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Data Spurs Resilience
2015-04-29 15:27:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Amos Avidan Interconnectivity Creates Risk Growing urbanization and extreme weather are making cities more vulnerable. In the next 35 years, an additional 2.5 billion people may live in mega-cities. read more
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VIDEO: Kent orchard spurs pear industry revival
2015-04-25 11:02:58| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The UK's biggest conference pear orchard has been planted at a farm in Kent, using techniques already used abroad in a bid to help British producers compete with their foreign rivals.
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Asian comeback spurs growth for spirits maker Pernod Ricard
2015-04-23 09:30:50| Beverages - Topix.net
Rising Asian sales and a strong U.S. dollar have helped return Pernod Ricard to growth, after a slack period the French spirits maker says it expects will come to a gradual end. The maker of Absolut vodka and Jameson Irish whiskey posted sales of 1.9 billion euros for the January through March period, with a total so far for the year of 6.5 billion euros , up 2 percent from the same nine-month period last year.
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Eagle death spurs new power line protections
2015-04-21 20:18:32| Energy - Topix.net
Alliant Energy is taking action to keep birds safe after an eagle was electrocuted on one of its power poles near Keota earlier this year. Alliant Energy workers spent Monday morning installing avian protection equipment on power poles on 190th St. in Keota, near the area where the eagle was electrocuted.
California drought spurs protest over 'unconscionable' bottled water business
2015-04-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Californians facing the prospect of endless drought, mandated cuts in water use and the browning of their summer lawns are mounting a revolt against the bottled water industry, following revelations that Nestlé and other big companies are taking advantage of poor government oversight to deplete mountain streams and watersheds at vast profit. An online petition urging an immediate end to Nestles water bottling operations in the state has gathered more than 150,000 signatures, in the wake of an...
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