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Hey, Somebody Put August in Our May! Temperature Creeps Into ’90s Today
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 5/30/2013
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We've reached CODE ORANGE, people. As Philly experiences its first summer heat--temperatures in the '90s, humidity at 40%--air quality today is terrifyingly bad. According to the state Department of Environmental Protection, Philadelphia is in the midst of a "CODE ORANGE" pollution alert. That means "young children, the elderly and those with respiratory problems, such as asthma, emphysema and bronchitis," should not go outside. Instead they should stay in cars and air-conditioned homes and perpetuate the cycle of excessive energy consumption that has led to CODE ORANGE in the first place.
Here's a map of the areas that have been CODE ORANGE'd
Chris Christie: No Link Between Climate Change and Hurricane Sandy
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 5/21/2013
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Yesterday at a little Sandy-related event, a WNYC reporter asked Chris Christie whether New Jersey needed to do more to prepare for climate change (and superstorms that may stem from climate change). Christie refused to answer. Sort of.
I don't agree with the premise of your question because I don't think there's been any proof thus far that Sandy was caused by climate change. But I would absolutely expect that that's exactly what WNYC would say, because you know liberal public radio always has an agenda.
And the crowd went wild. The question comes on the heels of a massive WNYC/Bergen Record
Campbell’s Soup Scores Big Sustainability Award at World Economic Forum
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 1/25/2013
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Campbell's is the only U.S.-based food or beverage company to crack this year's "Global 100" most sustainable companies list, which is determined by Toronto-based Corporate Knights, and was announced in globo-corporate Eden at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Here's a snapshot of why the Camden-based soup giant qualified:
• The company’s redesign of plastic product packaging, which saved more than 1.2 million pounds of plastic in fiscal 2012;
• Construction of a 60-acre, 10 megawatt solar field in 2011 at its Napoleon, Ohio, manufacturing site, where 24,000 sun-soaking panels generate 15 percent of the electricity to operate the plant;
Al Gore to Spice Things Up at the Constitution Center
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 1/18/2013
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Just when you thought the National Constitution Center was getting too edgy with their Prohibition exhibit, they've decided to scale things down to PBS-volume again. On February 4th, Rolling Stone author Al Gore will crash the NCC to protest Article II, Section I of the Constitution. Ha! No, actually, he'll be there to hawk a new book, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change. Insert lame 'inventing the internet' joke here. [Philebrity]
