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Walid Damouny's List: Healthy Globe
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Nov 28, 09
Americans' day-to-day lives won't change noticeably if President Barack Obama achieves his newly announced goal of slashing carbon dioxide pollution by one-sixth in the next decade, experts say.
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Public health officials from around the world on Wednesday released a series of studies showing that reducing greenhouse gas emissions - by the same 83 percent by 2050 that Obama targeted - would save millions of lives because of reduced air pollution.
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Mar 25, 09
Everybody knows there's trash on the world's beaches. But just how much?
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Mar 25, 09
If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR qualified bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars.
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Apr 18, 09
The Book Industry Environmental Council, a coalition of publishers, booksellers, librarians, printers and paper manufacturers, announced Thursday a goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent in the year 2020 (based on 2006 numbers), the equivalent, the council says, of pulling 450,000 cars off the road.
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Apr 20, 09
Maintaining a healthy body weight is good news for the environment, according to a study which appears today in the International Journal of Epidemiology.
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Aug 01, 09
The box is about 4 feet by 4 feet, and stuffed inside are a few thousand dollars worth of "trash."
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