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The share of people living in extreme poverty-on less than $1.25 a day-is expected to fall slightly this year, declining from 21.3 percent in 2008 to 20.7 in 2009, according to the latest Vital Signs Update. Despite these gains, the economic crisis is slowing recent progress in reducing the number of people around the world living in extreme poverty.

According to the latest Vital Signs poverty update:

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The United States, Canada, and Mexico
issued a joint proposal last week to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
in the short term by phasing out a chemical previously favored in
efforts to heal the ozone layer. 

When world leaders reached an agreement
in 1987 to shrink the ozone hole growing in the atmosphere above
Antarctica, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) were chosen as a cost-effective
replacement for chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other ozone-depleting
substances found in refrigerators, foams, and flame retardants.

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Ole Skram, like some half a million other Copenhageners,rides his bicycle to work. Yet his commute is particularly unique: recently, Skramequipped his three-wheeled bicycle with an espresso machine. 

The simplicity of cycling through Denmark's capital city hasled several entrepreneurs to begin food delivery businesses on their bicycles.Sushi, ice cream, even cocktails can be ordered from a cyclist.

"It's like brushing your teeth and combing your hair; it'sthat easy to bike in Copenhagen," said Lasse Lindholm, a campaign officer withthe Department of Traffic's cycleprogram.

<!--paging_filter-->Wind power alone could provide
electricity for all of China if the country overhauls its rural grids
and raises the subsidy for wind energy, a new study finds. 

China has rapidly become a global
leader in wind energy and now ranks
fourth in the world in installed capacity. But
coal-fired power plants continue to supply most of the country's
rising electricity needs - a development path that scientists predict
will lead to dangerous levels of climate change.

New models of China's wind resources
suggest that coal is not the only cost-effective energy option for
the country. The winds blowing in China are powerful enough to
generate low-carbon electricity that eliminates "much, if not all"
of the power sector's future greenhouse gas emissions, according to
researchers from Harvard University and Beijing's Tsinghua
University.

Nice article from Tricycle's archives.

The Dharma of Deconstruction

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On Language: Understanding the wisdom of the great Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna with the help of three pivotal Western thinkers

By David Loy

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THE FUNDAMENTAL INSIGHT of what is known as the "linguistic turn" in twentieth-century Western thought is that language shapes our experience. Some of the most influential modern thinkers challenge our usual assumption that using language is merely a matter of attaching names to things that already exist in the world. In a very important sense, language creates the world as we know it.

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