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| Global investments in green energy up nearly a third to $211 billion | Science Daily | Jul 7 |
| Wind farms in China and small-scale solar panels on rooftops in Europe were largely responsible for last year's 32 percent rise in green energy investments worldwide according to the latest annual report on renewable energy investment trends. Last year, investors pumped a record $211 billion into renewables -- about one-third more than the $160 billion invested in 2009, and a 540 percent rise ... |
| UN says green energy investment at record level | AFP via Yahoo! News | Jul 7 |
| Investment in renewable energy last year amounted to a record 211 billion dollars, a rise of 32 percent over 2009 and 540 percent over 2004, a UN-backed report said on Thursday. |
| EPA's new clean air transport rule threatens Texas' economic success | My West Texas | Jul 6 |
| It's no secret that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the State of Texas have had their share of disagreements regarding the best way to promote clean air and secure Texas' energy future. Reasonable people often have legitimate differences ... |
| The Nature Conservancy and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative Explore Responsible Sourcing for Bioenergy Feedstocks | YAHOO! | Jul 7 |
| WASHINGTON , June 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) launched a pilot project today to help bioenergy companies in the United States support responsible forest management through their procurement of woody biomass. The |
| SFI Funds Community-Based Education and Green Building Projects | PR-USA.net | Jun 22 |
| The Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) has awarded a total of $35,200 in grants to nine community-based projects to support forestry education activities and green building for low-income families. In recognition of International Year of Forests ... |
| White House to Al Gore: Obama Has Taken Most Aggressive Steps in History to Tackle Climate Change | ABC News Blogs | Jun 22 |
| President Obama has never presented to the American people the magnitude of the climate crisis. He has simply not made the case for action, wrote Gore, who won a Nobel Prize in 2007 for his work on climate change. Not so, says the White House. |
| The Agricultural Science Community Is Waking To The Climate Crisis | Think Progress | Jun 23 |
| Our guest blogger is Brian DeVore , Land Stewardship Project. In 1989, I worked for a farm magazine that claimed global climate change, if real, would actually be good for agriculture since rising carbon dioxide levels would act as some sort of mega plant ... |
| Climate Crisis Solutions - from ecomii blogs | ecomii food & health alternative blog | Jul 5 |
| We can help change the course of global warming. And it doesn't take a big budget or a lot of technology - it just takes individual effort. |
| When Physics Meets Politics: Why the Climate Crisis is such an ... | Post Carbon Institute Publications | Jun 27 |
| PCI ED Asher Miller's presentation on why the climate crisis is such an intractable political issue. |
