Synopsis: 9. security & defence: Security:


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Thawing permafrost spells risks for warming planettemperatures in the Arctic are warming, and along with them,


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and place at greater risk the thousands of well-paying jobs that the renewable fuels industry has created.


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We need to talk about both food and ecosystem security. Compared to annual grains, perennial grains have:


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So the three that decided to settle just felt that this risk was okay for them to take?


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The Oklahoma State study aimed to evaluate the energy savings of LEDS and how they performed overall,


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what the cost and delivery volumes will be. And nobody is going to spend billions on port


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 Previous research has createdâ tenuousâ links between coffee and a reduced risk of the disease,


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The rising risk of electronic medical recordsit was a low-tech burglary. No one thought that it would blossom into a high-tech security breach.

All it took was a rock--a simple, inanimate, probably centuries-old rock. An enterprising thief picked it up,

which researches data breaches and works for tighter security on people's personal health records.

But there was very little in the bill that did much on the privacy and security side.

and security standpoint because things were moving slowly and we could look at the national and state standards,

So whatever rules we have for privacy and security, they better be up to snuff to guard against the powerful incentives to get hold of that information.

Security loopholes Patient data is protected in some ways in the U s by a federal law known as HIPAA, the Health insurance Portability and Accountability Act.


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and strengthen national security. Yet we re producing more polluting cars now than ever and deforestation continues at unprecedented rates.


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The on-the-ground experience of apple growers is that risk of contamination is quite high,

There s always going to be some level of contamination and risk. Whether or not consumers are ready for more GMO fruit,


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and rescue mission, finding its way perfectly over unchartered terrain and back home. Or, sticking directly with the the bee's reason to be,


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To cut fire risk, San francisco airport hires 400 goatsshrubs and small trees around airports could become fire hazards for nearby homes


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it would take four to 10 years of travel before the wheel to tank greenhouse savings met


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and, in fact, poses a significant risk of creating overwhelming complexity, which could take down the Internet we now have.

Every security technology becomes obsolete. If we connect all these new things and expose them to external control,


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and--especially in dense cities--energy savings. But cities shouldn't let all that get to their head.


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Some users of glyphosate were observed to have a higher risk of multiple myeloma, a cancer affecting bone marrow,


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but also near the Purdue campus. Talk about your work capturing sounds that are in danger of being lost.

we're in danger of losing the biological signals that we're all used to in the landscape.

We're in danger of silencing the landscape. That's why we hearken back to Rachel Carson's original statements that by modifying the landscape we could be pushing out organisms that are creating the biological voices of that landscape.

We're also in danger of replacing it with the anthrophony, As well as humans continue to disconnect from nature


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Sometimes, an initiative to minimize packaging (put aside the green benefits for a moment) can result in damages that are 10 to 20 times greater than the value of the initial savings.

So how do you reduce the risk that your green aspirations--especially when it comes to getting product from the point of manufacture into the hands of your ultimate consumer--will wind up costing your company money?


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instead oe and this is at our peril. We need to reengage with the significance of biodiversity to make a difference in environmental management.

slowing for example the risks of drought or flood and the impacts of other extreme weather events oe such a mangroves providing protection for coastal communities against the impact of tsunamis.

There is no doubt about the risks of loss, and now both the scientific evidence and the economic analysis of the costs of loss are much more robust.

by being degraded, raising the risk of disaster to human communities. In the first example there are a primary regions where there is high genetic


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This will help us understand how to maximize their productivity as well as monitor for any biosecurity risks,


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you have heightened risk for bacterial infections and other diseases in the bees that could require burning entire hives.


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How much are you saving by using rail? It all depends. Let s say there s a Procter & gamble manufacturing plant in Dover, Delaware.

but we re looking into That is the savings passed along to your customers when things are shipped by train?


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As for concerns of fire risk, large timbers are naturally fire-resistant and perform better in fire than structural steel.


