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Pew Center releases survey on low-carbon business innovation
Press Release
June 7, 2011
Pew Center Contact: Rebecca Matulka, (703) 516-4146
Survey Says … Low-Carbon Innovation Vital for Future Growth
Pew Center survey of industry leaders focuses on strategies for low-carbon innovation
Washington, D.C. – Over the next two decades, low-carbon innovation will become more important for business and U.S. economic growth, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change of largely Fortune 500 companies with a demonstrated commitment to addressing climate and energy issues. Conducted in late 2010, the survey is designed to gauge business strategies for low-carbon innovation with a focus on how companies perceive the associated risks and uncertainties.
The survey, part of a larger Pew Center study to be released in October 2011, explored best practices among industry leaders. Thirty-five companies, ranging in size from $600 million to $285 billion in annual revenues and with an average annual R&D expenditure of $1.4 billion, participated in the survey.
"Leading businesses are investing today with an eye toward a future low-carbon economy. They are focusing more on researching, developing and bringing low-carbon solutions to market," said Judi Greenwald, Vice President of Innovative Solutions at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. "The competitive edge of U.S. companies, and the strength of the U.S. economy, depend on more companies employing this same foresight and ingenuity."
This survey is one element of a study on the most effective methods used by companies to develop and bring low-carbon solutions to market. Other key findings of the survey include:
- Long-term, transparent climate and energy policies are critical to establishing a business environment that will allow for greater certainty for decision-making and investment in low-carbon innovations. Nearly half of the companies surveyed think putting a price on carbon is the most important action the U.S. government can take to advance low-carbon innovation.
- Financial growth is the biggest driver for bringing low-carbon innovations to market, allowing companies to position themselves competitively in the marketplace. Other reasons for focusing on low-carbon innovation include anticipating or shaping regulatory changes, being a leader in emerging technologies or markets, and meeting consumer demand.
- The most significant uncertainty in low-carbon innovation is policy as it relates to regulatory changes and tax/subsidy changes.
- Public policy plays a strong role in deciding which country has the best business climate for domestic low-carbon innovation.
The survey results will be combined with insights from three workshops, four in-depth case studies, and other supporting research for the report Business of Innovating: Bringing Low-Carbon Solutions to Market, which will be released at a conference in Atlanta on Oct. 25-26, 2011. The survey and forthcoming report are being funded with a grant from Hewlett-Packard.
For more information on the low-carbon innovation project, visit www.c2es.org/business-innovation.
For more information about global climate change and the activities of the Pew Center, visit www.c2es.org.
The Pew Center was established in May 1998 as a non-profit, non-partisan, and independent organization dedicated to providing credible information, straight answers, and innovative solutions in the effort to address global climate change. The Pew Center is led by Eileen Claussen, the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.
Forum on Next Steps Toward Fuel Efficiency
Pew Center Vice President for Innovative Solutions Judi Greenwald spoke at a National Journal event about advancing solutions toward vehicle fuel efficiency. Other speakers at the May 25, 2011, forum were Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change Heather Zichal, ANGA-AGA Joint Collaborative on Transportation Executive Director Dr. Kathryn Clay, Edison Electric Institute President Thomas Kuhn, and Association of Global Automakers President and Chief Executive Officer Michael Stanton.
Accenture Sustainability 24
On May 25, 2011 Sustainability 24 will unite leading thinkers, Non Governmental Organizations, business high performers and sustainability service providers enabling them to share fresh ideas, innovations and thought-provoking concepts associated with the adoption of wider sustainability practices throughout business. During the 24 hour event business and local government leaders will demonstrate how they have embedded sustainability their organizations and governments, not only to drive efficiencies and cost savings, but also to drive differentiation in their markets through innovation.
Meg Crawford, a Markets and Business Strategy Fellow, will participate on the panel Sustainability and Carbon Performance Management: Understanding Performance Levers to Drive Sustainability Success. During this presentation you will hear how Sustainability Performance Management processes can help meet both strategic business and stakeholder objectives. Join leading figures for live Q&A to learn how measuring the value of sustainability initiatives, and carbon management, is imperative to driving the sustainability agenda.
Congressional Testimony of Elliot Diringer on the Global Climate Talks and U.S. Action
Testimony of Elliot Diringer
Vice President for International Strategies
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Committee on Foreign Affairs
U.S. House of Representatives
May 25, 2011
Hearing on "UN Climate Talks and Power Politics – It's Not About the Temperature"
Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Carnahan, and members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify on the critical issues confronting the United States and other nations in the effort to address global climate change. My name is Elliot Diringer, and I am Vice President for International Strategies at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.
The Pew Center is an independent non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to advancing practical and effective policies and actions to address global climate change. Our work is informed by our Business Environmental Leadership Council (BELC), a group of 46 major companies, most in the Fortune 500, that work with the Center on climate change risks, challenges, and solutions.[1]
Mr. Chairman, climate change poses a serious long-term threat to our nation's resources, our economic well-being, and our national security. While action to address climate change must begin at home, this is a quintessentially global challenge, which therefore requires a global solution. I would like to focus my testimony today on three topics: 1) the status of the international climate negotiations, and the objectives that should guide U.S. climate diplomacy; 2) the policies being implemented in other countries – including our major trading partners – to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; and 3) the environmental, economic and security rationales for stronger climate action.
My principal points are as follows:
- The past two years have seen the emergence of a more realistic and balanced approach in the international climate negotiations, thanks in large measure to the efforts of U.S. negotiators. The United States must remain fully engaged in the talks with the aim of strengthening multilateral support and transparency, thereby promoting action while laying the groundwork for a future binding agreement.
- A growing number of countries are pursuing policies that help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Many see the challenge as an important opportunity as well. Some of our major trading partners are moving aggressively to grow their clean energy technology industries, which create domestic jobs and high-value exports. Without stronger policies creating similar incentives here, the United States risks falling further behind in the rapidly expanding clean energy market.
- U.S. inaction on climate change exposes our nation to real and rising risks. The longer we delay action, the harder it will be to avert the worst consequences of warming, the higher the cost of coping with those that can not be avoided, and the further we fall behind in the clean energy race. Taking steps now to expand clean energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions is squarely in our strong national interest.
Moving the Negotiations Forward
Multilateral regimes do not generally spring forth fully formed – rather, they evolve over time.[2] The international climate effort is no different. It began with the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which was signed by the President George H. W. Bush and unanimously ratified by the U.S. Senate. The UNFCCC, now ratified by 195 parties, established a long-term objective of preventing "dangerous anthropogenic intereference with the climate system" and a framework within which countries can work together to achieve it. To be certain, countries' positions in the climate negotiations are heavily conditioned by their respective national interests. But underlying the Framework Convention is a clear recognition that countries share a common interest in averting dangerous climate change. And a fundamental principle of the Convention is that while our respective responsibilities are differentiated, depending on nations' circumstances, we all share a common responsibility for meeting this common challenge.
