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Extreme Makeover Revives Drab 1970s Edgewater Home
2016-01-04 23:39:53| Real Estate - Topix.net
Over in Chicago's lakeside Edgewater neighborhood, an extreme makeover of a dingy 1970s home proves that even homes considered teardowns can be salvaged to some degree. Completed by local design-build firm Nicholas Design Collaborative , the Periscope House-named for the sleek mod volume that cantilevers slightly over the front yard-expands the original two-bedroom house into a four-bedroom contemporary courtyard residence.
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Exxon Oil Industry Peers Knew About Climate Dangers 1970s, Too
2015-12-24 19:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: The American Petroleum Institute together with the nation's largest oil companies ran a task force to monitor and share climate research between 1979 and 1983, indicating that the oil industry, not just Exxon alone, was aware of its possible impact on the world's climate far earlier than previously known. The group's members included senior scientists and engineers from nearly every major U.S. and multinational oil and gas company, including Exxon, Mobil, Amoco, Phillips, Texaco, Shell, Sunoco,...
Report: All Major Oil Companies Knew of Climate Change by 1970s
2015-12-24 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Democracy Now!: A new investigation by the Pulitzer Prize-winning outlet InsideClimate News suggests that nearly every major U.S. and multinational oil and gas company was aware of the impact of fossil fuels on climate change as early as the late 1970s. Earlier exposés by InsideClimate News and the Los Angeles Times have revealed that Exxon scientists knew about climate change as early as 1977, and for decades Exxon concealed its own findings that the burning of fossil fuels causes global warming, alters the climate...
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It Wasnt Only Exxon That Knew About Global Warming Since the 1970s
2015-12-24 15:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Common Dreams: It wasnt just Exxon that knew fossil fuels were cooking the planet. New investigative reporting by Neela Banerjee with Inside Climate News revealed on Tuesday that scientists and engineers from nearly every major U.S. and multinational oil and gas company may have for decades known about the impacts of carbon emissions on the climate. Between 1979 and 1983, the American Petroleum Institute (API), the industrys most powerful lobby group, ran a task force for fossil fuel companies to monitor and...
N.W.A. joins quartet of 1970s hitmakers in rock hall
2015-12-17 09:45:15| Automakers - Topix.net
In this Aug. 30, 2013, file photo, Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick performs at the Harley-Davidson 110th Anniversary celebration, in Milwaukee. Cheap Trick joins others as inductees in the 2016 class at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.