Word: kyoto
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...Think of Kyoto and you think of ryokan. But for visitors who want an alternative to the traditional inns, while still retaining a sense of the city's celebrated history, refurbished local machiya hold plenty of promise. Most of these simple wooden merchant homes, dating back to Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912), have been demolished or become dilapidated, but Iori, a conservation company founded by author and Japanologist Alex Kerr, is working to save those that remain. It currently has 10 fully refurbished properties available, ranging from a tiny intimate house sleeping two to a rambling mansion...
...Greater Paris is about the capital playing a role in the European and the world economy [and becoming] a sustainable city for the post-Kyoto era," Sarkozy said in a 60-minute speech launching the project. "What I'm proposing is certainly ambitious and difficult. It's about preparing for the future...
...After the major shortcomings of Kyoto, it would be extremely discouraging for nothing to materialize in Copenhagen. Nothing is more likely to bring such a result than the perception that the United States still cannot muster the political will to begin to seriously address climate change. Republicans and coal-state Democrats appear determined, not unjustifiably, to block domestic legislation until after Copenhagen out of fear that American business will be disadvantaged vis-a-vis foreign competitors. Hopefully, the threat of EPA regulation, and the political pressure for serious legislation that it engenders, will weigh seriously in the international balance leading...
...reducing San Francisco's homeless population by cutting welfare payments in exchange for services, including housing - universal health care, championing a program that has insured nearly 40,000 uninsured San Franciscans, funded in part, by fees paid by employers - the environment, banning plastic bags in the city, endorsing the Kyoto Protocol and luring "green" companies to relocate to San Francisco
...Bonn meetings weren't totally devoid of progress. One of the main questions facing global-climate negotiators is what should be done about tropical deforestation, since the logging and burning of trees is responsible for a fifth or more of global carbon emissions. The current Kyoto Protocol doesn't address the issue, and many - though not all - environmentalists would like to add avoided deforestation to a new global climate deal, allowing rich countries to offset some of their carbon emissions by paying tropical nations to preserve their forests. Although the idea is a controversial one - Greenpeace released a report...