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• Stern: ‘Kingsnorth should be shelved’ – UK Politics, UK – The Independent

  Britain’s latest coal-fired power station should not be built, according to Lord Stern of Brentford, the economist who led the Government’s review into the financial cost of climate change. Lord Stern called on the Government to halt the planning process and said that the new coal-fired power station proposed for Kingsnorth in Kent cannot be justified until the technology is developed to capture and store its huge carbon dioxide emissions.

  tags: stern, coal, carbon capture and storage, carbon dioxide, greenmonktv

• Surveillance vehicles take flight using alternative energy

  fuel cell powered UAVs are taking flight as an Office of Naval Research (ONR)-sponsored program to help tactical decision-makers gather critical information more efficiently… and more quietly.

  tags: uav, onr, navy, fuel cell, greenmonktv

• Worldchanging: Bright Green: World’s Second* Largest Solar Plant To Be Built in Florida

  World’s Second* Largest Solar Plant To Be Built in Florida

  tags: csp, concentrating photovoltaic, Concentrated solar-thermal, florida, greenmonktv

• World Greenhouse gas emissions by sector – Maps and Graphics at UNEP/GRID-Arendal

  World Greenhouse gas emissions by sector

  tags: greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gases, map, unep, greenmonktv

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• Woodchips With Everything – Monbiot.com

  Here comes the latest utopian catastrophe: the plan to solve climate change with biochar

  tags: biochar, climate change, sequestration, greenmonktv

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• Open For Questions

  The trial run of Open for Questions has wrapped up with the President answering several of the most popular questions during a special online town hall. We will be trying to address more of the questions the President could not get to over the next week or so, and will continue looking for new ways to engage with the public and get your input.

  tags: obama, greenmonktv, open for questions

• How Monsanto put this farmer in court over GE seed | Greenpeace Australia Pacific

  n February 2007, Monsanto initiated a law suit against Moe Parr. The biotech company claimed that Moe had encouraged farmers of genetically engineered (GE) soybean to save their seed.

  Moe is one of many farmers in North America who’ve faced coercion from Monsanto through legal and economic intimidation.

  tags: monsanto, ge seed, greenmonktv

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• Inhabitat » The EcoDrain Cuts Water Heater Use by 40%

  A hot shower is relaxing, but is also a huge waste of energy: we heat our water with massive amounts of natural gas, oil or electricity, then transport the heated water to our tubs for a few seconds of sudsing, before washing it down the drain full of raw, wasted heat and energy! What if we could recapture this untapped source of wasted energy by transferring the heat from that shower waste-water to cold incoming water? The EcoDrain, a simple heat exchange unit, does just that, saving water heater use by up to 40%.

  tags: shower, waste water, water, efficiency, greenmonktv, ecodrain

• Software Enabled Earth : WWF Studies Find Information Technology Significantly Reduces Climate Impacts, Costs of doing business

  World Wildlife Fund today released two new studies that underscore how existing information technology (IT) solutions can meet the demands of today’s corporations while also reducing the harmful CO2 emissions that contribute to climate change.

  tags: wwf, climate change, microsoft, hp, telework, telepresence, greenmonktv

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• IBM hops aboard high-speed rail | Green Tech – CNET News

  IBM on Wednesday plans to announce details of three rail projects outside the U.S. that bring that vision of efficient and convenient rail travel closer to reality. Overall, the projects in China, Taiwan, and the Netherlands show how rail travel can reduce urban congestion and cut down on pollution from transportation, said IBM.

  tags: ibm, high speed rail, trains, rail, greenmonktv

• Study: Range of pharmaceuticals in fish across US

  Fish caught near wastewater treatment plants serving five major U.S. cities had residues of pharmaceuticals in them, including medicines used to treat high cholesterol, allergies, high blood pressure, bipolar disorder and depression

  tags: fish, pharmaceuticals

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• ReGeneration – LED there be light

  Ultra-efficient bulbs could make even compact-fluorescent lights obsolete.

  tags: led lighting, led, incandescent, greenmonktv

• National Grid launches carbon remuneration scheme – 23 Mar 2009 – BusinessGreen.com

  National Grid has today become arguably the highest profile firm to date to tie environmental performance to staff remuneration packages in a move that will see executives financially rewarded based on the emission reductions their departments deliver.

  The company announced today that it would implement carbon budgets across its entire operations from next month and incorporate compliance with those budgets into the performance management criteria it uses to gauge executives’ salaries and bonuses.

  tags: carbon emissions, remuneration, emissions reductions, greenmonktv

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• Device Provides Household Energy Savings of 12%

  100% Off will provide household energy savings of 12% by automatically overriding stand-by mode and switching appliances off

  tags: 100% off, stand-by, greenmonktv

• US economic stimulus money fuels ‘smart’ power grid surge

  Electric grids are getting smarter in an IBM lab in Texas as the promise of billions of US economic stimulus dollars fuels a drive to make power delivery more efficient and greener.

  tags: smart, grid, ibm, drew clark

• IBM Press room – 2009-03-22 Ricoh and Taisei Join Eco-Patent Commons – United States

  Ricoh and Taisei have joined the Eco-Patent Commons, a first-of-a-kind business effort coordinated by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) to help the environment by pledging environmentally beneficial patents to the public domain.

  tags: ricoh, taisei, eco patent commons, wbcsd, greenmonktv

• Robotic Fish To Monitor Water Pollution – CBS News

  A school of mechanical, battery-powered robots in the shape of fish will be released into a Spanish port to help monitor pollution there, scientists said Friday.

