The UN secretary general said the international community was in danger of squandering a once-in-a-generation opportunity - http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jun/15/rio-20-earth-summit-ban-ki-moon

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Corporations need to look beyond making money as their primary goal and work towards both sustainable consumption and production, says Ethan Goffman Sponsor's feature - http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/sustainable-consumption-production-social-responsibility?newsfeed=true

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A video describing the project on wetlands.

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Industry seeks energy independence | Electric Power News | Energy Central - http://www.energycentral.com/news/en/23828987/

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on governments, the private sector and society to commit to his Sustainable Energy for All Initiative at the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) in Abu Dhabi, UAE. - http://www.renewableenergyfocus.com/view/23294/wfes-ban-ki-moon-launches-sustainable-energy-for-all-initiative/

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The Yasuni ITT initiative has been successful in collecting a sum of nearly $116 million to protect the 900 million barrels of crude oil lying beneath the Amazon Basin. This step will help in cutting down the carbon emissions which is estimated to equal the annual emission of a country like France. In addition this will also help in protecting two tribals indigenous to this region.  With 90 percent of the public in Ecuador, where the oil rich basin is located, supporting this initiative, the next step of the country would be in publicising the campaign.  

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Bill Gates on Insanity and Energy R&D - ScienceInsider - http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/02/bill-gates-on-insanity-and-energy.html?ref=hp

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The Japanese government is launching a large-scale cleanup of the fields, forests, and villages contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear disaster. But some experts caution that an overly aggressive remediation program could create a host of other environmental problems.

Read More: http://e360.yale.edu/feature/as_fukushima_cleanup_begins_long-term_impacts_are_weighed/2482/

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Google invested nearly $1 billion last year in clean energy companies. Why aren’t more big companies doing so?

More importantly - why is google doing so - Read More: http://www.marcgunther.com/2012/02/01/why-google-invests-in-clean-energy/

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A new report today from the U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA) confirms that America is moving beyond coal, though the EIA understates how dim coal's prospects are. According to the 2012 energy outlook, coal-fired electricity will continue its steady decline in 2012, opening market space for clean energy.

Read More: http://sierraclub.typepad.com/compass/2012/01/new-report-coal-use-shrinks-while-clean-energy-expands.html

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How will we respond to the Great Contraction? Columnist Chris Nelder argues that Americans must face energy challenges on their own. - http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/energy-futurist/the-revolution-will-be-bottom-up/296?tag=nl.e660

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Things are not always as they seem.

The author of this article was working as an Associate Editor of AOL Energy when she interviewed an "expert" professor in the field of Wind Energy. This expert stated that wind power was not as simple as it seemed and not as free and clean as a nature-lover would have hoped and that long and expensive transmission lines make wind power one of the most costly renewables to connect to the grid.

Several months later she learned that her "expert" source was a full time consultant to utilities and power companies, many of whom were incumbent fossil fuel companies that compete with wind!

Read More - http://energy.aol.com/2011/12/31/learning-to-be-an-energy-journalist/

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The new funding solicitation seeks applicants that will develop data-driven software tools to reduce non-hardware costs, such as labor, permitting and inspection, customer acquisition, financing, and contracting. The funding will be awarded in two tiers, to help applicants develop products, and then transition them into full-scale deployment. Concept papers are due by January 16, 2012.

Find out how you can apply and Read More: http://energy.gov/articles/energy-department-announces-7-million-reduce-non-hardware-costs-solar-energy-systems

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The President of Central Pennsylvania's Community College highlights the school's innovative efforts to prepare students for the 21st century clean energy economy.

He says, "because of the growing demand for renewable energy and energy efficiency equipment and services, our college offers training programs in green technologies like photovoltaic technology and geothermal heating and cooling systems; technician training in wind power; and certificate programs for building analysts and energy auditors."
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Read More: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/11/21/voice-innovator-equipping-students-21st-century-jobs

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A growth economy powered by fossil fuels literally choked itself today, as China’s capital cancels hundreds of flights amid smog and bad weather - http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/intelligent-energy/smog-grounds-beijing-flights/10967?tag=nl.e660

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DURBAN — At the COP17 climate change conference in South Africa, Indian officials share concerns that the growth of emerging nations will be unf - http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/global-observer/in-durban-india-debates-100-billion-global-green-fund/896?tag=nl.e660

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The UK government plans to integrate clean energy technology like wind, tidal, geothermal and solar power on the island to build the Island into a centre for green technology and innovation. They are also evaluating zero emission transport options including electric cars, bikes, hydrogen vans and green public transport. Besides reducing local fuel bills by up to 50%, the ‘EcoIsland’ initiative plans to make the island a net exporter of energy by 2020.

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http://www.eco-island.org/images/uploads/press/Eco_Island_press_release_Nov_2011.pdf

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All energy derived from biological sources is BIOENERGY. Whether the net environmental, social and climate impacts of bioenergy are positive or negative will depend largely on what policy and market safeguards are put in place. WWF’s Living Forests Report is part of a year-long conversation with partners, policymakers and business about how forests can contribute to the vision that: “humanity’s global footprint stays within the Earth’s ecological limits and the planet’s natural resources are shared equitably”.


The report uses the Living Forests Model to explore pathways to achieve and maintain WWF’s target of Zero Net Deforestation and Forest Degradation (ZNDD) by 2020. The goal is to compare different future scenarios, look at the implications of policies and inform debate.

Read More at:
http://assets.wwf.org.uk/downloads/lfr_chapter_2_final_1_.pdf

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