Since the signing of the Framework Convention, the climate regime has evolved in fits and starts. While the Convention is largely voluntary in nature, countries resolved shortly after its entry into force that stronger action was needed, and initiated a new round of negotiations aimed at establishing binding emission targets for developed countries. This led in 1997 to the Kyoto Protocol. Although the United States chose not to participate, Kyoto entered into force in 2005, and most other industrialized countries are on track to meeting their obligations. For many countries, the principal aim since 2005 has been to extend this legally-binding regime through a second round of targets. But many of the countries with targets have made clear that they will not assume new binding obligations without commensurate commitments by the United States and the major developing economies. Through this prolonged stalemate, the negotiations were stuck in a mode of binding-or-nothing, and consequently produced virtually nothing.
Over the past two years, however, we have seen the emergence of a more realistic, more balanced and more constructive approach, in large measure through the efforts of the United States. Many viewed the Copenhagen summit in 2009 as a major failure because they had hoped – unrealistically – that it would produce a binding agreement. In our view, the Copenhagen Accord, negotiated personally by President Obama and other world leaders, represented genuine progress. Among other things, the Accord set an aspirational goal of limiting global temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius; set goals for mobilizing financial support to help developing countries reduce emissions, preserve forests, and adapt to climate change; and established the broad parameters of a system to ensure transparency and accountability. What's more, it provided for mitigation pledges from both developed and developing countries. As a result, for the first time ever, all of the world's major economies – including China and India – have now made explicit pledges to reduce or limit their greenhouse gas emissions.
In the chaotic final hours in Copenhagen, the Accord was not formally adopted by the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties. However, at the 16th Conference of the Parties last year in Cancún, parties adopted a package of decisions incorporating the essential elements of the Copenhagen Accord into the UNFCCC framework, and taking initial steps to implement them. The Cancún Agreements represent the most tangible progress within the UNFCCC negotiations in nearly a decade. First, they memorialize the pledges taken under the Copenhagen Accord by more than 80 countries accounting for more than 80 percent of global emissions. Second, the Agreements establish the fundamentals of a stronger support system for developing countries, and a stronger transparency system enabling countries to verify whether others are fulfilling their pledges.
The Agreements also reflect a more flexible and realistic framework for enshrining countries' actions. Unlike the Kyoto Protocol, which allows only one type of commitment (a binding emissions target with a prescribed, common base year), the Agreements allow for a diversity of approaches. In the case of developed countries, pledges take the form of economy-wide emission targets, but with flexibility on base year and accounting. Developing countries have even broader discretion in defining their "nationally appropriate mitigation actions." China and India, for instance, have pledged reductions in emissions intensity (emissions per unit of GDP), while Brazil, South Africa, Mexico and the Republic of Korea have pledged to reduce emissions below "business as usual." This more realistic and balanced approach reflected in the Cancún Agreements, as well as the movement toward greater transparency for all major economies, are direct consequences of U.S. engagement and leadership in the climate negotiations.
It is important to emphasize that the pledges countries have made at this stage are voluntary in nature. We continue to believe that the global response to climate change should ultimately be enshrined in fair, effective and binding commitments among all of the world's major economies. Countries will deliver their strongest possible efforts only if they are confident that others are also contributing their fair share, and this confidence is best maintained through mutual and binding commitments. We also recognize, however, that it will be a number of years before the United States, China and other key countries are prepared to assume binding commitments. Under these circumstances, we believe the United States must remain fully engaged in the climate negotiations with the aim of strengthening the UNFCCC as a means of delivering support and transparency, thereby promoting near-term action while laying the groundwork for a future legal agreement.
At the 17th Conference of the Parties later this year in Durban, we believe the aim should be further progress on the operational issues addressed in the Cancún Agreements, including the launch of a new Green Climate Fund to support developing country efforts and significant progress in strengthening transparency through new "measurement, reporting and verification" practices; and a clear declaration by parties of their intent to work toward legally binding outcomes. This outcome would build on the achievements of the past two years and continue the incremental progress needed to strengthen confidence in the regime and among parties.
Efforts in Other Countries
While international agreements and commitments are critical to our success in addressing global climate change, a more important measure of efforts to date are the policies and actions countries are undertaking domestically. A growing number of countries are developing or implementing policies contributing in one way or another to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Many see the challenge as an important opportunity as well. A number of our major trading partners are moving aggressively to grow their clean energy technology industries, which create domestic jobs and high-value exports. Without stronger policies creating similar incentives here, the United States risks falling further behind our competitors in the rapidly expanding clean energy market.
The European Union is a clear leader in the development, manufacture, and deployment of clean technologies. The EU has set mandatory targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent below 1990 levels, and to increase renewables to 20 percent of its energy mix, by 2020. The centerpiece of EU climate policy is the Emissions Trading System (ETS) launched in 2005, which regulates carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) in the power and major industrial sectors generating about half of the EU's CO2 emissions. Having overcome the early complications typical of a new compliance market, the system is set to expand in 2012 to cover other gases and the aviation sector. Europe's clean energy investments, the world's largest, doubled from 2009 to 2010, reaching nearly $81 billion.[3] From 2004, the year before the ETS began, through 2008, the year before the global financial crisis, the European Union reduced its emissions 4.1 percent, while its GDP grew 9.8 percent.
China also has taken major steps towards increasing its manufacture and use of clean energy technologies. Under the Cancún Agreements, China pledged that by 2020 it will reduce the CO2 intensity of its economy 40 to 45 percent below 2005 levels; increase the share of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption to 15 percent by 2020; and increase forest coverage by 40 million hectares and forest stock volume by 1.3 billion cubic meters. These targets are reflected in domestic policy as well. Additional policies include: a national target for renewables to provide 15 percent of primary energy by 2020, with specific targets for wind, solar, biomass, and hydropower; feed-in tariffs for onshore wind power; and proposed fuel efficiency standards requiring urban cars and light trucks to achieve an average of 36.9 miles per gallon by 2015. The 12th Five-Year Plan adopted by the Chinese leadership in March devotes considerable attention to energy and climate, establishing a series of targets and policies for 2011-2015.[4] These include a suite of policies to promote innovation in new strategic and emerging technologies, including nuclear, solar, wind, biomass, and hybrid and electric vehicles. The plan also includes a goal to "gradually establish a carbon trade market."
To be certain, China continues to build coal-fired power plants as well, and its emissions continue to rise. A recent analysis by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory projects that on the present path China's emissions will peak between 2030 and 2035.[5] But the climate and energy provisions of the new Five-Year Plan show how China is moving forward with domestic policies in line with the pledge it offered in Copenhagen and formalized in the Cancún Agreements. Many of the policies also are clearly calculated to help ensure that China – which recently surpassed the United States and other countries to become the leading manufacturer of wind turbines and solar panels – retains a strong competitive edge going forward.
Other major developing countries are also stepping up their efforts to limit emissions growth and transition to cleaner energy. India, which pledged to reduce its emissions intensity (excluding the agricultural sector) 20 to 25 percent below 2005 levels by 2020, is pursuing a range of policies under its 2008 National Action Plan on Climate Change, including: a renewable energy target; a feed-in tariff for renewable energy; a market-based system of tradable energy savings certificates in industrial sectors; and a coal levy generating finance for clean energy research and innovation. Brazil and Indonesia have set goals to reduce deforestation. South Africa has set national renewable energy and energy efficiency targets and established a renewable energy feed-in tariff. Meanwhile, the governments of Mexico and South Korea have proposed establishing emissions trading systems.
