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• Sabah’s electricity shortage critical after power trips

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 561
  Muguntan Vanar, The Star 24 Nov 09;KOTA KINABALU: More lights winked out in Sabah after the state’s electricity shortage became even more critical when power tripped unexpectedly at several stations.This has triggered another round of load shedding, drastically affecting homes and businesses already living with ...
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• Coal-burning China invests in methane capture

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 561
  Yahoo News 23 Nov 09;BEIJING (AFP) – China, a massive consumer of fossil fuels and coal in particular, is trying to modernise its mines by containing emissions of methane and turning the toxic gas into a source of much-needed energy.Authorities in Beijing have made methane capture a government priority both in the ...
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• Artic Expedition Investigates Climate Change, Alternative Fuel

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 626
  An Arctic expedition may yield clues about climate change, while also providing the impetus to exploit an alternative fuel that may be mined from under the Beaufort Sea.International scientists took part in surveys that sampled three regions of the Alaskan shelf to determine methane cycling into the atmosphere.The ...
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• The Case of the 1,069 Purloined Letters

  
  Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log — Authority: 110
  Around eleven this morning, Gretchen let me know that my nephew, Henry Palikowski, Junior, wished to arrange for a telephone consultation today whenever I had the free time in my schedule.  I certainly had no problem with that - because while Congress sometimes stages a circus this time of year, as it is doing at the ...
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• Selling automobiles

  
  Toban Black — Authority: 104
  A car advertisement on the back of a local bus — Andy Rowell on the Oil Change blog - “ Electric Vehicles May Increase CO2 ” (I think it’s too much of a stretch to say that electric vehicles are “all the rage”; but some people definitely are looking toward them as ’solutions.’) Brad Aaron on the ...
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• Simpler, cheaper, biodegradable plastic without using fossil fuels

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 437
  Image via Wikipedia In recent years, polylactic acid (PLA) has attracted attention as a replacement for petroleum-based plastics. It is made from corn-starch, or other starch-rich substances like maize, sugar or wheat, and is biodegradable – reverting in less than 60 days in ideal conditions. PLA is already ...
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• Burning Fossil Fuels Negatively Impacting Alpine Ecosystems

  
  The Sietch Blog — Authority: 419
  Burning fossil fuels does a lot more than warm up the earth. The impact of airborne nitrogen released from the burning of fossil fuels and widespread use of fertilizers in agriculture is much greater than previously recognized, according to research results published in this week’s issue of the journal Science. ...
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• Renewables Sector Impact of the Economic Downturn Detailed in a New Report

  
  Energy Business Daily — Authority: 427
  Energy Business Reports (http://www.energybusinessreports.com), a leading publisher in the energy industry, provides a detailed guide on the impact of the economic downturn on the renewables market. The report, “Impact of the Economic Downturn on the Renewables Sector,” offers an in-depth analysis of the ...
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• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
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• Greenpeace welcomes India’s ambitious solar energy plan

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) Greenpeace has welcomed the Indian government’s ambitious solar energy plan - the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM), which was released Monday, ahead of the climate summit at Copenhagen.Sidddharth Pathak, climate and energy policy officer from Greenpeace India, said: “We ...
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• Kraft Rolls Up 50M Miles Saved Through Transportation Efficiency

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 626
  Since 2005, Kraft has saved more than 50 million miles in its transportation and distribution processes globally.The savings came from a variety of initiatives, according to a press release.By shifting to barge shipments of wheat to its Toledo, Ohio, flour Mill, Kraft knocked out 10,000 truck shipments and reduced ...
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• India unveils ambitious solar power mission (Lead, With Images)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) India’s ambitious mission to ramp up its solar power hundredfold in the next 13 years and reduce dependence on fossil fuels was unveiled here Monday.The mission anticipates achieving parity with cost of electricity on the grid by 2022 and parity with coal-based thermal power by 2030. The ...
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• A bit of history on fossil fuel usage

  
  LyfLines — Authority: 139
  An interesting piece from George Will : in 1901, a new well named for an East Texas hillock, Spindletop, began gushing more per day than all other U.S. wells combined. Since then, America has exhausted its hydrocarbon supplies. Repeatedly. In 1914, the Bureau of Mines said that U.S. oil reserves would be ...
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• Tories to end taxpayer investment in dirty fossil fuels

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  A Conservative government would scrap the Export Credit Guarantee Department that invests in dirty power stations and instead use the fund to encourage green technology A Conservative UK government would bring to an end the practice of the government underwriting investment in "dirty" fossil fuel power stations ...
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• Latte Links (11/22)

  
  Caffeinated Thoughts — Authority: 142
    Some miscellany for a rainy Sunday evening (here in Des Moines anyway): Des Moines Register: Iowa poll shows Obama approval rating below 50% (not good in a state that overwhelmingly went for him) CQPolitics: Rating Change: Iowa GOP Gets Serious About Boswell Challenge (HT: Dave Price ) The Iowa ...
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• Marketing fossil fuels

  
  Toban Black — Authority: 104
  Andy Rowell on the Oil Change blog  - “ Big Oil Front Group Fights for Tar Sands ” (in October) Leo Hickman in The Guardian - “ CO2 is Green: The TV Advert Making Viewers Choke ” (in September) Anya Kamenetz on a Fast Company site - “ Head in the Tar Sands? The New York Times Runs Anti-Peak Oil ...
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• Climate change sceptics and lobbyists put world at risk, says top adviser

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • Chance to limit warming squandered, says scientist • World needs to prepare to cope with at least 3-4C rise Climate change sceptics and fossil fuel companies that have lobbied against action on greenhouse gas emissions have squandered the worlds chance to avoid dangerous global warming, a key adviser to the ...
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• Transit Use Boom, but in Some Surprising Cities

  
  Green Options — Authority: 148
  Transit use boomed from 2006-2008, but not in traditionally transit-friendly areas. This shows hope for more transit use in traditionally car-oriented places in the US in the future. An analysis of the most recent transit use data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that transit use grew by up to 47% in major ...
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• Rahul Bose slams developed nations for climate change

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) Bollywood actor-activist Rahul Bose has slammed developed countries for preaching to developing nations to reduce “the use of energy sources” in order to cut down on “greenhouse gases (GHG) and carbon emissions” without practising the same.“Developed nations have enjoyed unbridled ...
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• Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions Trends — 1990, 2000, 2008

  
  Green Options — Authority: 148
  Overall, global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels increased 29% between 2000 and 2008 and 41% from 1990-2008, and the current concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is now at its highest in at least 2 million years, according to a new study in the journal Nature Geoscience . The new report published this week by an ...
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