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Green diary rescue: Pedal power, electric cars, OFA on climate change
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19.5.2013 |
Daily Kos |
| Every week Daily Kos diarists write dozens of environmentally related posts. Many don't get the readership they deserve. Helping improve the odds is the motivation behind the Green Diary Rescue. In the past seven years, there have been 226 of these spotlighting more than 12,645 eco-diaries. Below are categorized links and excerpts to 64 more that appeared in the past seven days. That makes for lots of good reading during the spare moments of your weekend. [ Disclaimer: Inclusion of a diary in the rescue does not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of it.]
Mr. President, Arctic Ice Loss Portends a Climate Tsunami: The National Arctic Strategy is Suicidal —by FishOutofWater : "President Obama, your advisers just don't get it. We should be running as fast as we can from fossil fuels, not going out to sea to get more of them. The loss of summer sea ice portends a climate tsunami. The ice is keeping the Arctic cold, even in summer. Retreat of the ice is accelerating the ... |
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[newstrust :: Financial Regulation]
[newstrust :: Regulation]
[newstrust :: Housing]
[newstrust :: Strategies]
[newstrust :: Legal Strategies]
[newstrust :: Ecosystems]
[newstrust :: Glacier]
[newstrust :: Sea Level]
[newstrust :: Storm]
[newstrust :: Agriculture]
[newstrust :: Climate change]
[newstrust :: Global warming]
[newstrust :: Greenhouse Gases]
[newstrust :: Emissions]
[newstrust :: Floods n Droughts]
[newstrust :: Forest]
[newstrust :: Species]
[newstrust :: Farm Bill]
[newstrust :: Fairness]
[newstrust :: Solid Waste]
[newstrust :: Conservation Efforts]
[newstrust :: Species Loss]
[newstrust :: Biodiversity Threats]
[newstrust :: Endangered Species]
[newstrust :: Legislation]
[newstrust :: Supreme Court]
[newstrust :: Regulation]
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Obama's Morehouse visit shines spotlight on HBCUs
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19.5.2013 |
AP National |
| ATLANTA (AP) -- When President Barack Obama addresses graduates at Morehouse College on Sunday, he'll also be speaking to the broader community of historically black colleges and universities - a proud corner of higher education that has struggled more than most during the last few years of economic distress.... |
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Obama's Morehouse visit shines spotlight on HBCUs
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19.5.2013 |
Twincities.com: Nation |
| ATLANTA—When President Barack Obama addresses graduates at Morehouse College on Sunday, he'll also be speaking to the broader community of |
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[newstrust :: Higher Education]
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Ore. timber country ponders future with fewer logs
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18.5.2013 |
Twincities.com: Nation |
| O'BRIEN, Ore.—Jennifer Phillippi's grandparents started producing lumber in this corner of Oregon timber country in 1922, when a man could set |
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[flenvcenter :: Forestry]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Deforestation]
[newstrust :: Legislation]
[newstrust :: Conservation Efforts]
[newstrust :: Endangered Species]
[newstrust :: Species Loss]
[newstrust :: Deforestation]
[sattva_1 :: flora]
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Ore. timber country ponders future with fewer logs
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18.5.2013 |
AP National |
| O'BRIEN, Ore. (AP) -- Jennifer Phillippi's grandparents started producing lumber in this corner of Oregon timber country in 1922, when a man could set up a mill, log the trees within range of a team of horses and move the mill to a new stand when those trees ran out.... |
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[irge304 :: All Forests]
[irge304 :: Legislation]
[irge304 :: Conservation Efforts]
[irge304 :: Species Loss]
[irge304 :: Endangered Species]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Forestry]
[flenvcenter :: Deforestation]
[newstrust :: Deforestation]
[newstrust :: Species Loss]
[newstrust :: Legislation]
[newstrust :: Conservation Efforts]
[newstrust :: Endangered Species]
[sattva_1 :: flora]
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Ore. timber country ponders future without logs that sustained economy over last 70 years
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18.5.2013 |
Star Tribune: Nation |
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[flenvcenter :: Forestry]
[flenvcenter :: Deforestation]
[newstrust :: Deforestation]
[sattva_1 :: flora]
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Obama focuses on middle-class concerns in weekly address
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18.5.2013 |
Daily Kos |
| There are three areas where we need to focus. One: making America a magnet for good jobs. Two: making sure our workers have the education and skills they need to do those jobs. And three: making sure your hard work leads to a decent living.
That’s why I like getting out of the Washington echo chamber whenever I can – because too often, our politics aren’t focused on the same things you are. Working hard. Supporting your family and your community. Making sure your kids have every chance in life.
In the coming weeks, I’m going to visit more cities like Baltimore, and Austin, Texas – where I was two weeks ago; places where Americans are coming together to strengthen their own communities and economies – and in the process, making this country better for all of us.
And I’m going to keep trying to work with both parties in Washington to make progress on your priorities. Because I know that if we come together around creating more jobs, educating more of our kids, and building new ladders of ... |
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Democrats buoyed by Obama response to trio of controversies
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18.5.2013 |
The Hill |
| House Democrats believe the president has done a good job "stabilizing" three controversies that could threaten their 2014 prospects.
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Open thread for night owls: Stephen Lerner on breaking Wall Street's grip
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18.5.2013 |
Daily Kos |
| [T]o build a new anti-poverty movement will require the kind of organizing and actions that are as creative, visible and gripping as the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Enter Stephen Lerner.
