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<title>Population and consumption: two sides of the coin</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/163920/1/1939</link>
<description>New UK population projections published this week provoked concerns that food and energy supplies cannot keep up. But it's not just our numbers that are straining the limits.</description>
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<title>Car scrappage may upset climate negotiations</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/162698/1/1939</link>
<description>Subsidies for scrapping old cars are all the rage in Europe. But will these handouts put developing countries in a positive frame of mind to make concessions for a new Kyoto agreement?</description>
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<title>Prosperity without growth?</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85161</link>
<description>A timely piece of research by the Sustainable Development Commission but why add the question mark to its title?</description>
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<title>Local Control Saves Forests - Report</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/159182/1/1939</link>
<description>NEW YORK, Mar 27 (OneWorld) - There will likely be fewer wildfires and more trees for future generations if loggers abide by a set of international rules on forest management, says a new study by independent environmentalists.</description>
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<title>Californians Sitting on Toxic Couches - Report</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/158286/1/1939</link>
<description>SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 26 (OneWorld) - Most of California's furniture contains toxic chemicals that have been linked to cancer, birth defects, hormone disruption, and neurological and reproductive dysfunction, according to a report released today.</description>
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<title>Beef Plant Video Spurs Calls for New Protections</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/158074/1/1939</link>
<description>NEW YORK, Feb 21 (OneWorld) - Graphic images of animal cruelty and this week's record recall of U.S. beef have spurred fresh demands to expand a ban on killing sick animals for food consumption.</description>
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<title>Valentine's Pledge from Jewelry Sellers</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/157756/1/1939</link>
<description>NEW YORK, Feb 12 (OneWorld) - Some of the nation's top jewelers declared Tuesday they were ready to dump gold miners who abuse indigenous communities and their environment.</description>
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<title>In Congo, Staggering Death Toll and a Move Toward Peace</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/157221/1/1939</link>
<description>NEW YORK, Jan 25 (OneWorld) - More than 1,000 people continue to die every day in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a result of armed conflict fueled predominantly by the world's thirst for gold and diamonds.</description>
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<title>Cloned Meat Decision Sparks Consumer Campaign </title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/157198/1/1939</link>
<description>NEW YORK, Jan 24 (OneWorld) - A broad coalition is urging consumers and grocery stores to refuse burgers, milk, and other products from cloned animals, following a U.S. government decision to lift a ban on the controversial foods.</description>
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<title>At Auto Show, Calls to Mainstream 100-MPG Car</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/157153/1/1939</link>
<description>WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (OneWorld) - As General Motors vied with Toyota over who sold more cars during 2007, U.S. environmental activists were sending a different sort of sales message to automakers gathered at the Washington Auto Show: &quot;Increase fuel efficiency.&quot;</description>
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<title>Burma Gem Boycott Raised</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/156880/1/1939</link>
<description>NEW YORK, Jan 15 (OneWorld) - Rights activists in the West are urging buyers and sellers of precious gems to reject rubies and jades mined in Myanmar (formerly Burma).</description>
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<title>The carbon cost of Christmas</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/81748</link>
<description>About 60 per cent of annual turnover in UK retailing occurs during the Christmas period. A new briefing, The Carbon Cost of Christmas, exposes some of the biggest festival 'No-nos' followed by some big Christmas Yes-yeses'.</description>
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<title>Protestors Picket Wal-Marts Worldwide</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/155309/1/1939</link>
<description>SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 17 (OneWorld) - A coalition of grassroots organizations will lead worldwide demonstrations against Wal-Mart and other so-called &quot;big box&quot; retail stores today.</description>
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<title>U.S. Food Companies Accused of 'Cooking the Climate'</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/155084/1/1939</link>
<description>NEW YORK, Nov 11 (OneWorld) - Major U.S. companies are adding to the impending threat of global warming as they drive the production of palm oil in Indonesia's tropical forests, says a new study by an international environmental organization.</description>
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<title>Cocoa Farming Must Benefit W. African Children, Farmers</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/154973/1/1939</link>
<description>Susan Smith of the National Confectioners Association responds to OneWorld's article on fair trade chocolate for Halloween.</description>
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