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• Youth get in bed together on Lennon anniversary

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  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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• Thank you, EPA: U.S. solar companies

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  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: 136
  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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• Solar Site Assessment Tool

  
  Sun Volt Solar Blog — Authority: 104
  File under: Yeah, there’s an app for that. Sun Tracker mashup I received an e-mail from Andrew about a Solar Site Assessment app for 3G iPhones.  I’ll let him tell the story: I live in Vancouver, BC, when evaluating my own home for a solar installation I discovered a gap in the solar tools market. I ...
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• Icebergs, Copenhagen hot topics in Southern Ocean

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  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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• Desertec Asia - A Pan-Asian Energy Infrastructure Proposal

  
  The Oil Drum: Australia/New Zealand - Discussions about Energy, Transport and a Sustainable Future — Authority: 515
  Cross-posted from Peak Energy . Stewart Taggart of Desertec Australia and the solar thermal desalination company Acquasol , has recently started a new branch of Desertec for Asia . The Desertec Asia plan (linking Australian solar thermal power , geothermal power and wind / wave energy , along with ...
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• Taking the Tesla for a spin

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  We took a short spin in a Tesla to see what an all-electric sports car was like. The Roadster Sport wasn’t totally silent, but it wasn’t loud — and it was fast (zero to 60 miles per hour in under 4 seconds). We got lots of looks, too. Tesla calls it “performance with a clean conscience” but building the ...
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• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
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• Forest carbon schemes – new hope for the Amazon?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  By Stuart Grudgings In the tiny settlement of Boa Frente on the banks of a tributary to the Amazon river, bright blue butterflies flitting through trees and the constant squawks of parrots add to the feeling of a paradise on earth. The poverty endured by most of its residents quickly shatters that illusion, but ...
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• What to do while the world burns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A firefighter puts out a fire at a village near Bangkok March 31, 2008. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang This opinion piece by Mort Rosenblum originally appeared in GlobalPost . The views expressed are his own. For the full article, click here . PARIS, France — Back when primal-scream therapy was the rage in ...
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• Sailing into an icy cauldron

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Reuters employee Pauline Askin has sailed for the Antarctic  for a six -week expedition on the icy continent where she will help restore Mawson’s huts named after Australia’s most celebrated Antarctic explorer on Commonwealth Bay, the windiest place on earth. During the expedition, Pauline will report on ...
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• Forwarding Dallas: Completely off the grid, 854-unit housing development model

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 514
  After taking about nine months to confirm the final design for a sustainable urban city block near Dallas City Hall, the Urban Revision declares Forwarding Dallas, a collaborative work from Atelier Data and Moov , as the winner of the international competition dubbed Re: Vision - Dallas. The completely off the ...
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• After 25 years impact of Bhopal leak lingers

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Controversy still surrounds one of the worlds worst industrial accidents 25 years after an estimated 8,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of a toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India. At around midnight on December 3, 1984, a leak at a Union Carbide plant of methyl isocyanate gas -- a chemical compound used ...
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• Solar Millennium Solar Thermal Power Investment Opportunity

  
  Renewable Energy Sources — Authority: 145
  Solar Millennium offers an opportunity to participate in one of the world’s most advanced solar thermal power plantsSustainable and innovative investment with an expected return of 8% High degree of certainty due to guaranteed feed-in tariff with inflation protection Solar Millennium´s fund concept creates new ...
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• Micro-Turbine Designed to Be Powered by Solar Thermal Energy

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 431
  Israel-based HelioFocus Ltd and the Californian Capstone Turbine Corporation have announced an agreement to build a micro-turbine that will produce electricity from concentrated solar energy.
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• Eco Tech: Capstone’s micro-turbine to be fired up by HelioFocus’ solar concentrators

  
  Ecofriend — Authority: 529
  Eco Factor: Micro-turbine designed to be powered by solar thermal energy. California-based Capstone Turbine Corporation has announced an agreement with HelioFocus Ltd to develop a new micro-turbine that will produce power from concentrated solar energy. The system is based on the use of parabolic dishes that ...
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• Comfortable conservation and global warming

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  -- John Kemp is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own -- Energy efficiency will have to make the single most-important contribution if policymakers are serious about limiting greenhouse gas emissions and dampening growing demand for fossil fuels. Energy efficiency will not remove the need to invest ...
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• Solar Power Brightens Up Rust Belt

  
  GetSolar.com Solar Homes & Solar Installers Directory Blog — Authority: 133
  It may only be a matter of time before America’s Rust Belt sheds its image of faded glory for a new moniker that is about as green as it is snazzy, because a new industry has come to town and hit the ground running. At Solar Power International 2009, officials from Ohio sung praises of the Buckeye State’s ...
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• US Dept of Energy Investing in Small Business Renewable Energy Projects

  
  Mendo Coast Current — Authority: 123
  RenewableEnergyFocus.com, November 25, 2009The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will fund $18 million to support small business innovation research, development and deployment of clean and renewable energy technologies, including projects to advance wave and current energy technologies, ocean thermal energy conversion ...
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• New York Solar Thermal Roadmap, The Process

  
  Renewable Energy in the U.S. at 5:39 AM — Authority: 118
  We have been working on the Solar Thermal Committee of New York State for a while . Now, we are entering the hot phase of our roadmap process. I wrote an overview over the action plan - the process document - that was conformed by the Committee. If you want to support our efforts, please use this link to share the ...
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