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Ebola Preparedness

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/nyregion/new-york-city-steps-up-preparations-to-be-ready-for-ebola-cases.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpHeadline&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

New York City Steps Up Preparations to Be Ready for Ebola Cases

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One week after the first diagnosis of Ebola in a patient in the United States, every person who calls 911 in New York City and relates symptoms such as fever or vomiting is now being asked a new question:

Have you been to West Africa in the last three weeks? If so, did you come into contact with someone sick with the virus?

If the caller has traveled to one of the countries where the disease continues to spread, a series of protocols is supposed to kick in, starting with the emergency medical workers’ donning protective gear to limit their risk of infection.

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mass population response, climate change, social movement

http://ecowatch.com/2014/10/02/climate-change-movement-roars/

The Climate Movement Roars

Less than two weeks have passed and yet it isn’t too early to say it: the People’s Climate March changed the social map—many maps, in fact, since hundreds of smaller marches took place in 162 countries. That march in New York City, spectacular as it may have been with its 400,000 participants, joyous as it was, moving as it was (slow-moving, actually, since it filled more than a mile’s worth of wide avenues and countless side streets), was no simple spectacle for a day. It represented the upwelling of something that matters so much more: a genuine global climate movement.

When I first heard the term “climate movement” a year ago, as a latecomer to this developing tale, I suspected the term was extravagant, a product of wishful thinking. I had, after all, seen a few movements in my time (and participated in several). I knew something of what they felt like and looked like—and this, I felt, wasn’t it.

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renewables, energy

http://www.energy.gov.bb/web/energy-smart-fund

Sustainable Energy Investment Programme (Energy SMART Fund)

This project is led by Ms. Keisha Reid.

Summary

The Government of Barbados (GOB) has established a Energy Smart Fund to provide financial and technical support to renewable energy (RE) and energy efficiency (EE) projects in Barbados. To capitalize the fund, the Government has obtained a loan of US$10 million (approximately BDS$20 million) from the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), under an agreement for the Sustainable Energy Investment Program known as the ‘Energy Smart Fund’. It is being implemented in partnership with the Enterprise Growth Fund Limited (EGFL) through the signing of Management and Deed of Trust Agreements for the establishment and management of the Energy Smart Fund.