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Environmental Health & Safety News

Regulatory Compliance News

Environmental News Bits Laura Barnes Rocks!
Environmental Science & Technology - ACS.org
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Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
SEJ Environmental Journalism Today
Air Resources Board What's New

Environmental Health News

Environment - Reuters News?

The Independent - Environment

Guardian Environment Network

NIEHS - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Gristmill

Dot Earth

U.S. EPA News

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Regulatory
CBO Publications

CDC's Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report
Census Bureau Population Estimates

Docuticker - love it!

News from the National Academies

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Pollution Prevention (P2Tech)

WI - Environment, Recycling, & L& Use

Great Lakes Pollution Prevention Roundtable (GLRPPR) Environmental News

Great Lakes & L& Protection
GLIN Daily News

Farmgate

The GLRPPR Blog

GLIN? - Wisconsin

GLRPPR Documents
Great Lakes Echo
Great Lakes For All

Sustainability

Japan for Sustainability
SusHI | Sustainability in Hawaii

Business & Sustainable Development News

Green Trust Sustainability & Renewable Energy
Green-Trust.Org

Jetson Green
Erik Lindberg of Transition Milwaukee

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Energy
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The Oil Drum - Energy & Our Future
Peak Energy
Cleantech Blog

EERE Network News

Energy Bulletin

Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes
IEC Fusion Technology

Next Big Future

DOE Blog

CleanTech
Real Energy

Safety
The Pump Handle

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Hazards & Labour

Illinois Workers Compensation
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Chemical / Green Chemistry

ChemAlliance Environmental News
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Chemicals Manufacturing - GLRPPR

EnvironmentalChemistry.com

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Environmental Leader
Environmental Management Systems (EMS): GLRPPR
National Environmental Compliance Clearinghouse (EPA)
EPA - Greenversations
Amazon Rainforest News

Joel Makower: Two Steps Forward

Jeff Vail - Law, Energy
David Hone of SHELL

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National Environmental Priorities & Leadership
National Priorities Project - Bringing the Federal Budget Home
Wisconsin DNR News Releases
U.S. EPA~ News
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Obama HQ
White House.gov Blog Feed
White House - Council on Environmental Quality
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TechStuff

"Tap The Glass?" - They hate it when you do that...

Schneier on Security

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Video: 2012 Supercar Drive in California

Other Events, Supercar Videos, United States ? By MR on July 23, 2012 at 12:08 pm ? No Comments

YouTube member BrianZuk recorded a huge Supercar Drive with over 100 exotic cars, such as a Ferrari Enzo, Porsche Carrera GTs, Mercedes SLR McLaren, Lamborghini LP670-4 SVs, Ford GT and more!

The video shows exotics arriving, the long lineup of cars, then dozens and dozens of the cars accelerating and taking off on the drive leaving a compilation of awesome exhaust notes.

At the event organizer?s request, no video was allowed to be shot on the actual drive after the starting point. Still it was an awesome drive, according to Brian.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GTspirit/~3/6NWRzF9PX6c/

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Creating Order From Chaos: Lessons for Florida Philanthropy From ...

Just as Tropical Storm Debby was whipping through Florida last month, Florida Philanthropic Network hosted a webinar to examine philanthropy?s role in disasters, based on lessons learned by the Jessie Ball duPont Fund and its philanthropy colleagues as they banded together to respond to the devastating tornadoes in Alabama last year. The webinar offered some helpful advice for grantmakers in Florida, where we know it?s just a matter of time before we?ll be faced with a similar challenge.

Webinar presenter Katie Ensign, senior program officer for the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, reminded webinar participants that the 62 tornadoes that ripped through Alabama on April 25-28, 2011, represented the largest single-system tornado outbreak ever recorded and the second-deadliest tornado system in U.S. history. Four of the tornadoes were category EF5, which means they had winds of over 200 mph. The disaster affected 65% of the state and resulted in 248 deaths, 23,553 damaged or destroyed homes and $1.1 billion in property damage.

Joining Ensign on the webinar were three philanthropy leaders in Alabama who worked closely with the duPont Fund to respond to the state?s 2011 tornado disaster: Gus Heard-Hughes, director of initiatives for the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham; Paul Kennedy, president of the Walker Area Community Foundation in Jasper; and Jera Stribling, executive director of Alabama Giving and of the Joseph S. Bruno Family Foundation in Birmingham. Together they shared critical lessons about the most effective roles for philanthropy during a disaster?lessons they learned the hard way, on the ground, through blood, sweat and tears as needs shifted daily and the unexpected became a constant. ?We were surprised at so many turns,? Ensign said.

