Sustainable North

From The New York Times, Thursday, January 21, 2010:
The decade ending in 2009 was the warmest on record, new surface temperature figures released Thursday by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration show.
The agency also found that 2009 was the second warmest year since 1880, when modern temperature measurement began. The warmest year was 2005. The [...]

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From the New York Times, Friday, December 25, 2009;
Some of the greenest technologies of the age, from electric cars to efficient light bulbs to very large wind turbines, are made possible by an unusual group of elements called rare earths. The world’s dependence on these substances is rising fast.
Just one problem: These elements come almost [...]

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From The Christian Science Monitor, Thursday, December 3, 2009:
When e-mails of climate scientists hacked from a British University were published online, the reverberations were heard around the world.
Skeptics of human-caused climate change were elated: Several of the e-mails could be read to indicate that data was inaccurate or fudged, and some seemed to imply collusion about who [...]

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From The New York Times, Wednesday, November 18, 2009:
The Earth’s oceans, which have absorbed carbon dioxide from fuel emissions since the dawn of the industrial era, have recently grown less efficient at sopping it up, new research suggests.
Emissions from the burning of fossil fuels began soaring in the 1950s, and oceans largely kept up, scientists [...]

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From Business Week, Wednesday, November 18, 2009:
New housing starts dropped 10.6% in October compared with September, to a seasonally adjusted rate of 529,000, the Commerce Dept.reported on Nov. 18. The number, which was lower than analyst estimates, is a seven-month low.
October housing starts were down 30.7% year-over-year.
Single-family housing starts were off 6.8% in October, to [...]

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From The New York Times, Tuesday, November 3, 2009:
A remarkable conclave of leading figures from nine of the world’s major religions is under way at Windsor Castle in Britain, under the auspices of Prince Philip and  the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon. Called “Many Heavens, One Earth,” the meeting is intended to generate commitments [...]

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From The New York Times, October 30, 2009:
Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s 3-year-old granddaughter, Onalenna, was puzzled.
Her older cousin, Mungi, had just deflated a large, blow-up globe to demonstrate the imminent danger of climate change.
“Are we going to go the moon then?” Onalenna asked her grandfather.
“I don’t know, I will not be here,” Archbishop Tutu, 78, whispered [...]

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From Boulder Green Building Guild (BGBG), Tuesday, October 13, 2009:
People who work in green buildings are more productive than employees who don’t, according to a recent study by researchers at the University of San Diego’s Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate and CB Richard Ellis.
The study surveyed 154 green buildings, containing some 2,000 tenants, across the [...]

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From the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, Thursday, October 22, 2009:
There has been a sharp decline over the past year in the percentage of Americans who say there is solid evidence that global temperatures are rising. And fewer also see global warming as a very serious problem – 35% say that [...]

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From NPR, October 27, 2009:
Along the Gulf Coast and across the country, it’s being called a “silent hurricane.” Between 2004 and 2007, an estimated 100,000 homes in more than 20 states were built with toxic drywall imported from China.
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