| Chicago May Get Largest U.S. Urban Solar Plant | Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT | | On the south side of Chicago, a former industrial park is the proposed site of a $60 million project to add 10 MW of solar photovoltaic panels. Supporters say it will be the largest urban solar instal |
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| We Need to Make Good Jobs Out of Green Jobs | Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT | | Last December, Republic Windows, maker of energy-efficient windows, gained worldwide attention when members of United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers (UE) Local 1110 occupied the plant after th |
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| Ecologists Put Price Tag On Invasive Species | Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT | | Invasive species can disrupt natural and human-made ecosystems, throwing food webs out of balance and damaging the services they provide to people. Now scientists have begun to put a price tag on this |
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| Adapting Skills For The Green Tech Revolution | Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT | | The recent multi-billion-dollar U.S. stimulus package is paving the way for a smarter national infrastructure, which will inevitably creates job, stimulate economic growth and drive innovation to buil |
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| Renewable Energy Distribution Market Grows | Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT | | Companies that have solar and wind power generators tied into the grid are part of a major growth area, according to Pike Research. Renewable Distributed Energy Generation (RDEG) revenue from sub-util |
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| Calculating the Gross National Trash | Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT | | More than 15 years ago, I received some data that changed the way I looked at trash. It came in the form of an obscure presentation by a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official to a September 19 |
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| As planet warms, poor nations face economic chill | Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT | | A rising tide is said to lift all boats. Rising global temperatures, however, may lead to increased disparities between rich and poor countries, according to a recent MIT economic analysis of the impa |
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| Natural Resource Management Critical to Peacebuilding | Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT | | Intrastate conflicts are likely to drag on and escalate without a greater focus on environment and natural resources in the peacebuilding process, according to a new report launched today by the Unite |
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| Helping Food Safety, Or Helping Monsanto? | Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT | | The New York Times reported that, according to President Obama, the government’s failure to inspect 95 percent of food processing plants "is a hazard to the public health." &ldqu |
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| Growth of 'Green' Consumption On Hold | Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT | | At 36 percent, the number of Americans who say they “almost always” or “regularly” buy green products remains unchanged, according to recent Mintel consumer survey data. This l |
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| Ministers back right to refuse GM crop cultivation | Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT | | Attempts by the European Commission to force Austria and Hungary to allow the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) maize on their territory were rejected yet again by EU environment ministers. &nb |
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| A roomful of cynics | Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT | | What is to be done when the world's leading experts in a field come together in the largest, most extensively peer-reviewed inquiry in the history of science and arrive at a conclusion that is dia |
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