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The Promise and Challenge of Neighborhood Democracy
Democracy is increasingly global, but it may also be increasingly local.
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Gavin Schmidt on Climate Models | Edge
With these two models, you have two estimates — one says it's going to get wetter and one says it's going to get drier. What do you do? Is there anything that you can say at all? That is a really difficult question.
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Hyperlocal News with Outside.in for Publishers
If I was starting The Village Voice today, I'd do a bit of original reporting on the big stories but most of what I'd do would be smart curation, with a voice, and an opinion.
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Climate Crossroads | Social Capital Project and Topos Partnership
What are the "first principles" for any who would seek to communicate with others about climate change?
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A Declaration of Health Data Rights
In an era when technology allows personal health information to be more easily stored, updated, accessed and exchanged, the following rights should be self-evident and inalienable.
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Agriculture and Climate Change | International Food Policy Research Institute
The potential of carbon sequestration in soils and vegetation together is equivalent to a draw-down of about 50 parts per million of atmospheric CO2 by 2100.
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Estimated Costs of Cap-and-Trade | CBO
Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the net annual economywide cost of the cap-and-trade program in 2020 would be $22 billion—or about $175 per household.
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Massive Imbalances in Global Fertilizer Use | Science
Most agricultural systems follow a trajectory from too little in the way of added nutrients to too much, and both extremes have substantial human and environmental costs.
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The conservation economy: A new kind of capitalism | Vancouver Sun
Almost lost in the flood of annual results released by corporations at this time of year, the Ecotrust Canada report delivers a clear insight into what has to be one of Canada’s most unusual blends of capitalism and conservation.
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Official Words on Peaking Oil
IEA chief economist Fatih Birol predicted a 2020 peak in global commercial oil supplies.
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Buying Farmland Abroad | The Economist
Countries that export capital but import food are outsourcing farm production to countries that need capital but have land to spare.
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Nicholas Kristof: Freegate in Iran | NYT
Freegate takes a surfer to an overseas server that changes I.P. addresses every second or so, too quickly for a government to block it, and then from there to a banned site.
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Chris Anderson Q&A with Clay Shirky on Twitter and Iran | TED Blog
Traditional media operates as source of inofrmation not as a means of coordination. It can't do more than make us sympathize. Twitter makes us empathize. It makes us part of it.
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Incentives to Sustain Forest Ecosystem Services | International Institute for Environment and Development
The findings of this report are that payments for ecosystem services can create incentives for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation.
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Tom Philpott: Big Ag and Climate | Grist
Food production practices play a pivotal role in climate change - both mitigation and adaptation.
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Cary Fowler: When it comes to food, we’re all in this together | Grist
Sovereignty and independence play well in certain political circles and amongst many teenagers, but are out of place in the biological sciences.
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Christopher Costello and Steven Gaines: Catch Share Fisheries | Resouces for the Future
The appropriateness of catch share design features hinges on the ultimate goals sought by the communities they are meant to serve.
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John Podesta: Climate Change as Cultural Change | Center for American Progress
We propose the idea of “Carbon Cap Equivalents” as a way of profiling a country’s commitment to meeting emissions reductions.
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Straight Talk on the Smart Grid | earth2tech
While it’s significant that utilities are starting to build out smart grid infrastructure, utilities are largely opting for networks that provide connections that are far from real time, and this could stifle the desired innovation.
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Carbon Payments Help Protect Threatened Tropical Mammals | ScienceDaily
If CO2 credits could be sold for US $10 to $33 per tonne, conserving the forest would be more profitable than clearing the land for oil palm.
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Interventions to Decrease Loss of Reactive Nitrogen to the Environment
Humans have more than doubled the total annual global production of rN over natural levels, a rate that is accelerating.
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Totaling CO2 Emissions | Nature
Two papers explore the uncertain relationships between carbon emissions and climate response, with the aim of better estimating how much additional CO2 might indeed be too much.
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Paul Krugman: The Perfect, the Good, the Planet | NYT
Cap and trade has some major advantages, especially for achieving effective international cooperation.
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Teaching Copyright | Electronic Frontier Foundation
We decided to fill in the gap by developing an honest, accurate, and balanced curriculum that would help students understand and exercise their digital rights and responsibilities.
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Salmon Salvation | High Country News
For the first time in memory, some eastern Washington and northern Idaho farmers -- who benefit the most from the barge transportation the four Snake dams provide -- say they would welcome a discussion of alternative ways to move their crops to market.
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Rich Heffern on Thomas Berry | National Catholic Reporter
Fr. Berry asked: What sense does it make to have healthy humans living on a terminally ill planet?
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Douglas Rushkoff: Life, Inc.
This is probably the first moment in the last couple of hundred years that we've had to re-build our society and our economy on principles that serve humanity - instead of killing life.
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Big Questions in Ecology and Evolution | Science
One of the book's more serious messages is that ecology and evolution are so intertwined that neither can be understood without considering the other.
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Climate Change and Sustainable Development | Global Humanitarian Forum
Resilience in the face of climate change must be added as an additional pillar to the concept of sustainable development.
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Carolyn Raffensperger: Legal Guardianship for Future Generations
The emerging ecological and climate change cases, particularly those that are global in scale and intergenerational in scope, will turn on economic issues, be accompanied by vast scientific uncertainty, and have enormous societal ramifications.
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