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commenting that there is a real danger of burnout. In addition, the greed of Apple sometimes gets in the way of other more noble values,


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Operational savings? Environmental impact? Local leadership? DC: I don't really think I can prioritize them,


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who are at odds over the risk of engineered algae escaping into the wild. Venter says algae should be engineered with a suicide gene to shut down


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is there a risk that the exhibition might be seen as somewhat slick and gimmicky by politicians and suburban dwellers themselves?


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Following a decade of scrimping and saving, he was able to buy some basic equipment to make his own paper.

he has to provide security of of Rs. 18 lakhs ($36, 000. Â Å Ive tried with ten banks


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--but the United states is at risk of watching other nations pass it by if it doesn't recognize the trajectory and implications of globalization.


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Back in 1992, physicist and author Gregory Benford of the University of California, Irvine, published Saving the'library of life'in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

He also argued that saving the DNA should be a complement to traditional conservation efforts that might not always work,

with a goal of saving 25 percent of all wild plants by 2020. Should we eat the babies?


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Last year, that efficiency improvement amount to a savings of more than 12 billion liters of water.


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However, it allows for saving during the construction process. For instance, the Stadthaus architects conducted a case study that found a similar nine-story building would take 72 weeks to build compared with 49 weeks for the one built with the lighter timber.


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Independent security researcher Nick Depetrillo has launched istouchidhackedyet. com, a website dedicated to crowdfunding rewards for the first person who can break into Apple's biometric fingerprint scanning technology.

and I was part of a vocal minority of security researchers who argued Apple did a good job.


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That would cut out both long haul transport and local deliveries. Plantlab has made laudable strides toward piling the crops high.


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energy security, rural community growth, fewer greenhouse gas emissions, food constraints, green jobs. Binetti outlined the advantages of cellulosic ethanol:


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The main driver for the switch from manual, paper-based processes is cost-savings and efficiency,

and increase security. Industries that have switched to electronic commerce have saved millions by reducing paper costs and following more efficient methods.

and water pollution and saving the energy needed for manufacturing, distribution and sales. Newspaper circulation is declining,

However, most studies ON IT energy consumption don t to take into account the overall savings in electricity and power usage as a result of mass computerization.


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when you combine an entrepreneurial organic food delivery company with a regional healthcare system interested helping address obesity

Garden on the go is a partnership between Indiana University Health and Green B. E. A n. Delivery,

an online delivery company that provides organic produce and natural groceries to customers in Indianapolis and Fort wayne in Indiana;


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increase the nation's energy security, and improve our environment. We continue to call on Congress to work through the legislative process,


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you re in danger of having it running off. So it s more important in how much nitrogen is put down.

Do they know about the risks of phosphorus, for example? No. We put a lot of information on our bags.


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However, our research showed that the emissions from these activities proved to be more than the savings.

when a forest faces the double whammy of standing in a high fire-risk zone and being weakened by drought or insect infestations,


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That s what the UK-based Energy Saving Trust concludes in its freshly minted report, The Elephant in the Living room:

Bottom, Energy Saving Trust More digital global warming: Facebook plans Subarctic data center Iceland cometh


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GE Water sustainability chief Jeff Fulgham: We need a price on waterwhy doesn't water get more attention?


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they balked at the required contracts related to security risks of possessing the pieces. Also, schools can only use so much ivory for teaching

Security is a very real concern, as customs departments around the world have run into problems of theft.


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GPS saves gas for produce delivery companymichael Gilbert says the Navman Wireless installation paid for itself in 90 days.

a midsize produce delivery company that uses about 65 trucks to deliver fruits and vegetables to Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee and Wisconsin.

and long delivery stops (even though the drivers are, in essence, customer service representatives and are encouraged to talk to clients,

Prolonged delivery times: The Navman Wireless technology quickly helped reduce the amount of time that drivers spent offloading their trucks at each stop.

Across the fleet, average delivery times were reduced about 25 percent, Gilbert said. Route optimization: Indianapolis Fruit was able to study each of its routes more closely

The company actually paid for the installation of the technology with its savings within 90 days


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which were buried in the 1800s to minimize health risks from polluted water. Now that raw sewage is dumped no longer into the river


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Fortunately, there was a parachute in the airplane. Unfortunately, there was a hole in the parachute. And so on.

