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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Dear Community Friends and Partners:
The first print edition of the Green Pueblo Map showcasing our community’s favorite “green” places and spaces will be available later this year. If you haven’t already done so, we encourage you to “make your mark” on the map by nominating your favorite sustainable sites at www.greenpueblomap.org [...]
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Trying to make sense of the intense weather events, including “Snowmageddon?” You might want to review part or all of Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States now available in print, or free in electronic form from the US Global Change Research program: <http://www.globalchange.gov/publications/reports/scientific-assessments/us-impacts/download-the-report> .
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
According to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, the general public is not much interested in global warning or the environment. The importance of energy policy has also slipped as a matter of public concern. This would suggest that policy initiatives that involve using taxes as a strategy to move consumption away from [...]
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Friday, January 22nd, 2010
The recent decision of a divided Supreme Court has serious implications for the role of citizens in the development and implementation of policies in support of sustainability. This recent editorial from the New York Times provides a clear, but understated assessment of the seriousness of this decision.
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
On Tuesday, January 12, 2010, the Tucson City Council and Pima County Board of Supervisors met to [...]
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Friday, January 8th, 2010
Read an excerpt from James Hansen’s new book, Storms of My Grandchildren, about why a program of “fees and dividends” is far superior to “cap and trade” proposals currently being debated. The article in The Nation is available here: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100111/hansen .
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
This editorial by Nicholas Kristof for the New York Times at first seems to be a plug for living in Costa Rica. In fact, it is filled with numerous links to measures of happiness and well-being, many of which incorporate assessments of sustainability. You can review this article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/opinion/07kristof.html
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
The Call of the Land
Explores Surging Agrarian Movement
New book is “An Agrarian Primer for the 21st Century”
“Food and farms are involved in a blitzkrieg of changes,” writes veteran journalist Steven McFadden in The Call of the Land, published this October by NorLightsPress. The book gives voice to a growing chorus of 21st century agrarians who [...]
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
A new report, America on the Move, describes the efforts being made at the state level to carry forward the fight against Global Warming. The report identifies six states that have taken the lead by adopting enforceable caps on global warming pollution. Ten states have created regional cap-and-trade systems for emissions from electric power plants, [...]
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Friday, December 25th, 2009
A palindrome reads the same backwards as forward. This video reads the exact opposite backwards as forward. Not only does it read the opposite, the [...]
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