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What's My Carbon Footprint?

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 17, 2010

 

I'm a reasonably green guy - I recycle, buy mostly organic, a "residential vegetarian" (no meat in my fridge), walk or bike to work more days than not, keep lights and power strips off when not in use, compost...is it enough? Am I doing my part?

Just about...

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UN eyes private help in $100 billion climate aid

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 14, 2010

UNITED NATIONS A pledge by rich nations in Copenhagen to provide as much as $100 billion a year of climate-related aid to developing countries by 2020 may depend in part on the generosity of private donors and other non-governmental sources.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-...

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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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What Others Are Saying | 'Climategate' derails science of global warming; run, don't walk, away from cap and trade

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 12, 2010

Eight months after a trove of e-mails from climate researchers appeared on the Internet, two inquiries into “climategate” reported their findings. Neither report does anything to weaken the case for acting to limit carbon emissions.

Greenhouse gases still warm planets...

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Major Asia Pacific Photovoltaic Markets Expected to Grow 85% in 2010

By : Preeti Aggarwal, Jul 11, 2010

Asia Pacific photovoltaic markets are poised to make a significant contribution to global photovoltaic (PV) market growth in 2010 following improvements in the policy environment in most of the key countries in this region.

According to the Solarbuzz® Asia and Pacific...

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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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IMF raises 2010 global growth forecast

By : Preeti Aggarwal, Jul 8, 2010

The IMF has raised its estimate for global growth this year by 0.4% to 4.6%, reflecting a stronger-than-expected first half.

Its forecast is the largest jump in global growth since 2007, while the projection for 4.3% growth next year is unchanged from the April...

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Major Asia Pacific Photovoltaic Markets Expected to Grow 85% in 2010

By : Preeti Aggarwal, Jul 8, 2010

According to the Solarbuzz® Asia and Pacific Major PV Markets 2010 report, the key emerging country markets of China, India, South Korea and Australia, together with the long established Japanese market, contributed 0.9 GW of installations in 2009, or 12% of world demand....

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IPCC report into global warming 'played down positive impact of climate change'

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 6, 2010

A key global assessment of climate change played down the positive effects of global warming, according to a new review.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) key 2007 report also contained a number of minor errors and was criticised over a lack of...

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