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Good video illustrating Man’s relationship with the natural world.

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Moral climate: Beyond science and politics

Moral climate: Beyond science and politics | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it
Rob Gillies and his team gather data on Nepal’s changing climate for a research project. They log temperatures, raindrops and snow. They pump the numbers into powerful computers and read the trend lines the computers ...
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Physics of 'green waves' could make city traffic flow more smoothly

Physics of 'green waves' could make city traffic flow more smoothly | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it
(Phys.org) —If you've been lucky enough to catch all the green lights as you drive down a busy street, you may have been benefiting from intentional synchronization called a 'green wave.' The green wave concept has been around in the US since the...
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William McDonough: Cradle to cradle design | Video on TED.com

Green-minded architect and designer William McDonough asks what our buildings and products would look like if designers took into account "all children, all species, for all time."

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Daniel LaLiberte's curator insight, May 21, 9:00 PM

Zero Footprint requires cradle to cradle design.

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Can Systems Experts Create Scale and Speed in Sustainability? - A New, Unknown World Ahead

Can Systems Experts Create Scale and Speed in Sustainability? -  A New, Unknown World Ahead | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it

May 21, 2013 Guardian Sustainable Business - Guardian Professional

 

True collaboration is hard work but a small group of systems thinkers, mappers and innovators could make all the difference..

The reason systems experts are so valuable is that they not only understand the inter-connection of issues, important in itself, but also recognise the power of group dynamics and of finding ways to encourage groups with competing interests to find common ground....

...we need to recognise we don't really understand any more the complexity of the current system, or how it dynamically evolves over time. We also have no prototypes for an alternative system so have no clear sense of where we are exactly aiming for.... http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/blog/systems-experts-scale-and-speed-sustainability

 

May 22, 2012 Guardian Sustainable Business - Guardian Professional
WHY GOOGLE AND SONY ARE TURNING TO NATURE TO INSPIRE THEIR LEADERS  http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/google-sony-nature-inspire-leaders

 

May 10, 2013 Forbes

WHY CSR? THE BENEFITS OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY WILL MOVE YOU TO ACT http://www.forbes.com/sites/devinthorpe/2013/05/18/why-csr-the-benefits-of-corporate-social-responsibility-will-move-you-to-act/

 

NATURE'S CEO: MARK TERCEK SAYS CONSERVATION IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS http://sco.lt/6TQC8X

 

May 14, 2013 Guardian Sustainable Business
SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION:  WHY BRANDS SHOULD TAKE THE LEAD http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/sustainable-consumption-brands-take-lead

 


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Énergie renouvelable : le Parlement n’approuve pas d’objectif ambitieux pour 2030

Énergie renouvelable : le Parlement n’approuve pas d’objectif ambitieux pour 2030 | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it
Le Parlement européen a approuvé hier (21 mai) une résolution non
contraignante sur une part obligatoire d’énergies renouvelables à
l’échelle européenne d’ici 2030.

Via Hubert MESSMER @Zehub on Twitter, Frédéric Liégeois
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Monsanto stung by drop in bee population

EnlargeCathy Cheney | Portland Business Journal

Monsanto is hosting a "Bee Summit" in June.

 

 


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This Printer Spits Out 10 Meters of Solar Panel Every Minute

This Printer Spits Out 10 Meters of Solar Panel Every Minute | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it
Australia is on the cusp of a solar energy revolution. First, a recent study suggests that the country could power its entire national domestic infrastructure using only solar (while slashing the price of home electricity by 70 percent).
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Mapping The States That Lead In Green Jobs, LEED Buildings, And Energy Efficiency

Mapping The States That Lead In Green Jobs, LEED Buildings, And Energy Efficiency | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it
Barack Obama may not have created the 5 million green jobs he pledged during the 2008 campaign. But, by some measures, he isn’t doing badly (or, at least, someone isn’t doing badly, depending on your view of how jobs are made).
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Widespread Greenland Melting A Sign of Things to Come | Climate Central

Widespread Greenland Melting A Sign of Things to Come | Climate Central | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it
New study indicates 2012s widespread Greenland melting was not a one-time phenomenon but rather a sign of things to come.
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Top 5 Actions to Make a Difference in the Fight Against Climate Change

Top 5 Actions to Make a Difference in the Fight Against Climate Change | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it
If you've ever had the feeling that your lifestyle changes amount to tiny drops in a very large proverbial bucket, I invite you to consider taking one of these 'Top 5 actions' to fight climate change.
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Oil from algae could replace a significant portion of U.S. oil imports

Oil from algae could replace a significant portion of U.S. oil imports | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it
U.S. land and water resources could support the growth of enough algae to produce up to 25 billion gallons of algae-based fuel a year, researchers say.
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Has the rate of surface warming changed? 16 years revisited

Has the rate of surface warming changed? 16 years revisited | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it
Climate scientists have traditionally looked at climate over long periods - 30 years or more. However the media obsession with short term trends has focussed attention on the past 15-16 years.
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allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Country to Achieve Carbon Neutrality By 2025, Says Alison-Madueke

allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Country to Achieve Carbon Neutrality By 2025, Says Alison-Madueke | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it

The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has said Nigeria will by 2025 bring down its gas flaring by at least two per cent.

Alison-Madueke disclosed that by 2010, the country had recorded a downward gas flaring rate of 30 per cent as well as against the current rate of 11 per cent, adding that it aspires to bring it further down to two per cent by 2020 and beyond.

