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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
To ensure food security we need to encourage crop diversity and establish a science-based red-alert system for the planet There are plenty of summits to choose from this year, but the World Summit on Food Security deserves not to be lost in the crowd. This meeting in Rome from 16 to 18 November provides badly needed political momentum to three linked issues that rank among the most challenging of...
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The Swamp (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
by Mark Silva As the president prepares for another international trip, while pressing for passage of a "cap and trade'' energy bill back home, the Republicans on the House Natural Resources Committee are preparing to send some postcards. No stamps required on the Internet, where the Republicans are tracking Air Force One's previous journeys and planning to mark the significance of the coming...
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IntelliBriefs (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
By OP Gupta IFS (Retd) http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=313&page=7 So far as India is concerned Obama has continued to behave as a non-proliferation Ayatollah neglecting outstanding self-imposed restraints and non-proliferation roles of all Indian Governments. The unemployment rate in US is running high and is expected to keep rising to 10 per cent...
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Obama Foodorama (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food goes global in new "Feed The Future" State Department program... It's unclear exactly what the State Department understands "local and sustainable" to actually mean in terms of on-the-ground use of agricultural chemicals, technology, and genetically modified seeds, but they've just put out an amazing new mini film on food security, narrated by actor...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Intergraph(R), as part of a team led by SELEX Sistemi Integrati (SSI), the systems integrator for the Finmeccanica Group, played a vital role in successfully ensuring the safety and security of world leaders, guests and infrastructure at the G8 Summit, held in L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy, from July 8-10, 2009.(Logo: ) Intergraph's integrated security solutions...
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The ArchitectsNewspaper Blog (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
On the occasion of the 2009 G8 summit in L’Aquila, Italy, architecture firm MDAA (Massimo d’Alessandro & Associati) of Rome designed a photovoltaic tower to power an existing cellular communications aerial. The installation brought to life an idea that has been paddled about quite a bit in recent years: equipping our existing infrastructure with energy-producing [...]
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TerraBlog from TerraPass (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
We've got to focus on the cause, not the symptoms by Tim Varga In early July at the Major Economies Forum in L’aquila, Italy, G8 leaders took a big step by publicly announcing a goal of limiting global warming to 2° C. Let us all acknowledge that it is a Big Deal that these countries — the ones who created climate change to begin with — are going to take steps to mitigate this...
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MCC International - Agency Blog (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
As the world’s leaders recently united for the G8 summit in L’Aquila, Italy, they were supported in their initiative by a cutting-edge technological infrastructure, capable of providing total data traffic and Internet connection security. Extreme Networks’ products were deployed to form the local network infrastructure by Elsag Datamant, responsible for the management of the large...
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Full Comment (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
In recent high-level announcements, from the G-8 statement issued from L'Aquila, Italy, through the statement released by the Council of the Federation, and on to the "Three Amigos" summit, much has been made by our political leaders of the need to transition to "green economies." These statements, and the upcoming Copenhagen meeting on climate change, point to the need for Canada...
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Terrierman's Daily Dose (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
A lineup of G8 leaders at the summit, earlier this year, in L’Aquila, Italy. From Vanity Fair , which has a complete not-to-be-missed slide show of Qaddaffi get ups. . From: Terrierman's Daily Dose To order the book. web site.
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Vedasri (Free subscription) | 07/08/2009
Telegraph.co.ukL'Aquila, Italy: World leaders convene in sleepy, earthquake ...Examiner.comThe conference was originally slated to be held in the Sardinian beach resort town of La Maddalena prior to L'Aquila and its surrounding countryside being ...President Obama and President Giorgio Napolitano of Italy Hold a ...Washington PostBackgrounder: Quake-stricken L'Aquila to host G8 summitXinhuaThe summit...
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Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
The 35th G8 summit is taking place in the Italian city of L'Aquila from July 8-10, 2009. Possible sanctions against Iran will top the agenda, which also includes climate change and trade issues.
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