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DOE Recognizes Allegheny College For Energy Savings As A Better Buildings Challenge Partner

PA Environment Daily

The College’s top ranked environmental science and sustainability major engages students in interdisciplinary research and ignites their passions for making the world more equitable, just and sustainable. For over 20 years, Allegheny College has held sustainability as a core value.

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Book Review: the New Sustainability Advantage

Edouard Stenger

“ First published in 2002, a second 10-year anniversary version was published in 2012. If the case for sustainability was compelling then, imagine how much more it is now that renewable energy sources such as solar and wind are at grid parity. This is the one I read.

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A Billion Dollar Development Threatens the Niagara Escarpment – One of Ontario’s Natural Wonders

Enviromental Defense

UNESCO defines biosphere reserves as “learning places for sustainable development.” The post A Billion Dollar Development Threatens the Niagara Escarpment – One of Ontario’s Natural Wonders appeared first on Environmental Defence. This spectacular landform was designated in 1990 as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.

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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). Dabelko (eds.). Environmental Peacemaking.

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Analysis: Brazil plans to continue investing in coal-fired power despite global shifts

A Greener Life

Today, this is done via the Energy Development Account (CDE), a fund for the development of the energy sector, including coal, supplied by charges to energy distribution companies. But a request for an amendment to this bill is seeking to extend the deadline to 2035.

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Global Perspectives on a Global Pact for the Environment

Law Columbia

Edited by Michael Burger (Sabin Center for Climate Change Law), Teresa Parejo (UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network) and Lisa Sachs (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment). With research and administrative support from Nathan Lobel (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment). Europe, and Japan).

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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

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