Wind Power Ninja

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

South Korea is getting into the wind power game with a bold, 2.5 The wind farm will be built off the southwestern coast of South Korea will include about 500 turbines and is expected to be completed by 2019. Government / Industry south korea wind farmGW project will cost about $8.2 billion to build. Companies like Hyundai Heavy Industries and Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering are constructing the turbines.

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Wind Power Ninja

AUGUST 24, 2009

Spanish company Acciona has finished the first stage of a wind park to be built in South Korea by a European company. Government / Industry wind farm south koreaThe 61.5 MW Yeong Yang facility represents an investment of 100 million euros. A test bed complex for wind power capable of generating 40 megawatts will be built on reclaimed land at Saemangeum.

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Sightline Daily

JUNE 26, 2015

South Korean flag Image by Nudimmud used under CC BY-SA 3.0. South Korea, which is the destination for much of the US coal shipped across the Pacific, is seeing many of the same trends.

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Eccorazzi

JANUARY 6, 2015

The South Korean government announced this week their plans to end needless testing on animals for cosmetics. The news comes following two years of Read More The post South Korea Announces Plans To End Cosmetics Testing on Animals appeared first on Ecorazzi.

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Sightline Daily

JANUARY 23, 2014

Instead, they’ll go to south Korea. And South Korea also has a big appetite for the kind of low-calorie coal that comes from mines in the Western United States. In short, South Korea is now taking real steps to crimp its consumption of coal.

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Green Blog

JULY 7, 2012

South Korea has said that they plan on hunting endangered whales that are protected by a global moratorium. Just like Japan, the South Koreans are trying to justify this by claiming that the whaling is done for scientific reasons. But due to a loophole in the treaty it is possible for countries such as Japan, and now also South Korea, to engage in so-called “scientific whaling” – and this even though the whale meat will later on be sold in markets for consumption.

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Sightline Daily

JULY 1, 2014

South Korean flag Image by Nudimmud used under CC BY-SA 3.0 South Korea’s new tax on coal imports, under discussion for over a year and announced this past January , went into effect today.

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Celsias

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Schools in South Korea to Be Completely Digital by 2015

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Eccorazzi

JULY 18, 2012

An unidentified official said the president and prime minister made the determination at a meeting Tuesday. Read More. Animals Causes News Top News

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Celsias

OCTOBER 25, 2011

The Mozambican and South Korean governments have signed two loan agreements totaling $60 million to underwrite both the establishment of an Emergency Information Management System and the building of three photovoltaic solar power stations.

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Celsias

JULY 5, 2012

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Eccorazzi

MAY 4, 2012

Former Vice President and Environmentalist, Al Gore, posted a blog today about the historic climate change legislation that has just been passed in South Korea. Read More. Causes Environment News People Top News al gore

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Celsias

OCTOBER 21, 2012

fund designed to manage billions of dollars to help developing nations combat climate change and called The Green Climate Fund will be based in South Korea. A new U.N.

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EcoFriend

MARCH 30, 2012

The capital of South Korea, Seoul, is home to towering skyscrapers and apartment buildings. Currently just a show home, the firm hopes that the design will one day dot the landscapes of South Korea.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2011

I then flew south to Sydney to have the weekend with my sister and family. I then flew into Busan, South Korea after a heavy rain storm Tuesday morning and the first birds I saw were egrets beside the runway. The Birds Korea website has a very good gallery.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

Well, it was my lucky day as I changed the card and got more photos and I had a Blue Rock Thrush to add to my South Korea bird list… with evidence! Trips Busan South Korea

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2011

Trips Busan South KoreaWhere has the last week gone?! I have walked for miles exploring around this amazing city. I stand out as a foreigner, but even more than that I don’t have a frilly umbrella like the other women! Should I get one? No, I think I will stick with a hat!

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Elephant Journal

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Blog (always click 4 all blogs) Health & Wellness asian facial features asian features asian surgery asians who want to look caucasian beauty beauty industry caucasian julie chen julie chen gets surgery julie chen of the talk julie chen''s eye surgery plastic surgery for asians south korea surgeries

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

Birding Trips Busan South KoreaWell one day this week saw me searching for shorebirds, as there must be some here somewhere that I can get to.

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Green Prophet

MARCH 16, 2011

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, VP for UAE & ruler of Dubai, presented South Korean President Lee Myung-bak with the Zayed Environmental Prize. The top prize went to South Korea’s President for his country’s “Green Growth&# initiative.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Trips Busan South KoreaWell, as you read this I will be sitting on an aeroplane heading from Busan to Hong Kong to Sydney… time to go home!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2011

Trips Busan South KoreaI have spent another week exploring this huge city and walking all over the place. It is possible to go above or underground to a lot of places and see more and more shops. I am not really into shopping, so I see what is about and head for the parks.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2011

Jason contacted me to see if I would like to explore beyond the city of Busan as another Birds Korea member had found a great spot for Eurasian Nuthatches by chance. Trips South Korea

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Elephant Journal

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Adventure Blog (always click 4 all blogs) Inspiring (Wow) WAYLON: Editor''s Picks alpinism amazing ambition Climbing drive first ascent following dreams guidebook Himalayas Jonn Jeanneret motivation mountaineering photography pictures South Korea strong videography wow This was the first time I’d met the locally famed climbing photographer, Jonn Jeanneret, known affectionately as Jean, and I didn’t want to sound stupid.

