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House market 'waking up', say lenders
2015-07-14 11:39:32| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The UK housing market appears to be "waking up" after a quiet period in spring, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has said.
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Don't close your eyes: waking up to climate change
2015-06-19 17:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: We spoke to co-founder Hayel Wartemberg, 22, about their new film, Dont close your eyes. The film was created specifically for the Guardians #GroundUp campaign which is showcasing stories from young people who will feel the worst impacts of climate change. How did you get into filmmaking? Originally it was through plucking video clips off YouTube that featured football players I admired like Paul Scholes and Ronaldino and making them into montage videos. I then studied politics at...
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Were still waking up to the long-term consequences of burning fossil fuels
2015-06-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Sometimes, on environmental issues, we make things too complicated. Global warming is an example. We go on and on about emissions targets and thresholds and offsets -- when really, its all about something much simpler: heat. We burn fossil fuels -- coal, oil, natural gas -- because doing so gives off heat. We then use that heat to create electricity (and for other purposes). But burning fossil fuels also gives off carbon dioxide, which makes its way into the atmosphere and gives us heat in...
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US is waking up to the potential of Africa, after years of leaving it to the Europeans and Chinese
2014-08-09 20:25:08| Beverages - Topix.net
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Waking up the world to climate change
2013-12-09 17:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hindu: When Gwyn Prins and Steve Rayner published The Wrong Trousers in 2007, they famously attributed the failure of the Kyoto Protocol not to the fact that the developing countries did not have legally binding commitments as it was fashionable to do. Rather, they argued that a tame solution of a top-down international treaty was being imposed on a fundamentally wicked problem. In other words, addressing climate change was inherently different from negotiating reductions in nuclear warheads or ozone depleting...
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