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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Author's note -- Hot stuff, not cool -- What's the weather doing? -- Know your biomes -- The greenhouse effect -- The carbon cycle -- Fossil fuels -- Global warming -- Other greenhouse gases -- Climate denial -- Natural climate changes -- El Niño -- Daisyworld -- Modelling climate -- Ancient climates -- Rising sea levels -- Acid in the sea -- Tipping points -- Another mass extinction? -- Disease in a warming world -- Hot food -- Human disasters -- Resource wars -- Who's responsible? -- Renewable energy -- Reduce, reuse, recycle -- Technological solutions -- Climate engineering -- Is plan B planet B? -- Happy 2050? -- Pros and cons -- Mind map -- Glossary -- Find Out More -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.

Health care costs and the nature of the benefits package are an issue that plagues most jurisdictions. Written in a cooperative effort to reflect the perspectives of the labor and management co-chairs, Peoria's story is an example of the cooperation that has developed in that city. In addition to describing a remarkable city-wide effort to reduce health care costs and maintain an attractive benefit package, the article shows how success on a topic of importance to the parties and the community can sow the seeds of a broader cooperative relationship that improves services, quality of work life and the nature of the labor-management relationship. By agreement, the city and labor unions took the health care plan off the bargaining table, and instead, gave it to a city-wide joint committee, which solved the crisis and manages this difficult issue. Among other advances that mark a change from the past, the positive effects from the dramatic success in health care has contributed to a first-ever, five-year negotiated settlement between the city and the firefighters. Read about how Peoria accomplished this change by bold risk taking and by carefully nurturing the effort.