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• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  (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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• Sailing into an icy cauldron

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  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: 487
  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: 135
  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: 146
  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: 432
  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.
  5 days ago

• Eco Tech: Capstone’s micro-turbine to be fired up by HelioFocus’ solar concentrators

  
  Ecofriend — Authority: 526
  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: 135
  -- 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 ...
  1 week ago

• 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: 122
  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: 121
  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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• Spain to add 8.8 GW of green electricity by 2012

  
  Sustainable development and much more — Authority: 127
  According to Reuters Spain will add up to 8.8 GW of renewable energies by 2012. As GreenUnivers [Fr] points out this would increase by 37 percent the current renewable electricity capacity in just three years. This occurs as now wind energy has more installed capacity than nuclear in Spain and even supplied the ...
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• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  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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• Mongolia on Its Way to Becoming a Solar Power Giant

  
  Solar Power Updates & News — Authority: 115
  Great things are happening in Inner Mongolia when it comes to solar power. This Mongol autonomous region located in northern China is becoming a powerful player in the alternative energy sector, and as such China wants to use the region to house various solar farms.This post was originally published on Solar Power ...
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• Targets of India’s solar mission (To go with India unveils ambitious solar mission)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) Targets of India’s solar mission:• To create an enabling policy framework for the deployment of 20,000 MW of solar power by 2022. • To ramp up capacity of grid-connected solar power generation to 1,000 MW by 2013; an additional 3,000 MW by 2017 through the mandatory use of the renewable ...
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• How Solar Thermal Works In Your Home

  
  Home and Family idea — Authority: 110
  Getting a little free heating can go a long way on your utility bill, particularly over the life of a structure. Passive solar heating is the methodology used to achieve this goal. It is a process wherein a home is built or upgraded in such a way as to catch and contain as much of the sunlight in the form of heat as ...
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• London Mayor inaugurates a green building neighboring Victoria Station

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 487
  The Mayor of London Boris Johnson announced the official opening of a new commercial office and retail building situated adjacent to the mid 19th century rail station. Dubbed as ‘The Peak’, the 11,280 sq m structure designed by Sheppard Robson has been build keeping in mind the architecture and charm of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ausra Solar For Sale

  
  GetSolar.com Solar Homes & Solar Installers Directory Blog — Authority: 133
  Perhaps because the news first came late last Friday night (via Reuters ), there hasn’t been much buzz about the fact that solar thermal start-up Ausra Inc. has put itself up for sale. Ausra has had a bit of a roller-coaster ride as a business, starting in Australia but relocating to California to produce its solar ...
  2 weeks ago

• GEO Power System Preheats and Precools The Air with a Vertical Earth Tube

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 680
  One of the most important components of a tightly sealed house or a super-sealed Passive House is a fresh air system. Often they are heat recovery ventilators, and others have used earth tubes running under the home or in the garden. Japans Geo Power Systems has turned it into a clever system. They call it a ...
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• What To Do With Paper Waste That’s Not Recyclable?

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 661
  Most paper waste is recyclable.  The margin may not be terrific on recycled paper products, except for clean white office paper, but it is usually sufficient to create secondary markets for most paper waste.The problem arises, however, when that paper is contaminated with food or for some other reason is not ...
  2 weeks ago

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