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Retail Giants Join Forces on Sustainable Apparel

2013-11-04 06:53:53| Apparel - Topix.net

Giants are now determined to embrace the environment. Levi's has come out with designer jeans manufactured out of used plastic bottles.

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Did Mayor Undermine Kauai Council's Legal Fight Against Biotech Giants?

2013-11-03 00:12:03| Biotech - Topix.net

He garnered a lot of attention Thursday when he vetoed a GMO and pesticide disclosure bill that has the overwhelming support of the Garden Island's County Council.

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UK universities urged to pull cash from fossil fuel giants

2013-10-26 23:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: An international campaign to urge large institutions to dump fossil fuel investments reaches the UK this week, following rapid success in the US. The year-old divestment campaign, Fossil Free, has grown even faster than similar efforts that once targeted apartheid, tobacco and arms manufacturers. It now aims to focus attention on the 5bn invested in coal, oil and gas by the endowment funds of UK universities. The move comes as financial giants such as HSBC, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs are...

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Fighting the fuel giants for a fully renewable future

2013-10-25 06:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The viability of a fossil fuel future is rarely connected to the human rights abuses required to sustain it. How often do we think about where oil and gas is obtained? Are the Europeans or Americans any more aware? This deliberate depoliticisation of our energy present, by the vast majority of politicians, journalists and self-described public intellectuals, is leading to an environment that is both unsustainable and dangerous for the planet. But don't worry, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott...

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Investors demand fossil fuel giants assess climate risks

2013-10-25 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BusinessGreen: A group of 70 investors controlling more than $3trn in assets yesterday opened a new front in the battle to get fossil fuel companies to fully assess the climate risks they face, revealing that they have written to 45 fossil fuel and energy companies requesting detailed information on the "financial risks that climate change poses to their business plans". Dubbed the Carbon Asset Risk (CAR) initiative and orchestrated by the Ceres group of responsible investors and the Carbon Tracker Initiative,...

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