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Changes needed to save resources
Posted by BBC: Roger Harrabin on January 28th, 2013
BBC: Governments need to spark a lightweight revolution in the way things are made so the world can keep up with the demand for resources, say scientists.
They say homes will have to be built with less cement; cars with less steel; and gadgets with less plastic.
And it will need to be done in a way that radically cuts emissions from producing the materials, they add.
These are among the conclusions presented in the journal
Several papers in the journal tackle the dual problem created by the...
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Sandra Steingraber: Next 12 Steps to Stop Fracking in New York
Posted by EcoWatch: Sandra Steingraber on January 28th, 2013
EcoWatch: 1. I am writing you from an airport in Wisconsin.
People here, and across the river in Minnesota, are trying desperately to halt the strip mining of their communities for frac-sand. Trucks are rolling. Silica dust is flying. Hill by hill, bluff by bluff--the land itself is shoveled into railcars and shipped off to the gas fields of America where grains of silica sand are shot into the cracks of fractured bedrock so methane can flow out of it.
What’s left behind in Wisconsin and Minnesota are...