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"Renewable" Energy in the Amazon
Brazil is prepared to build a huge dam in the Amazon Rainforest.
Environment Minister Carlos Minc announced on Monday that his department had granted a license allowing for the construction of an 11,000 megawatt hydroelectric dam on the Xingu river in Belo Monte, in the northern province of Pará.
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Bacteria May Affordably Turn Plants into Diesel by 2012
Bacteria that convert plants into diesel could become a widely available method for creating alternative fuels at commercial prices within the next two years.
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Pentagon Concerned About Climate Change
The US Department of Defense released the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) today, outlining its strategy and priorities for 2010 and beyond.
For the first time in its history, the report identified climate change as a threat to national security:
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President Obama Proposes Changes in the Federal Oil and Gas Budget
Today the President submitted his proposed budget for the 2011 fiscal year (which starts on October 1) to Congress. He reaffirmed his commitment to addressing global warming by proposing steps to help the U.S. transition away from the dirty fossil fuels that cause global warming and other considerable air and water contamination.
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A Touch of Green at the Grammys
Jason Mraz won his first two Grammy Awards last night. And he looked good doing it. What appeared to be a garden variety suit and black tie was actually a serious fashion statement. The suit is part wool, part plastic water bottle blend, and the tie is made of cassette tapes. -
Junk Salvaging Gets Environmental Audit
Last year, 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, a leader in junk removal and salvage, voluntarily undertook an environmental audit of its services in the U.S. and Canada and found that during the sample period, the company diverted over 60 percent of junk from landfills. At least 40 percent of the salvaged junk was recycled, 16 percent was converted into energy and 4.5 percent was reused.
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Localized, Renewable Energy Gets Big Money
Community-based renewable energy projects in Vermont, Wisconsin, Colorado and California were granted over $20 million from the U.S. Department of Energy on Jan. 21, which matches $167 million in local government and private sector funding.
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DOE Grants $37 Million For Efficient Lighting Industry
The U. S. Department of Energy on Jan.15 pledged $37 million of funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act towards research projects in high-efficiency solid-state lighting, which includes light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs).
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Second Nature, Sustainability Education
The year was 1957, and the Soviets had just fired Sputnik 1 into Earth orbit. Instead of panicking (eventually), the U.S. saw what had gotten the Soviet Union into space first and… well, did the equivalent of looking over somebody’s shoulder during a midterm; making their answer our own.