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Better Place is a project of Shai Agassi, he said a mission, to achieve sustainable transportation, global energy independence and freedom from oil. Better  Place does not makes cars but embraces a joint venture with Nissan – Renault which are building zero-emission electric cars and exchangeable batteries.

Better Place network will provide [...]

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The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) was called for by the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2000. Initiated in 2001, the objective of the MA was to assess the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being and the scientific basis for action needed to enhance the conservation and sustainable use of those systems and their [...]

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Farmers’ markets, sometimes called greenmarkets, are markets, usually held out-of-doors, in public spaces, where farmers can sell produce to the public.
Farmers’ market produce is renowned for being locally-grown and very fresh. People argue farmers’ markets allow farmers to pick produce at the peak of flavor, preserve the nutritional content of fresh [...]

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Peace Direct is a charity based in London which supports grassroots peacebuilders in areas of conflict. Peace Direct focuses on supporting grassroots peacebuilders who are local to the conflict and have a clear vision of what needs to be achieved. Peace Direct funds this work, promotes it and learns from it. [...]

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Stiamo assistendo alla preoccupante controffensiva che i batteri hanno preparato per difendersi dall’attacco degli antibiotici. Questa guerra che i batteri fanno agli antibiotici è l’antibioticoresistenza.
«I dati sul consumo di antibiotici sono preoccupanti – ha detto il sottosegretario al Welfare, Ferruccio Fazio – e l’Italia è tra i paesi in Europa a più alto tasso di [...]

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The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is part of the World Health Organization. The IARC Monographs identify environmental factors that can increase the risk of human cancer. Scientists classified agents as to their carcinogenic hazard to humans in accordance with the Preamble to the IARC Monographs:
Group 1: The agent is carcinogenic to humans.
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The ecological footprint is a measure of human demand on the Earth’s ecosystems. It compares human demand with planet Earth’s ecological capacity to regenerate it. It represents the amount of biologically productive land and sea area needed to regenerate the resources a human population consumes and to absorb and render harmless the corresponding waste, given [...]

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Sustainability discourse is discussion of how to make human economic systems last longer and have less impact on ecological systems, and particularly relates to concern over major global problems relating to climate change and oil depletion.
One of the first and most oft-cited definitions of sustainability, and almost certainly the one that [...]

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An Inconvenient Truth is an American Academy Award-winning documentary film about global warming, presented by former United States Vice President Al Gore and directed by Davis Guggenheim. The film premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and opened in New York and Los Angeles on May 24, 2006.
The film’s thesis is [...]

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