Such it is with high oil prices. Mass transit Last week, I wrote that drivers in the U s. will be forced to simply hand over the keys to new drivers in developing countries as competition for oil increases.

Trucking and delivery services Next to airlines, long-haul trucking companies are arguably the most vulnerable to fuel price shocks.

optimizing routes and shifting deliveries to less congested times of the day. Optimizing the behavior of drivers is another fuel-reduction strategy advocated by companies like Dubai-based Dynamic Technical Training.

For national delivery services like UPS who have optimized already their drivers'habits and engaged in a long campaign to upgrade the fuel economy of their fleets,


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Then when that is complete, the municipality will reduce greenhouse gas by about 30 percent with an annual savings of $880,


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The trees provide $11. 2 million in annual energy savings, have a carbon sequestration value of $386, 000,


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and those people are willing to take risks on the road to innovation. While she brought that mindset to both Autodesk and Yahoo!

When women face a new risk or opportunity, often those closest to them--their friends and family--are the first to throw up doubts or objections.


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so we're dependent on them for food deliveries, Yi said. Despite the plant s apparent environmental benefits, Beijingers remain suspicious.


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the bill should also provide nutritional security. The Rome-based Food and Agricultural organization estimates that between 2010-12 India had 217 million people at risk of undernourishment.

Å The bill only provides cereals which does not ensure that the targeted population will get adequate nutrition.


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They are at risk of losing their lands to erosion and mining or being displaced by government policies to protect forests and coasts.

the poor are the most at risk from biodiversity loss, Prime minister Manmohan Singh  told the delegates last week.

But in several instances legal safeguards of taking forest dwellers consent before acquiring their land are complied not properly with.

In exchange, 75%of developing countries will have to make biodiversity part of the national agenda as well as spend their own money on saving it.


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The ipad also does not allow saving of PDFS and it's not Flash-friendly as one blogger writes.


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and the security of patient records. And the ipad doesn't fit in the pocket of a standard white lab coat.


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but the savings can be substantial. via MIT Colab Radio Photo: Simply CVR


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Is Milwaukee growing the next urban farming trend? Can Milwaukee foster a new trend in urban farming,


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and it is adopting new technology for its delivery fleet. These and other measures are helping improve the company's standing and reputation in its Northern New england customer service area,


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Nature Conservancy share watershed lessons Alliance to share water risk data; the value of wastewater Greenpeace challenges apparel industry to come clean Pushing for more disclosure Smarter home irrigation technologies Smart grid gains ground with water managers 3 water

management tips from Intel Pepsico grant supports clean water in rural China Many businesses blind to water risks


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the Maverick Sport is powered officially a parachute. The Sport Pilot license required to fly it is much easier to obtain than a standard pilot's license.

and sees the Maverick's potential uses as extremely diverse, from security to recreation to search and rescue.


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and offer home deliveries. As a nonprofit organization, Open Food Foundation supports free software for community-focused small businesses working in the food industry.


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among other environmental risks. Some Roundup Ready seeds had already been planted before the ban was enacted.

the U s. District court for the Northern District of California bans the sale of GM alfalfa seeds on the grounds that the USDA violated federal law by not reviewing the seeds'environmental risk.

What kind of environmental risk, you ask? Andrew Pollack explains in The New york times: The crops contain a bacterial gene that allows them to withstand spraying with Roundup or its generic equivalents, known as glyphosate.

and chemical companies starting to sell old chemical compounds that posed more environmental risks than Roundup


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higher risk of developing anemia, which is linked to adverse mental, motor and psychosocial problems more food allergies and a higher risk of developing celiac disease But it also notes that babies in western countries who were exclusively breastfed for 6 months were apparently less likely to succumb to infections, such as pneumonia,

than those fed for less than 6 months. While mothers and mothers-to-be were still wading through the conflicting information,


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Within a 1994 unscripted interview by the Silicon valley Historical Association, Jobs discusses risk, failure, his own experiences,


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The cars belong to the Green league  an organic food delivery firm set up by a band of local mothers.

as well as a nearby kindergarten, buy food from the League,  receiving  deliveries twice a week.