Lerner is a labor and community organizer who has spent more than three decades organizing hundreds of thousands of janitors, farm workers, garment workers and other low-wage workers into unions. These efforts resulted in increased wages, first-time health benefits, paid sick days and other improvements on the job. The architect of the historic Justice for Janitors campaign, he is currently working with unions and community groups across the country to break Wall Street’s anti-democratic grip on our politics and our economy.
Lerner lays out a powerful case about the intersection between poverty and Wall Street accountability—and how a Wall Street accountability movement can transform an economy that offers so few pathways out of poverty, and so many ways to keep people impoverished.
Here is our ... |
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[newstrust :: Housing]
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Op-Ed Columnist: Energy Exports Are Good!
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18.5.2013 |
NY Times: Editorials |
| Op-Ed Columnist: Energy Exports Are Good! |
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[phantomvish :: NYT]
[phantomvish :: All]
[subbutest :: NYT]
[subbutest :: All]
[demo :: Oil and Gas]
[sattva_1 :: energy]
[flenvcenter :: Oil and Gas]
[irge304 :: Oil Exploration]
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Salacious and Sober Collide, Illustrating Hurdles for Italy’s Government
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18.5.2013 |
NYT > World |
| Salacious and Sober Collide, Illustrating Hurdles for Italy’s Government |
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The Saturday Profile: Olli Rehn Tries to Shed ‘Austerity’ Label
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18.5.2013 |
NYT > World |
| The Saturday Profile: Olli Rehn Tries to Shed ‘Austerity’ Label |
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California jobless rate falls to 9%
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18.5.2013 |
LA Times: Business |
| California jobless rate falls to 9% |
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[newstrust :: Trade]
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Bay Area adds 2,600 jobs in April, reaching its highest job totals since fall 2008
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18.5.2013 |
San Jose Mercury News: Business |
| The job gains were led by the San Francisco-San Mateo-Marin region, which added 2,600 jobs and the East Bay, which gained 1,300; the South Bay suffered an employment setback, losing 1,800 jobs |
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[newstrust :: Unemployment]
[newstrust :: Recession]
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Indicators Offer Signs of Growth for Future
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18.5.2013 |
NY Times: Business |
| Indicators Offer Signs of Growth for Future |
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[demo :: Housing]
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Scott Walker Touts Job Growth That Ranks Wisconsin Seventh-To-Last In Nation
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18.5.2013 |
Think Progres |
| Scott Walker Touts Job Growth That Ranks Wisconsin Seventh-To-Last In Nation |
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As Utah’s star rises after 2 recessions, lessons linger
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18.5.2013 |
Salt Lake Tribune |
| by Paul Beebe The Salt Lake Tribune
Published May 17, 2013 04:58PM MDT
With few exceptions, the pattern of jobs distributed across Utah is largely unchanged after two recessions since the turn of the new century. That underscores not only the unusual diversity of the state’s economy, but it increases the likelihood employment in the state will grow faster than in the U.S. for some time. It’s true the Great Recession gave construction a good drubbing , manufacturing employment ebbed and flowed between 2000 and 2012, and the information sector seems in permanent decl... ... |
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[irge304 :: Coal Mining]
[newstrust :: Recession]
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Tim Cook's pitch for a corporate tax holiday suits Washington just fine | Heidi Moore
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18.5.2013 |
Guardian: Comment is Free |
| Politicians will be happy to hear the Apple CEO talk about a corporate tax holiday, so long as some money goes to government, too
One of the strangely charming aspects of the CEO class in America (and one they share with most of Congress) is their ability to tune out the actually pressing issues of the day – the weakening American labor force, the troublesome cycle of consumer debt, the flagging pace of economic growth – and, instead, focus with laser precision on hyping the kind of issues that the rest of us might call first-world problems.
So it's no surprise that government and corporations, finding their methods aligned, may also find their interests aligned. They might gear up to work together again – as soon as next week, in fact.
Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, is a perfect example. It's easy to imagine that Cook wouldn't have a free moment, and that he'd be busy at home in Cupertino, California, with a litany of troubles: the fears that Apple's glory is over; that innovation isn't on ... |
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Gabriel Gomez's bad week
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18.5.2013 |
NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed |
| Why is this man still smiling?
Last week's tax scam scandal continued to dog Gomez. As a refresher, back in 2005, Gomez granted an easement on his $2+ million home, agreeing to not make changes to the facade of the historic house and getting an income tax deduction of more than $280,000 for the "donation." But local bylaws prevent him from making those changes anyway—he got a very hefty deduction for giving up absolutely nothing. He's steadfastly refused to answer any questions about this deduction, which has just led to more questions , and the news that he stiffed a guy he hired to do an appraisal on the house in order to obtain that deduction. The guy's appraisal wasn't rich enough for Gomez, so he refused to accept it, and refused to pay the $1,000 fee for the appraisal. All of which makes it very hard for this private-equity millionaire guy to assume the aw-shucks Scott Brown regular-guy mantle he's going to need to win over independents.
Gomez isn't going to be making any political ... |
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[newstrust :: Education]
[newstrust :: Campaign Contributions]
[newstrust :: scandal]
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Obama: 'Our focus cannot drift' from jobs, economy
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18.5.2013 |
Boston Globe: Latest |
| Obama: 'Our focus cannot drift' from jobs, economy |
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[newstrust :: Recession]
[newstrust :: scandal]
[newstrust :: Unemployment]
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