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Dec 1, 2009, 10:31 pm
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Europeans could help cut climate warming emissions to much safer levels for just 2 euros ($3) each per day, but they would also have to cut back on driving and meat eating, ... Comment - Like
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Dec 1, 2009, 2:39 pm
Have a look at this TEDx Toronto clip.
The clip is about a green hotel in Toronto and explains how we can lower global carbon emissions by a third, make money doing it and fix the economic mess. The ... Comment - Like
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Dec 1, 2009, 1:47 pm
Twelve years ago in Kyoto, the world was poised to act on a climate treaty but looked for a clear signal from the United States. Now, with the Copenhagen talks set to begin, the outcome once again hin... Comment - Like
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Dec 1, 2009, 6:05 am
We are living in a world where high consumption has been relentlessly praised, suggesting that we should buy, consume and dispose more stuff than our grandparents used to do. With some nations consumi... Comment - Like
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Nov 30, 2009, 11:36 am
An Irish university has launched the world’s largest hydro-electric wave energy converter off the coast of northern Scotland.
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Nov 30, 2009, 11:01 am
Denmark, host of the upcoming climate summit, is proposing that global greenhouse gas emissions be cut by 50 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, with emissions peaking by 2020, according to Reuters.
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Nov 30, 2009, 10:48 am
Dow Chemical Company, a worldwide leader in the global chemical industry, and sponsor of the 2010 Dow Live Earth Run for Water, has entered into agreements with the new Saudi Arabian King Abdullah Uni... Comment - Like
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Nov 29, 2009, 10:00 am
With the United States of America’s ever-mounting trade and budget deficits, unemployment above 10 percent (and, dependent on counting, un- and under-employment above 20 percent), looming peak o... Comment - Like
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Nov 28, 2009, 7:19 am
The upcoming climate negotiations in Copenhagen have highlighted an interesting dilemma. Nations worldwide are trying to shirk their responsibilities around emissions and their economies.
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Nov 27, 2009, 6:06 pm
If you feel like having a laugh, check out the latest Juice Media clip. In the lead-up to COP15 they have orchestrated a ‘rap battle’ between Al Gore and Lord Monckton, which makes for hum... Comment - Like
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Nov 27, 2009, 5:33 pm
As the keynote speaker at the Singapore Energy Lecture, Dr. Daniel Yergin was toeing his usual line of optimism on the subject of oil and energy. As the Founder and Chairman of Cambridge Energy ... Comment - Like
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Nov 27, 2009, 3:47 pm
Obama administration officials say they will offer provisional CO2 emissions reductions goals at the upcoming Copenhagen climate conference, although the targets are likely to be far more modest than ... Comment - Like
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Nov 26, 2009, 3:12 pm
Al Gore hasn’t been resting on his laurels since An Inconvenient Truth. His substantial new book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis has grown out of the more than 30 lengthy and inten... Comment - Like
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Nov 26, 2009, 6:00 am
ShareClimate change not only presents difficult challenges for the energy industry, but also raises serious concerns about food security as loss of topsoil and desertification reduce arable land aroun... Comment - Like
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Nov 25, 2009, 11:26 am
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the award of $3.3 million in grants for four U.S.-Israel cooperative clean energy projects. The projects were selected by the BIRD Foundation and w... Comment - Like
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Nov 25, 2009, 6:05 am
It’s that time of year again … no, not when turduckens appear on dinner tables nationwide and it becomes somehow acceptable to call the marshmallow a vegetable. It’s time for the 2009 editio... Comment - Like
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Nov 24, 2009, 11:46 am
U.S. researchers have demonstrated a technology that uses the sun’s heat to convert carbon dioxide and water into the building blocks of traditional fuels, a reverse combustion process that may emer... Comment - Like
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Nov 23, 2009, 11:33 am
It all sounds very grandiose and really too good to be true, but a number of Persian Gulf states, including Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Bahrain and Qatar are hoping to be able to satisfy a good portion of the... Comment - Like
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Nov 23, 2009, 6:00 am
A U.S. company has come up with a new way of producing biofuels from cellulosic feedstocks, such as agricultural waste: Using enzymes from the guts of termites to more efficiently produce ethanol.
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Nov 22, 2009, 8:53 am
Pennsylvania residents whose streams and fields have been damaged by toxic spills and whose drinking water has allegedly been contaminated by drilling for natural gas are suing the Houston-based energ... Comment - Like
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Nov 22, 2009, 6:00 am
I recently wrote a story on the growing popularity of so-called smart appliances that link into utility’s smart grid programs, allowing consumers to manage and cut down on their own power us... Comment - Like
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Nov 21, 2009, 7:39 am
Even small amounts of oil leave a fluorescent sheen on polluted water. This oil sheen is difficult to remove—until now. According to a recently published article in the journal Chemosphere, an inex... Comment - Like
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Nov 21, 2009, 6:00 am
“It is all too possible that we will fail to achieve sustainability, and that the blind watchmaker will once again…reset the balance of a severely diminished living Earth.”