The lessons shared in the webinar are also described in a new guidebook published recently by the duPont Fund, ?Creating Order From Chaos: Roles for Philanthropy in Disaster Planning and Response,? which outlines 12 roles where philanthropy can be of greatest help in times of crisis:

• Evaluate: Determine the value not duplicated elsewhere that the organization can bring to bear on the complex needs of disaster recovery; craft a strategic response. Alabama established a statewide Alabama Tornado Recovery Fund with donations from community foundations, corporations and other donors. A committee used FEMA?s unmet needs assessment as a guide to use the funds most strategically to address those needs. ?You need to be flexible?but strategic?in meeting evolving needs,? advised Heard-Hughes. Webinar presenters stressed the importance of philanthropy?s role in funding case management, legal assistance and language services early on in the disaster response timeline. A big lesson for Alabama funders, according to Kennedy, was that they waited too long to start supporting assistance for case management, which is a complex system?with many specific and short deadlines?that is confusing for people to navigate through.

• Communicate: Activate the formal and informal networks and vehicles by which the organization can share information and reinforce governmental directives to reach diverse audiences. Weekly information calls, facilitated by the Southeastern Council of Foundations, became a critical vehicle to update Alabama grantmakers and their key community partners on the latest damage assessments from the Red Cross and FEMA, identify the most pressing needs, etc.

• Represent: Be a voice for inclusion and equity; encourage Long-Term Recovery Committees to cast a wide net for membership and conversation, including participation of local philanthropic leaders. Stribling noted that while people were quick to contribute dollars for immediate relief, philanthropy in Alabama played a critical role in looking at long-term issues and shining the spotlight on long-term recovery.

• Educate: Expand local knowledge of land trusts and community development financial institutions. This will be crucial to gaining access to capital in areas without strong non-governmental organizations.

• Encourage: Invite businesses and commercial networks to become engaged in community redevelopment conversations. Kennedy stressed the importance of seeking out nontraditional partners in Alabama to help with disaster relief and recovery: local businesses, fuel vendors, trucking companies, accounting, legal and media experts.

• Convene: Capitalize on the position as a neutral mediating partner to gather regional nonprofit organizations, funders and other engaged stakeholders. The philanthropic sector in Alabama quickly formed a group to share collective knowledge, support and contacts to build a framework for what Alabama needed to move forward and what roles each organization could play.

• Advocate: Champion strategies that provide stable, below-market-rate financing to promote affordable housing.

• Document: Map local and regional resources that can support recovery efforts, particularly nonprofit and mission-related housing developers. Stribling explained that one particularly helpful mapping exercise done by Alabama Giving was to map community foundation coverage for every county in the state. For those counties with no community foundation coverage, they identified a United Way or other key community group to be the key point of contact, creating a statewide network in place to mobilize quickly. One key lesson: they didn?t document an effective back-up communications system in case a key community organization in a county could not be reached.

• Engage: Review public policy and master planning laws that may need to change to ensure that communities are repaired and improved by services and amenities; be aware of expiration dates of laws, e.g., ?Good Samaritan? laws, that protect volunteers and extend liability coverage to persons working in recovery efforts.

• Protect: Preserve natural resources and reduce environmental degradation, thereby increasing safety.

• Listen: Trust others who have faced similar disasters. Alabama foundations learned a great deal from the experience of their colleague foundations in Louisiana in responding to Hurricane Katrina.

• Support: Be a funder and fundraiser, educating donors about needs and connecting with potential funders locally, regionally and nationally. All the presenters spoke about the importance of reaching out to funders beyond Alabama?s borders. They emphasized that community foundations in other states were particularly critical partners, with 60 community foundations across the country giving nearly $300,000 for recovery in Alabama. Funders from other states also helped facilitate innovative ideas for raising critical charitable funds for disaster relief and response. Stribling praised the work of The Patterson Foundation in Sarasota, for example, for offering unique challenge grants that helped to quickly raise charitable donations in some hard-hit rural areas of the state. And funders in other states provided Alabama grantmakers with far more than just financial support. Ensign observed that by being located in Florida rather than in Alabama, the Jessie Ball duPont Fund could provide critical emotional and logistical support and fresh perspectives to its colleague foundations in Alabama, who were confronting horrific circumstances all around them.

To learn more, you can view the archived webinar on FPN?s website and download the Jessie Ball duPont Fund?s guidebook from its website.

