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Mayors aim for resilience to weather, energy challenges
2013-06-18 00:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.S. mayors pledged Monday to make their communities more resilient to increasingly severe floods, droughts, extreme storms and wildfires, which they said was more efficient and cost-effective than disaster clean-up afterwards. Four dozen elected officials, from localities as diverse as Washington D.C., Des Moines, Iowa and Santa Barbara County, California, released a one-page plan which laid out actions such as using more renewable energy and making buildings and infrastructure more energy-efficient....
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Category:Electronics and Electrical