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</span>Hurricane Sandy and other costly weather disasters ought to remind congress to attend to climate issues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/31/us-climate-idUSBRE89U0EM20121031?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/2012/10/31/us-climate-idUSBRE89U0EM20121031?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>Many news sources are now linking the storm to climate change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Mayor Bloomberg’s endorsement of President Obama highlighted his willingness to engage climate change, and Governor Cuomo has also announced that it is time to plan for a changed and changing world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/nyregion/bloomberg-endorses-obama-saying-hurricane-sandy-affected-decision.html?_r=0"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/nyregion/bloomberg-endorses-obama-saying-hurricane-sandy-affected-decision.html?_r=0</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Hurricane Sandy is one of a series of events which are leading us toward the political will necessary for climate action.
</font></font><a href="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/msnbc/49643488/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://video.msnbc.msn.com/msnbc/49643488/</font></a>
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</span>Food production, storage, and delivery accounts for up to a third of our greenhouse gas emissions and supplies some challenging problems in emissions mitigation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/one-third-of-our-greenhouse-gas-emissions-come-from-agriculture-1.11708"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.nature.com/news/one-third-of-our-greenhouse-gas-emissions-come-from-agriculture-1.11708</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>We may be in for more black-eyed peas and yams, and less meat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/food-switch-could-offset-climate-threat-to-staples-study"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/food-switch-could-offset-climate-threat-to-staples-study</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>A past leader of Greenpeace warned the World Business Council for Sustainable Development of a carbon bubble which would devalue holdings in fossil fuels as part of a transition to renewable energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change/carbon-bubble-looms-for-fossil-fuel-industry-gilding-20121031-28jb7.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change/carbon-bubble-looms-for-fossil-fuel-industry-gilding-20121031-28jb7.html</font></a><u><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font color="#0000ff">
</font></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">PricewaterhouseCoopers, the world’s largest professional services firm, warns that we should expect a much changed environment and a
dislocating transition to renewable energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/blog/pwc-climate-change-reduction-business-investments"><font color="#0000ff">http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/blog/pwc-climate-change-reduction-business-investments</font></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></font></u></p>
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</span>The Guardian’s Joe Confino has a formula for dealing with news on climate: face unflinchingly the best we can know as preparation for doing something to construct a world we can look forward to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/climate-change-closer-home-confront-truth"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/climate-change-closer-home-confront-truth</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The 2010 MOMA exhibit “Rising Currents” presents a vision of New York as a more stably based Venice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>All three videos in this ABC story are worth watching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The exhibit is being brought up to date. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/11/new-york-can-be-a-vibrant-venice-as-sea-level-now-rises-say-engineers/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/11/new-york-can-be-a-vibrant-venice-as-sea-level-now-rises-say-engineers/</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>LivingHomes is producing small prefab LEED Platinum homes which sell for about $145 per square foot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/11/04/sustainable-homes?cmpid=tp-ad-outbrain-general"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/11/04/sustainable-homes?cmpid=tp-ad-outbrain-general</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The LivingHomes site:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.livinghomes.net/primer.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.livinghomes.net/primer.html</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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