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Nov 20, 2009, 9:05 am
Don’t expect climate change to get fixed by the governments of the world. Don’t expect that, however noble in intention, the efforts of Gore, McKibben, Stern, and their many cohorts will succeed... Comment - Like
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Nov 20, 2009, 6:05 am
A study of the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the world’s oceans from 1765 to the present shows that as humanity pumps more CO2 into the atmosphere, the capacity of the world’s oceans to contin... Comment - Like
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Nov 19, 2009, 8:05 pm
I like to ride my bike and take public transportation when I can. But I still rely on the car to move me around a few days every week. That said, developments in cars and personal transportation are t... Comment - Like
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Nov 19, 2009, 7:22 pm
Major corporations in the U.S. have shown an increased willingness to voluntarily reduce their impact on climate change despite a sluggish economy, according to a new scorecard produced by the nonprof... Comment - Like
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Nov 19, 2009, 6:09 am
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If Internet companies and some utilities have their way, the smart grid will rely on the existing infrastructure of the information superhighway in order to function. They argue that by relying ... Comment - Like
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Nov 18, 2009, 4:28 pm
A recent event sponsored by the British High Commission on climate change and low-carbon business drew out into the open a serious issue. As many are aware, should the temperature rise as much as 4 de... Comment - Like
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Nov 18, 2009, 11:46 am
Just as your mileage varies by where and how you drive, so might the performance of the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid’s batteries.
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Nov 17, 2009, 5:35 pm
“This is a story of betrayal, a story of selfishness, greed, and irresponsibility on an epic scale.” That’s how James Hoggan opens his newly published book Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny ... Comment - Like
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Nov 17, 2009, 12:03 pm
U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao have announced the creation of a joint program to develop clean energy, including the creation of a $150 million clean energy research cente... Comment - Like
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Nov 17, 2009, 11:19 am
In an effort to reduce automobile usage and greenhouse gas emissions, the Dutch cabinet has approved a driving tax that would charge motorists seven cents a mile.
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Nov 16, 2009, 12:26 pm
GE just invested in them. Now, Guy Sella, founder and CEO of Israeli company SolarEdge, is planning a revolution. Don’t be alarmed though, this one isn’t dangerous. His goal is to transform the wa... Comment - Like
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Nov 16, 2009, 12:02 pm
Ormat Technologies, Inc. announced this week that it has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with NV Energy, Inc. for the purchase 30 megawatts (MW) from the McGinness Hills Geothermal pr... Comment - Like
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Nov 16, 2009, 6:11 am
The first stop on the international showcase of high speed rail that I am writing for CleanTechies, will be in Germany. As much as I try to avoid writing in first-person narrative, this topic is quite... Comment - Like
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Nov 15, 2009, 6:05 am
For years now, many members of Congress have insisted that cutting carbon emissions was difficult, if not impossible. It is not. During the two years since 2007, carbon emissions have dropped 9 percen... Comment - Like
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Nov 14, 2009, 9:00 am
Long a ubiquitous part of modern life, plastics are now in everything from diapers to water bottles to cell phones. But given the proven health threats of some plastics — as well as the enormous env... Comment - Like
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Nov 14, 2009, 6:00 am
The Obama administration, faced with the failure of Congress to pass climate legislation before global talks in Copenhagen next month, may endorse a more limited interim agreement and defer stronger U... Comment - Like
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Nov 13, 2009, 11:23 am
The University of Bristol in the UK has published a study based not on climate modeling, but on statistical analysis of data including historical data from Antarctic ice cores.
The study shows that ... Comment - Like
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Nov 13, 2009, 6:05 am
As debate heats up around the proposals for clean energy legislation in Congress, one of the main points of contention is the amount of money it will cost. More specifically, everyone wants to know ... Comment - Like
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Nov 12, 2009, 1:10 pm
A group of Colombian farmers has filed a lawsuit against the oil company BP, claiming that construction of a 450-mile pipeline in the mid-1990s has caused landslides, permanently damaging soil and cro... Comment - Like
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Nov 12, 2009, 6:00 am
In spite of leaps and bounds in technology, investment capital, political support and public will over the past decade – much less the past year – there is one element of a revolution that... Comment - Like
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Nov 11, 2009, 12:59 pm
The solar power boom in Germany, Spain, and parts of the United States has been fueled by government subsidies. But now some U.S. states — led by New Jersey, of all places — are pioneering a diffe... Comment - Like
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Nov 11, 2009, 11:31 am
Five years ago the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency assured the nation that the technology credited with opening vast new natural gas supplies was safe. Now Congress has ordered the agency to take... Comment - Like
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Nov 11, 2009, 6:09 am
On November 16-17, 2009 in Beijing, China — one of the pioneering countries of clean technology – the U.S.-China Green Tech Summit will share innovative solutions to deploying renewable ... Comment - Like
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Nov 10, 2009, 11:11 am
The British government has approved 10 new sites for nuclear power stations in England and Wales, calling nuclear power a “proven and reliable” energy source that will help the UK reduce its carbo... Comment - Like
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Nov 10, 2009, 6:00 am
Earlier in the week, Jonathan Axelrad, Co-Chair of this past weekend’s Jewish Response to the Energy Challenge (J-REC) conference held in San Francisco and broadcasted through out the United St... Comment - Like
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Nov 9, 2009, 11:32 am
Al Gore, who barely lost (or won) the US Presidential election in November 2000, and vowed never to return to US political life, appears to have come out a winner for not doing so. The former Vice Pre... Comment - Like
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Nov 9, 2009, 11:15 am
A UK-based renewable energy company has received a $61 million grant from the Australian government to build the world’s first utility-scale wave power project.
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