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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 ... Delete the scoop?
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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
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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
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Le Parlement européen a approuvé hier (21 mai) une résolution non Via Hubert MESSMER @Zehub on Twitter, Frédéric Liégeois Delete the scoop?
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Monsanto is hosting a "Bee Summit" in June.
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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). Delete the scoop?
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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). Delete the scoop?
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New study indicates 2012s widespread Greenland melting was not a one-time phenomenon but rather a sign of things to come. Delete the scoop?
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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. Delete the scoop?
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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. Delete the scoop?
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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. Delete the scoop?
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The Ogallala Aquifer suffered its second-worst drop since at least 2000 in a 16-county swath of the Texas Panhandle, new measurements show. With the drought showing little sign of abating, farmers face another tough year.
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The Ogallala Aquifer is a fossil water aquifer that formed over geologic time, and will only recovery over geologic time. When farmers use it up it, for all intensive purposes, it is finished. It has taken farmers only about a hundred years using intensive irragation in the southern parts of the aquifer to drain what took millions of years to form. Now, oil and gas production companies want to tap into the aquifer to aquire water for "fracking". The future of the mid section of the US is likely reverting to prarie, assuming enough rainfall, or converting to desert. Either way it will be a lot less productive with out the water and ability to irrigate crops. Delete the scoop?
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Consumers do end up using more energy when energy-using technology gets more efficient, but these rebound effects are minimal, experts say Delete the scoop?
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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... Via Monica S Mcfeeters 
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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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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." Via Hans De Keulenaer Delete the scoop?
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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... Via Marian Locksley 
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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. Delete the scoop?
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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. Delete the scoop?
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WASHINGTON – Global warming and clean energy should be priorities for Congress and the president, a majority of Americans said in a recent survey. Delete the scoop?
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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. Delete the scoop?
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“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. Delete the scoop?
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Vitamin C can kill multidrug-resistant TB in the lab, scientists reveal. Delete the scoop?
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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. Delete the scoop?
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Renewable fuel standards are distorting the market for ethanol and other biofuels, panelists said at a conference on refining. Delete the scoop?
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Like President Obama, the Democratic governors of Oregon and Washington, John Kitzhaber and Jay Inslee, are committed warriors in the fight against climate change. Delete the scoop?
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Ny plan til tre-fire milliarder kroner: København og Frederiksberg skal have flere små kanaler, vandbassiner og træer for at undgå oversvømmelser ved skybrud. Delete the scoop?
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Trying to make sense of the Moore tornado, here are some of the things we know and don't know about tornadoes, and the role of climate change. Delete the scoop?
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