  The 5-foot-long robots work by mimicking the swishing movements of a fish’s tail, according to University of Essex robotics expert Huosheng Hu, whose team is manufacturing the machines.

  tags: robotic fish, water, pollution, water pollution, greenmonktv

• Schools of robofish to sniff out pollution in the Thames | Mail Online

  Schools of robotic fish could be sent into the Thames to produce a 3D pollution map of the river.

  Researchers at the University of Essex in Colchester are working on the robofish as part of a £2.5million EU-funded project to find new ways of monitoring water waste.

  Each fish will be about 50cm long, 15cm high and 12cm wide. They will be packed with pollution sensors that can electronically ‘sniff’ harmful chemicals in the water.

  tags: water, pollution, robotic fish, greenmonktv

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• Austin signs up for $250 million solar project

  Webberville-area project would be among world’s largest but also comes with cost questions

  tags: austin, solar, pv, photovoltaic, green choice, greenmonktv

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• How Much Energy Goes Into Making a Bottle of Water?

  Researchers have calculated that the energy required to produce bottled water is up to 2,000 times more than the energy required to produce tap water.

  tags: water, bottled water, energy, greenmonktv

• Obama expected to kill key Bush EPA program

  The Obama administration intends to close an EPA program heavily promoted by the Bush Administration that rewards voluntary pollution controls by hundreds of corporations with reduced environmental inspections and less stringent regulation, according to EPA sources and internal emails.

  tags: obama, epa, performance track, greenmonktv

• Heathrow’s third runway: planning for aviation boom times is no way to deal with economic bust | Environment | guardian.co.uk

  Even without the overwhelming environmental case against airport expansion, the economic case is crumbling too

  tags: Heathrow, airport, greenmonktv

• IBM Press room – 2009-03-16 IBM and Marine Institute Ireland Netting Results in Galway’s “SmartBay” Project – United States

  IBM and the Marine Institute Ireland have completed the SmartBay pilot information system to monitor wave conditions, marine life and pollution levels in and around Galway Bay. This real-time advanced analytics pilot is turning mountains of data into intelligence, paving the way for smarter environmental management and development of the bay.

  tags: water, galway bay, smartbay, ibm, greenmonktv

• ReGeneration – Real Insight: The world’s most affordable hybrid…from Honda

  The cost of entry to Hybrid-land (next to Fuelcellandia) just got a whole lot cheaper. Beginning March 24, the 2010 Honda Insight will be on sale, with the entry-level LX model selling for $19,800. That makes it the lowest-priced hybrid on U.S. roads.

  tags: hybrid, honda, honda insight

• IBM Press room – 2009-03-16 IBM Makes Water Clean With Smarter, More Energy-Efficient Purification – United States

  Scientists at IBM Research, together with collaborators from Central Glass, KACST and the University of Texas, Austin have created a new membrane that filters out salts as well as potentially harmful toxins in water such as arsenic while using less energy than other forms of water purification.

  tags: ibm, ibm research, water, UT, kacst, greenmonktv

• Monbiot.com » A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

  Quietly in public, loudly in private, climate scientists everywhere are saying the same thing: it’s over. The years in which more than two degrees of global warming could have been prevented have passed, the opportunities squandered by denial and delay. On current trajectories we’ll be lucky to get away with four degrees. Mitigation (limiting greenhouse gas pollution) has failed; now we must adapt to what nature sends our way. If we can.

  tags: climate change, global warming, monbiot, greenmonktv

• Obama: It’s Not About the “F***ing” Light Bulbs! : TreeHugger

  Obama is sick and tired of having to save the planet by switching to energy-efficient bulbs. During the primaries, Newsweek overheard a very unscripted Obama talking about the debates:

  I don’t consider this to be a good format for me, which makes me more cautious. I often find myself trapped by the questions and thinking to myself, ‘You know, this is a stupid question, but let me … answer it.’ So when Brian Williams is asking me about what’s a personal thing that you’ve done [that’s green], and I say, you know, ‘Well, I planted a bunch of trees.’ And he says, ‘I’m talking about personal.’ What I’m thinking in my head is, ‘Well, the truth is, Brian, we can’t solve global warming because I f—ing changed light bulbs in my house. It’s because of something collective’.

  tags: obama, light bulbs

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• The smart electricity grid comes home | Socket to me | The Economist

  Or so your correspondent believed until he attended Demo 09 in Palm Desert, California, earlier this week. The event, where selected startups are each given six minutes under the spotlight to pitch their product to an audience of investors and industry veterans, is one of the leading launch pads for emerging technologies.

  Three presentations at Demo 09 lifted his spirits. One, in particular, made him feel the smart grid might even enter the home before the decade was out.

  tags: smart grid, smart home, zigbee, tendril

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