 Green league staff prepare produce for delivery. Yujing and the other mothers (the founders were all female),


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orange juice for our Tropicana brand and oats for Quaker oats. There has been a risk assessment at a high level


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and more on common sense as the number of stranded motorists needing rescue climbs higher. Down Under, motorists in Victoria, Australia, have been warned by police to be careful


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when it comes to return on investment we are hands down the greatest savings. Our products never break.

A significant cost (and hassle) savings. SP: What about snow and ice? In what ways are Rubbersidewalks â â¢products different


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Paul Polak, author of Out of Povertymultinational companies are--at their own peril--ignoring a major market, according to Paul Polak.


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Was there any overt indication that this strain of flu was more of a risk?


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and our fellow animals and plants, who are at risk of dying out. are worried we enough about saving human civilization to make this time scale, the Anthropocene, more than a mere speck in the geologic time scale?

To understand the role of innovation and technology in saving ourselves, Smartplanet turned to David Biello who has been writing about the environment and energy for nearly 15 years, most recently for Scientific American.


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using octopi as a standard misrepresents localized risk. No one was fooled, further eroding trust. So, the fear of Fukushima's food persists.


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If commercialized, it could one day improve the security at airports and other checkpoint areas or be used to monitor the environment.

In the future, let's hope a single-molecule sensor can stop someone like Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab A k a. the underwear bomber from slipping through security.


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Shoppers seem ready to trade the long-term benefit of a reusable fake tree for the short-term savings of a cut tree,


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Exponents say the idea is symbolic of the local determination to highlight the risk of food shortages and climate change.


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which brought in the Department of Homeland Security and charged him with bioterrorism. The authorities claimed the body of his wife,


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With the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 requiring an almost fivefold increase in ethanol production to 36 billion gallons annually by 2022,

Those cost savings allow it to turn, say, two bales of hay into five gallons of ethanol for less than $1 a gallon,


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increase the risk of diseases and put farmers out of business. The humane society ads disagreed,


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More than a decade after publishing a study in Science and selling a promising idea for an inhaled drug delivery system, Edwards,


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With billions of people at risk of hunger, the current food crisis is certainly massive and destructive.

and multinational corporations very rich even as they devastate the poor and put the rest of the planet at severe environmental and economic risk.


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since stories in the popular press talked about the chicken heart as being a large mass of flesh that grew so much that it was forever in danger of bursting from its container


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His concerns regarding food delivery are shared well. A 2010 symposium hosted by the Global Harvest Initiative in Washington


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In other animal-risk situations, such as abattoirs, government inspectors are present: the same should be true on live export boats.


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Originally a term meaning to break into a computer security system, 'hack'has been given a more positive connotation by Gensler:


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Protecting water pays dividendsas soaring temperatures and rapid urbanization threaten water security, countries are beginning to invest in the protection and preservation of their water sources,


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or more weekly servings of fast food had increased a 39 risk of severe asthma. Six-and seven-year-olds had increased a 27 risk.

Eating three or more portions of fruit a week cut the risk of severe asthma, eczema and rhinoconjunctivitis by between 11%and 14%.

%The study authors, Prof Innes Asher, from the University of Auckland in New zealand, and Prof Hywel Williams, from the University of Nottingham in the UK, said:"

Malayka Rahman of Asthma UK, said research suggests that a person's diet may contribute to their risk of developing asthma


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and it is also one of the sectors most at risk from climate change, as recent changes in rainfall patterns have made evident.


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thus increasing the price of the savings. Given the subsidy of £45 per MWH, says Mr Vetter, it costs £225 to save one tonne of CO2 by switching from gas to wood.


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can be paraphrased as oegarage biology is good and necessary for the future physical and economic security of the United states. This position acknowledges the historical analysis that

How will a balance be struck between private risk and gain versus public benefit and safety?


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