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Farmers, individuals and community groups could, for the first time, emulate their Danish neighbors by installing their own wind turbines and selling the resulting electricity at a hoped-for profit. These electricity rebels, Stromrebellen as they're called in German, began appearing all across the country, even in the former communist East Germany. Delete the scoop?
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Some more astonishing stats on the progress Germany is making on solar power thanks to predictable energy policy. Delete the scoop?
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Companies that adopted environmental, social and governance policies in the 1990s have outperformed those that didn't... Delete the scoop?
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Corporate and Government Sustainability Responsibility
The global ecosystem is in serious trouble. The volume of natural capital being used by our economic system, by all the key indicators, has worsened in the period since 1992. System thresholds or tipping points are imminent, or may already have been passed. Delete the scoop?
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This is what it looks like when we move our money from Wall Street to Main Street. via @slowmoney @hyperlocavore Delete the scoop?
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There's a world of opportunity to re-think and re-design the way we make stuff. Re-Thinking Progress' explores how through a change in perspective we can re-design the way our economy works Via Fabrice Leclerc Delete the scoop?
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A new world of work is changing the game for individuals and employers, as companies recognise the value of diversity... Delete the scoop?
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Nations will be asked to sign up for 10 goals and promise to build green economies at this summer's earth summit... Read the leaked Rio+20 draft agenda in full Delete the scoop?
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Suze Orman Talks about her New Debit Card; Credit Scores, Occupy Wall Street, and the American Dream
GOOD talks to financial guru Suze Orman about how her new debit card shakes up the credit status quo, Occupy Wall Street and the people she loves. Delete the scoop?
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We will always have the urge to consume more than we need, but recognising this as a problem is the first step towards recovery, says Val Curtis... Delete the scoop?
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The gas industry’s influence in Washington has grown tremendously thanks, in large part, to the rapid consolidation of the gas industry into the hands of the largest oil companies in the past few years. Not long ago, the industry was made up primarily of what its proponents call “mom and pop” companies—small operators that drilled chiefly for conventional gas. Delete the scoop?
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The public health effects of shale gas development need to be rigorously studied as production rapidly spreads in the United States, public health professionals and advocates said on Monday. Delete the scoop?
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New York Daily NewsMore to Say About FrackingArtvoiceIn 2009, the DEC analyzed 13 samples of fracking wastewater from gas drilling sites in the Marcellus Shale and found levels of radioactive radium as high as 267 times the safe limit for discharge... Delete the scoop?
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ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES and SAN MATEO, CA--(Marketwire - Jan 12, 2012) - Masdar, Abu Dhabi's multi-faceted renewable energy company, and C3, an energy and emissions management solutions provider, announced today that Masdar is using C3's... Delete the scoop?
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VIDEO: Is It Too Late to Avoid Serious Impacts of Climate Change" Delete the scoop?
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For 300 years the world saw the colonialism , not by British, not by French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese , but by Fossile Fuel. This 300 seconds of 300 years of fossil fuel by black colonialism! 
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‘300 Years of Fossil Fuels in 300 Seconds’ is a very unique and innovative clip that has attracted over 1 million viewers on YouTube. It provides the viewer with a broad outline of how Climate Change came to be and alerts of the immediate need to address the situation. Although it employs language that may be too advanced for some students, teachers would benefit from using this as a resource for their own learning about the topic as well as a stimulus for teaching ideas. Students would profit from viewing the clip and the illustrations that accompany the narration would help them make sense of the content, however it is fast paced so I would recommend a double viewing to enhance comprehension. The first run through could purely be for observation and the second run through could provide an opportunity for students to practice their note taking skills, thus creating a link to literacy. “The impact of the internet has been global and far-reaching in its facility to disseminate information quickly to online users.” (Winch, 2010, p. 400) Teaching Idea: Construct a timeline as a class of all the major events in history that have contributed to Climate Change/global warming eg. Industrial Revolution, population growth & consumerism. There is a numeracy link here in which students are to come up with an appropriate scale for the timeline. (Students may have to conduct further research) Alternatively, a class discussion could take place surrounding an important quote from the clip “We must live within natures budget of renewable resources at rates of natural replenishment.” Ask students to elaborate on this – What does it mean? What are renewable resources? Assessment Task: Ask students to evaluate the positive and negative aspects of the effects of human changes on the environment. Divide the class into two and ask each student to contribute one response and allocate a scribe to put the ideas into a mind map. Students can then write an exposition (literacy strategy) using the points as cues in determining whether or not they believe the positives outweigh the negatives or vice versa.
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Exposed fish pass flame retardants, chemicals and endocrine disruption on to the next generation. Delete the scoop?
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Two Cornell researchers just released an important academic study on impact of hydrofracking on the heath of livestock and humans. This study also raises serious questions about safety and monitoring of the food supply. Dr. Oswald is a professor of molecular biology at Cornell Vet School, and Dr. Bamberger is a practicing veterinarian from Cornell. Delete the scoop?
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Canada let loose an extraordinary rant against opponents of a controversial project to pump tar sands crude to Pacific Coast ports on Monday, accusing campaigners of colluding with foreign "radicals" and "jet-setting celebrities" to hijack the government. In an open letter defending a controversial project, Canada's natural resources minister accuses a pipeline's opponents of colluding with 'radicals' and 'jet-setting celebrities'... Delete the scoop?
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With global pollutions trend lines escalating in the wrong direction, it’s pretty clear that by the time the fossil guys wake up to the realities of what they’re doing to the rest of us, it will very likely be too late to reverse the damage. According to some experts, it might be already. Simply put, it’s been too easy for the pro-pollution crowd to ignore the realities of what they are advocating. The accountability-free zone needs to end. Delete the scoop?
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When the mayor of Youngstown, Ohio decides to buy earthquake insurance, you know we've got a big problem. Delete the scoop?
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A flock of rare whooping cranes has been given the go-ahead to complete its inaugural winter migration after a U.S. agency lifted restrictions on the pilots, who will guide them wearing bird costumes. Delete the scoop?
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The F.A.A. fields complaints that pilots who act like birds, flying ultralight aircraft to guide whooping cranes, are engaged in a commercial activity. While it investigates, the migratory birds are stranded. Delete the scoop?
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