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"No Vacancy: Unleashing the Potential of Empty Urban Land"

"Tia Jackson’s family has lived on the same block of Halsey Street in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood for five generations. Kristen Rapp is a newcomer. Jackson is black. Rapp is white. In a part of town where the gentrification process has been grinding along painfully for years, the two might never have met if not for a sign on a fence on a vacant lot, left there by the members of a group called 596 Acres."

Source: Grist, 03/29/2012

"Conservatives' Trust in Science Has Declined Sharply"

"As the Republican presidential race has shown, the conservatives who dominate the primaries are deeply skeptical of science — making Newt Gingrich, for one, regret he ever settled onto a couch with Nancy Pelosi to chat about global warming."

Source: LA Times, 03/29/2012

"Churches Step Up Environmental Activism"

"With a Bible in one hand and a protest sign in the other, many religious activists are now moving in lockstep with the environmental movement in the fight against oil and gas drilling."

Source: Washington Times, 03/29/2012

Scientists Map Red Tide Algae To Prevent Shellfish Poisoning

"Public health officials have their hands full keeping your clam chowder and raw oysters safe. That's due, in part, to red tides."

Source: NPR, 03/29/2012

"Victims of Colorado Wildlands Fire Say Warning Never Came"

"JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. -- Families driven from their homes by a fast-moving wall of fire Monday evening said they stayed longer than was safe because authorities told them that the smoke they were smelling was from a controlled burn that was being monitored."

Source: Denver Post, 03/29/2012

Interior Approves Shell Arctic Spill Response Plan

"ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Federal offshore drilling regulators on Wednesday approved Shell Oil's spill response plan for exploratory drilling in the Beaufort Sea, drawing strong criticism from environmental groups that claim oil companies cannot clean up oil in ice-choked waters."

Source: AP, 03/29/2012

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"No Vacancy: Unleashing the Potential of Empty Urban Land"

"Conservatives' Trust in Science Has Declined Sharply"

"Churches Step Up Environmental Activism"

Scientists Map Red Tide Algae To Prevent Shellfish Poisoning

"Victims of Colorado Wildlands Fire Say Warning Never Came"

Interior Approves Shell Arctic Spill Response Plan

"Plan Now For Climate-Related Disasters: U.N. Report"

Risk and Response: Sea Level Rise Summit

"A Clash Over Mining and Water"

Damaged Japan Reactor Has High Radiation, No Water, Stability Doubts

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