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</span>Pacific islanders are touring the US with their show “The Water is Rising” to inspire action on climate change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It is an opportunity for a follow-up tour by people from Florida’s beach communities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://bostonglobe.com/arts/2011/11/13/artists-water-rising-sing-and-dance-against-climate-change/nbNdp8JvSlGUpwza2u9VzO/story.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://bostonglobe.com/arts/2011/11/13/artists-water-rising-sing-and-dance-against-climate-change/nbNdp8JvSlGUpwza2u9VzO/story.html</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Japan, with 30 million people living within 10 meters of sea level, could do a joint production.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Last year environmental and weather-related pressures displaced 30 million people in Asia; tens of millions more are at risk in the near future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A report in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Science</i> advises us that we are disastrously underprepared for the migrations attendant on climate change.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fe20111113rh.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fe20111113rh.html</font></a></p>
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</span>The Wilmington Area Planning Council has released its <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">
Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
The report focuses especially on how transportation will be compromised and calls for public education on climate change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>They use the IPCC 2007 report, which ignores contributions from the polar ice sheets, so their high estimates on page 5 match the minimum estimate of the Miami-Dade Climate Change Task Force, at least 1.5 feet by midcentury and at least 3-5 feet by the
end, but the report can quickly be adjusted to a more responsibly collapsed time scale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Lowball projections will help protect the report from dismissal through propaganda.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>In the report another coastal community begins to face its future. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.wilmapco.org/SLR/files/WILMAPCO_SLR_SD.pdf"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.wilmapco.org/SLR/files/WILMAPCO_SLR_SD.pdf</font></a></p>
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</span>A new low-tech device condenses water for irrigation even in dry conditions by passing air through an underground coil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Powered by solar or wind power, the Airdrop stores the water and pumps it to the roots of plants in an underground irrigation system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The inventor of the prize-winning device put it together in his mother’s back yard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://e360.yale.edu/digest/irrigation_device_pulls_water_from_the_air_in_driest_conditions/3206/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://e360.yale.edu/digest/irrigation_device_pulls_water_from_the_air_in_driest_conditions/3206/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29</font></a></p>
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</span>The US has a new green building code for commercial buildings and residences over three stories high.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/23142"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/23142</font></a></p>
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</span>The cost of wind has fallen 14% with every doubling of capacity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>An analysis shows that the average cost of onshore wind power will equal that of natural gas by 2016.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Thanks to Brian Paradise for the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
</font></font><a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2011/11/wind-electricity-to-be-fully-competitive-with-natural-gas-by-2016-says-bloomberg-new-energy-finance??cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-November16-2011"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2011/11/wind-electricity-to-be-fully-competitive-with-natural-gas-by-2016-says-bloomberg-new-energy-finance??cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-November16-2011</font></a></p>
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</span>The East Antarctic Ice Sheet conceals a mountain range as large as the Alps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>An article in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Nature</i> proposes how it was formed 250 million years ago, and provides fresh promise for the relative stability of the ice sheet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/16/us-climate-gamburtsev-idUSTRE7AF20O20111116?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/16/us-climate-gamburtsev-idUSTRE7AF20O20111116?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>More detail, and dandy graphic representations: </font></font><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15749757"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15749757</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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