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Condo forum ranges from budgets to weather
Community association residents and boards have a lot on their minds these days. They have questions about borrowing money, global warming, meeting minutes and more. A panel of industry pros addressed these concerns at a recent homeowner forum sponsored...Tags: Environmental Issues, Global Warming
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Winter storm dumps snow from Oklahoma to Great Lakes
Associated PressKANSAS CITY, Mo. -- For the second time in a week, a major winter storm paralyzed parts of the nation’s midsection Tuesday, dumping a fresh layer of heavy, wet snow atop cities still choked with piles from the previous system and making travel...Tags: National Weather Service, Air Transportation Delays, Washington, DC, Air Transportation Industry, Jesse Jackson, Jr.
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A Nation Clogged By Wasteful Car Culture
The Hartford CourantI learned a little after the fact that the writer Jane Holtz Kay passed away late last year at age 74. She was a lot of things — architecture critic for The Nation, preservationist, Boston activist. She was also the author of a book that put her...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Conservation, Manufacturing and Engineering, Environmental Issues, Authors
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Honda and SolarCity offer a home discount for going green
Buy a new Honda Fit EV or Accord Plug-In Hybrid and get a big discount on a solar power installation at your home. Or don’t buy a new one; just prove you own a Honda generator or show up at a dealership with the paperwork for your rusting, 1970s-...
Tags: Renewable Energy, Honda, Solar Energy, Marketing, Manufacturing and Engineering
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A power to act on warming
WASHINGTON -- The test of President Obama's seriousness about addressing climate change is not his pending decision on the much-debated Keystone XL pipeline. It's whether he effectively consigns coal-fired power plants -- one of the biggest sources of...
Tags: Washington, DC, State of the Union Address, Metal and Mineral, Keystone XL Pipeline, Mining
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Nuclear blows away wind
The primary motivation among environmentalists for developing wind energy is legitimate concern about the effects of climate change. Wind is alleged to provide important relief from the emission of carbon dioxide from electricity production. But without...
Tags: Conservation, Renewable Energy, Chernobyl Disaster (1986), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Ecosystems
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Florida rivers getting sicker, Sentinel investigation finds
Florida's rivers are in trouble. That's what the Orlando Sentinel found after a yearlong evaluation of some of the state's biggest and smallest, most urban and remote, cleanest and dirtiest, protected and abused rivers. Of the 22 rivers studied,...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Water, Chemical Industry, Bodies of Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Eat your meal(worms)! If nothing else, it could help the planet
Do you want to fight global warming? Do you like eating worms? If so, two scientists at Wageningen University in the Netherlands have an idea for you: Start substituting mealworms for the conventional animal proteins in your diet such as chicken, beef...
Tags: Agriculture, Environmental Issues, Agricultural Research and Technology, Los Angeles Times, Netherlands
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Obama's Recipe For Conservative Revival
The Hartford CourantHappy days are not here again, but they are coming for conservatives. Barack Obama — with the lowest approval rating (according to Gallup, 50 percent, four points lower than that of the National Rifle Association) of any re-elected president when...Tags: Conservation, U.S. Congress, Hurricanes, Keystone XL Pipeline, Ecosystems
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S.D. must face climate change
PIERRE - The most important topic missing from political debate in South Dakota is potentially more harmful in the long run than any semi-automatic handgun or AR-style mock-assault rifle. The topic is climate change. There isn't a single piece of...Tags: Conservation, Renewable Energy, U.S. Congress, Metal and Mineral, Mining
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Kerry expected to elevate climate change as secretary of state
Secretary of State nominee John Kerry, with 20 years of concern about climate change, is expected to push the issue to center stage as a slow-motion crisis in need of a global solution. When he sought to defeat President George W. Bush in 2004, the...
Tags: Teresa Heinz Kerry, Conservation, Environmental Issues, George W. Bush, European Union
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World warm last year, but not like record US heat
WASHINGTON (AP) — While the U.S. was smashing heat marks last year, the world as a whole barely slipped into the top 10 hottest years on record, two American science agencies said Tuesday. The global average temperature for last year would have...
Tags: NASA, Washington, DC, Environmental Issues, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Weather Statistics
Mar 1, 2013
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Feb 26, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Mar 20, 2013
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Feb 26, 2013
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Feb 26, 2013
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Jan 31, 2013
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Jan 16, 2013
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
Dec 20, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jan 25, 2013
|Column| Hartford Courant
Jan 25, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Dec 24, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jan 16, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
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