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Low Iron Pattern Glass for Solar Photovoltaics and Solar Thermal

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 13, 2010

Gujarat Borosil Limited (GBL), a member of the BOROSIL Group, announces production of high performance low iron extra clear Solar Glass.

The entire process plant comprising of this manufacturing facility has been imported from West Europe and United States.

Its...

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Obama sticks with clean-energy goals

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 13, 2010

There is so much demand for the clean-energy tax credits that the program is oversubscribed. The White House is asking Congress for an additional $5 billion.

"There's solar facilities that will mean 1,000 jobs here. Another plant there, that's another 300 jobs. These...

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PCMC to shift electricity poles for laying water pipeline

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 13, 2010

The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) will conduct a survey to identify the electricity poles, along the Pune-Mumbai expressway, which need to be shifted for laying a water pipeline from the Pavana dam to Ravet. Speaking to TOI, Pravin Tupe, joint city engineer,...

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Rooftops as power houses

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 11, 2010

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Climate Change Means More Heatwaves, Premature Deaths, Scientists Warn

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 11, 2010

Climate change is a serious health hazard that the United States must prepare for, according to government and university scientists from across the country.

Dust storm in Queensland, Australia, September 2009. (Photo by Tom Fletcher) They advised Thursday that climate...

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'Innovation in India is going faster than I anticipated'

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 10, 2010

It's said that Wim Elfrink, Cisco's chief globalization officer, lives in the most expensive villa in Bangalore. We didn't meet him there. But we met him at an equally extraordinary place — what his company calls a 'personal virtual office'. When you swipe your badge as you...

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Put Solar On It campaign challenges heads of state

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 10, 2010

Climate activists have launched a campaign calling  on world leaders to take tangible clean energy action by putting up solar panels on the presidential digs.

The advocates are enlisting the public’s help in the Put Solar On It movement by providing  a way to  send an...

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Obama Science Czar Called for Carbon Tax to Redistribute Wealth from Global 'North' to 'South'

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 9, 2010

ohn P. Holdren, who then-President-elect Barack Obama nominated as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in December 2008, called just five months before his nomination for a global climate-change agreement that would allow wealth to be...

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Wave of Investment Gives Smart-Grid Companies a Power Surge

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 9, 2010

Utilities across the country are gradually replacing old meters and communications equipment with ones that can quickly tell them the energy usage of a home or business and whether there's equipment failure in their power distribution network. This new type of network,...

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Subject Tags: Business , energy , Technology

UN 'won't deliver' on climate change

By : Preeti Aggarwal, Jul 8, 2010

UN 'won't deliver' on climate change
TOM ARUP
July 8, 2010
THE urgent need to act on climate change means the world's major economies cannot wait for a global agreement to be struck through the UN and should now consider other options, prominent economist...

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Subject Tags: Business , Environment