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Climate change, AI and ethical leadership in ‘big tech’, with Amazon principal UX design lead Maren Costa
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24.6.2019 |
TechCrunch |
| “I just want to be proud of the company that I work for,” Maren Costa told me recently. Costa is a Principal UX Design Lead at Amazon, for which she has worked since 2002. I was referred to her because of her leadership in the Amazon Employees for Climate Justice group I covered earlier this […] |
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Let the debates begin: Time for progressive candidates to seize the moment
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24.6.2019 |
Raw Story |
| On Wednesday and Thursday, 20 Democratic candidates for president will file onto the stage of a Miami theater for the first formal debates of the primary season. There are so many contenders that the DNC and hosts NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo must platoon them in, 10 per a night. Each debate lasts two hours and […] |
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[newstrust :: Housing]
[newstrust :: Campaign Contributions]
[newstrust :: scandal]
[newstrust :: Strategies]
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Dutchman swims epic ice-skating course threatened by climate change
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24.6.2019 |
Raw Story |
| As Europe braces for a heatwave this week, a Dutchman is swimming the route of the country’s most famed ice skating race — which has not been held for two decades as climate change bites. Instead of skating the 195 kilometres of the daunting “Elfstedentocht” (Eleven cities race), Olympic gold marathon swimmer Maarten van der […] |
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[newstrust :: Global warming]
[newstrust :: Floods n Droughts]
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Some 2020 candidates want to hold fossil fuel giants accountable for climate change
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24.6.2019 |
The Atlantic - Matthew Ygblesias |
| Cities and states have been actively seeking to hold fossil fuel giants accountable for their role in knowingly contributing to global warming — a movement that is now seeing support from Democratic presidential contenders. Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) and Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) have both released climate plans that would see corporations like ExxonMobil […] |
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[newstrust :: Emissions]
[newstrust :: Generic]
[newstrust :: Strategies]
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Huge Reservoir of Fresh Water Discovered Hidden Deep Beneath the Ocean off U.S. East Coast
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24.6.2019 |
Newsweek Top Stories |
| The aquifer stretches from Massachusetts to New Jersey—the biggest formation of its kind ever found. |
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[sattva_1 :: water]
[flenvcenter :: Reservoirs]
[demo :: Climate change]
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Got a complex policy issue to solve? Dynamic Problem Repair will make it go poof
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24.6.2019 |
LA Times: Commentary |
| When something breaks on my old beater truck, I take it to Dynamic Auto Repair on Northwestern Highway, outside Detroit. The place has been there for 30 years, and Chris, the boss, really knows his stuff. On the wall behind the cash register is a hand-lettered sign: “Engine Warning Light Repair...  |
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[demo :: Climate change]
[nwct :: Healthcare_US]
[sattva_1 :: climate]
[newstrust :: Strategies]
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VP Mike Pence Refuses To Directly Answer Whether Climate Change is a Threat in Tapper Interview
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24.6.2019 |
Newsweek Top Stories |
| The timing of the interview came as the Trump administration continues to roll back Obama-era environmental regulations. |
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[irge304 :: Clean Coal]
[sattva_1 :: energy]
[flenvcenter :: General]
[demo :: Coal]
[demo :: Climate change]
[flenvcenter :: Climate Policy]
[newstrust :: Global warming]
[newstrust :: Emissions]
[newstrust :: Strategies]
[flenvcenter :: National]
[sattva_1 :: climate]
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Europe’s Once-Mighty Climate Warriors Are Staging a Comeback After Other Leaders Have Failed
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23.6.2019 |
Mother Jones |
| This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Traditionally, the European Union—the federation of 28 nations with 512 million inhabitants—has prided itself on being the global front runner in progressive policies on the environment and climate change. It has championed binding CO2 reduction targets in international negotiations, led the […] |
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[flenvcenter :: Climate Policy]
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[newstrust :: Strategies]
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[flenvcenter :: Policy]
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[newstrust :: Biodiversity Threats]
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[flenvcenter :: Environment]
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[sattva_1 :: energy]
[irge304 :: Green Power]
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A run through Colorado’s Yampa whitewater reveals the wildness that remains. But will the West’s rivers survive urban demands?
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23.6.2019 |
Headlines: All Headlines |
| The rafts carried water-policy professionals who, as governments worldwide increasingly manipulate rivers to get water for growing populations, wanted a natural reference point. Their five-day foray last month was designed to connect them with the wildness that remains and also to forge a meeting of minds as the competition for water among western states increases. |
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[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Environment]
[flenvcenter :: Rivers]
[flenvcenter :: Reservoirs]
[flenvcenter :: Colorado River]
[flenvcenter :: Green River]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Lifestyle and Psychology]
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[flenvcenter :: Arizona]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Eco-Tourism]
[demo :: Climate change]
[demo :: Agriculture]
[demo :: Floods n Droughts]
[demo :: Ecosystems]
[demo :: Species]
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[flenvcenter :: Policy]
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[newstrust :: Ecosystems]
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[newstrust :: Strategies]
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[flenvcenter :: Arizona]
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[newstrust :: Biodiversity Threats]
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[flenvcenter :: Environment]
[irge304 :: Urbanization]
[flenvcenter :: Reservoirs]
[flenvcenter :: Colorado River]
[flenvcenter :: Green River]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[sattva_1 :: climate]
[sattva_1 :: agriculture]
[flenvcenter :: Rivers]
[sattva_1 :: water]
[sattva_1 :: energy]
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What we can’t fix by defeating Trump in 2020: climate change
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23.6.2019 |
LA Times: Commentary |
| To the editor: The degradation that Donald Trump brings to the presidency is shocking. His mendacity, disrespect for constitutional checks and balances, disregard of governing norms and self-serving entanglements are shameful. (“Trump moves to gut Obama climate policy and bolster the coal industry...  |
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[flenvcenter :: Coal]
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[newstrust :: Strategies]
[newstrust :: Clean Coal]
[demo :: Coal]
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Foreign aid for family planning works. So why don't we do more of it?
