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Amazon cuts Kindle price, adds global version - Tech and gadgets- msnbc.comCUPERTINO, California - Amazon.com Inc. is cutting the price of its Kindle electronic-book reader yet again and launching an international version, in hopes of spurring more sales and keeping it ahead of a growing field of competitors.
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Better Place Installs First Battery-Swap Stations for Electric Taxis in TokyoEarlier this year, electric vehicle infrastructure company Better Place tested out its EV battery switch technology in Yokohama, Japan. Apparently the Japanese government was so impressed that it gave Better Place cash to conduct a pilot project in Tokyo for the world's first electric taxis ...
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YouTube - CNN: Pushing green technologyPushing green technology 6:24A new trend in Japan is ...
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Rich Nations Offer 15-21 Percent CO2 Cuts By 2020: U.N.Environment | | Rich Nations Offer 15-21 Percent CO2 Cuts By 2020: U.N. By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Industrialized nations excluding the United States are planning cuts in greenhouse gas emissions of between 15 and 21 percent below 1990 levels by ...
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Battery Funding for US and Foreign Manufacturers to Create Jobs | CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.comBattery Funding for US and Foreign Manufacturers to Create Jobs Published on August 6th, 2009 by John Gartner The Obama administration is hoping that $1.5 billion will finally be enough to make the U.S. a player in the global manufacturing of advanced batteries, which until now has been ...
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Chinese Bank Invests in PRC’s Wind Farm Project : EcoWorldlyComing in at second place in the world in energy consumption - second only to the United States - the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the world’s most populated nation, is looking for ways to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions and shift to renewable energy. This desire to increase ...
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Fears for the World's Poor Countries as the Rich Grab Land to Grow Food | CommonDreams.orgThe acquisition of farmland from the world's poor by rich countries and international corporations is accelerating at an alarming rate, with an area half the size of Europe's farmland targeted in the last six months, reports from UN officials and agriculture experts say.New reports from the UN ...
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Asia Challenges the U.S. for Green Tech Supremacy - Yahoo! NewsAmerica was caught off guard in the 1950s when the Soviet Union suddenly launched its first Sputnik satellite. It looks like history may repeat itself, but this time the arena is more down to earth. In August, the leaders of Japan, China and Korea will hold a trilateral summit to discuss how ...
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Poverty News Blog: Analysis of the G-8 aid commitments to AfricaThe big story yesterday was the new report from the ONE Campaign on the G-8 fulfillment of aid promises. ONE had really attacked Italy and France for dragging the whole G-8 aid average down. ONE says that the two countries had fallen way short of it's promises to double aid to the African ...
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US Posturing on China's Carbon Emissions Scarier Than the Emissions Themselves : TreeHuggerUS Posturing on China's Carbon Emissions Scarier Than the Emissions Themselves Now here's a scary thought: If we don't see significant cuts in China's carbon emissions by 2050, even if every other country reduced theirs by 80%, the world will still a 2.7°C rise is average temperature. ...
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