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From bike lanes to smart energy policies, check out what makes a truly green city and decide how your town stacks up. Delete the scoop?
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In India, the urban population has grown from 78.9 million in 1961 to 286 million in 2001 and is estimated to double in the next 25 years. This has led to the exponential growth of slums in many cities and towns. Delete the scoop?
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Approx. 80 percent of fisheries have been depleted, fully exploited, overfished or are recovering from depletion. Delete the scoop?
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What do you do when your hometown is dying - wheezing in the shadow of massive oil refineries spewing poison through parks and playgrounds around the clock? If you're Hilton Kelley, you get angry. Delete the scoop?
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In 2006 Blake Mycoskie founded TOMS Shoes, selling shoes under the Buy One, Give One model – for every pair of shoes you buy, TOMS gives one to a child in... Delete the scoop?
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In the beginning, there was nature. Then came agriculture. Though the existed side-by-side, the two never seemed to meet except along the borders of intensively plowed and fertilized fields. Delete the scoop?
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The Department of Energy has spent the past year trying to find out how solar panels react to clouds passing over the sun. Delete the scoop?
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Here’s what the per-pupil funding cuts look like in dollar terms. More than half of the states in our survey cut funding by over $200 per student. Delete the scoop?
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Photo via Cargohopper. Feeling like the shine has worn off that bright vision of electric vehicles saving the world? Delete the scoop?
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Climate Change And Sustainable Development In GhanaGhanaWebWe need to come up with proper environmental policies in Ghana in order to have sustainable development which will meet the needs of the current generation and will not impair or jeopardize... Delete the scoop?
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World-class cities are built from good ideas (RT @ArchAusMag: World-class cities are built from good ideas says Elizabeth Farrelly in @SMH http://ow.ly/6oiB4 MT @BVNArchitecture...)... Delete the scoop?
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This morning, the Department of Agriculture released new data showing that 14.5 percent of American families struggled to put food on the table in 2010. The technical term for this is “food insecure.” The good news is that while the... Delete the scoop?
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Building off its incredible success funding entrepreneurs in the developing world, the microloan company has turned its eye toward America, where it is giving loans in cities like New Orleans and Detroit. Delete the scoop?
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While the debate over green jobs rages on (catch up on some of the back and forth here), we’d like to stand back and thank the 100,000+ U.S. Delete the scoop?
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Environmental issues that touch on water safety or supply worry Americans more than other environmental issues, with air pollution close behind. Global warming continues to concern them least, behind loss of tropical rain forests and urban sprawl. Delete the scoop?
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After several months of planning, GE's refrigerator recycling program will kick off with an event at a recycling facility in Philadelphia. Delete the scoop?
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There’s a lot of hubbub these days about developing healthy, thriving local food systems, but who is actually financing this lofty endeavor? Delete the scoop?
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Having reached the limits. Of nature's tolerance. And resources. We have to figure out. A way. To live. On this planet. Without destroying it. Biomimicry... Delete the scoop?
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Nearly 1 billion people lack basic access to clean water, which has a devastating impact on their lives. What would it be like if everyone had water? Delete the scoop?
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According to a new study by the Carbon Trust up to 240 GW of capacity of marine energy could be installed worldwide by 2050. Delete the scoop?
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Our New Agtivist interview series returns, with the voice behind the Boston Tree Party -- a plan to create a massive, decentralized urban orchard. Delete the scoop?
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Sustainable forestry and sustainable forestry management are part of the much larger concept of sustainable development. Sustainable Development was defined in 1987 in the World Commission on Environment and ... Delete the scoop?
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