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Making climate change a priority, Obama gives hope to activists

2013-02-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

American-Statesman: Where other people see perfectly healthy trees, Anna Graybeal sees drought-stricken skeletons. The changing climate is putting these trees at risk, she says, gazing out, with a hint of terror, from a table at an Austin coffee shop recently. As volunteers for the Citizens Climate Lobby, Graybeal, 47, a psychologist, and her friend, Susan Adams, 40, a technical writer, are among a dozen or so Austinites working on a seemingly Sisyphean effort to get federal lawmakers to adopt a tax-and-dividend...

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Sprint's coming identity shift offers hope

2013-02-07 19:36:53| CNET News.com

The company will drop Nextel -- both its name and business -- as it looks to further tighten its focus on the competitive wireless market. [Read more]

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Boise Cascade soars after IPO, giving hope to others

2013-02-07 05:25:35| Paper - Topix.net

Los Angeles a Riding a U.S. housing recovery and a booming stock market, Boise Cascade, a maker of plywood and other building materials, jumped 25 percent in its market debut Wednesday.

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Can Obama's fire and brimstone on climate change herald a new hope?

2013-02-05 16:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Eyebrows were raised at Barack Obama's political judgment when he used biblical language to promise action on climate change in his second inaugural address. Inaction would be a betrayal of children and future generations, he said, if we left to them a world of "raging fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms." A scientifically informed, massive shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy was the way to a biosphere "commanded to our care by god". It was, he had previously said, also the...

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