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Marc Gunther » GM’s woes: Bad news for clean energy
Coskata, a much-touted biofuels company, is stalled.
So, for the moment, is Compact Power, a U.S. maker of lithium-ion batteries.
Why? Partly because of the global economic meltdown. Partly because both depend on General Motors.
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IT Climate Leadership Challenge | Greenpeace International
We’re getting IT companies to make greener electronics. Now let’s move them to help us fight climate change!
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IBM is making it easier for widely dispersed businesspeople to interact and collaborate without the time and expense of in-person meetings.
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The Cost of Energy » Blog Archive » Cars, always the cars
The slow-motion train wreck that is the US car market is looking less slow every day
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Marc Gunther » Google: “You’ve got to take a stand.”
America doesn’t have a national energy plan, but Google does.
The question is, why?
“You’ve got to go out and take a stand,” says Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO.
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The Cost of Energy » Blog Archive » Carbon is Forever
Why is it that even when we talk about the impacts of climate change we keep focusing on the 91 years from now until 2100? Is it simply the tyranny of round numbers? Is it our seemingly infinite myopia? Or have we just decided that we don’t give a flying fig what happens after 2100, because our own kids will almost certainly be dead by then?\n\nLuckily, not everyone is taking that position, and some are reminding us that Carbon is forever:
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Willie Smits restores a rainforest | Video on TED.com
By piecing together a complex ecological puzzle, biologist Willie Smits has found a way to re-grow clearcut rainforest in Borneo, saving local orangutans — and creating a thrilling blueprint for restoring fragile ecosystems.
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