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'Atmosphere of Hope': a primer for climate-change solutions

2015-11-08 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Seattle Times: Atlantic Monthly Press, 245 pp., $27 When Australian scientist Tim Flannery published 2003s The Weather Makers it was acclaimed as one of the earliest and more important books on climate change. A dozen years later he returns to the subject, examining what we have learned, what we have attempted to do to address the issue, and what we can do to solve what is arguably the most important environmental crisis facing humanity. As Flannery writes: Can our desire to overcome it [the climate crisis]...

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Atmosphere of Hope: Solutions to Climate Crisis by Tim Flannery

2015-11-02 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: In a few weeks, world leaders will gather in Paris in an attempt to reach a deal that will have critical implications for our species. At the COP21 climate talks, they will try to find a formula for reducing the worlds carbon emissions and give humanity an evens chance of holding global warming to a 2C rise above pre-industrial levels. Past efforts to negotiate such deals have been riddled with frustration and failures, in particular the 2009 climate talks in Copenhagen, which ended in disarray....

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Sean Penn says Paris climate talks 'last great hope'

2015-11-01 15:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: Hollywood star Sean Penn said Sunday the upcoming climate talks in Paris were the "last great chance" to stop the planet overheating. Penn, one of Hollywood's most socially engaged actors and directors, was in the French capital to meet Environment Minister Segolene Royal with less than a month to go until the 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference begins. "I think it's the last great hope in particular because of the way the French leadership has taken leadership in this. We can only...

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Former Campbell Soup CEO, two others named Hope Co...

2015-10-24 07:50:21| Food - Topix.net

The former CEO and president of Campbell Soup Company is one of three new members of the Hope College Board of Trustees. Douglas Conant of Chicago, who served as Campbell's top executive from 2001 to 2011 and also co-wrote a New York Times best-selling book on leadership, was appointed to the board Thursday.

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