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The refugee crisis is a portent
Posted by Daily Kos: None Given on September 14th, 2015
Daily Kos: The images were searing. The body of a drowned 3-year-old washing up on a Turkish beach. At least 200 more drowned when their boat sank off the coast of Libya. An abandoned truck in eastern Austria wherein 71 people suffocated, their bodies so badly decomposed in the heat that authorities at first couldn't tell how many there were. There have been similar images all year. According to the U.N. Refugee Agency, an estimated 300,000 people have fled across the Mediterranean this year, with at least...
Financial dominoes fall for coal as divestment trends gather steam
Posted by Daily Kos: None Given on June 13th, 2015
Daily Kos: Fossil fuel divestment news filled my newsfeed over the past week, adding to a growing list of impressive divestment stories from the past year. Again and again, we see young people convincing their colleges to divest, activists convincing banks to divest, and shareholders convincing companies to divest.
Financial dominoes just keep falling for the coal industry, which makes divesting from coal not just a smart move for the climate, but a prudent investment decision as well. SNL Energy just reported...
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Comments Off on Financial dominoes fall for coal as divestment trends gather steamUrban Metabolism: Understanding Your City by Understanding its Flow
Posted by Daily Kos: None Given on August 23rd, 2014
Daily Kos: Note: Climate change is the overarching environmental issue of our time and I'm a huge proponent of urging national and world leaders to take action. However, I often wonder what it is they're going to do once a treaty is signed to reduce CO2 emissions. It's not like there's a magic switch that will turn off all the centralized power plants and get most cars off the roads. Our current infrastructure is so inefficient and wasteful at its core that it depends on energy stored in fossils a million years...
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