While the global picture is uneven, these examples demonstrate a growing will among countries to undertake a wide variety of measures to promote clean energy and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Addressing Climate Change is in Our National Interest
Earlier I emphasized that all nations share a common interest in averting dangerous climate change. It is important to understand why stronger efforts to address climate change and pursue clean energy are in our direct national interest as well. There are many reasons, whether from an environmental, national security or economic perspective.
Environmental Risks
The scientific and environmental rationale for lowering our greenhouse gas emissions is clear and compelling. As again underscored two weeks ago in America's Climate Choices, a report produced by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences at the request of Congress, "Climate change is occurring, is very likely caused by human activities, and poses significant risks for a broad range of human and natural systems."[6] On these fundamental points, there is very strong consensus within the scientific community.
Due largely to the combustion of fossil fuels, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide are at their highest level in at least 800,000 years. Over the last century, average global temperatures rose more than 1 degree Fahrenheit and in some places, including parts of the United States, temperatures rose more than 4 degrees.[7] If greenhouse gas emissions continue to grow, average global temperatures are projected to reach 2.0°F to 11.5°F (1.1°C to 6.4°C) above pre-industrial levels by 2100, with warming in the U.S. expected to be even higher.
We are already witnessing the impacts of climate change here in the United States; the widespread flooding now inflicting communities along the Mississippi River vividly illustrates how vulnerable we are to the rising risks associated with climate change. Most of North America is experiencing increasing numbers of unusually warm days and nights and a decreasing number of unusually cool ones. At the same time, droughts are occurring more frequently while snowpacks are melting earlier in the year. Sea-level rise of 8 inches or more has been recorded in some coastal areas of the country.[8] Continued warming will mean further sea-level rise, elevating storm surges and gradually inundating low-lying coastal areas along all U.S. coastlines; increased frequency and severity of extreme weather events; increased risk of droughts and floods; significant threats to ecosystems and biodiversity; and increased public health risks. Beyond such readily foreseeable impacts, the longer warming persists and the greater its magnitude, the greater the risk of abrupt or catastrophic changes in the global climate.[9]
Actions to reduce the risks of climate change by lowering greenhouse gas emissions have other environmental co-benefits as well. Lower-carbon technologies such as natural gas and renewable energy also emit less of other pollutants including nitrogen dioxide, particulates, sulfur dioxide, lead, carbon monoxide, mercury, and other hazardous pollutants that have a wide range of harmful health effects, from asthma to cancer and premature death. Past regulatory efforts to reduce these pollutants have proven highly successful and cost-effective. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) found that from 1992 to 2002 "major rules" enacted under the Clean Air Act produced benefits of between $145 billion and $218 billion a year, far exceeding the annual costs $22 billion to $25 billion.[10] A study by researchers at MIT found total annual benefits rising from $50 billion in 1975 to $400 billion in 2000.[11] We can expand these benefits by moving towards cleaner energy sources.
Security Risks
America's military leaders recognize that climate change also poses increasing risks to our national security and new demands on our military resources. According to the Pentagon's latest Quadrennial Defense Review, climate change may act as "an accelerant of instability or conflict, placing a burden to respond on civilian institutions and militaries around the world."[12]
Indeed, climate change will be a threat multiplier, further destabilizing regions of the world already burdened with countless other problems. Chronic drought, rising seas, extreme weather and other climate impacts could undermine weak governments, induce mass migrations, and trigger or heighten resource competition, contributing to social instability and, potentially, armed conflict. Rising seas could displace as many as 30 million people in Bangladesh, creating additional tensions on the Indian subcontinent. Receding glaciers could leave millions across Asia facing chronic water shortages. A distinguished group of retired three- and four-star U.S. military officers warns that drought, thirst, and hunger are already exacerbating the conflicts and humanitarian disasters in Darfur and Somalia, and climate change portends more situations like these.[13]
Within the past year, devastating floods in Pakistan have strained the resources and stability of a key U.S. ally in the battle against international terrorism, and an intense drought and heat wave has diminished food production in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, causing a spike in global wheat prices. Yemen, where the CIA says Al Qaeda is of greatest concern today, is running out of groundwater for its under-employed population.[14] While these events cannot be directly attributed to climate change, scientists are very clear that these types of events will occur more frequently in a warming world.
Other security issues are arising closer to home. The Arctic has long been a place where defense issues were minimized because the waterways were largely frozen over year-round. With warming now occurring there at twice the average global rate, the Arctic Ocean is opening to military and civilian transportation, and the potential security implications are already apparent. Receding sea ice is creating increased competition over territory and resources in a region where the United States is currently unprepared to address potential military situations.[15]
Protecting our nation's security necessarily involves being prepared to deal with an uncertain future. Indeed, planning under uncertainty is business as usual for the defense community. The fact that military and security experts are increasingly concerned about the risks associated with climate change should serve as an important wake-up call to us all.
Economic Risks
Finally, addressing climate change is very much in our economic interest. The United States is the world's leading manufacturer, producing 21 percent of global output while supporting 18.6 million domestic jobs.[16] Yet in the growing clean energy sector, we risk falling further behind our competitors because the demand for these goods is not as strong at home as it is overseas.
China and other countries are investing heavily in clean energy technologies, positioning themselves to compete in a growing global market projected to reach $106 billion to $230 billion a year in 2020, and as much as $424 billion a year in 2030. In order for the United States to develop a successful, profitable, and competitive clean energy sector, companies need clear regulatory frameworks ensuring a strong domestic market for these goods.
The recent experience of the U.S. auto industry provides an instructive case study. While the technology in our cars has advanced significantly in the last two decades, the typical new vehicle today consumes gasoline at about the same rate as one produced in the late 1980s.[17] But with gas prices again rising, consumers are increasingly turning to more fuel-efficient vehicles. Spurred by fuel economy standards enacted in 2007, American automakers have been ready to meet their customers' needs. U.S. automakers reported strong sales and combined profits of nearly $5.9 billion in the first quarter of 2011, and all three cited higher sales of fuel-efficient vehicles as a contributing factor. Last year, the Smart car was the only conventional car available in the United States with a fuel economy rating of 40 miles per gallon or better. Today there are nine, and three of them – the Cruze, Elantra, and Focus – were among the 10 top-selling vehicles last month. All three are made in the United States.
Unfortunately , similar examples in the clean energy field must be found outside the United States. In Germany, for instance, renewable energy policies helped boost jobs in the renewable energy sector from 160,000 in 2004 to 370,000 in 2010.[18]The German government credits this dramatic growth in clean energy jobs as a major factor in its relatively fast recovery from the 2008 recession.[19] Germany's renewable energy sector is projected to employ about 450,000 to 580,000 workers by 2020, and between 500,000 and 600,000 in 2030.[20]
By contrast, U.S. clean energy manufacturers are increasingly finding their biggest growth opportunities overseas. First Solar, Inc., of Arizona, the world's second largest solar manufacturer, plans to build a 2,000-megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant in China – the largest planned project of its kind in the world.[21] While First Solar will also add new manufacturing jobs at its U.S. facilities, at least 71 percent of its planned growth is outside the United States. U.S. firms remain among the world's top innovators. But if our clean energy firms are to invest and create jobs at home, and compete effectively overseas, we must provide the regulatory certainty that creates strong, sustained demand for their goods here in the United States. Doing so will strengthen our economy while protecting the United States against the risks of climate change.