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Green (Living) Review

AUGUST 9, 2015

In August 2013, the neighborhood of Haenggung-dong in South Korea banned cars for an entire month. Busy, traffic-clogged streets became filled with pedestrians, bicyclists, and children at play.

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Elephant Journal

MAY 27, 2015

Shinrin-yoku, which translates as "forest bathing" or the medicine of being in the forest, is all the rage in Japan and South Korea. South Korea has invested $140 million in a new center on forest therapy.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

In case you missed it, today’s Google Doodle managed to reference not only the current Winter Olympics in South Korea, but also the fact that it’s Valentine’s Day.

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Environmental Economics

AUGUST 1, 2012

The players -- four from South Korea, two from China and two from Indonesia -- have also been charged with "conducting oneself in a manner that is clearly abusive or detrimental to the sport" during matches on Tuesday, the federation said in a statement.

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Green Prophet

JUNE 2, 2019

South Korea recently banned use of disposable plastic bags, requiring supermarkets and other commercial establishments to provide recyclable containers to customers.

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Sustainability Ninja

DECEMBER 4, 2011

in 2010, India 9.4%, and South Korea 9.2%. Global carbon emissions have reached a record 10 billion tons, which is a huge increase of almost 50% in the last twenty years. The study by the Global Carbon Project says a slowdown in emissions during the 2008-09 global financial crisis wasn’t enough to make a positive impact, and the gain in 2011 followed a 6% jump in 2010.

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Green Prophet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

The Masdar Institute (MI) has teamed up with the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) headed by Denmark’s former Prime Minister, and the Research Institute for Industrial Science and Technology (RIST) from South Korea to develop a 100% renewable energy micro-grid in Abu Dhabi.

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Environmental Economics

OCTOBER 30, 2014

South Korea delayed a carbon-based tax on vehicle emissions. South Africa put off a planned carbon tax until 2016. And yet, for environmentalists, a sliver of hope exists in the shape of Chile, one of Latin America’s fastest-growing economies, which last month approved the first carbon tax in South America.

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Green (Living) Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

They work together with the city’s Economic Board, among a broad range of other local stakeholders, to make Amsterdam the first official “Sharing City” in Europe, following international examples like Seoul in South Korea and San Francisco in the US ( BayShare ).

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Eco Friendly Daily

AUGUST 4, 2013

In a recent UN meeting in Busan, South Korea, over 230 different delegates from 85 countries agreed to creating such a branch of the UN. In 2005, the United Nation’s published their Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.

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Green Prophet

OCTOBER 18, 2014

On the occasion of World Food Day, Beirut will play host to the funkiest food salvage event in history: Disco Soup!

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Celsias

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The report titled "Climate Change and Migration in Asia and the Pacific" says Bangladesh, India, Maldives and Pakistan face the greatest risk, but Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, China and South Korea are also especially vulnerable.

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Celsias

AUGUST 30, 2013

Örjan Gustafsson and colleagues from China, South Korea and the United States point out in their study that nobody has been certain about the exact sources of soot

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Environmental Economics

JANUARY 26, 2018

Today, 95 percent of the solar panels used in the United States are imported from countries like Malaysia and South Korea, and the companies contend that tariffs are needed to protect the nation’s remaining solar factories.   Economists don't like tariffs.

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Celsias

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Today, more nations — from China and India to Singapore, Brazil and South Korea — are taking their place at the high table of research. A fundamental shift is taking place in where science is done and by whom.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

” That’s because an American architecture firm is planning what’s billed as the “world’s first invisible building” in South Korea. Or perhaps I should say “illusive.” Hat tip to Pat O’Donnell for the story; the image above is by GDS Architects, via CNN.) The skyscraper would apparently be cloaked in LED panels projecting an image of what’s on the other side of the building, for a pretty nifty see-through illusion.

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Eco Friendly Daily

JUNE 20, 2013

The ships, both German, took the route during a trip from South Korea to Siberia. However, a trip from South Korea to the Netherlands can now be reduced by 3,500 miles and 10 days of travel by using the Arctic routes.

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Celsias

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Belarusian Ambassador Designate to South Korea Natallia I. Belarus has announced that it is seeking foreign tenders to construct two nuclear power plants within the next decade in a contract worth $9 billion.

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Mother Jones

APRIL 13, 2016

Some 500 coal-fired power stations are currently under construction, 80 percent of which are in the Asia-Pacific region, where emerging markets as well as developed economies such as Japan and South Korea are still seeing consumption grow. These are truly dark days for coal.

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