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Rising Sea Levels Would Hit U.S. East Coast Hardest

Posted by Environmental Leader on 19/11/2009

Miami would become an island city – and Miami Beach an underwater reef – if climate change projections of a one-meter rise in sea levels by century’s end hold true.Clean Air-Cool Planet presented new climate change models to Senate staffers Nov. 19. The projections are predicate ...

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Cocoon: A unique green structure in the lap of nature

Posted by AditiJ on 19/11/2009

Camenzind Evolution has designed an exquisite and extraordinary structure on a beautiful hillside in Zurichs Seefeld district. Dubbed as the Cocoon, the elliptical building enjoys a unique relationship with nature. Surrounded with age-old...

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Nike Tops Annual Climate Action Scores

Posted by Environmental Leader on 18/11/2009

Nike has topped Climate Counts’ third annual corporate climate performance scorecard with 83 points (out of a possible 100) for the second year in a row. Stoneyfield Farm followed closely with 81 points. Unilever received 80 points. The climate performance scorecard ranks 90 companies in 12 ...

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Metal Recyclers Spar Over Ship Recycling Site

Posted by Environmental Leader on 04/11/2009

A proposed California ship recycling venture to revamp nearly 17 acres of waterfront, including two massive historic dry docks, as a ship recycling, repair and building facility, has a “fatally flawed business plan,” according to a competitive metal recycling company also interested i ...

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U.S. Airlines Lobby Feds to Oppose Global Aviation Emissions Tax

Posted by Environmental Leader on 03/11/2009

The Air Transport Association fired off a letter to Todd Stern, the U.S. Climate Change Envoy, requesting that the U.S. stand against a proposed global tax on aviation emissions.In the letter, the ATA states that the International Air Passenger Adaptation Levy (PDF), proposed by a set of countrie ...

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