Mr. Chairman, U.S. inaction on climate change exposes our nation to real and rising risks. The longer we delay action, the harder it will be to avert the worst consequences of warming, the higher the cost of coping with those that can not be avoided, and the further we fall behind other countries in the clean energy race. Taking steps now to expand clean energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions is quite clearly in our strong national interest.
As the world's largest economy, leading innovator, and largest cumulative emitter, the United States also has a responsibility to the international community. Thanks to U.S. efforts, the global climate effort now appears headed on a more reasonable course. Our ability to continue to shape that effort in the years ahead depends heavily on a demonstrated commitment to address climate change here at home.
[1] For more on the Pew Center on Global Climate Change and the Business Environmental Leadership Council, see www.c2es.org.
[2]Bodansky, Daniel and Elliot Diringer. "The Evolution of Multilateral Regimes: Implications for Climate Change." Pew Center on Global Climate Change. December 2010. Available at http://www.c2es.org/publications/report/evolution-multilateral-regimes-implications-climate-change.
[3]"Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race?" Pew Environment Group. 2010. Available at http://www.pewenvironment.org/uploadedFiles/PEG/Publications/Report/G-20Report-LOWRes-FINAL.pdf.
[4]Lewis, Joanna. "Energy and Climate Goals of China's 12th Five-Year Plan." Pew Center on Global Climate Change. March 2011. Available at http://www.c2es.org/international/factsheet/energy-climate-goals-china-twelfth-five-year-plan.
[5]Zhou, Nan et al. "China's Energy and Carbon Emissions Outlook to 2050." Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. April 2011. Available at http://china.lbl.gov/publications/2050-outlook.
[6]Committee on America's Climate Choices; National Research Council. America's Climate Choices. 2011. Available at http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12781
[7]"Climate Change 101: Science and Impacts." Pew Center on Global Climate Change. January 2011. Available at http://www.c2es.org/docUploads/climate101-science.pdf
[8]Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States. Global Change Research Program. 2009. Available at http://www.globalchange.gov/publications/reports/scientific-assessments/us-impacts/full-report
[9]Committee on America's Climate Choices; National Research Council. America's Climate Choices. 2011. Available at http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12781
[10]Office of Management and Budget. "Informing Regulatory Decisions: 2003 Report to Congress on the Costs and Benefits of Federal Regulations and Unfunded Mandates on State, Local, and Tribal Entities. 2003. Available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/omb/inforeg/2003_cost-ben_final_rpt.pdf
[11]Yang, T., K. Matus, S. Paltsev and J. Reilly, "Economic Benefits of Air Pollution Regulation in the USA: An Integrated Approach." The MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. July 2004. Available at http://globalchange.mit.edu/pubs/abstract.php?publication_id=685
[12]Quadrennial Defense Review. United States Department of Defense. February 2010. Available at http://www.defense.gov/qdr/images/QDR_as_of_12Feb10_1000.pdf
[13]Military Advisory Board. "National Security and the Threat of Climate Change." CNA. April 2007. Available at http://SecurityAndClimate.cna.org
[14]Rogers, W. and J. Gulledge, "Lost in Translation: Closing the Gap Between Climate Science and National Security Policy." Center for a New American Security. April 2010. Available at http://cnas.org/node/4391
[15]Burke, Sharon; Jay Gulledge, Michael Horowitz, Christine Parthemore, and Nirav Patel. "Uncharted Waters: The U.S. Navy and Navigating Climate Change." Center for a New American Security. December 2008. Available at http://www.cnas.org/files/documents/publications/CNAS_Working%20Paper_CN...
[16]National Association of Manufacturers. "Facts About Manufacturing." Available at http://www.nam.org/Statistics-And-Data/Facts-About-Manufacturing/Landing.aspx
[17]Greene, David L., and Steven E. Plotkin. "Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from U.S. Transportation." Pew Center on Global Climate Change. January 2011. Available at http://www.c2es.org/publications/reducing-ghg-emissions-from-transportation.
[18]German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety, March 16, 2011. German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety, "Gross employment from renewable energy in 2010," March 18, 2011.
[20]German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety, "Renewably employed! Short and long-term impacts of the expansion of renewable energy on the German labour market," September 2010.
[21]IEA 2010, and Woody, Todd. "U.S. Solar Firm Cracks Chinese Market," The New York Times, September 8, 2009.
Let's Ride the EV Wave
This post also appeared in the National Journal Energy & Environment Experts blog in response to a question about oil use and the future of electric vehicles.
Whether or not electric vehicles (EVs) take off will ultimately depend on consumer acceptance of new technology. But public policy and technological progress are just as important, as we highlight in our new report on the transportation sector.
Indeed, electric drive vehicles powered by batteries or hydrogen fuel cells could revolutionize transportation in the United States, saving considerable amounts of oil while also reducing the sector's impact on our global climate. And the EVs on the market now are off to a great start, winning national and international awards.
Nearly all major automakers are planning to introduce these vehicles in the coming years, and I applaud automakers like Ford that have committed to building alternative drivetrains in significant number for the long haul. Companies like Ford understand climate change and the need to reduce our impact on our global environment while not sacrificing our mobility. For EVs to achieve that goal, we need policies like a clean energy standard that aim to decarbonize our electrical grid. I'm sure Ford is also investing in this space because they see a market opportunity.
The private sector has invested billions of dollars in developing, manufacturing, promoting, and distributing EVs in the last decade. From a map on our website, you can see that policymakers across the country are supporting EVs because they want their region to benefit from this burgeoning market.
Policymakers should rely on private capital as much as possible to build out the EV charging infrastructure so we can balance the desire to support alternative vehicles while also tackling our nation's budget deficit. To that end, we should coordinate policy related to EV purchase and home charging nationwide so private players can enter new markets more easily. The most efficient way to "refuel" these vehicles is not yet clear, and we should use policy to help provide the foundation to let the market work.
Another element that is critical to the success of these vehicles is its most expensive component – the battery. Not only do we need aggressive R&D to develop batteries with much higher energy density, we also need to figure out what to do with these batteries at the vehicle's end-of-life. About 80 percent of the battery's capacity is still usable at this point, resulting in the largest untapped resource in this space today.
If we achieve the right mix of policy, technological progress, and consumer acceptance, there's little reason to doubt that alternative vehicles will have a significant impact on the car market in this decade. It appears that it will be tough to kill the electric car this time.
Eileen Claussen is President
Pew Center Announces Partnership with EPA on New National Climate Awards Program
Press Release
May 17, 2011
Pew Center Contact: Tom Steinfeldt, 703-516-4146
The Climate Registry Contact: Alex Carr, 778-340-8837
Association of Climate Change Officers Contact: Daniel Kreeger, 202-496-7390
The Climate Registry, Pew Center on Global Climate Change and the Association of Climate Change Officers Announce Partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to Jointly Administer New National Climate Awards Program
Washington, DC – Today The Climate Registry (The Registry), the Pew Center on Global Climate Change (Pew Center) and the Association of Climate Change Officers (ACCO) announced that they will jointly sponsor a new national awards program with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to recognize exemplary corporate, organizational and individual leadership in response to climate change.