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23.6.2019 |
LA Times: Commentary |
| In the late 1960s, for a brief moment, population growth commanded the kind of political, popular and academic focus that climate change does now. But today, even as the population crisis grows more severe, it has largely fallen off the agenda. Paul Ehrlich’s seminal book on the subject, “The Population...  |
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[demo :: Climate change]
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[newstrust :: United Nations on Climate]
[flenvcenter :: Youth and Children]
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A Democratic Think Tank Is Promoting Pushback Against Climate Lawsuits
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22.6.2019 |
Truthout.com |
| One of the outfits promoting the efforts to counter climate lawsuits is the Progressive Policy Institute. |
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[newstrust :: Generic]
[newstrust :: Legal Strategies]
[newstrust :: Strategies]
[demo :: Climate change]
[demo :: Generic]
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UN food agency to elect chief as climate change ups hunger
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22.6.2019 |
Raw Story |
| Candidates from China, France and Georgia are vying to head the UN’s food agency, as the fight to eradicate world hunger takes a blow from global warming and wars. The election of the new chief of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) will be held Sunday at the headquarters in Rome during the agency’s 41st […] |
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[newstrust :: United Nations on Climate]
[newstrust :: Agriculture]
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Climate Change Isn’t Only Changing the Course of History, It’s Making History Itself Harder to Study
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22.6.2019 |
Mother Jones |
| This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If you like clams, you’re not alone. For the past 164,000 years, people have used shellfish as a food source. We know this thanks to shell middens found on shorelines around the world. By studying these mounds, scientists can say a lot […] |
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[sattva_1 :: climate]
[demo :: Climate change]
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NBC’s Roker Joins Campaign to Push Climate Change Agenda
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21.6.2019 |
NewsBusters |
| On Friday’s Today show, NBC weatherman and climate change activist Al Roker promoted a social media campaign to push the liberal agenda item, which included wearing a pin meant to represent the planet’s warming temperatures. He even had help from a local meteorologist at NBC’s Washington D.C. ... |
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[newstrust :: Strategies]
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State police are tracking runaway Oregon Republicans who refuse to vote on climate bill
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21.6.2019 |
The Atlantic - Matthew Ygblesias |
| Oregon’s path to climate action took an abrupt turn this week, in an unfolding saga that now involves runaway Republican lawmakers, the state police, and threats of armed retaliation. The state is on the verge of adopting major climate legislation. The Senate is all but guaranteed to pass the Clean Energy Jobs bill, which would […] |
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[newstrust :: Legal Strategies]
[newstrust :: Strategies]
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Noam Chomsky: The real election meddling isn’t coming from Russia
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21.6.2019 |
Raw Story |
| Alan MacLeod interviewed Noam Chomsky via Skype on March 13, 2018, for MacLeod’s new book Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent. They discussed the origins of the classic work of media criticism (co-authored with Edward Herman) Manufacturing Consent, the role of that book’s “propaganda model” today, Google and Facebook, Donald Trump and Russia, fake news and Syria. This is a […] |
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[newstrust :: Strategies]
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GOP minority holds Oregon Senate hostage as right-wing militia groups push for armed standoff
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21.6.2019 |
Raw Story |
| Republicans are tired of being a minority in the state legislature, so they are walking out to prevent Democrats from passing bills they don’t like. GOP state senators left the Oregon Capitol with no apparent plans to return before the 2019 legislative session ends June 30 to protest House Bill 2020, a sweeping proposal to […] |
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[newstrust :: Financial Regulation]
[newstrust :: Emissions]
[newstrust :: Legal Strategies]
[newstrust :: Strategies]
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Marshall Islanders ‘sitting ducks’ as sea level rises: president
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21.6.2019 |
Raw Story |
| Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine stressed Friday the need for dramatic climate action and international support to ensure her people are not left as “sitting ducks” when sea levels inevitably rise. In an interview with AFP in Geneva, Heine detailed a range of projects underway aimed at helping prepare and adapt her far-flung country, made […] |
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[newstrust :: United Nations on Climate]
[newstrust :: Sea Level]
[newstrust :: Strategies]
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Fake Meat: Big Food’s Attempt to Further Industrialize What We Eat
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21.6.2019 |
ConsortiumNews.com |
| We need to decolonize our food cultures and our minds of food imperialism, writes Vandana Shiva. By Vandana Shiva Independent Science News Food is not a commodity, it is not “stuff” put together mechanically and artificially in labs and factories.…Read more → |
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[demo :: Greenhouse Gases]
[demo :: Agriculture]
[demo :: Ecosystems]
[demo :: Disease]
[newstrust :: Biodiversity]
[newstrust :: Biodiversity Threats]
[newstrust :: Legislation]
[newstrust :: Greenhouse Gases]
[newstrust :: Agriculture]
[newstrust :: Ecosystems]
[newstrust :: Disease]
[newstrust :: Legal Strategies]
[demo :: Organic Agriculture]
[demo :: GE GM Agriculture]
[newstrust :: Farm Bill]
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