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Silicon Valley water district moves to join global warming divestment movement

2013-08-27 01:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

San Jose Mercury News: In the 1980s, hundreds of American cities, states and universities sold their investments in South African companies as part of a protest against that country's former apartheid government. Now, environmental groups are trying to duplicate that effort, but with global warming polluters in the role of villain. And, just as with South African divestment a generation ago, the Bay Area is at the head of the parade again, prompting cheers from environmentalists and jeers from skeptics who say the whole...

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REITs, Institutional Investors at Forefront of Green Building Movement

2013-08-26 15:30:00| National Real Estate Investor

Institutional investors and REITs are leading the way in the green building movement. read more

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Is Silicon Valley's youth movement really just age discrimination?

2013-08-20 13:13:34| InfoWorld: Top News

The alarming turn of events at one of Silicon Valley's stalwart, iconic companies leaves many older Silicon Valley techies with more evidence in support of a legitimate gripe: They're losing their jobs to younger people. Earlier this summer, Rowan Trollope, senior vice president and general manager of the collaboration technology group at Cisco Systems, told a crowd at a Commonwealth Club event in San Francisco that Cisco will hire 2,000 Millennials this year.

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How A Leaderless Climate Change Movement Can Survive

2013-08-19 21:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mother Jones: The history we grow up with shapes our sense of reality--it's hard to shake. If you were young during the fight against Nazism, war seems a different, more virtuous animal than if you came of age during Vietnam. I was born in 1960, and so the first great political character of my life was Martin Luther King, Jr. I had a shadowy, child's sense of him when he was still alive, and then a mythic one as his legend grew; after all, he had a national holiday. As a result, I think, I imagined that he set...

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