which arguably forced the pace.
[Melodies in Marketing] Green News Roundup: 12-01-08 | Melodies in Marketing: 5 Big U.S. Corporations Launch Climate Change and Energy Organization - Nike, Starbucks, Sun Micro, Timberland, and Levi Strauss joined together, in association with CERES, to create the Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy .
[Bluestem Prairie: news about Tim Walz (MN-1)] Climate change denier Davis touts energy bill containing anti ...: Finally: does Brian Davis even read the legislation that the NRCC tells him to use to attack Walz? He's grandstanding about not basing energy policy on reducing greenhouse gases, while also supporting a tax break intended to do just that.
[EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed] United States: Walking the green walk: City departments in Seattle also sign an accountability agreement with the mayor's office, in which they undertake to achieve the goals of the city's 2006 Environmental Action Agenda on climate change, as well as goals in other programs related to redeveloping neighbourhoods and building new infrastructure.
[The Green Team:] Green Team and ReVision See Beauty of Recycling - The Green Team:: According to ReVision's website, "ReVision: the Art of Recycling is a two day juried show featuring recycled artwork: art made from anything reused, recycled, salvaged, scrounged or found - be it useful, beautiful, odd, playful, or thought provoking." ReVision showcases local artists that pride themselves upon using recycled materials to create inspirational works of art.
[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » When Environmentalism Is a Luxury: If there’s one thing about this which is irrefutable, it’s that the wealthy are better equipped to adapt than the poor. They can build stronger houses, they can relocate, they can develop technological solutions to cope with the problems of climate change.
[Keetsa Mattress Store - Keetsa! Blog - Eco-Friendly and Green News] Keetsa Mattress Store - Keetsa! Blog - Eco-Friendly and Green News ...: To curb the effects of global climate change before we cross the “tipping point,” we need to act now. Rather than waiting unknown years for a lab technician to solve our problems for us, lets roll up our sleeves and take responsibility .
[Green Blog] Green Blog » Blog Archive » World food price crisis and global ...: The United Kingdom (UK) has committed to large increases in the use of biofuels over coming decades, has recently announced subsidies for biofuel and supports the European Commission (EU) target requiring 10 per cent of petrol station fuel to be plant-derived biofuel within 12 years. However the huge and intrinsically genocidal US diversion of 15% of its grain crop to biofuel production has had a huge impact already on soaring global food prices - the world is already facing a global food crisis with alarm being expressed by UN, FAO and other scientific experts.
[Comments for Times & Seasons] Earth Day and the Church | Times & Seasons: Overall, I think with LDS it might be our own eschatological viewpoint that can be ungenerous when evaluating others’: For example, because Christ comes again to save from all manner of calamity, the activist’s worry of extinction isn’t as threatening to us, and we, in turn, we criticize the activist’s means as if they have no telos because we don’t believe that is how the world ends. But if the activist perceives for one second the strain of Mormon eschatology that we can use as an excuse to not worry, the roles reverse pretty similarly.
[MOLDY CHUM] MOLDY CHUM: Your chance to weigh in on Western Oregon Plan Revision: The BLMs plan to reduce riparian reserves on fish bearing streams and eliminate the Aquatic Conservation Strategy is unacceptable. The WOPR is certain to harm our already struggling populations of salmon and steelhead.
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