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Tackling Climate Change
Forbes.com - 4 Hours ago
Climate & Big thinkers tackle the challenges of producing clean power and protecting the global environment. About The Show Thought Leaders provides unprecedented access to the insight and expertise
UN seeks $10bn a year from rich to tackle climate change Daily Times
Labour is tackling climate change - Tories just use gesture politics Halifax Evening Courier
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Greenpeace urges President to meet emission cut commitment
Antara News - 3 Hours ago
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Around 100 Greenpeace activists staged a peaceful rally at the Hotel Indonesia circle here on Saturday to urge President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to meet his commitment to effecting
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Bill McKibben -- Obama should act urgently on climate change
Washington Post - 3 Hours ago
Both are young and charismatic. Both were elected last fall to replace discredited incumbents (Nasheed's predecessor ruled the island nation for three decades and kept him in a political prison for years).
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Miranda Kennedy -- The Indian attitude on climate change
Washington Post - 3 Hours ago
This fall, when I mentioned to the Indian government's chief economic policymaker that the United States considers India 'intransigent' on climate change, the poised, Oxford-educated Montek Singh Ahluwalia
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Greenpeace supports SBYs pledge to cut emissions
Jakarta Post - 3 Hours ago
Hundreds of Greenpeace forest campaigners took to streets in Jakarta on Saturday to give a moral boost to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyonos pledge to slash emissions from forest and peat land clearing,
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Carbon tax backer sees it as sensible, maybe inevitable
Los Angeles Times - 8 Hours ago
Reporting from Oxford, England - With the global climate change summit in Copenhagen just a few weeks away, gloom has settled in many quarters over the increasing likelihood that a robust international
Carbon tax backer says its time has come Los Angeles Times
'Carbon tax' is sensible, and perhaps inevitable, advocate says Los Angeles Times
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Children starve in parched southern Madagascar
Los Angeles Times - 12 Hours ago
Reporting from Anjandobo, Madagascar - Foreigners have come to Anjandobo village, a cluster of wooden huts on the desolate red dust of southern Madagascar. They're vaza -- outsiders. The vaza are sweating.
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In Germany, the high price of going green
Washington Post - 12 Hours ago
GELSENKIRCHEN, GERMANY -- In this nation that embraced one of the world's most aggressive campaigns against global warming, the Pokropp family can almost hear the cha-ching when switching off their lights.
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Storing Renewable Energy in Boxes of Air
Reuters - 15 Hours ago
By Cleantechnica - Cleantechnica By Susan Kraemer Storage is needed to harvest the full yield available from intermittent sources of energy like wind and solar. One of the options is compressed-air storage;
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Air pollution regulations drive deployment of flexible abatement solutions
Hub 4 - 15 Hours ago
To address the growing complexity of air pollution regulations, which have to address a multi-tiered array of local authority, national and international requirements, AirProtekt of Cambridge is offering
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Black mark for 'green' bags
Sydney Morning Herald - 54 Minutes ago
MILLIONS of plastic shopping bags being touted as biodegradable in IGA supermarkets around Australia have failed to decompose as advertised during independent tests, raising serious questions over green
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Don't trade emissions for unity, Turnbull told
Sydney Morning Herald - 54 Minutes ago
OPPOSITION Leader Malcolm Turnbull has been warned to stop championing an emissions trading scheme to avoid a damaging rift in the Liberal Party. Senior MPs say the party must unite and can do so only
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Hot air on climate change
The Age - 2 Hours ago
The Government needs to reclaim the terms of the debate from the sceptics. BRITAIN'S new high commissioner, Baroness Valerie Amos, is somewhat perplexed about where she has found herself on her new posting.
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Carlisle Wide Plank Floors Helps Build LEED-H Certified Green Home
AZoBuild - 40 Minutes ago
When Kimberly and Joe Hageman decided to build a state-of-the-art LEED-H certified green home on the Rhode Island coast, they researched both cutting-edge new technologies and various companies that had
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Green hype, or is biochar the key to carbon control?
Sydney Morning Herald - 45 Minutes ago
IN THE world of climate change solutions, biochar is the celebrity option. Few can explain its sudden fame. Many are not even sure what it does. But the big names have offered their endorsement and there's
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The global warming conspiracy: its silencing of the sceptics
Herald Sun - 79 Minutes ago
This time weâ??ll focus on the sheer thuggery of the â??The Teamâ? - how this conspiracy of powerful alarmist scientists tried to drive sceptics and non-allies out of their jobs, and even succeeded.
The global warming conspiracy: how it massaged its data Herald Sun
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Austrian bank has 100M euros for renewable energy in Dominican Republic
Dominican Today - 3 Hours ago
Santo Domingo.- Austrias Development Bank has 100 million euros available for the Dominican Government or businesses interested in investing in renewable energy, whose only requirement is to present a
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Global warming and 9/11
The Nation Pakistan - 3 Hours ago
TERRORISM, economic turmoil and climate change have shaped the 2000s, not only affecting how people live but their language, with 'global warming' and '9/11' topping a list of the most used words of the
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Shun beef to stop climate change, says India
The Independent - 2 Hours ago
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Shun beef to stop climate change, says India (AFP) Yahoo! News
Shun beef to stop climate change: Indian minister The New Nation
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Opel Revamping Corsa for 2010, ecoFLEX now with 98 g/km CO2
Puregreencars - 3 Hours ago
Copyright AdLogger, Click Auditing. Opel will introduce a completely revamped version of its Corsa city car, with major engineering, better performance and greater fuel economy. The Corsa, which accounts
Opel introduces updated Corsa ecoFlex with 98 g/km CO2 New York Times
Opel Revamping Corsa for 2010; Better Performance, Lower Fuel Consumption and CO2 Green Car Congress
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Climate Change Adaptation Recommendations Result In Same Old Fight
California Planning & Development Board - 3 Hours ago
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CLIMATE CHANGE-URUGUAY: ADAPTATION IS THE NAME OF THE GAME Individual.com
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N.S. can meet renewable energy targets: report
Ocean Resources - 4 Hours ago
Nova Scotia can meet a goal to double its use of renewable energy by 2015, using existing technology and with minimal impact on electricity rates, according to a report presented Tuesday in Halifax. The
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Small island youth at risk due to climate change
Xinhua News Agency - 4 Hours ago
By Lucy-Claire Saunders UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Negotiators may not reach a climate deal in Copenhagen in December. And with the passing of this opportunity, goes another day borrowed from
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Architects unite in Climate Change bid
World Architecture News - 10 Hours ago
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), Australian Institute of Architects, Architecture Canada and the Commonwealth Association of Architects have united to deliver a 15 point â??Call for Actionâ??
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Canada to increase liability limit for nuclear accidents
People's Daily Online - 10 Hours ago
Canada will raise the limit on damages that victims claim for nuclear accidents to 650 million Canadian dollars (617 million U. S. dollars), a large increase from the original amount of 75 million, local
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