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Gov beta test for grid-friendly, carbon-saving smart fridges • The Register
Dynamic demand technology, in which domestic appliances adjust their drain on the national grid so as to smooth out collective spikes and dips, is to get a widespread UK trial next year. The Guardian, reporting on the new initiative from the Department of Energy and Climate Change, says that ...
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Reversing the Flow of Electronic Waste
The European WEEE legislation highlights the growing importance of reverse logistics in companies' environmental strategies. It's no longer enough to streamline the manufacture and delivery of products to customers. Manufacturers and retailers also need to think about how to collect and ...
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Kite power for progressive freight transport
At first glance the freighter belonging to the Beluga shipping company moored in Bremen harbor looks just like any other vessel. The next stop for the "MV Beluga SkySails" is Venezuela. To help get it there it has special equipment on board. The ships' bow conceals a clever new propulsion system ...
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Combating climate change
Deutsche Post recently started supporting a rainforest project run by the WWF Germany. It is the beginning of a collaborative effort that will also include climate protection, according to Eberhard Brandes, the environmental organization's Executive Director.
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Asthma inhalers to go 'green' on Dec. 31
Last warning: Asthma inhalers go "green" on Dec. 31, forcing patients still using the old-fashioned kind to make a pricey and even confusing switch. The medicine inside these rescue inhalers - the albuterol that quickly opens airways during an asthma attack - isn't changing. But the chemicals ...
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No way to stop us, pirate leader says - CNN.com
Comment added by JDP on 12/01/2008Considering some reports of pirates now becoming fabulously wealthy (at least in Somali terms), this may be a facile and old excuse for their current actions. However, as a reason for the piracy having started in the first place, it may have some validity. The depletion of fishing resources ... -
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Giant wind farms could steer storms - Discovery.com- msnbc.com
Comment added by Murray Peat on 11/28/2008And the downside? Clouds and storms are there for a reason. Blow them away and you end up with more problems elsewhere. Water shortages, new deserts, food shortage, economic collapse... In fact, I wonder what small local (and not so local) ecosystems are already being skewered by wind farms. -
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Melamine Traces Found in US Infant Formula
Comment added by JDP on 11/26/2008More "goodness" brought to you and your children by globalization. -
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Editorial: Another FEMA folly
Comment added by JDP on 11/24/2008This is truly sad and disturbing. It does, however, show some consistency in that Republican Texas appears to be fairing almost as badly with FEMA as (then Democratic) Louisiana did. When a government is lead by those who believe that "government is the problem, not the solution" (except when ...
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Asthma inhalers to go 'green' on Dec. 31