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‘The Newsroom’ warns of climate disaster

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Aaron Sorkin, the Hollywood ace scriptwriter for movies and television — “The West Wing,” “The Social Network” and the current HBO hit series “The Newsroom” — grew up in a Jewish family in Scarsdale, New York  and graduated from Syracuse University n 1983, Then, like many young actors and writers, he took

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JFS, Jacobs & Cushman Food Bank plan T’giving run

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Jewish Family Service and the Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank are teaming up for the 13th annual Thanksgiving Day Run for the Hungry sponsored by Westfield Horton Plaza, JIMBO’S…Naturally and Skechers Performance Division. The 10K/5K (6.2 mile/3.1 mile) run/walk takes place on Thursday, Nov. 27 at Broadway Circle, in

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Awards given for movies on climate change

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Hollywood director Darren Aronofsky has been awarded a best original screenplay award for his movie Noah by an online,  climate-themed movie awards program I am curating called the Cli Fi Movie Awards, dubbed “The Cliffies.” Aronofsky’s writing partner Ari Handel co-wrote the screenplay and received the award as well. He

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Israel’s President Rivlin focuses on the environment

  By Toby Klein Greenwald JERUSALEM–President Reuven “Ruby” Rivlin has broken many molds already since taking office. He may be the most citizen-friendly president ever to sit in that hallowed position, is truly dedicated to bridging the gaps in Israeli society and is a born and bred Jerusalemite, of the Rivlin family, descendants of the Vilna

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Plants in Med climate zone adapt to climate change

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Climate change predictions for the Middle East, like other arid regions of the world, are alarming. In an area known for its water scarcity, rainfall is expected to decrease even further in the near future, spelling disaster for the functioning of unique ecosystems — hotspots of biodiversity and rich genetic fodder

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A cli fi book for children

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –Take a team of writers in Brooklyn and give them a small yet important assignment: Write an illustrated children’s book about global warming and climate change and what kids can do to help. That’s exactly what an “all-in-the-family” writing team did, using the storytelling traditions they grew up with,

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‘Cli-fi’ class to be taught at University of Oregon

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan —  A native of Massachusetts, Stephen Siperstein is part of  a national wake-up call about climate change studies and he is set to teach a course in the winter semester at the University of Oregon (UO) on the rise of the cli fi literary genre. ”Cli-fi” (novels and movies about

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