By showcasing voluntary action on climate and energy under a unified banner, EPA, The Registry, Pew Center and ACCO are sending a strong signal that innovative and sustained leadership in greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) management will be recognized in the United States.
"The co-sponsorship of this new recognition opportunity reflects EPA's commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) and recognizing leadership on climate change," said EPA Assistant Administrator Gina McCarthy. "We are pleased to be partnering with three non-profit organizations that have demonstrated expertise in GHG emissions management."
An event to honor award recipients will be held in early 2012. Specific award categories will include:
- Sustained Excellence in Public Reporting –Recognizing companies that continually raise the bar in the area of public disclosure of GHG emissions data. This would include regular public reporting and verification of corporate GHG inventories, GHG goal setting and achievement of GHG emissions reductions.
- Supply Chain Leadership –Recognizing companies that have their own comprehensive GHG inventories and emissions reduction goals and can demonstrate that they are at the leading edge of managing carbon in their supply chain.
- Organizational Leadership –Recognizing companies that have "mainstreamed" climate change across their operations and can demonstrate that they factor climate change into their business decisions.
- Individual Leadership –Recognizing individuals exemplifying extraordinary leadership in leading their organizations' response to climate change and/or affecting the responses of other organizations.
These award categories provide a legacy for EPA's Climate Leaders program, which provided support to private sector corporations who voluntarily set and achieved greenhouse gas reduction targets, and ACCO's Climate Leadership Awards, which recognized exemplary leadership by organizations in industry, government, academia and the non-profit community.
"Corporate leadership is essential to advancing climate and energy solutions," said Eileen Claussen, President of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. "In growing numbers, companies and their employees are working tirelessly in pursuit of cost-effective solutions that reduce carbon and benefit consumers. Recognizing these great accomplishments serves to motivate and accelerate efforts throughout the business community toward a cleaner, more efficient energy future."
"The Climate Registry is delighted to partner with EPA, the Pew Center and ACCO on this important program, which will build on the work of Climate Leaders as well as our own carbon management program," said Denise Sheehan, Executive Director of The Climate Registry. "Together we look forward to continuing to provide the tools, resources and recognition that organizations need to take their climate and carbon leadership to the next level."
"Amongst ACCO's primary missions is bringing together climate executives from across sectors to collaborate and establish best practices," said Daniel Kreeger, ACCO's Executive Director. "We look forward to undertaking such a timely and important effort with our partners - The Climate Registry and the Pew Center - who have been on the cutting edge of climate response, and of course EPA, whose Climate Protection Awards inspired ACCO's 2010 Climate Leadership Awards program and whose Climate Leaders program has been so instrumental in driving climate response."
More information is available online at www.epa.gov/climateleaders. Additional information on the award categories and nomination process will be made publicly available in the next few weeks.
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The Climate Registry provides organizations with the tools and resources to help them calculate, verify, report and manage their GHG emissions in a publicly transparent and credible way. The Registry was established in 2007 as a 501 (c)(3) by US states and Canadian provinces and today is governed by a Board of Directors comprised of senior officials from 41 US states, the District of Columbia, 13 Canadian provinces and territories, six Mexican states and four Native Sovereign Nations. The Registry is a membership organization with more than 430 members who use The Registry's services measure and manage their emissions and share best practices with a community of members. For more information see www.theclimateregistry.org.
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The Association of Climate Change Officers is a 501(c)(6) non-profit membership organization for executives and officials worldwide in industry, government, academia and the non-profit community. ACCO's mission is to advance the knowledge and skills of those dedicated to developing and directing climate change strategies in the public and private sectors, and to establish a flexible and robust forum for collaboration between climate change officers. For more information about ACCO, please visit www.ACCOonline.org.
Changing Planet Series
Changing Planet is a three-part series of town hall events intended to encourage student learning and dialogue about climate change by gathering scientists, thought leaders, business people, and university students to discuss the facts of climate science, the dynamics of its impact and to brainstorm solutions. The series is prodiced in partnership between NBC Learn (the educational arm of NBC News), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and Discover magazine.
The first town hall event, Changing Planet: The Impact on Lives and Values, was hosted at Yale University and moderated by NBC News Special Correspondent Tom Brokaw. The discussion explored themes of human health, national security, economic opportunity and competitiveness, moral or religious values, environmental justice, and what climate change means for youth. The panelists were Linda Fisher, Dupont's chief sustainability officer; Rajendra Pachauri, director of the Yale Climate and Energy Institute and a Nobel Prize laureate; Billy Parish, founder and coordinator of the youth-oriented Energy Action Coalition; and Katherine Hayhoe, associate professor in the Department of Geosciences at Texas Tech University and an expert on the intersection between Christian fundamentalism and climate change.
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A second Changing Planet: Clean Energy, Green Jobs and Global Competition town hall was hosted at George Washington University on April 12, and focused on the economic advantages of climate change solutions, including clean energy policies and technologies and creation of market green jobs. Tim Juliani, Director of Corporate Engagement, was a panelist and provided our perspective on the clean energy debate. Other panelists included: Ken Zweibel, a professor at GWU, Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins (head of Green for All), and Chris Busch (director of Policy and Programs at the Apollo Alliance). NBC News reporter Anne Thompson moderated this event.
Read Discover Magazine's story on Building a Green-Collar Economy with a full transcript of the Changing Planet: Clean Energy, Green Jobs and Global Competition town hall.
The third town hall will be held at Arizona State University in the fall of 2011, and its suggested focus will be "Keeping It Fresh: Our Water Future," impacts of how communities are adapting, or preparing to adapt to, changing availability of fresh water..
In addition to the Changing Planet town halls, NBC Learn and NSF worked together to produce a series of 12 online video reports looking at the impact of climate change in various locations around the world. From Bermuda's tropical seas to the Arctic Ocean, each story follows scientists in the field who are studying the dramatic impacts of rising temperatures in the air, in the water, and on land. The series is narrated by Anne Thompson, Chief Environmental Affairs Correspondent for NBC News. Watch the full video series here.
Regulatory Reality vs. Rhetoric
First there was the warning about a construction moratorium – all new major stationary sources would come to an immediate halt because of EPA's new source review requirements for greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). Soon after the alarm went out about the approaching regulatory "train wreck" that would result from a series of EPA rules impacting electric utilities. A large number of power plants would shut down, the reliability of our energy supply would be sacrificed, and consumers would face skyrocketing costs.
There was only one problem with these warnings – they were made before anybody knew what the actual regulations would require. Now that EPA has issued several of these rules, it is useful to revisit these doomsday scenarios and see if the reality of the proposals matches the rhetoric before the fact.
All Energy Sources Entail Risk, Efficiency a No-Brainer
At the moment, our attention is riveted by the events unfolding at a nuclear power plant in Japan. Over the past year or so, major accidents have befallen just about all of our major sources of energy: from the Gulf oil spill, to the natural gas explosion in California, to the accidents in coal mines in Chile and West Virginia, and now to the partial meltdown of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear reactor. We have been reminded that harnessing energy to meet human needs is essential, but that it entails risks. The risks of different energy sources differ in size and kind, but none of them are risk-free.
