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Subway System Being Prepared For Next Big Storm
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17.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| NEW YORK (AP) — Removable panels and inflatable plugs are among the ideas New York City's transit officials are considering to stop the next big... |
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Pipelines Or Rail? Guess Which One Is Way Worse
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14.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Bad news for Enbridge, TransCanada and all the other companies working to build controversial pipelines across North America: Pipelines spill three times as much oil... |
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Gas fracking and coal exports: Two sleeper issues that will surge following B.C. election
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13.5.2013 |
rabble.ca - News for the rest of us |
| Monday, May 13, 2013
"Given the current level of extraction of shale gas and the required power to export these fossil fuels, we’re looking at carbon pollution levels that exceed Alberta's tar sands."
There's been a dearth of substantive policy debated and alternatives offered during British Columbia’s election campaign. Transit, education, health care, social welfare, housing -- these and other burning issues have received too little attention.
Of more substance has been the debate over proposals to build or expand two tar sands pipelines from Alberta to coastal export terminals. The two leading parties have staked out more or less opposing positions. The Liberals are in favour and the New Democratic Party is opposed (a caveat being the NDP silence on Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion that would see a portion of the tar sands product delivered to U.S. refineries just south of the border at Vancouver.)
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Boom Of Massive Crane Damaged During Sandy Replaced
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12.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| NEW YORK -- Workers in New York City carefully replaced the boom of a massive crane on Saturday, more than six months after it was... |
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Town Hardest Hit By Sandy Begins Razing Homes
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11.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| MANTOLOKING, N.J. (AP) — Cranes and bulldozers have joined seagulls and surf as the new sounds of summer in the Jersey shore town that was... |
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Tuition increase a sign of an underfunded system
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10.5.2013 |
rabble.ca - News for the rest of us |
| Recently while taking the subway in the morning rush there was an almost business-as-usual delay that left hundreds, perhaps even more than a thousand people crammed onto the platform as we waited for the train.
When the train did finally arrive, it was packed to the gills with people who had squeezed on at the previous station. Between the two trains there were more than 2,000 uncomfortable and annoyed people saying "excuse me" who had paid the $3 fare to ride a system that is straining from years of underfunding.
Ontario's post-secondary system has parallels to public transit as it too is a system designed in the 1960s that keeps asking people to pay more as it becomes more crowded and people grumble about the state of things.
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Obama's Former Communications Director's Firm Does PR For Keystone XL Pipeline, Tar Sands Rail Transport
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4.5.2013 |
CommonDreams.org Headlines |
Double-dipping is a "no go" in the real world of eating chips and salsa with a circle of friends but an everyday reality in the world of lobbyists and PR professionals.  read more |
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Key Hurricane Sandy Deadline Puts Lawmakers To The Test
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30.4.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Six months after Hurricane Sandy made landfall, the superstorm recovery situation remains a work in progress. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) appeared on Monday's edition of... |
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Bike-Sharing Programs Hit the Streets in Over 500 Cities Worldwide
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26.4.2013 |
TreeHugger |
Today more than 500 cities in 49 countries host advanced bike-sharing programs, with a combined fleet of over 500,000 bicycles. |
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Bill Chameides: Greenhouse Gas Emissions: EPA Cries Foul on Keystone, Gov. Forecasts Fall Short
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25.4.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Two news items surrounding greenhouse gas emissions moved over the past week. One on the trajectory of said emissions from government number-crunching. The other on what the proposed Keystone pipeline might mean for emissions. |
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NYC's subway track geometry car blends high- and low-tech
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23.4.2013 |
TreeHugger |
Beneath the city that never sleeps, MTA's "track geometry car" worms it's way through New York's subway tunnels, using a menagerie of sensors and cameras to inspect the tracks. |
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What can we do about the climate crisis? Eric Doherty answers our questions and provides solutions
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20.4.2013 |
rabble.ca - News for the rest of us |
| How does the climate crisis affect Canadians and Canada and what can individuals and cities do to reverse the effects? Those are some of the big questions being asked this Earth Week, so we sought out expert and friend of the rabble.ca book lounge, Eric Doherty, to help us answer them.
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What can we do about the climate crises? Eric Doherty answers our questions and provides solutions
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20.4.2013 |
rabble.ca - News for the rest of us |
| How does the climate crisis affect Canadians and Canada and what can individuals and cities do to reverse the effects? Those are some of the big questions being asked this Earth Week, so we sought out expert and friend of the rabble.ca book lounge, Eric Doherty, to help us answer them.
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Scientists: Superstorm Sandy Jolted United States
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19.4.2013 |
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com |
| SALT LAKE CITY — Superstorm Sandy didn't just rattle the East Coast, it also jiggled the ground across the country ever so slightly, scientists reported... |
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Massive Sinkhole Swallows 3 Cars, Injures 1 Person In Chicago
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18.4.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| A massive sinkhole on Chicago's South Side has swallowed up three cars and injured one person amid fears that it could grow larger yet as... |
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Earth Week recap of Babble Book Club final discussion with special guest Eric Doherty
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16.4.2013 |
rabble.ca - News for the rest of us |
| It's officially Earth Week, and what better way to kick it off in the book lounge than with a summary of our Babble Book Club conversation on Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile . Last Friday , we had special guest Eric Doherty , a Registered Professional Planner in Vancouver, join us in the book lounge to add a little perspective and depth into the issues of transit infrastructure and city planning presented in Straphanger .
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Meteorologists Retire 'Sandy' From List Of Hurricane Names
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12.4.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| MIAMI, April 11 (Reuters) - The World Meteorological Organization has retired "Sandy" from its rotating list of hurricane names because of the devastation last year's... |
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PEOPLE MOVER 2.0?
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11.4.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| This post first appeared at Mode Shift: Move Together, the online hub for placemaking and connectivity in Metro Detroit. DETROIT—There is a general mixture of... |
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Will This Change Help Save Lives During A Storm?
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5.4.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| MIAMI (AP) — Responding to criticism after Superstorm Sandy, the National Hurricane Center said Thursday it would change the way it warns people about tropical... |
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Austerity Continues: Privatization of Greece's Rail Underway
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2.4.2013 |
CommonDreams.org Headlines |
The privatization of Greece's rail system is set to begin in June, the Greek government announced on Monday, as it continues to mete out the austerity including privatizations the troika imposed as a requisite for receiving bailout funds. read more |
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