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BBC NEWS | UK | End in sight for 100w light bulb
A European Union ban on the manufacture and import of 100-watt and frosted incandescent light bulbs, in use since the 19th century, has come into force.
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Interactive: How to green your home | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Looking to give your home an eco-renovation? Click through our low-carbon house below to see how the Guardian’s Green your home bloggers cut their energy bills with solar panels, insulation, wood-burning stoves and more
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LCCN Supports 10:10 | Low Carbon Communities
Everyone is looking for something to do about climate change. What’s needed is something straightforward, immediate and meaningful.
Today we’re joining thousands of individuals and organisations from across the country to unite behind one simple idea: a 10% cut in carbon emissions during 2010. It’s called 10:10, and we want you to be a part of it. Join us at Tate Modern from 4pm to celebrate the start of this new chapter in the biggest story of the 21st Century. If you can’t make it down in person, visit 1010uk.org to sign up now.
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Yale Environment 360: Growth in Wind Power Gets Boost From Change in Subsidies
Large banks, including Morgan Stanley and Citigroup, are making major investments in wind farms because a change in federal renewable energy subsidies is providing investors returns of up to 15 percent, the Wall Street Journal reports. The surge in investment has been spurred in part by a new
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U.S. government policy, which now allows wind farm developers to receive 30 percent of the cost of the project upfront in cash, rather than receiving tax credits spread out over the life of the wind farm. -
It’s Over: Five Reasons the Electric Car Wins
It could take ten years or more to become apparent, but I’ll call it now: the electric car will replace the internal combustion engine.
A caveat: I am not an automotive industry expert. Which is why I’m right. I’m not mired in the details, the past failures, the what ifs or the buts. All I see are the big, obvious things. When it comes to sea change in human behavior, though, obvious matters.
So, since no prediction is worth its salt without an accompanying list, the following are five overlapping reasons why our children will all be driving electric cars…
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One Atom Away From Clean Water
A breakthrough discovery from Sandia National Laboratories could help keep a lid on the rising cost of chemical water treatment and make clean drinking water more affordable in “water challenged” areas of the world. Working with researchers at the University of California, the Sandia team substituted one atom in aluminum oxide, a common chemical used to coagulate impurities in water. The new compound promises a more sustainable way to decontaminate wastewater as well as purify drinking water.
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Student worker at Coca-Cola plant beaten after seeking wages in arrears | CLB
A university student-worker at Coca-Cola’s bottling plant in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, was threatened and beaten by the managers of a labour supply company after he sought wages in arrears on behalf of himself and his colleagues, the Hong Kong-based pressure group Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) reported today.
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Normally, August is one of the coolest months in Australia, but not this year. Some regions had their warmest 2009 day in the winter month of August – hotter than any summer day.
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The virtues of biochar: A new growth industry? | The Economist
the latest fashion for dealing with global warming is to bring back charcoal. It has to be rebranded for modern consumers, of course, so it is now referred to as “biochar”. But there are those who think biochar may give humanity a new tool to attack the problem of global warming, by providing a convenient way of extracting CO2 from the atmosphere, burying it and improving the quality of the soil on the way
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