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The Risk of Preterm Birth Rises Near Gas Flaring, Reflecting Deep-rooted Environmental Injustices in Rural America

DeSmogBlog

Through the southern reaches of Texas, communities are scattered across a flat landscape of dry brush lands, ranches and agricultural fields. This large rural region near the U.S.-Mexico Tags: environmental racism flaring Eagle Ford Shale public health Mexico border is known for its persistent poverty.

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The Just Futures Project Provides a Community Vision for Economic Recovery in Washington State

Front And Centered

How Frontline Communities View the Economy. Instead, most of us experience it as an invisible entity we have no control over: My community experiences the economy in a way that’s foreign, it’s outside. I represent the incarcerated community, and the way we experience the economy is it’s designed to exclude us. Rebecca Berry.

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Trying to make a living on an organic smallholding: Paul Jennings, ‘One-Planet’ smallholder

Low Impact

But they’re really high quality, it’s sustainable and it builds community. Yeah, that works, except for when your domestic economy is leaking rent or interest, out of the community. I’m not saying it’s impossible, but it’s very difficult to build a parallel system, when capitalism is tearing people and communities apart.

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Government set to lift fracking ban, confirm gas price freeze plan

Business Green

The plan is to be reviewed next Spring, but the government indicated the price freeze could stay in place for up to two years with the price tag expected to reach up to £150bn. No amount of shale gas from hundreds of wells dotted across rural England would be enough to lower the European price any time soon.".

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Three primers for buying carbon offsets

Business Green

The report also outlines the more than 170 types of carbon credits available on markets today and their level of popularity among buyers - such as projects involving rural solar farms, geothermal installations, recycling initiatives or efforts to reduce livestock methane.

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Your Energy Storage Cheat Sheet: How to Impress at ESI

GreenTechMedia

After the socially challenging strip-mall accomodations of Anaheim last year , the good folks who make solar and energy storage happen are no doubt craving real interaction in some place resembling an actual community. Actually, you don’t have to imagine. Use ESI to gossip about what other markets will emerge out of left field.

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Can a tiger change its stripes? Meet the pulp and paper giant bankrolling a huge Sumatran rainforest reserve

Business Green

She adds: "I think as an international community - the marketplace, governments, investors - we need to take that articulation, that invitation, and step in to try and actually help make it happen." Boasting a $2.33bn price tag, it is the largest single investment in APRIL's 30-year history. million tonnes of paperboard each year.