Tag: renewable energy
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November 20, 2009 08:59 PM EST --
A global campaign is in progress to get people and organizations to reduce their emissions by ten percent by 2010. What are you able to do to scale back your emission foot-print ? Here are seven tips . . .
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July 12, 2008 09:40 AM EDT --
Here on Gather, and throughout the wider society, we have recently embarked on a spirited debate regarding possible solutions to our current state of oil addiction in a situation of rising prices. On . . .
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August 17, 2008 12:21 PM EDT --
From CNN.com:
LOWVILLE, New York (AP) -- John Yancey leans against his truck in a field outside his home, his face contorted in anger and pain.
John Yancey doesn't like the Maple Ridge . . .
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November 15, 2009 09:22 AM EST --
news item #1:
Singapore (CNN) -- President Obama and leaders from the rest of the world's top economic powers acknowledged Sunday that there's no hope of a major breakthrough over climate . . .
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May 06, 2009 09:15 AM EDT --
By GinaMarie Cheeseman -- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Departments of Agriculture and Energy held a press conference yesterday about the Obama administration’s proposal to increase . . .
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October 29, 2009 02:59 PM EDT --
China announced this past summer a national target of to get 15 percent of its energy capacity from wind, solar and other renewable energy sources by 2020. The country is also expected to release . . .
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March 27, 2009 07:42 AM EDT --
By Laura Bailey -- Kudos to the Obama Administration for making clean, renewable energy production a priority. This brewing revolution has been a long time coming.
Already the Department of the Interior . . .
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July 04, 2009 02:02 PM EDT --
I have learned that it may be possible to get both PV and thermal from the same roof space with a high-efficiency panel that has a companion thermal unit underneath it. PV production is actually . . .
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May 30, 2008 08:59 PM EDT --
That's the question that came to me as I read an article this morning in my local newspaper. Dominion Power here in Virginia is proposing to allow consumers to opt into a program to receive their . . .
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July 18, 2008 07:00 PM EDT --
Al Gore, you remember him, right? Former politician, winner of Nobel Prize, winner of Oscar, eventually convinced everybody that he was serious about NOT running for president in 2008 because climate . . .
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June 28, 2009 08:11 AM EDT --
By Thomas Fuller, San Francisco Policy Examiner
Alan Carlin is the economist and 38 year veteran at the Environmental Protection Agency whose report was stonewalled internally and so was not considered . . .
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August 06, 2007 07:17 PM EDT --
August 6, 2007
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS: The Illinois General Assembly has approved the Rate Relief and Reform Package, which will include a Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) and an Energy Efficiency . . .
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November 28, 2007 11:18 AM EST --
NEW YORK, Nov 26 (OneWorld) - The Bush administration is pushing for plans to reuse spent nuclear fuel in power reactors across the United States, but key senators and nuclear analysts have raised economic . . .
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September 19, 2008 04:56 PM EDT --
This morning's Detroit Free Press had an article about the sharp increase in electricity bills that Michigan homeowners will be paying thanks to new legislation. I understand the reason behind the . . .
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October 11, 2008 12:34 PM EDT --
That is my somewhat inexpert opinion as I confront the Wall Street meltdown and the sagging gas prices. I regard the current situation as a barrier to our efforts to leave oil behind and take a . . .
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November 28, 2008 05:45 PM EST --
OSLO (Reuters) - Governments must do a better job of explaining environmental taxes such as charges on driving in cities or higher electricity bills or risk a public backlash, a study showed on Friday. . . .
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June 27, 2009 06:15 AM EDT --
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UPDATE: Cap-and-Tax narrowly passes house by a razor thin 219 to 212 vote despite 44 NO votes from house Democarats thanks to 8 yes votes from Republicans. The yes votes . . .
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July 05, 2009 11:07 PM EDT --
My wife and I belong to a nonfiction book group. A while back, we read Thomas L. Friedman's nonfiction title From Beirut to Jerusalem, which is the sum of his experiences as a foreign correspondent . . .
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March 21, 2008 02:49 PM EDT --
While looking into exchanging my rewards points on a credit card, I came across two unusual options that claim to support clean energy and offset your ecological footprint.
Family . . .
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April 30, 2009 02:09 AM EDT --
NASA scientists are proposing algae bags as a way to produce renewable energy that does not compete with agriculture for land or fresh water. It uses algae to produce biofuel from sewage, using nutrients . . .
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