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• Solar power mounts in Canada

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Solar power is heating up in the northern reaches of Canada, a country not exactly known for its sunny rays and warm weather. The industry has seen a heap of news from the region this week. US. solar heavyweight First Solar and Canadian pipeline company Enbridge announced that they are quadrupling the size of a ...
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• The Colors of Rajasthan

  
  Adventure Nomad — Authority:
  Camel Sunset, Manvar, Rajasthan. Nikon D300, 18-200mm, 1/500, f/8, ISO 200. India is a land of striking contrast where the rich and the poor, the spiritual and the corrupt, and the powerful and the hopeless live side by side. The plight of the poor can be heart wrenching, and it can be difficult to look beyond the ...
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• Snow Run

  
  YotaTech Forums — Authority: 172
  so some of my buddies and i are going up to promitory park area to do a snow run, it should be at least as far as i know of so far like 6 rigs, maybe more i am throwing up an invite to see who wants to come. The more the marrier so just let me know we can all mee up there.
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• Wildlife Abundant for Hahn and Team

  
  BORN OUT THERE — Authority: 120
  December 7, 2009Danco Island, Antarctic PeninsulaS 64˚ 43′ W 62˚ 35′Those stormy and idle days at sea are now a distant memory. We’ve kept up a fairly aggressive schedule of landings and visits to various islands in the last few days: spending four to six hours in each place, wandering about on snow-covered ...
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• The answer could be blowing in the wind

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Well into the first week of the U.N. Conference on Climate Change, the haves and have nots of the world are still divided over who should pay for the cleanup of the planet. Poor countries want rich countries to cough up more ambitious goals for emissions cuts and developing technologies. From emerging wind and ...
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• JohnsonDiversey exec sees CO2 reductions good for businesses

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Some businesses in the United States will have to reinvent themselves as the Obama administration moves to lower greenhouse gas emissions, but theyll be better off in the long run, Pedro Chidichimo, president of JohnsonDiversey EMA, told Reuters.com on Thursday. Despite the inevitable short-term pain, Chidichimo said ...
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• 3 Great Explorers You Don’t Know

  
  Fun Facts — Authority: 468
  Some explorers got the fame, glory and other grand things. Christopher Columbus got his own day, Marco Polo got a game named after him. Here are some explorers as important with less or no fame at all.Pytheas, he was a Greek sailor, navigator. He lived in Marseilles, he was a great navigators of the sea [...]Related ...
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• Beaver Creek World Cup Wrap-Up

  
  BORN OUT THERE — Authority: 120
  I must admit that I had my doubts about pulling a 34-foot Airstream trailer into snow country, but it was smooth sailing behind our Ford Super Duty F-450. The 6.4 liter turbo diesel supplied more than enough power on high mountain passes, and it wasn’t until we reached the slopes of Beaver Creek that [...]
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• Eastern Fields

  
  Rebreather World — Authority: 158
  Has anyone dove Eastern Fields on rebreather? Going in Jan and wondering if it will be worth the extra expense for shooting video as most pics Ive seen are wide angle reef shots where OC would do just fine... Thanks, Steve
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• Cook Hit With Fraud Claims on Pole Data

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 422
  Whatever credibility Dr. Frederick A. Cooks claim to discovering the north pole might still have seems to be obliterated today as The Times publishes the sworn testimony of two men who say they aided Cook in preparing fraudulent documentation of his expedition.
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• I finally posted the Spree spring calendar

  
  Rebreather World — Authority: 158
  and what might be of interest to you folks is the 2/20 and 21 trip. $400 bucks for the Wilkes Barre, Curb, and Vandenberg weekend. Ill have mix and sorb available, as usual, and Barney is crewing. If conditions are right) like last time) well do a night dive on the Vandenberg. If the currents howling, well come ...
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• Hahn Savaged by Rough Seas off South Shetland Islands

  
  BORN OUT THERE — Authority: 120
  December 5, 2009Bransfield Strait, South Shetland IslandsS 62˚ 04′ W 57˚ 22′Storms have been battering Clelia II for several days, wreaking havoc on the planned itinerary. When I woke this morning to a force “eight” gale, I saw big tabular icebergs and big white waves smashing against them. The wind was ...
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• Africans protest COP15, say “process manipulated”

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  In the most heated protest of these early days at COP15 in Copenhagen, African representatives accused the political leaders of the developed world of hijacking the conference to the detriment of developing nations. The marchers said the process of the talks had been manipulated by the developed worlds political ...
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• Western Washington Snow Run!

  
  YotaTech Forums — Authority: 172
  Thats right yall, lets bring in the new year with some fresh white powder! ... ok that maybe came out wrong... I dont know where we should go though, Ill leave that to the more experienced and wiser of the forum... I just wanted to get the thread made! Lets doooo this :fire2:
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• Youth get in bed together on Lennon anniversary

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  It was 29 years ago today that a lone gunman assassinated John Lennon and the anniversary was the spur behind a youth "bed in" at the COP15 conference center. Socres of young folks from around the world used the day to remember Lennons famous bed-in protest of the Vietnam War and to put their own spin on it. They ...
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• Taft Focuses on Trade in Message to Congress

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 422
  In his first annual message to Congress, President Tafts emphasis was on American commercial interests, in particular his plans to enforce maximum tariffs only if necessary to support American trade and his anticipation of the opening of a Latin-American bank by American financiers, but major omissions were noted.
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• Thank you, EPA: U.S. solar companies

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Many businesses chafed on Monday at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s declaration that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health. But executives at the two largest U.S. solar power companies took a shine to the statement, which clears the way for federal regulation and came as a global climate ...
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• Fossil of the Day Award: And the winner is…

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  The UN Conference on Climate Change is a weighty gathering of serious folks looking for a way to cut carbon emissions. Its also a great place to bring some much-needed humor and along the way hammer a few perceived laggers in the fight against global warming. Enter the Fossil of the Day Awards, a tongue-in-cheek ...
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• Jon Bowermasters Expeditions

  
  Hardwear Sessions — Authority: 118
  Our Antarctic expedition was the final in the ten-year-long, National Geographic-supported OCEANS 8 project which took us literally around the world by sea kayak, introducing us to thousands of coastal people and the environmental issues that link them . Each expedition was a great adventure and turned into great ...
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• Icebergs, Copenhagen hot topics in Southern Ocean

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  The Southern Ocean is toying with us, like some killer whale tossing its prey before devouring it. The small French research ship l’Astrolabe is being battered by 55 kmh (35 mph) winds and tossed like a cork in icy, three metre (9 feet) waves. Many onboard have retreated to the safety of their bunks where, ...
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