Rising Oil Prices: It's About More Than What You Pay At The Pump
For many Americans, U.S. oil dependence has become a concern for reasons ranging from climate change and environmental protection to national security and the economic impact of higher gas prices. But there are other important impacts of our oil dependence, including how foreign oil contributes to the U.S. trade deficit and how rising oil prices decrease American jobs – both particularly salient issues on the current U.S. political agenda.
A recent article from Daily Finance shines light on the 2010 trade deficit, more than half of which is from petroleum-related products. In 2010, the U.S. petroleum-related trade deficit was $256.9B, which represents a 29.6 percent jump from the 2009 petroleum trade deficit. This rise is largely due to increased prices, as the consumption of petroleum-related products in the United States grew by only 1.9 percent from 2009 to 2010 while the price per barrel of oil grew 31.1 percent to $74.66. An issue currently receiving a lot of attention in Washington, the $61B worth of cuts to the national budget sought by the U.S. House of Representatives, is equal to only one fourth of the country's 2010 petroleum-related trade deficit.
Numbers that large can be hard to put into perspective, so let's look at how this affects the average American. The graph below shows the U.S. petroleum-related trade deficit per capita (left axis), which is closely related to oil prices (right axis). In 2010 the petroleum-related trade deficit per capita was $832 and has ranged from $600 to $1200 in the past several years. This translates into each American household sending roughly $2,155 out of the U.S. economy in 2010 to pay for oil.
Rising oil prices not only increase the trade deficit, they decrease the number of jobs in America. As energy prices rise, businesses and consumers must spend more on energy and thus have less to spend elsewhere. In his presentation at our recent conference on state and federal roles in climate policy, Mark Doms, Chief Economist at the Department of Commerce, explained that when the price of oil goes up by just $10 per barrel, it translates into a loss of tens of thousands of jobs per month, or up to a quarter of a million U.S. jobs per year. Instead of losing jobs in order to maintain our use of oil, we should focus on creating jobs by investing in domestically produced alternative fuels and vehicles.
In June 2008, oil prices spiked to $145 per barrel, and Americans paid for it at the pump as gas prices reached $4 per gallon. We could be headed into a similar situation, as oil prices rose above $105 per barrel earlier this month and are expected to continue to rise in 2011 and 2012. Because we rely on oil, a resource that is concentrated in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries or OPEC, we face oil prices that are much higher than a competitive market would yield. This makes U.S. gasoline susceptible to price shocks, and American consumers pay more at the pump than they would in a competitive market.
Here we have highlighted two other important reasons why Americans should care about rising oil prices: they increase the U.S. trade deficit and can decrease domestic jobs. As oil prices continue to rise, these negative economic trends will also worsen. In order to mitigate the impacts of rising oil prices, we need to work towards a clean energy economy and promote the use of domestic alternative fuels and energy efficiency. This would decrease our oil dependence, making the United States less susceptible to rising oil prices while also creating more jobs here at home.
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BETTENDORF, Iowa -- The economic downturn has a silver lining for manufacturers whose sales haven't plummeted: a flood of highly qualified candidates even for tough-to-fill jobs like electricians and mechanics.
In December, Schebler Co., a metal fabricator specializing in industrial chimneys with 165 employees in this Mississippi River manufacturing hub, placed an ad for welders and other jobs. With the economic slowdown just settling in, Chief Executive Jim Anderson said he got 11 applicants, many with little experience.
In March, he placed another ad and netted 154 applicants, many with more than 10 years of experience. "The volume was up," Mr. Anderson said, "but the quality really ratcheted up."
He has hired six welders in recent months as business at the $30 million-a-year company has held fairly steady, including a recent order for a chimney at the new Yankee Stadium in New York. Now Mr. Anderson worries what will happen when large area manufacturers such as Deere & Co. and Alcoa Inc. start hiring again.
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Manufacturers have been complaining for more than a decade about how the aging of the worker population and young people's aversion to the factory floor have created a lack of skilled workers, especially welders, machinists and mechanics. In a study by Manpower Inc. released Thursday, employers said skilled/manual trades are the third-hardest jobs to fill after engineers and nurses.
Still, with steep slowdowns in areas such as auto making, mining and construction, manufacturers that supply those industries have been laying off workers in droves, shedding about 1.2 million jobs from September to April, according to the U.S. Labor Department. That is freeing up workers for manufacturers in areas that are still faring decently, such as food production, specialty metal work and other sectors.
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In Baltimore, Marlin Steel Wire Products, a maker of wire baskets for industrial applications, expects revenue of $4.5 million this year, up from a record $3.5 million last year, said President Drew Greenblatt. The company has been steadily adding workers, bringing the payroll to 27 from 17 at the start of 2008.
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At Phoenix Closures Inc., a maker of plastic tops for food containers in Naperville, Ill., sales are down only about 1% so far this year, said President Bert Miller. The company has hired about six people since November and has been pleased with the choices available, he said.
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Commitment to Quality
"Strong-Hold's products are the strongest storage solutions in the marketplace and the quality is second to none. When compared to the lesser quality light gauge cabinets they seem like army tanks versus Mini Coopers."
In 1993, we set out to design the ultimate industrial storage product. Our vision was to manufacture a product capable of withstanding the treatment common to an industrial environment. Included in this vision was the need to securely store heavy tools and valuables. Strong Hold Products is the realization of this vision. Our storage cabinets, lockers, shop desks, and related products are the strongest, most secure in the marketplace. Our products can be found in manufacturing, warehousing, pharmaceutical, financial, and educational facilities throughout the U.S. Our determination doesn't stop here. We continue to meet the ever changing needs of the most important people we know, our customers!
Strong Hold Products is committed to achieving total customer satisfaction. Implementing and maintaining an efficient, effective quality management system can aide us in achieving this goal. This can be accomplished through the continuous improvement of our manufacturing process, ongoing training of our employees and dedication to understanding our customers' needs.
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Flow of PR to Sub Pages
Some internal pages sometimes get PR0 as compared to home page of 4. It may happen due to the internal linking issue as well as the contents are not good quality.....
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Content does not determine the Page rank nor the internlinking structure. Links to the internal page define the pagerank of that page
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Shabbir is correct. PR passes from a page to ALL followed outbound links regardless of whether they are links to internal pages on the same site or links to external pages on other sites.. content has nothing to do with it
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This is interesting. So just to clarify, would you still call this an internal linking issue?
For ecommerce I would imagine most sites to have mostly back links to their top level domain and not to individual products or pages. So the internal page PR would be mostly dependent on internal linking and domain equity. Am I right? Or am I missing something? (I'm a bit new to this stuff.)
I run my own ecommerce site and am interested in in SEO, but don't think it is practical to build tons of deep links. So I rely on internal linking (not very well optimized now, but I'm learning). Is this a realistic understanding of my own SEO?
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i think you should do link building of your internal pages to increase pr.
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If your internal page has less backlink compare to your home page then internal page will have less PR compare to home page.Mostly websites have more page-rank of home page because keyword of website will target home page of that site.
