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Desmond Tutu calls for a boycott of fossil fuels
2014-04-11 01:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Record: "People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change. We can, for instance, boycott events, sports teams and media programming sponsored by fossil-fuel energy companies. We can demand that the advertisements of energy companies carry health warnings. We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities and cultural institutions to cut their ties to the fossil-fuel industry. We can organise car-free days and build broader societal awareness....
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NASA signs agreements with German, Canadian partners to study emissions from alternative jet fuels
2014-04-10 20:30:25| Green Car Congress
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NASA Signs Agreement with German, Canadian Partners to Test Alternative Fuels
2014-04-10 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
NASA has signed separate agreements with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the National Research Council of Canada to conduct series of joint flight tests to study atmospheric effects of emissions from jet engines burning alternative fuels. NASA's DC-8 and HU-25C Guardian, DLR's Falcon 20-E5, and NRC's CT-133 research aircraft will conduct flight tests in which DC-8's engines will burn mix of different fuel blends, while the Falcon and CT-133 measure emissions and observe contrail ...This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:
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After refusing to divest from fossil fuels, Harvard takes new steps to promote the environment
2014-04-07 21:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Boston Globe: Six months after announcing that Harvard would not divest its endowment from the fossil fuel industry, President Drew Faust unveiled several new initiatives today to strengthen the universitys commitment to environmental sustainability and renewable energy. Harvard has a vital leadership role to play in this work, Faust wrote in a letter to the Harvard community. As a university, it has a special obligation and accountability to the future, to the long view needed to anticipate and alter the...
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Climate meeting to discuss future of fossil fuels
2014-04-05 11:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: After concluding that global warming almost certainly is man-made and poses a grave threat to humanity, the U.N.-sponsored expert panel on climate change is moving on to the next phase: what to do about it. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, will meet next week in Berlin to chart ways in which the world can curb the greenhouse gas emissions that scientists say are overheating the planet. It is also trying to give estimates on what it would cost. In the third report of...
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