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Global warming: Attitudes toward our changing world
2014-03-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
WNPR: A recent Gallup poll found that, when it comes to climate change, Americans just aren't that worried. Less than 36% of those surveyed recognized global warming as an immediate threat, while most placed economic, federal spending, and healthcare issues above the need for environmental action. Last week concerned Senate Democrats held an overnight climate change filibuster, where senators drew attention to the urgency and effects of our warming planet. On our program, we take a look at societys...
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The complex world big land deals
2014-03-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ensia: When [the trucks] came through they could not get access to their objective. They really had to push their way through here. The people did not actually accept this idea of palm oil, and these things. The people said No, we will not allow the road. Thats how Micheal Kyibah, clan leader of Bugain Baglos in Papua New Guinea, described the scene in the nonprofit Oakland Institutes film On Our Land after a logging company tried to build a road and clear land for new palm oil plantations in...
Japan drags down world music market
2014-03-18 14:06:50| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A sharp decline in the consumption of music in Japan caused overall global growth to slow down in 2013, new figures reveal.
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Teradyne Showcases Optimized Solutions for the Wireless World at SEMICON China 2014
2014-03-18 02:52:40| Semiconductors - Topix.net
Teradyne, Inc . will showcase new solutions for wireless test in booth #3445 at SEMICON China held in Shanghai on March 18-20.
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04.24: Boom, Bust, Boom: A Story about Copper, the Metal That Runs the World
2014-03-18 00:36:19| Powells Books Events Calendar
Bill Carter began Boom, Bust, Boom (Schaffner) — an account of the all-pervasive presence of copper in our lives and its cost on our health, economy, and environment — with a simple personal discovery: the presence of arsenic in his own backyard garden. Carter connects the dots from his humble garden to the CEOs of the global copper industry, confronting a resource that is so vital yet which has the potential to cause horrendous and irrevocable damage to our planet and ourselves.
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