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Well, the thread seems about to die, so I thought I'd do a tally.
As of this writing there are 417 views, from which only 17 people answered the question. I find this amazing in itself. . .so much lurking, so little posting. And I think the view count is unduplicated, but Mike or somebody will tell me for sure.
Of the 17, only six are "cruise only," and the rest indicate some sort of mix.
If there's a theme, it is that rock-bottom price seems to be the determining factor in many cases.
I didn't give my view at the beginning, but we're clearly in the "mix it up" category. Probably fewer than half of our pleasure trips are on ships, even though we enjoy them very much. We're close to Mike's mindset. . .go lots of places and get to know lots of people and hopefully a little about what makes them tick.
Anyway, certainly not enough data here to conclude much of anything. Really a shame that so many people won't post simple answers to simple questions
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We got here and now all our stuff....
Learn from this, NEVER let the packers pack anything of value to you, take it with you. Put everything you don't want then to take in your car next time. I take all my pictures with me, I just take them out of the frames and put them in a picture box.
Things will work out, you'll get your stuff soon!
the only bump we hit was when they sent our stuff to cuba from Wa going to NC and they lost it, thankfully they found it the next day and called, but i cried bad that whole day lol.
That happened to us. Husband got called to the range when our stuff was supposed to be delivered and it was another week before it came. It'll work out, mama.
Go to ACS, they can help with the coffee maker and the dishes until your items are delivered.
Quoting Wintersdawn:
They have a lending closet on post you can get stuff from. Like microwave coffee maker dishes baby stuff. Call acs
We had to wait 2 weeks after we signed for housing to get our stuff (3 weeks after pack up) It sucked. We borrowed some stuff from ACS but when we realized our stuff was going to be delayed, decided to use up all of our TLE. Lucklily our stuff came the day before TLE ran out. It ended up coming 5 days earlier than what was predicted, thankfully.


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The following two BioTech companies are setting all their hopes on their respective obesity drugs and offering investors above-average upside once certain catalysts are triggered. The pharmaceutical companies are not without risk, as future capital gains depend on critical milestone events that could make the stocks multi-baggers or top losers if those catalysts fail.
Hence, stop loss limits are essential. Investors should be aware that the following stocks, despite significant market capitalizations, can exhibit high volatility as the example of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (AMLN) had shown, which failed to reach such milestone (FDA approval). Investors who think about an investment in more diversified obesity plays should consider heavyweights such as Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) or Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT), which I have also rated as a BUY (though with significantly less upside potential).
Vivus, Inc. (NASDAQ:VVUS) is a pharmaceutical company that specializes in the treatment of obesity, diabetes, sleep apnea and male sexual health. Currently, all hopes are set on Vivus' lead product "Qnexa," a drug aimed at addressing the obesity problem in the United States. The drug awaits final approval from the FDA on July 17, 2012, and if approved, is going to hit the most attractive drug market—the United States—this year.
The U.S. center for disease control and prevention suggests that more than one third of U.S. adults are obese, with the problem intensifying going forward as Americans continue to eat unhealthy and are reluctant to engage in sufficient sport activities. Obesity has been named as America's number one health threat.
Even though Vivus also has other products in its portfolio, Qnexa is going to be the most important in the company's history. In this regard, I expect the stock to react massively in response to the FDA decision.
The stock currently quotes at $27.16 close to its 52-week high 29.99, clearly showing the market's overall excitement about the upcoming FDA ruling. Investors who are optimistic about a positive ruling, should think about initiating a position with a stop loss at $25. The current market metrics are: 69x forward earnings and 8x book, which are quite meaningless for a pharmaceutical company that is in the process of completing Phase III clinical trials.
Another pharmaceutical company operating in the obesity field is Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARNA). The company has a market capitalization of $2.2 billion. Arena has just recently received FDA approval to market its main obesity product "Belviq," which the markets welcomed with excitement: The stock is up 500% year to date.
The stock currently trades at $11.18, which is close to its 52-week high of $13.50. I attribute the increase in price from $4 to $11 to the FDA's decision to allow Belviq to be marketed. In addition, the market reacted with relief to the recent approval, as a previous submission for FDA approval had been rejected. The massive increase in price and market capitalization shows the excitement investors exhibit once FDA approval is secured.
I suggest that a positive FDA decision for Vivus' Qnexa will be spilling over to Arena and send the stock even higher as optimism regarding future sales increases. It is up to the savvy investor to sell into a market of strength and secure his gains. Going forward, I predict the volatility of the stock to increase in the short- and medium-term. Investors, who consider an investment should only enter into Arena with a tight stop loss limit at $10 where the short-term upward trend canal would be broken and set off a bearish signal.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours.


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The 2016 Induction Ceremony will be held on October 5, 2016 @ 8PM:
Royal Canadian Legion
410 St. Vincent St.
Barrie, ON
2015 Induction Ceremony
Congratulations to the 2015 Inductees into the Barrie Sports Hall of Fame:
Emily Belchos – Athlete
Shane Pearsall – Athlete/Builder
Bill Stewart – Athlete/Builder
Winner of the John Crawley Lifetime Achievement Award for 2015:
Mac MacDonald
Winner of the Barrie Amateur Athlete of the Year, 2014
Taylor Cartwright
Winner of the Barrie Coach/Official of the Year, 2014
Angus Roy
The Jean McCann Unsung Hero Award 2014 winner:
Carl Davidson
2015 Addition to the Honour Roll of Outstanding Teams:
1965/66 Barrie Knights All Ontario OMHA Pee Wee A Champions
The Barrie Sports Hall of Fame Society grew from small beginnings as a self-appointed "steering committee" in the summer of 1984. It has grown into a volunteer organization which helps to perpetuate the names and deeds not only of Barrie's great athletes, but also of those selfless individuals who have worked to create an environment in which such athletes could and can excel.
The diligent work of the steering committee culminated in the Society's charter meeting on January 30, 1985 at which time the society's constitution was adopted. The Barrie Sports Hall of Fame Society became an official entity.
The City of Barrie graciously consented to allow the Allandale Recreation Centre to become the home of the Barrie Sports Hall of Fame. It is here that portraits celebrating the great men and women from Barrie's sporting history, both past and present, have been displayed for over twenty years.
The Society promotes recognition of and interest in the history of sports in Barrie. It has undertaken occasional research projects and displays dealing with local sports history. These displays are also featured from time to time at the Allandale Recreation Centre.
The Barrie Sports Hall of Fame is honoured to have been chosen custodian of the Greg Johnston/Shane Corson Trophy. This trophy, donated by a group of Barrie citizens, is presented each year to Barrie's outstanding amateur athlete, based on criteria established by the society. The trophy is intended as a permanent form of recognition of the two fine hockey players for whom it is named. Greg and Shayne, drafted respectively by the Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens, were key figures on Canada's 1985 World Junior Hockey champions.


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The average Canadian is living well into their 80s and this 'longevity risk' results in many people underestimating how much money is required for a retirement that may last 20 or even 30 years.
As investors age, household income and investable asset amounts increase and a change in investment strategy occurs (albeit a gradual change). It is not surprising to see that they move from a strategy that focuses on accumulating their savings to one that focuses on protecting their retirement funding and income stream.