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Employers Eye Bare-Bones Health Plans

Employers Eye Bare-Bones Health Plans | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it
Employers are increasingly recognizing they may be able to avoid certain penalties under the federal health law by offering very limited plans that can lack key benefits such as hospital coverage.
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Stanford scientists develop new type of solar structure that cools buildings in full sunlight

Stanford scientists develop new type of solar structure that cools buildings in full sunlight | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it

Homes and buildings chilled without air conditioners. Car interiors that don't heat up in the summer sun. Tapping the frigid expanses of outer space to cool the planet. Science fiction, you say? Well, maybe not any more.
A team of researchers at Stanford has designed an entirely new form of cooling structure that cools even when the sun is shining. Such a structure could vastly improve the daylight cooling of buildings, cars and other structures by reflecting sunlight back into the chilly vacuum of space.


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A March Against Monsanto is a March for Life and Freedom - 25th May 2013

March Against Monsanto Worldwide on 25th May 2013. Join a March near you: http://www.march-against-monsanto.com/p/blog-page.html ACT for Seed Freedom • Trans...

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Monica S Mcfeeters's curator insight, May 22, 5:03 AM
Here is a message you may want to spread. From: Seed Freedom CALLING ALL TRANSLATORS! Help us to translate and share Vandana Shiva's March Against Monsanto video message - http://youtu.be/vdxrQit45iU - in as many languages as possible before Saturday. For more details please message us your email.
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Siemens to Europe: You're about to waste 45 billion euros!

Siemens to Europe: You're about to waste 45 billion euros! | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it

Working in conjunction with the Technical University of Munich, industrial and electric power giant Siemens has determined that Europe is incorrectly siting its renewable power projects -- and wasting an estimated 45 billion euros in the process. Siemens claims the projects should be shifted to locations with higher yields, calling the choice of site "crucial to the efficiency and economy."


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#Monitoring and #tracking #oil pollution in #Russian #Arctic flummoxes safety experts ! - Bellona

#Monitoring and #tracking #oil pollution in #Russian #Arctic flummoxes safety experts ! - Bellona | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it
Bellona Monitoring and tracking oil pollution in Russian Arctic flummoxes safety experts Bellona MURMANSK – While Russian gas and oil companies jockey for position to produce on the Arctic Shelf, specialists from emergency services are attempting...

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Marian Locksley's curator insight, May 22, 3:46 PM

As such, development of the Russian Arctic shelf has not begun, and the most important water artery in the Murmansk Region, Kola Bay, is covered with oil film that is so thick that it is easily visible to satellites. And what to do with these slicks so as to stem further pollution – this is a question that remains without a clear answer.

As a result, there is already a deepening problem of hydrocarbon build ups in enormous quantities along the sea floor of Kola Bay. These are the same petroleum products spilled by vessels who opted to hush them up to evade responsibility. As a consequence the oil is just coating the bottom of the sea.

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Green Landscape Economy » Green Landscape Economy

Green Landscape Economy » Green Landscape Economy | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it
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Un nuovo modello di sviluppo verso la Green Landscape Economy

Un nuovo approccio alla sostenibilità, nella quale il paesaggio, elemento di indubbia identità soprattutto in Italia, possa giocare un ruolo di primaria importanza.
Partendo dal presupposto che ogni nuovo progetto di trasformazione del territorio possa diventare un tassello di recupero ambientale, cercando di trarre il maggior vantaggio possibile dall’esistente, mettendo a sistema il contorno. Il paesaggio, perduta la sua connotazione ornamentale – passiva che una logica compensativa gli attribuiva, diventa un elemento centrale nelle nuove politiche di sviluppo, alla ricerca di un rinnovato rapporto con il nostro territorio.

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Majority thinks global warming, clean energy should be priorities

Majority thinks global warming, clean energy should be priorities | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it
WASHINGTON – Global warming and clean energy should be priorities for Congress and the president, a majority of Americans said in a recent survey.
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Bridging the Science-to-Society Gap: Part 1 #reachingoutsci : Soapbox Science

The chasm between science and society is wide and deep, illustrated most recently by events in climate science1and calls for increasingly politicized management of NSF-funding2.  Scientists tend to blame it on society, but scientists also share the blame2.  It is thus essential that the scientific community—and scientists as individuals—begin to re-think our approach to doing science.  This is particularly salient for biologists who study how natural systems work, given the widespread influence of human activities on Earth’s life-support systems and the profound dependence of humanity on other living things.

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Users debunk climate denial and compete for points in Reality Drop game

Users debunk climate denial and compete for points in Reality Drop game | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it
“Spread truth. Destroy denial.” That’s the tagline of Reality Drop, a new project that makes it easy for anyone to intervene in the public debate on climate change with facts that debunk denial and misinformation.
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Vitamin C can kill drug-resistant TB

Vitamin C can kill drug-resistant TB | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it
Vitamin C can kill multidrug-resistant TB in the lab, scientists reveal.
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China agrees to impose carbon targets by 2016

China agrees to impose carbon targets by 2016 | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it
The battle against global warming has received a transformational boost after China, the world's biggest producer of carbon dioxide, proposed to set a cap on its greenhouse gas emissions for the first time.
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Renewable fuel standards distort markets, critics say

Renewable fuel standards distort markets, critics say | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it
Renewable fuel standards are distorting the market for ethanol and other biofuels, panelists said at a conference on refining.
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Coal: Northwest governors face Keystone-like conundrum over export terminals

Like President Obama, the Democratic governors of Oregon and Washington, John Kitzhaber and Jay Inslee, are committed warriors in the fight against climate change.
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