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Nations urged to combine environmental and development goals
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 21st, 2013
Guardian: Degradation of the natural world is undermining efforts to reduce poverty, warn scientists, who say the only chance of achieving global prosperity is for all countries to combine poverty and environmental targets.
World leaders should set six goals around universal clean energy, an end to water and food shortages, thriving lives and livelihoods, and healthy and productive ecosystems, they say.
Prof David Griggs, director of the Monash Sustainability Institute in Australia, argues in an article...
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Comments Off on Nations urged to combine environmental and development goalsNative Groups in Canada and U.S. Vow to Fight Oil Sands Pipelines
Posted by CBC: None Given on March 21st, 2013
CBC: An alliance of First Nations leaders is preparing to fight proposed new pipelines in the courts and through unspecified direct action.
Native leaders from Canada and the United States were on Parliament Hill on Wednesday to underline opposition to both the Northern Gateway and Keystone XL pipelines.
The first would tie the Alberta oil sands to the West Coast, while the second would send bitumen to refineries on the American Gulf Coast.
Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said the federal...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Native Groups in Canada and U.S. Vow to Fight Oil Sands PipelinesSupport for California water bond falls, poll finds
Posted by LA Times: Bettina Boxall on March 21st, 2013
LA Times: Judging by a new statewide poll, California lawmakers were smart to pull an $11.1-billion water bond off last fall's ballot.
The Legislature has twice postponed the bond measure's day at the polls, worried that it would go down to defeat at a time of high unemployment and budget woes. Though the economy and budget problems have eased a bit, support for the bond has continued to decline.
A poll released Wednesday by the Public Policy Institute of California found that 42% of likely voters favored...