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Why tropical forests will combat climate change... until they don't
"Many forecasts for climate change assume that tropical forests will continue to soak up carbon dioxide as the world warms. What if they don’t?" … more »
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CathRuralLife
American Farming, Run on Exploitation, Can't Keep Up This Way Forever
"As farming in the U.S. continues its decades-long descent into an industrialized system rife with inequality, Americans are still focusing on the American farmer of old. But, when are conversations about American farming going to start worrying about the exploitative house of cards the entire agricultural industry?" … more »
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In honor of the day, "Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was vastly more populous and sophisticated than has been thought. New evidence of both the extent of the population and its agricultural advancement leads to a remarkable conjecture: the Amazon rain forest may be largely a human artifact." … more »
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trnava
The energy revolution is already here
"For the longest time, the prevailing narrative about renewable energy featured clumsy technologies, high costs, and burdensome subsidies. But now that these technologies have come of age, a new story is being written. Around the world, businesses, governments, and households are taking advantage of more cost-effective low-carbon technologies." … more »
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HBS.edu
The ‘Glass Floor’ Is Keeping America’s Richest Idiots At The Top
A 2005 study found that wealthy middle-schoolers with the lowest standardized test scores were more likely to graduate from college than poor middle-schoolers with the highest scores. … more »
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PG&E
California power shutoffs: when your public utility is owned by private investors
"When the United States’ largest investor-owned utility, Pacific Gas and Electric, shut down power to millions of Californians this week, nearly no one was ready. Not governments. Not businesses. And certainly not the general public." … more »
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Vapestore.uk
Juul Is looking like the New Big Tobacco
Bloomberg reports, “They were in such a hurry to get product in the marketplace,” says one who, like others, spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. “It was just, get it out there, get it out there, get it out there.” … more »
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COSTMarin
CO$T Endorsements
The Coalition of Sensible Taxpayers urges San Anselmo residents to vote YES on the Memorial Park Tax measure that is on the November 5, 2019 general election ballot. We believe Measure M provides the greatest possible fairness in funding a needed renovation and future maintenance of San Anselmo’s popular, heavily-used Memorial Park. … more »
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CSPP
Unfunded: Tallying the $120 + Trillion Dollar Problem
"As a whole, The Federal government, state government, corporations, and households have never been as insolvent as they are today. Now we are at a staggering $190,000 in debt per working adult, very near the median value of a home in America." … more »
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Stanford.edu
Vested interests turned the world against climate science
In 1998 a public relations consultant called Joe Walker wrote to the American Petroleum Institute (API), a trade association representing major fossil fuel companies, with a proposed solution to a big problem. Reducing emissions represented a direct threat to the profits of fossil fuel companies and the API was working on an industry response. … more »