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NEWS ABOUT: sustainable development

sustainable development stories: 5 news summaries
OPINION

 Björk: Iceland Must Heal Itself 

Singer rails against more aluminum smelters on island, pushes self-reliance

Oct 28, 08 4:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Given Iceland’s economic crisis, it would be madness to add to the country’s dependence on aluminum smelters, native singer Björk writes in the Times of London. In addition to environmental damage, lessons learned from the collapse of Iceland’s fishing industry should warn against putting “all... More »

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music • environment • sustainable development • Iceland • Bjork • financial crisis

(Newser) - Wind turbines are cropping up in rural New York state and threatening to pull communities apart, the AP reports. The state's largest wind energy project is worth $400 million and powers 100,000 homes; farmers get paid up to $6,600 per turbine per year to offset the sight and... More »

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sustainable development • clean energy • wind power • New York economy • wind farm • New York state

Green Housing: From Good Idea to Good Business

Architects, not automakers, have the power to halt global warming

Jul 15, 08 11:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - With US homes on average twice as large as they were 50 years ago—and, of course, dwarfing those in all other developed countries—rethinking our idea of "home" is as crucial to cutting global warming as switching to a smaller car, says architect Edward Mazria in Fast Company.... More »

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environment • sustainable living • architecture • green building • sustainable development • design • green technology • green home

Analysis

 Big Sugar's Exit
 Gives Hope to
 Everglades 

Florida land deal boosts ecological preservation efforts

Jul 9, 08 10:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Everglades restoration may finally be a reality, writes Michael Grunwald in Yale Environment 360 during his “vacation from defeatism.” Florida's tentative $1.75 billion land deal with US Sugar would halt sugar production (and pollution) on nearly 300 square miles, and have an ecological ripple-effect that extends... More »

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Florida • endangered species • sustainable development • Charlie Crist • biodiversity • Everglades • U.S. Sugar Corporation

Philanthropist Bets $40M on Eco-Tourism

Greg Carr would put nature back in Mozambique nature preserve

May 22, 07 6:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Philanthropist Greg Carr wants to turn an African ecosystem around—and he’s willing to pay to do it. The tech-bubble whiz kid will spend $40 million over the next 30 years to restore Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park, destroyed during the country's 16-year civil war. Stephanie Hanes follows Carr as... More »

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philanthropy • environment • Africa • farming • sustainable development • ecotourism • Greg Carr • Mozambique • national park

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