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Board Of Education Posts Education Standards Eliminating Environment, Ecology & Agriculture K-12 Academic Standards For Comment; Environmental Educators Oppose

PA Environment Daily

DCNR’s Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council met last September to hear an overview of the proposed changes to the standards. Jean Devlin, a Natural Resource Program Specialist for DCNR’s Bureau of Forestry, told the Council, "(I)f something is a mandated standard it will be assessed, and therefore it will be taught.

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How we Conceptualize Security will Shape our Response to Environmental Challenges

HumanNature

For instance, some emphasize how environmental scarcities can induce substate conflict (Homer-Dixon 1999), others intentionally avoid a conflict-oriented perspective and highlight the cooperative negotiation that can likely occur over shared environmental risks (Conca and Dabelko 2002). Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict.

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PA Assn. Environmental Educators Urge You To Attend Dec. 1 Virtual Board Of Education Committee Meeting On State Environment & Ecology & Agriculture Education Standards

PA Environment Daily

DCNR’s Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council met last September to hear an overview of the proposed changes to the standards. Jean Devlin, a Natural Resource Program Specialist for DCNR’s Bureau of Forestry, told the Council, "(I)f something is a mandated standard it will be assessed, and therefore it will be taught.

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A Curious Catalyst for Creativity in Social-Ecological Research

HumanNature

I work with government-owned conservation lands, coupled human-natural systems, that are managed to protect and conserve natural resources, provide public access to wild open spaces, and sustainably produce quality food for growing populations. 2002, Brunson and Huntsinger 2008, Briske, Sayre et al. Derner (2011).

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General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole

PA Environment Daily

million put into budgetary reserve in 2008-09 from the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; -- $5 million reduction in Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) farm conservation tax credit program in FY 2009-10; -- $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5

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Michigan’s 20th Century Water Systems Too Big For Its Shrinking City Populations

Circle of Blue

By 2002, Flint was $30 million in debt and the state of Michigan stepped in with an emergency financial manager. . Then once again in 2011, the state stepped in with an emergency manager when Flint faced a $19.1 “The city has to take loans out and now they’re in a bind, because they can’t pay the loan back and they’re in trouble.”.

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Brazil: Volkswagen will pay more than R$10 million in labor lawsuits

Corp Watch

Mike Ramsey | The Wall Street Journal | May 23, 2011 Volkswagen AG on Tuesday will celebrate the opening of a new Tennessee auto plant that gives the German auto maker much lower U.S. VW Chops Labor Costs in U.S. labor costs than not only its Detroit rivals but its Japanese competitors on American soil.

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