Wes Skiles had his own gravity. Ideas orbited around him. People orbited around him. Whole communities were drawn to him. I, personally, was drawn to him and called him my friend.
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MINNEAPOLIS — Chris Dickerson remembered cringing as he looked at the excess of empty, discarded plastic bottles by his Triple-A teammates in Louisville. “One guy uses eight bottles a day, whether it’s Gatorade or …
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The effects of urbanisation were at the top of the agenda in Shanghai when academics and officials from China and Europe met to talk about shared areas of research. Ian Campbellreports
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That India desperately needs to generate more power is beyond question. The country has the lowest per capita consumption of electricity in the world; this, when we know that access to energy correlates with development, and, indeed, with economic growth.
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In the wake of the BP disaster, it’s clear that environmental change won’t come from Washington or Wall Street alone. A new children’s book on Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai proves that one determined individual can change the landscape of an entire country.
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In the wake of the BP disaster, it’s clear that environmental change won’t come from Washington or Wall Street alone. A new children’s book on Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai proves that one determined …
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Tribune/WGN poll: 77 percent said they made changes to their daily routines to be more ‘environmentally conscious’ From his bucolic farm on the south side of Naperville, Steve Tiwald can see the imprint of the country’s “green movement” on the faces of eager patrons as they arrive each week to collect their boxes of tomatoes, spinach and summer squash.
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Tribune/WGN poll: 77 percent said they made changes to their daily routines to be more ‘environmentally conscious’ A Tribune/WGN poll shows three-quarters of residents across the city and suburbs have taken steps in the past five years to become more green.
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From his bucolic farm on the south side of Naperville, Steve Tiwald can see the imprint of the country’s “green movement” on the faces of eager patrons as they arrive each week to collect their boxes of tomatoes, spinach and summer squash. When Tiwald launched his community garden on less than 2 acres in the western suburb in 2002, he hoped to spread awareness about the importance of local …
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That the Chhatrapati Shivaji airport in Mumbai is about to hit saturation point is not new news.
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