Learn how to stay on track to achieve the retirement lifestyle you're hoping for and decrease the risk of outliving your savings.


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Essays Archives - Page 28 of 95 - The Millions
June 23, 2014
A Prologue to the Literary History of the First World War: War Poets at the Ballet 3
by Josh Levithan
Did Marsh, Thornycroft, Sitwell, Sassoon, and the Thomases all come together for an evening at the ballet—and am I the first to notice?
June 19, 2014
Only Spinning Forward: On the Commercial Viability of LGBTQ Literature 10
by Alex Kalamaroff
Gay is the new vampire. Everywhere in YA fiction, boys are kissing boys, girls are sidling up against the captains of their swim teams, and queer kids are getting cute. Yet there's a tremendous disconnect between what's happening in the YA marketplace and what's going on with adult fiction.
June 18, 2014
A Piano Quartet 0
by Matt Seidel
While the following three piano-themed books — Alan Rusbridger's Play it Again, Thomas Bernhard's The Loser, and Murray Bail's extraordinary The Voyage — are all inexplicably devoid of sniper rifles, they do present slightly more nuanced takes on perfection and its discontents.
June 17, 2014
Home as a Verb: Writers on Choosing to Live Overseas 7
by Brittani Sonnenberg
Growing up all over the place makes you skilled at adapting, but it also makes you hungry to belong, something that in part motivates my writing: carving out a space I know, trying to understand what I'm witnessing around me.
June 13, 2014
Mad Men: It's All About Family Values 4
by Sonya Chung
If Mad Men is itself a kind of advertisement — a reflection and dramatization of our deepest desires, the ones we didn't know we had — then its message is both timeless and markedly modern: family is everything; we are hungry for family; your "real" family are, simply, the people who actually know you.
June 12, 2014
Sad, Strange Brilliance: On Tove Jansson and Moomin 4
by Alix Ohlin
In Moomin, I didn't stumble upon a strange new universe; I found an atmosphere that matched the strangeness I already felt inside.
June 11, 2014
The Art of the Epigraph 9
by Jonathan Russell Clark
I didn't have a great need to write that story, but the quote would have fit it so perfectly I actually have an unfinished draft somewhere in my discarded Word documents.
May 30, 2014
The Transformation and Legacy of Soho Press 0
by Jonathan Reiss
For Bronwen, joining Soho has become a way to keep her mother closer than she ever thought she could. A book will come up that she remembers her mother reading or acquiring. She'll stumble across books or a note with her mother's handwriting. She's surrounded by hundreds of thousands of pages of her mother's work and passion.
May 28, 2014
Book Clubs Mean Business 11
by Nichole Bernier
Jenna Blum, whose debut novel became a New York Times bestseller four years after its release, visited with as many as three book clubs a day (an estimated of 800 total), and calls her book a "poster child" for the influence of book clubs on a book's success.
May 23, 2014
The Survivor: On Magneto, Mutants, and the Holocaust 14
by Paul Morton
You can read Magneto as the nightmare of every post-1945 Jewish humanist. He is the Jew who lost the soulful liberalism of the Yiddishkeit, and who has allowed the Holocaust to turn him into everything he despises. He is the Jew who will bomb Gaza and say, with some credibility, that it is for defense while privately acknowledging a pleasure in revenge. He is the Jew who has allowed the Holocaust to instill in him a debilitating paranoia.


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Sadly, in today's partisan political atmosphere where talking points and outdated political party ideals trump what's actually good for our nation; the rational idea of marijuana legalization has been deemed outrageous.
The truth is that if you believe alcohol or even coffee is rightfully legal, then there is no reason that Marijuana should not be. It makes little sense that (substances that lead to far more deaths) alcohol & nicotine are legal while marijuana remains banned, but that is not the most important reason to legalize the herb. Our economy is in one of the worst states that it has ever been in and legalizing marijuana would help immensely.
Currently, profits from the marijuana industry amount to BILLIONS annually, these BILLIONS are funneled through countless international cartels, gangs, & often terrorists. The United States has responded to this by spending OVER A TRILLION bucks during the war on drugs to police and "enforce" laws against this. Despite all this money lost & spent marijuana can still be delivered to someone's home faster than pizza pie in the average American city or town.
since 2008 have been one of the hardest hit demographics economically.
Currently we deprive American farmers from being able to legally
cultivate and sell marijuana. Marijuana could be one of the easiest
crops available for American farmers but instead we allow violent
criminals to profit off this cheap, profitable weed.
Currently Our goal is to bring national attention to the undeniable truths about ending the prohibition. Using the powers of the Internet(specifically social media)& you, the supportive public, we can show the rest of the country why marijuana should be legalized. Even if for no other reason than it simply makes fiscal and medical sense. If you don't believe marijuana should be legal or are on the fence, we challenge/welcome you to read through the site with an open mind. If you already support the idea that marijuana should be legalized, we need you to show your support by liking us on facebook & Fallowing us on twitter. National attention to this issue on a large scale can only be achieved in numbers. SHOW YOUR SUPPORT


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Cloud Expo Europe Announces Keynote Speaker: Joan Miller, Director of Parliamentary ICT
Cloud Expo Europe announces that Joan Miller, Director of Parliamentary ICT, was selected to keynote at the event.
Miller's keynote, A Clouded Future, will address how Parliament is investigating the options and criteria to be used to help decide which version of the Cloud the Parliament will select and support.
Cloud Expo Europe will take place at the Barbican Exhibition Hall 1 in London, England, February 2-3, 2011.
Additional keynote speakers include Matt Wood of Amazon Web Services, Travis Spencer of Ping Identity, Ditlev Bredahl and Carlos Rego of OnApp, Remko Dobber of Nimsoft, Michael Meeks of Novell and Doug Tidwell of IBM. The cloud topics that will be presented fall into one of three tracks — Business, Solutions, and Security & Storage.
The full speaker lineup, conference details, directions, registration and more can be found on the Cloud Expo Europe website.
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Nextcloud Announces Raspberry Pi-Powered Home Cloud Box
Innovative system adds a hard drive and Ubuntu Core to the RPi for an IoT hub.
Linus Torvalds Confirms the Date of the First Linux Release
Linux is two weeks younger than we thought!
End of OpenOffice?
The Apache Software Foundation considers retiring OpenOffice
Adobe Gives New Life to NPAPI Plugin for Linux
Adobe won't kill the plugin in 2017
LinuxCon North America Convenes in Toronto, Canada
Linux Foundation's big event celebrates the 25th anniversary of Linux
Linux Turns 25
Linux has evolved from "won't be a professional" project to one of the most professional software projects in the history of computers.
Mirantis Joins Hands with SUSE To Offer RHEL Support; Red Hat Not Happy
Competitors get in the game with RHEL without Red Hat
Linux on Windows 10 Poses a Security Risk
Security researchers have already notified Microsoft; some fixes are available
Mirantis to Refactor OpenStack Fuel for Kubernetes
The company is collaborating with Google and Intel to use Kubernetes as an engine for Fuel
Canonical Joins Document Foundation Advisory Board
The upcoming release of LibreOffice will be available as a snap package