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November 2006

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30.11.2006 from Gristmill blog:
Efficiency is essential to eliminating fossil fuel use, because non-fossil sources have an overall market price cost higher than coal, natural gas, and even oil. Efficiency is what can pay for comparatively expensive dispatchable wind and solar electricity.
Image: Wind turbines, useful but variable

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Related topics/regions: [Renewable energy]
30.11.2006
The simple choice to eat locally produced food can have important consequences for the environment, our health, and economies worldwide.
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From: Worldwatch Institute
Related topics/regions: [Agriculture] [Cities] [Food] [Consumption] [Trade] [Climate change]
30.11.2006 Among the priorities of many environmentalists is to shorten the distance from farm to table.
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Related topics/regions: [United States] [Agriculture] [Food] [Consumption] [Climate change]
30.11.2006
A growing number are choosing more organic and locally produced products, eschewing the hidden costs in the conventional food system.
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Related topics/regions: [United States] [Agriculture] [Food] [Business] [Consumption] [Trade] [Environment] [Nutrition/malnutrition]
Energy researchers and entrepreneurs will sort out energy problems
28.11.2006 from Gristmill blog:
A massive new Apollo project? Massive subsidies for renewable technologies? Thousands of more nuclear plants? Wrong. It's much simpler than that.
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Related topics/regions: [Economy]
Image: Energy researchers and entrepreneurs will sort out energy problems © WWF
27.11.2006 from Oil Change blog:
Here's another reason to diversify away from oil now.
Image: This environment is pristine but for how long?

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Related topics/regions: [Greenland] [Climate change]
22.11.2006 from green wombat blog:
An outback community of 600 near Alice Springs, Australia, uses what may be the planet's most efficient and powerful solar technology to provide up to half of the town's electricity.
Image: One of the solar concentrators at the power station

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Related topics/regions: [Australia] [Renewable energy]
20.11.2006 The United States has vast potential to develop renewable energy sources, and as the world’s top greenhouse gas emitter, the future health of the planet may depend on it. So what’s taking so long?
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From: OneWorld US
Related topics/regions: [United States] [Business] [Consumption] [Climate change] [Renewable energy] [Governance] [Transport]
20.11.2006 Two thirds of U.S. oil consumption goes toward transportation, making alternative fuels a vital element of the renewable energy debate.
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From: OneWorld US
Related topics/regions: [United States] [Transport] [Consumption] [Corporations] [Climate change] [Renewable energy]
20.11.2006 The need for more alternative fuels and greater fuel efficiency is almost universally accepted, but many argue the U.S. government is not doing enough to support these measures.
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From: OneWorld US
Related topics/regions: [United States] [Consumption] [Corporations] [Climate change] [Renewable energy] [Governance]
17.11.2006 from Ramsay Home blog:
Bernard Malin is the first person in Massachusetts to own a residential 'micro combined-heat-and-power' system, also known as micro-CHP. But he’s not likely to be the last.
Image: Bernard Malin’s micro-CHP

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Related topics/regions: [United States] [Renewable energy]
16.11.2006 from Danish Wind Energy Association:
Thinking of installing a turbine? How do you work out whether it will work as you want it to and where you want it to? This excellent site gives you all the details you could possibly want. e.g. Click 'Know How' and take the 'Guided Tour'.
Image: Middelgrunden Offshore Wind Farm, Copenhagen

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Related topics/regions: [Denmark] [Renewable energy]
Geothermal power plant, Philippines
15.11.2006 from Carbon Planet blog:
Pumping carbon dioxide through hot rocks could simultaneously generate power and mop up the greenhouse gases produced by fossil fuel power stations, according to a new study.
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Related topics/regions: [Climate change]
Image: Geothermal power plant, Philippines
14.11.2006 from Blue Planet blog:
Centrica will build a clean coal power plant with carbon capture at Teesside. Meanwhile, a Texas power company has made enemies of America's biggest environmental groups for its 'dirty' approach.
Image: Carbon from the Teesside plant would be pumped for storage under the North Sea

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Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [United States] [Climate change] [Pollution]
13.11.2006 from Mur Crusto eco-farm blog:
Avoiding using grid electricity for 'green' reasons can often be a big waste of resources, not to mention a very big waste of money
Image: One type of pump

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Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Renewable energy]
Norway, normally associated with North Sea oil, is thinking ahead
04.11.2006 from WattHead blog:
Norway is implementing a long-term national plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50-80 percent.
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Related topics/regions: [Norway] [Climate change]
Image: Norway, normally associated with North Sea oil, is thinking ahead © Global Witness
DOSTA!
03.11.2006 Aktivisti pokreta Dosta! skupa sa aktivistima ekoloških organizacija će u subotu u podne u sklopu kampanje Bitka za Neretvu organizirati prikupljanje potpisa za protiv gradnje hidroelektrana na gornjem toku rijeke Neretve. Gradnja elektrana, navode, prijeti da uništi prostor izuzetno visoke prirodne vrijednosti.
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Related topics/regions: [Bosnia] [Environment] [Activism]
Image: DOSTA!

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