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Should Earth Scientists Take a ‘Hippocratic Oath’? | Wired Science | Wired.comTwo researchers think it's about time their discipline made a public commitment not to harm the patient they study: Earth. Like the Hippocratic oath - I vow to always: * Advise against any intervention into the functioning of Earth systems that I believe might harm humanity, the ...
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Worldchanging: Bright Green: Renewable Energy Investments Will Soar to $200 Billion Worldwide in 2010Renewable Energy Investments Will Soar to $200 Billion Worldwide in 2010 Global investments in alternative energy projects will rise nearly 50 percent in 2010, climbing from $130 billion this year to $200 billion next year . In a survey of the green energy market, Bloomberg News reports that ...
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Worldchanging: Bright Green: India Announces Improved Cook Stove ProgramIndia Announces Improved Cook Stove Program India revealed a program today to provide efficient cooking stoves to rural areas in an effort to reduce air pollution and a major contributor to climate change. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy announced the National Biomass Cook-stoves ...
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A Climate Change Reading List For Laypeople : NPRThe Copenhagen conference on climate change is set to begin Monday, December 7. Both the policy and science aspects of the issue can be overwhelming. NPR science correspondent Richard Harris offers a suggested reading list to help shed some light on the climate change debate. Break Through by ...
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Economics focus: Green with envy | The EconomistThe tension between free trade and capping emissions- Tax Trade to cut Emissions?
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BBC News - Hydro-electricity in Wales: Turning streams into cashBy Simon Gompertz Abercraf, Wales A sheep farm in the Brecon Beacons in mid-Wales is providing a glimpse of a post-carbon future, one in which green electricity is generated locally. And the farmer involved, Howell Williams, has found that low emissions can mean high profits. He is making ...canadianmacfan added 9 days ago- SHARE
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Climate science update: from bad to worse - Yahoo! NewsThe planet could warm by seven degrees Celsius (10.8 degrees Fahrenheit) this century, a figure that lies at the farthest range of expert predictions made only two years ago, scientists said on Tuesday. The study is the biggest overview on global warming since the UN Intergovernmental Panel on ...
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India to Spend $900 Million on Solar - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.comIndia to Spend $900 Million on Solar Ending months of speculation about exactly what it was planning to do to boost the use of renewable sources of energy, India said this week that it will spend about $900 million on solar energy. The Indian cabinet approved a plan on Thursday that sets ...
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U.S., China vow action on climate change - CNN.comChina and the United States, the largest producers of greenhouse gases, will team up to fight climate change and create clean energy, their leaders said Tuesday. Chinese President Hu Jintao and President Obama said their nations will cooperate to advance technologies and work toward a global ...
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Clean technology as a public good - SciDev.NetOne of the more ambitious, yet convincing solutions on the table next month is the G-77 plus China's idea of a UN-operated multilateral climate technology fund (MCTF). Using a multilateral system to identify technological needs and priorities avoids the type of political trading that too ...
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