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• First All-Hybrid FedEx Facility Established

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 621
  The Bronx, New York, operation of FedEx will become the company’s first to exclusively use hybrid delivery vans. The addition of 51 new delivery vehicles brings the facility’s total to about 100 hybrid trucks.After the new vehicles from Azure Dynamics Corp. are added, FedEx’s hybrid fleet will total 325 ...
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• Around the Web – Shell, HP, Obama, Geoengineering

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 621
  Today’s news from around the web.Shell to pay $19.5 mln for California violationsYahoo FinanceG20 makes little progress on climate financingReutersU.S. Water Use Declines Despite 30% Population IncreaseCleanTechnicaHewlett Packard’s Data Center Smart Grid: Two Trends in One NameSeeking AlphaObama set to announce ...
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• Privatisation? EDF Demands that UK Taxpayers Pay for New Power Stations

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 650
  French power supply company EDF has refused to build new nuclear power stations in Britain unless the “government” — in other words, the taxpayer, pays for them. The shocking development, a classic example of how the Tory/Labour privatisation policy only privatises the profits but nationalises the debts, was ...
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• Problems of Technology

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 576
  The development of modern technology provides us with great advantages. Different aspect of our modern life such as transportation, entertainment and communication comes in different technological development. Technology solves many problems but we should take responsibility in dealing with it.Yes, technology solve ...
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• Fossil Fuels May Have Caused Mass Extinction

  
  Life within me — Authority: 137
  Fossil fuels don’t exactly have a good reputation as it is – they’re incredibly environmentally destructive, and bear the brunt of the blame for our current situation with global warming. Now, experts are saying that “a frenzy of hydrocarbon burning” millions of years ago might have caused the most dramatic, ...
  3 days ago

• Fossil Fuels May Have Caused Mass Extinction

  
  EarthFirst.com — Authority: 496
  Fossil fuels don’t exactly have a good reputation as it is – they’re incredibly environmentally destructive, and bear the brunt of the blame for our current situation with global warming. Now, experts are saying that “a frenzy of hydrocarbon burning” millions of years ago might have caused the most dramatic, ...
  3 days ago

• Find Environment Responsive Solar Water Heater

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 576
  Who does not want to save money and energy? Hence, solar water heater is the ideal appliance for you. EESI (Environment & Energy Study Institute) also claimed that solar water heater would recover all its cost within eight years and last up to forty years. Moreover, it is environment friendly as well. Experts ...
  3 days ago

• KlimaForum09: The People’s Climate Summit (Video)

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  While there may be some question about who will attend the UN Climate Change Conference, and what they will accomplish ,  you can be sure that the public will have an opportunity to discuss climate change in Copenhagen at the KlimaForum09. Billed as The People’s Climate Summit, the free event will ...
  3 days ago

• Developing Countries Threaten To Walk Out of Climate Summit

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  rolando.pujols Flickr photostream Developing countries have threatened to walk out of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen if rich nations did not commit to greater reductions of greenhouse gas emissions and more funding for climate costs. While I can understand being  frustrated by talk that the ...
  3 days ago

• Renewable Energy Fails And The Lights Go Out - This guy is so wrong in so many ways it is hard to count

  
  Energy Tough Love Blog — Authority: 123
   It is jam band Friday - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irZi18VR31M This is a perfect example of an Oil and Gas shill. Actually at this point I guess I should call him a Carbon front man. Ever notice how it’s always a man? He ignores the subsidies paid to the Oil and Gas business right now, which are huge. He ...
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• Fossils from Animals and Plants Not Required for Crude Oil and Natural Gas According to Swedish Research

  
  Energy Business Daily — Authority: 427
  Researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm have managed to establish that fossils from animals and plants are not necessary for crude oil and natural gas to be engendered. The determinations are radical because this means, on one hand, that it will be a great deal easier to determine these ...
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• Fossil fuel subsidies "bringing us closer to irreversible climate change"

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 136
  The Green Economy Coalition is urging G20 finance ministers to rapidly put an end to fossil fuel subsidies. In a letter to the ministers the coalition argues that these subsidies are contributing directly to climate change and making it difficult for the world to transition to a greener economy.
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• The Repower America Wall: Voice Your Support for Clean Energy and Climate Action

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  The Repower America Wall , a new multimedia campaign from the Alliance for Climate Protection,  invites you to join thousands of people across the country in voicing your support for action on clean energy and climate change.  The virtual wall is a stunning and powerful visual testament to strengthening national ...
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• Briefing on U.S.-EU Energy Council – Talking Climate

  
  CleanBeta — Authority: 429
  Richard Morningstar Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy November 4, 2009   OPERATOR: Welcome, and thank you for standing by. We’d like to inform all participants your lines are in a listen-only mode. During today’s question and answer session, you may press *1 on your touchtone phone. Also, today’s ...
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• UK Launches First Clean, Biomethane Gas Bus

  
  Energy Business Daily — Authority: 427
  A group made up of many low carbon experts at the University of East Anglia (UEA) recently launched the first bus in the United Kingdom to run on clean, biomethane gas. The advanced dual-fuel diesel-biomethane powered bus will bring down pollutant emissions and greenhouse gas discharges by approximately a half. It is ...
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• The World’s Dirtiest Power Plants

  
  Life within me — Authority: 137
  Virtually all power plants burning fossil fuels release insane amounts of pollution into the atmosphere – but some are definitely dirtier than others. And if you live in the Southeast United States, you’re practically surrounded by dozens of the world’s biggest carbon offenders. Forbes has a new interactive ...
  5 days ago

• Greenwash: Gordon Browns green spin on carbon capture | Fred Pearce

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  UK ministers talk up the carbon capture research programme as if it were already an available technology Gordon Brown is keen to take the high ground on climate change, in the run-up to the Copenhagen climate conference . Witness his eagerness to claim success when European heads of state discussed setting up a ...
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• Norway and Sweden Push For Back-Up Plan If Climate Talks Fail

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  rickremingtons Flickr photostream/Creative Commons If the UN Climate Change Conference this December fails to produce a legally binding global climate deal, Norway and Sweden are pushing for a follow-up conference in early 2010 to finalize a new treaty.  While having a back-up plan seems like a good idea, ...
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• Research Findings Throw Some Doubt Into Theory of Peak Oil

  
  Gas 2.0 — Authority: 587
  In 1877 Russian scientist Dimitri Mendeelev suggested that the large deposits of oil and gas we find under the surface of the Earth could be made without the decay of long-dead organisms in a process called abiotic synthesis of methane. Since then the theory has been relegated to the back shelf due to a lack of ...
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• Research Findings Throw Some Doubt Into Theory of Peak Oil

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 162
  In 1877 Russian scientist Dimitri Mendeelev suggested that the large deposits of oil and gas we find under the surface of the Earth could be made without the decay of long-dead organisms in a process called abiotic synthesis of methane. Since then the theory has been relegated to the back shelf due to a lack of ...
  5 days ago

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