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Exploring sustainability along social, economic and environmental planes.
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Vittana: Student Loans and a New Generation of Microfinance | Blog | NextBillion.net | Development through EnterpriseNextBillion brings together the community of business leaders, ...
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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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EPA Seeks Applicants for Environmental Education Grants | The Green Economy Post: Green Careers, Green Business, SustainabilityThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is accepting grant applications for a total of $3.4 million in funding for environmental education projects and programs.
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Is There Really A Water Crisis? - Boing BoingYou used to think there was a water crisis, what led you to change your mind? AB: I heard it so many times from the World Bank and the U.N. that there is a water crisis. Like the rest of the world, I assumed these guys knew what they were doing. But then I started looking at the global figures ...
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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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1Climate Change About National Security, Not Just Hugging Trees -- Sphere News, Opinion and AnalysisDUH! Mainly Repbulicans (but also many Democrats) serving their corporate energy company masters have for years "buried their heads in the sand" about this. If we had reduced or eliminated our dependence on foreign oil as Jimmy Carter urged and attempted to implement (torpedoed by the Saudi's ...JDP added 8 days ago
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How green are our cities?Once again points to the fact that per-capita resource consumption is the key number to measure.boabjohn added 2 weeks ago
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The Great American Bubble Machine : Rolling StoneBeing a sucker for conspiracy theories I found this quite good. Surprised me to find it under the Rolling Stone umbrella.Darcy Bross added 4 months ago
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1House Democrats win key test vote on climate bill - Yahoo! NewsRepublicans have apparently (or willfully) forgotten "the largest tax increase" brought on by oil speculation that THEIR deregulation enabled. Nor can they apparently look beyond their nose (or where it was in the last century!) to similar "tax increases" if big oil and big coal continue to ...JDP added 4 months ago
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1Asia Challenges the U.S. for Green Tech Supremacy - Yahoo! NewsWill the Republican "NO" machine ensure that the USA falls behind the rest of the world in the most important technology race of this new century ... in order to protect their special interest masters (the current crop of energy companies)?JDP added 4 months ago
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