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US greenhouse gas emissions fell 2.9 per cent in 2008
Washington – US greenhouse gas emissions fell 2.9 per cent in 2008 amid a recession and record high petrol prices, according to a preliminary estimate Tuesday from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Lower demand for electricity and petrol …
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Taiwan’s Delta group plans solar cell plant
Taiwan’s Delta Electronics is to spend 290 million US dollars on a new solar cell plant as the island moves to increase its use of renewable energy, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Read more on AFP via Yahoo! Philippines News
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Wanted: an eco prophet
People are drifting into a lethal slumber on climate change. More of the same won’t wake them up It’s an exceptionally inconvenient truth. Only one American in three believes that human beings are responsible for climate change : a polling result 10% down on where opinion rested the year before. Worse, the [...]
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“Algae Will Be Local“: OriginOil CEO to Speak at Algae World Summit in San Diego
LOS ANGELES—-OriginOil, Inc. , the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum, has announced that the company’s president and CEO, Riggs Eckelberry, will join a distinguished panel [...]
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A Generation in the ‘Green‘ Zone
Young designers with a conscience and a concern about the wider world is beginning to shape 21st century style.
Read more on New York Times
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Jennifer Schneider: Anchorage, Pt. 1
One of the sad, comforting things about traveling to major U.S. cities is that they feel a whole lot like one another. Not so true for Alaska.
Read more on The Huffington Post
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Today on New Scientist: 8 March 2010
All today’s stories from newscientist.com at a glance, including: the future of interrogation, solving the mystery of the high-carbon ice age, and why a planet is like a toaster
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Earth Hour 2010 In Electronic Pictures: South Africa Attacks Gaia
Earth Hour looms. The darkness encroaches. Blake were at a photocall to promote WWF’s Earth Hour in Trafalgar Square, London. Blake is not an acronym nor Dyslexics for Darkness. Blake are a pop group…
Read more on Anorak
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Parent Calls For Rally To Save Teachers
By now you have read the scary headlines in the newspapers about the potential teacher layoffs in Long Beach and the elimination of class-size reduction (reduced numbers of students per teacher) in kindergarten through third grades.
Read more on Downtown Gazette
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Streak of 94 days with temperatures below 40 degrees ends
It’s not spring yet, but it probably felt a lot closer this weekend. We finally reached an official high of 40 degrees in Cedar Rapids on Saturday. And the cold stretch to the last 40 degree reading before that almost set a record. The National Weather [...]
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