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Posts in this category are about Social Capital, which includes education, governance, religious institutions, neighborhood groups and associations, Cultural Diversity, languages, libraries and other knowledge archives, health-care facilities, community development corporations, legal and police systems, and so forth. Social Capital, like natural Capital, suffers from chronic underinvestment because its stream of benefits, including safety and Security, friendship and Community, a sense of civic identity, Access to Knowledge, and many others, is hard to quantify in economic terms.

(Adapted from ConservationEconomy.net)

EPA denies challenges to greenhouse gas rule

Source: Reuters Environment - Posted: July 29, 2010 16:33
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday rejected 10 petitions challenging EPA's 2009 finding that climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health and the environment.
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Fires and Smoke near Moscow

Source: NASA News - Posted: July 29, 2010 11:31
Acquired July 28, 2010, this natural-color image shows fires east of Moscow blanketing the region in thick smoke.
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Clean Cities DOE-Funded Propane Autogas Vehicle Conversion Program Rolls Out First of 1,189 Emission-Cutting Cars

Source: NewsBlaze Environment - Posted: July 29, 2010 11:06
The first vehicle converted to propane Autogas under the Southeast Propane Autogas Development Program is on the road, with thirty more program vehicles slated to be running on Autogas by the end of August. Administered by Virginia Clean Cities at ...
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