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• Claire Fauset: Make your mark and ground the growth of aviation

  Published: July 25, 2007, 6:06 am

  Tags: Activists, Society, Comment, Environment, Travel, Travel And Transport, Green Travel, Climate Change

  Claire Fauset: Next month's Camp for Climate Action will put Heathrow airport at the frontline of direct action on climate change. Hundreds of people, including many from the local community, will be camping there.

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• National Trust puts 3.5m members in front line against climate change

  Published: July 25, 2007, 5:59 am

  Tags: Environment, Rural Affairs, Voluntary Sector, Society, Climate Change, Travel, Travel News, Heritage, Uk News

  It controls 900-square miles of land and 710 miles of coastline and has far moremembers than the armed services, the teaching profession, the prison population, environmental groups and political parties combined.

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• Selling indulgences for environmental sin [Effect Measure]

  Published: July 27, 2007, 8:36 am

  Tags: Climate Change

  up with a new idea to sell climate change indulgences to a public increasingly worried about how today's sins will punish their grandchildren. This latest Bush administration proposal for offsetting the build-up of greenhouse gases characteristically (for them) doesn't operate on the source side -- the production of these gases -- but on the

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• Is global warming wreaking havoc in Houston?

  Published: July 24, 2007, 3:11 pm

  Tags: Climate Change

  There's a press conference in Houston later this afternoon on global warming to announce the release of this report by Environment Texas. I won't be there for reasons that should become clear below. Here are some snippets from the press...

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• Sadik-Khan: Many Initiatives Are Under Way…

  Published: July 30, 2007, 10:48 am

  Tags: Climate Change, Congestion Pricing

  Today's Crain's Insider, available to subscribers only, reports on the next steps for the Bloomberg Administration's broader Long-Term Sustainability Plan now that congestion pricing has cleared its first hurdle in Albany: 7.30.07 Crain's NY Business The Insider by Erik Engquist and Anne Michaud

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• Dying to Get to Work

  Published: July 27, 2007, 1:01 pm

  Tags: Climate Change, Commuting, Air Quality, Transit, Public Health, Energy, Studies Amp 038 Reports

  respiratory/lung function changes, cough, headache, fatigue and nausea. Pulmonary inflammation found after one hour of exposure to diesel exhaust. Increased risk of pulmonary inflammation to asthmatics after two hours of exposure. Adverse cardiovascular effects. Changes in heart rate variability, heartbeat and blood indices were recorded in

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• BAA denies seeking blanket ban on airport protest

  Published: August 1, 2007, 7:03 pm

  Tags: Environment, Travel Transport, Activists, Climate Change, Travel, The Airline Industry

  Injunction request targets climate change activists Application opposed by Transport for London

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• Length of European summer heat waves has doubled?

  Published: August 3, 2007, 8:39 am

  Tags: Climate Change

  I know it's amusing to poke fun at Al Gore, holding concerts to fight global warming and the fact that sometimes attendance was subpar. Unfortunately, as a new study in the Journal of Geophysical Research suggests, there's a more sobering...

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• Grist: NYC is Not One of the World’s Greenest Cities

  Published: August 3, 2007, 11:34 am

  Tags: Out Of Town, News, Climate Change, Air Quality, Livable Streets, Public Health

  Grist recently produced a list of the world's 15 greenest cities. Streetsblog favorites Copenhagen, Curitiba, London, and Bogot all made the grade. StreetFilms' posterchild Portland captured the number two spot right behind geothermal-powered Reykjavik, Iceland. San Francisco and Austin were the only other U.S. cities to make the list with

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• National Express quits biofuel experiment

  Published: August 6, 2007, 6:44 pm

  Tags: Climate Change, Business, Transport In The Uk, Front Page News, Travel, Travel News

  Green energy source 'may do more harm than good' Coach firm underlines concerns for food crops

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• BAA wins injunction to stop Heathrow protest

  Published: August 6, 2007, 7:57 am

  Tags: The Airline Industry, Uk News, Climate Change, Business, Travel News, Transport In The Uk, Travel

  Airports operator succeeds in high court bid to ban direct action demonstration.

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• George Monbiot: Because it is illegal, the climate camp is now also a protest for democracy

  Published: August 7, 2007, 3:00 am

  Tags: Environment, Travel, Activists, Climate Change, Comment, Columnists, The Airline Industry, Comment Free, Politics, Political Columnists, Green Politics, Business

  George Monbiot: The ban on next week's Heathrow demonstration will not deter us. It will only boost the profile and raise the stakes.

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• Climate protesters banned from disrupting airport

  Published: August 7, 2007, 2:58 am

  Tags: Environment, Travel Transport, Climate Change, Activists, Uk News, The Airline Industry, Human Rights In The Uk, Politics, Green Politics, Business, Travel, Travel News

  Judge resists request for broader injunction Heathrow action camp to go ahead, say campaigners

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• 17 British tourists injured as ice falls from Arctic glacier

  Published: August 9, 2007, 7:28 pm

  Tags: Travel, Climate Change, Uk News, Travel News

  Sightseeing ship may have sailed too close Remote area has seen effects of global warming

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• Climate sceptic MP following Howard's lead: Brown

  Published: August 12, 2007, 9:00 pm

  Tags: Environment, Climate Change, Government Politics, Federal Government, Political Parties, Greens, Australia

  Greens leader Bob Brown says a federal Liberal MP who has pronounced himself a "climate change sceptic" is echoing Prime Minister John Howard.

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