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Cities turn off streetlights to save money – USATODAY.com
The old-fashioned streetlight is the recession’s latest victim. To save money, some cities and towns are turning off lights, often lots of them.
The cost-cutting moves coincide with changing attitudes about streetlights. Once viewed as helpful safety measures, the lights are increasingly seen by some public officials and researchers as an environmental issue, creating light pollution and burning excess energy.
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Better Place to trial battery-swapping taxis in Tokyo — Autoblog Green
When Better Place wanted to demonstrate how their battery switching station would operate they chose Yokohama Japan as the backdrop and now the land of the rising sun is returning some of that love. The electric vehicle infrastructure company has received an “award” to carry out a pilot project involving a switching station and battery-powered taxis operated by Nihon Kotsu in Tokyo. Although cabs comprise just two percent of the cars in Japan they’re responsible for a whopping 20 percent of the CO2 emitted.
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IUCN – Herbivorous reef fishes critical for long-term coral reef health and resilience
Herbivorous reef fishes not only have a key role in keeping algal growth at bay and thereby enabling corals to grow and reproduce, they are also important players in the long-term health and survival of coral reefs in the face of climate change and other threats. These are the findings of a new report published by IUCN and its institutional partners released today.
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China to control emissions by law – COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009
The world’s largest emitter will draw up new laws and regulations to provide a legal basis for combating climate change. A Chinese draft resolution on climate change, which has been submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), proposes to include emissions control by law.
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