- David Biemesderfer, President & CEO, Florida Philanthropic Network

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Source: http://blog.fpnetwork.org/2012/07/19/creating-order-from-chaos-lessons-for-florida-philanthropy-from-the-alabama-tornadoes/

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North Korean leader cements control over army

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ICJ to rule on war crimes case against Chad's Habre

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New Gaming Console ? Ouya

Written by KingAurrelio; PSHG Guest Writer?

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What is this new game console by people no one?s familiar with?

Ouya, a new type of gaming, promises to have a starting price of under $100.00. This new game system is said to defeat all odds in pricing and graphics. With donations sky rocketing, this system has already gained better graphics than the Playstation 3 (or so says the unknown game company). If what they say is true, this is by far the cheapest game system that will go on the market ?next year?.

The coolest option is that you will be able to ?create your own game, every Ouya is a developer kit. As long as you know how to create games for the Android you are good to go because it uses the same process. ?This company might just make it into the game industry. Eight hours into creating this game and they already had reached a pledge goal of $950,000.

Ouya Remote

Something I find wrong with the remote? the remote is kinda funny looking. It has similar buttons like a PlayStation remote but picture this, a white remote with a flat top. Don?t get me started on the action buttons, yeah PlayStation has circle, square, x, and triangle; Microsoft has the letters Y, X, A, and B and Nintendo just copied them? But Ouya?s action buttons I?m not gonna lie, it?s straight up orange O, blue O, green O, and red O. Now the thing is, that could be a little?frustrating. Just imagine the game handbooks ?press O to kick, O to punch and left right down and O for a super attack.? Then you find yourself rage yelling at the system ?WHICH FREAKING O.? You?re gonna be throwing stuff around like they do on the Game Fly commercials.

Bottom line.. this is a system that might just make it into the industry. I can already see that they have great promises ahead for us gamers. I highly recommend this system to the people who would like to actually create a game. Still not sure if I?m gonna get it or not. I mean with the starting price I would be dumb not to. They only started on it last week and they claim that it?s working?like a PlayStation 3, sounds promising I guess.?The more you pledge, the better they can make the system but with the release date set for next year, I don?t think it?ll come close to being better than the PlayStation 3, seeing that it took PlayStation 6 years to make it.

So I leave you with this, Ouya is a game console that can do pretty much everything others can and a bit more. With a messed up remote that needs two double A?s, you might have a problem with changing batteries over and over during game sessions. This weird shaped system doesn?t really look good but it has great quality. Whatever this company has in store for us I think we should be ready. Ouya?s?launching?early next year so be sure to be at GameStop?s door with $100.00. That?s if you don?t care about messed up remotes.

Ouya game system rating: 8.9-10

Source: http://pshomegazette.com/2012/07/14/new-gaming-console-ouya/

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PFT: New blackout rule forces tough decisions

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Each of the four players suspended in connection with the bounty case need a so-called preliminary injunction in order to delay their suspensions once the regular season begins.? For three of them, a ruling isn?t needed until Week One, since Saints defensive end Will Smith, Packers defensive end Anthony Hargrove, and Browns linebacker Scott Fujita can participate in training camp and the preseason before sitting out games.

For Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma, time is of the essence, because his suspension begins right away, blocking him from training camp and the preseason.

And so Vilma?s lawyer, Peter Ginsberg, currently is trying to get a temporary restraining order pending a hearing on the preliminary injunction.

It?s a separate question than whether the players will get their suspensions overturned.? The issue turns on whether the players should be permitted to keep working while the legal process unfolds.

It?s the same analysis that delayed the StarCaps suspensions several years ago.? Though several factors apply, the key question is whether the players will suffer ?irreparable harm? if suspended now and vindicated later.? In other words, is there anything the court could do after the fact to put the toothpaste back in the tube?

In StarCaps, the answer was no.? Though the players? pay can be refunded, there?s no way to allow the players to go back and play in the games they missed.

Given that the review of Commissioner Roger Goodell?s handling of the appeals shouldn?t take much time (as legal cases go), the bigger question becomes whether the injunction would continue on appeal, if the players lose at the district court level.? If so, there?s a good chance none of the suspensions will be served this year, since the appeal process typically takes several months to complete.

Still, with the Hall of Fame game exactly one month away (the Saints play the Cardinals on August 5) and New Orleans training camp coming in just a couple weeks, Vilma needs an injunction sooner rather than later.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/07/05/new-blackout-rule-forces-tough-business-decisions/related/

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