Ballarat has coldest day of year - Local News - News - General - The Courier

BALLARAT’S chilly autumn weather continued yesterday, with the city’s top temperature the coldest for early May in more than 50 years.

2011 Sustainable Living Survey Fielded by L'Oréal USA Reveals Changes in Attitudes, Behavior and Consumption Are Slow to Come | 3BL Media

If given a choice between two equally performing products, 38% of Americans say that they would choose the more eco-friendly option.
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Americans believe that the three most important environmental issues, in order of importance, are:

Access to clean water and sanitation (64%)
Waste management (52%)
Ocean polluting and overfishing (49%)

Despite the abundance of scientific evidence that has been reviewed by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change among other experts, and reported on by the news media, 39% of Americans still don’t believe there is concrete proof that climate change is occurring.