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SFU researchers find promise for plug-in vehicles in Canada, but need for increased supply and policy support
2015-07-16 14:55:42| Green Car Congress
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Australia: NSW Farmers change climate change policy
2015-07-16 05:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: NSW Farmers has shifted its policy to recognise the impact of climate change on agriculture and urged politicians to act. Mullaley farmer Angela Martin, a former NSW Farmers board member, said the change sends a clear signal to governments that climate change is an issue farmers deal with every day. "Primary producers are on the front lines of seasonal variability, rising temperatures and more extreme weather, exacerbated by a changing climate," she said on the final day of the NSW Farmers conference...
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San Diego OKs 'Zero Waste' Policy
2015-07-14 20:08:00| Waste Age
The San Diego Union-Tribune San Diego moved to the forefront of nationwide efforts to reduce waste in landfills on Monday when the City Council unanimously adopted a complex blueprint for shrinking the amount of trash produced locally to zero by 2040. read more
Climate change is a security threat. Make it a foreign policy priority
2015-07-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: In March of this year, researchers at U.C. Santa Barbara and Columbia published a paper linking climate change and extreme drought to the Syrian Civil War. It wasnt the first time that scientists and economists had connected the dots between climate and violent conflict. It wasnt even the first time that scientists had connected the dots between climate and conflict in Syria. For Syria, wrote the authors, a country marked by poor governance and unsustainable agricultural and environmental policies,...
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Council revisits policy on surplus property
2015-07-09 20:01:04| PortlandOnline
Jim Redden in the Portland Tribune, July 9, 2015
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