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In features, a more positive story from Rwanda, where "peace" cows allotted to small-scale farmers help community members reconcile ethnic tensions following the brutal civil war. And in analysis, a women's rights group looks at the "unfair" implications of the proposed U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement. 
A new review of coal-fired electricity generation in the United States suggests that pressure from financial groups, state governments, environmental and community organizations, and scientists will soon spur a "de facto moratorium" on coal-driven power plants.
From:
Earth Policy Institute
Image: Coal power plant. © Policy Innovations
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Outraged poor nations bearing the brunt of global warming have become increasingly bold in UN-led climate talks, but some worry that recent meetings of large countries are sidelining their voices.
From: TerraDaily Image: G77 nations not invited
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 3 (OneWorld) - A leading humanitarian group is calling for the United Nations Security Council to take additional measures to help about 1 million Somalis who have been rendered homeless by the ongoing armed conflict in their country.
From:
OneWorld US
Image: Somali family displaced by fighting between the Union of Islamic Courts and the Ethiopian-backed Somali government; January 2007. © Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
The proposed U.S. free trade agreement with Colombia will have a number of negative repercussions for the South American nation, such as worsening rural poverty, fueling armed conflict and drug trafficking, and exacerbating climate change, says Yifat Susskind.
From:
MADRE
There is a deep and dangerous confusion at the heart of the Britain's approach to the threat posed by violent Islam, says Martin Bright.
From New Statesman 
Members of ethnic groups once pitted against each other in Rwanda's brutal civil war are now rebuilding community ties and helping each other fight poverty through an innovative program that gives small-scale farmers "peace" cows.
From:
Heifer International
Image: When Marie Benjamin's cow had a calf, she passed on the gift to another family. © Heifer International
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For eight years Yeumei Shon's local, organic cotton clothing business has been promoting environmental responsibility, agricultural sustainability, and the eradication of dangerous pesticides.
From:
Co-op America
Image: Yeumei in one of her Texas cotton fields. © Co-op America
Sands like those in the Kalahari Desert of Botswana are full of drought resistant bacteria which can fix atmospheric carbon dioxide. These desert soils are contributing significantly to the global carbon dioxide budget but until recently they have been ignored.
From: TerraDaily Image: Water pump in the Kalahari desert © Adrian Arbib
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