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Portland's $15 Movement Keeps Growing! Now Amanda Fritz Says Some Seasonal Workers Need a Raise
2015-02-20 01:30:56| PortlandOnline
Dirk Vanderhart in The Oregonian, February 18, 2015
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'Anti-Petroleum' Movement Growing Security Threat to Canada, RCMP Say
2015-02-17 14:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe & Mail: The RCMP has labelled the "anti-petroleum" movement as a growing and violent threat to Canada's security, raising fears among environmentalists that they face increased surveillance, and possibly worse, under the Harper government's new terrorism legislation. In highly charged language that reflects the government's hostility toward environmental activists, an RCMP intelligence assessment warns that foreign-funded groups are bent on blocking oil sands expansion and pipeline construction, and that...
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Norway: First Country in the World Dumps Fossil Fuels As Divestment Movement Heats Up
2015-02-06 20:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Back in 2012, Bill McKibben with fellow activists including Naomi Klein, Winona LaDuke, Josh Fox and Reverend Lennox Yearwood began a nationwide tour to promote fossil fuel divestmentthat is, selling off your shares in fossil fuel companiesin an effort to combat climate change. With action in Congress impossible, McKibben saw college campusesknown for being laboratories of democracyas ground zero in the campaign for divestment. With his Do the Math campaign in sold-out concert halls...
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Agricultural movement tackles challenges of warming world
2015-02-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Rice is a thirsty crop. Yet for the past three years, Alberto Mejia has been trying to reduce the amount of water he uses for irrigation on his 1,100-acre farm near Ibague in the tropical, central range of the Colombian Andes. He now plants new kinds of rice that require less water. He floods his paddies with greater precision and has installed gauges that measure the moisture content of the soil. On a daily basis he can determine how much nitrogen the plants need, and he relies on more advanced...
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Flexible nanogenerator harvests muscle movement to power mobile devices
2015-01-29 18:52:49| Extremetech
The consumer world is becoming powered by mobile devices, but those devices are still powered by being tethered to a wall or a reserve power pack. What if you could generate power for your mobile devices simply by moving your body, and the power source was almost unnoticeable?
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