10 Articles match "California","Statistics"

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• Sugarcane ethanol already meets California low carbon fuel standard, says Brazilian Sugarcane Association
  
  The objective of the LCFS is to reduce by 10% the carbon intensity of all transportation fuels in California by 2020. UNICA develops position papers, statistics and specific research in support of Brazil's sugar, ethanol and bioelectricity sectors. It urges CARB to revisit the methodologies utilized in land use change modeling. Think!
  Green (Living) Review - Sunday, April 19, 2009
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• The Water-Energy Connection
  
  California's Water-Energy Relationship , published in 2005 by the California Energy Commission, reports on the relationship between water and energy. The Water for Energy - Energy For Water forum, held at the University of California San Diego in February 2009, explores the complex relationship between water and energy. The U.S.
  The Green Changemakers - Tuesday, November 17, 2009
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• Is Local Food Better?
  
  In the United States, the most frequently cited statistic is that food travels 1,500 miles on average from farm to consumer. by Sarah DeWeerdt Yes, probably-but not in the way many people think. By contrast, locally sourced food traveled an average of just 44.6 miles (72 kilometers) to Iowa markets. What's "Local"? How local is local?
  The Green Changemakers - Thursday, April 16, 2009
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• Heinberg on Life Beyond Growth
  
  ended up spending most of the next 20 years living in three communities—one in Toronto that I helped establish, and others in Colorado and southern California that had already been going for some time before I joined. began spending hours each day studying energy history and oil production statistics. That “normal” is gone. Always.
  The Green Changemakers - Friday, March 12, 2010
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• How to make a city green -- without tearing it down
  
  the utility Xcel Energy is piloting smart meters that let consumers see up-to-the-second statistics on their power usage, and change temperature and other usage settings automatically. So when it comes to sustainable living, cities pose a growing challenge. But cities also have one big problem: they’re already built. The answer: retrofitting.
  The Green Changemakers - Wednesday, July 15, 2009
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• Urban Research Symposium 2009
  
  Reflection for an operational approach for adaptation in low and middle-income countries (pdf) Roberto Sanchez-Rodriguez, University of California, Riverside, USA Explaining local commitment to climate change policy in the United States through the dimensions of risk, stress, and capacity (pdf) ( presentation - pdf) Samuel Brody. Dawson, S.
  The Green Changemakers - Sunday, February 7, 2010
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• Public Transportation: Benefits for the 21st Century
  
  Zion and Bryce in Utah, Rocky Mountain in Colorado, Yosemite in California, Acadia in Maine and Denali in Alaska are just some of the national parks now accessible by public transit. Washington: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, March 16, 2006. Statistical Abstract of the United States 2007. In 2005, Americans took 9.7
  The Green Changemakers - Tuesday, November 4, 2008
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• Is water the new oil?It's the world's most precious commodity, yet many of us take it for granted. But that's all about to change... Special report by
  
  In California, some farmers abandoned their crops this year as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared the first state-wide drought for 17 years. As Tony Allan says: 'Water shortages don't pose serious problems to gardeners in Hampshire or California homeowners with pools to fill.' But that's all about to change. We're Americans!"'
  The Green Changemakers - Monday, November 3, 2008
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• The Sacred Demise of Industrial Civilization - PeakMoment.TV
  
  By righteous, I mean a false sense of doing or feeling "the right thing", but the problem with a righteous attitude is that it often leads to detachment from reality-not unlike Barbara Bush's comment that she doesn't want to trouble her " beautiful mind " with statistics about troop or civilian casualties in Iraq. What’s up? link]. Angry?
  The Green Changemakers - Tuesday, March 30, 2010
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• A New Way of Living
  
  Nat’l Assn of Home Builders * “American consumers owed a grand total of $1.9773 trillion in October 2003, according to the latest statistics on consumer credit from the Federal Reserve. That’s about $18,654 per household, a figure that doesn’t include mortgage debt. When Reagan entered office, the total public debt was $1,028,729,000,000.00.
  The Green Changemakers - Thursday, November 27, 2008
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