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Environmental Economics
MARCH 15, 2011
Main | Chewbacca sighting » March 15, 2011 Renewable energy source #1 If you’re looking for the next big alternative energy craze, look no further than your toilet.
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Renewable Energy Sources May Provide Political Breakthrough
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2012
Why are we even talking about Iran's nuclear program when renewable energy offers a clear way out of this conundrum? The West is not alone in the pursuit of renewable energy capacity.
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From Nobel Peace Laureates: “Renewable energy sources are one of the powerful keys to a peaceful future.&#. From NOVA: A Clean Energy Future? Relevant info.
Google Invests in Africa’s Largest Wind Farm
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UK Renewables Break Generation Record- Again
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Faster Development of Renewable Energy Needed Now
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Israeli Parliament Plans to be Solar Secure by 2014
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I mandate [insert something ridiculous here]
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Sunlight Goes to Waste: India's Grid Failure
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Negative space
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Beginning this year, energy companies must buy an increasing proportion of their credits in national auctions. Big investments in renewable energy sources like wind and solar also reduced carbon emissions, which have fallen about 10 percent in Europe since 2007.
California's Jerry Brown Urges Action on Clean Energy
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Speaking at the fourth annual National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas, California Governor Jerry Brown urged attendees to boost efforts to promote clean, renewable energy sources. We're not going to ever not need energy.
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Japanese Ministry of Agriculture Supports Renewable Energy Deployment in Rural Areas
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billion yen for projects that support the deployment of renewable energies in Japan's rural areas. billion yen for a project to launch renewable energy supply models and 0.7
Earth- The Operators' Manual-A Review
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Written as a companion book for a forthcoming PBS documentary he hosts, it provides a lively review of the science of climate change and of the renewable energy sources now able to be employed.
Middle East expands renewable energy to the world
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UAE Calls for Comprehensive Regional Energy Strategy
Celsias
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
United Arab Emirates Assistant Foreign Minister Ahmad al-Jabir, special envoy for energy affairs and climate change, and chief executive officer of Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar), has urged oil-exporting nations "to formulate a comprehensive energy strategy focusing on conventional, nuclear, and renewable energy.". In an extraordinary appeal to fellow OPEC members al-Jabir emphasized Abu Dhabi's commitment for renewable energy sources to become an “essential” element in Abu Dhabi's increasingly varied sources of energy, embodied in the strategic Plan Abu Dhabi 2030, noting that solar power will soon supply around 7 percent of Abu Dhabi's energy needs.
Vietnam's PM Approves 10 Year national Power Plan
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percent from renewable energy sources and the remaining 2.1 Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved an ambitious decade-long national power development plan that will attempt to boost Vietnam’s power production to 330 billion kilowatts by 2020.
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