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inhabitat.com - 7 hours ago
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Many of us have been to the gym
and wondered why the exercise equipment isn’t hooked up...
to generate electricity and feed it back into the grid. At long last a company in Florida called ReRev has answered our calls, converting existing elliptical machines into sources of power. Now when ...
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RevRev Makes Energy Generating Gyms a Reality
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washingtonpost.com - 30 minutes ago
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Washington Post: The Obama administration proposed a new
climate service on Monday that would provide Americans with...
predictions on how global warming will affect everything from drought to sea levels. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
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U.S. proposes new climate service
noaanews.noaa.gov - 10 hours ago
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Individuals and decision-makers across widely diverse sectors –
from agriculture to energy to transportation – increasingly are...
asking NOAA for information about climate change in order to make the best choices for their families, communities and ...
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Commerce Department Proposes Establishment of NOAA ...
nytimes.com - 5 hours ago
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ClimateWire: The Obama administration announced plans yesterday to
create a new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate...
Service. The proposed entity would provide "user-friendly" information to help governments and businesses ...
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Agency Will Create National Climate Service to Spur ...
businessgreen.com - 30 minutes ago
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Kenneth Richter, BusinessGreen , Tuesday 9 February 2010
at 15:37:00 Friends of the Earth’s biofuels campaigner Kenneth...
Richter argues that biofuel targets are a distraction from tried and tested ways of reducing transport emissions In ...
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Scrap biofuels targets and focus on improved public ...
green.autoblog.com - 9 hours ago
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2010 Toyota Prius - Click above for high-res
image gallery In the least surprising announcement of the...
day, Toyota has officially announced that it would recall 2010 model Priuses and Lexus HS250h models in globally along with the Toyota Sai in Japan to fix an issue the performance of ...
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Officially, Official: Toyota recalls 2010 Prius and ...
pressroom.toyota.com - 7 hours ago
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Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc, today announced
it will conduct a voluntary safety recall on approximately...
133,000 2010 Model Year Prius vehicles and 14,500 Lexus Division 2010 HS 250h vehicles to update software in the vehicle’s anti-lock ...
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Toyota Announces Voluntary Recall on 2010 Model-Year ...
green.autoblog.com - 96 minutes ago
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Car sharing company Zipcar has responded to the
Toyota Prius recall by shutting down rentals of that...
particular model until the "brake concerns have been addressed appropriately by Toyota." How many Priuses are there in Zipcar's fleet? All told, Zipcar has around 6,500 cars, and less than one ...
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Zipcar halts Prius rentals; car-sharing memberships up ...
guardian.co.uk - 9 hours ago
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India's environment minister has halted the commercial release
of its first genetically modified food crop for public...
health tests India halted the release of its first genetically modified food crop today, saying further study needed to be done to guarantee consumer safety. Environment ...
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India halts release of GM aubergine
guardian.co.uk - 27 hours ago
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guardian.co.uk —
• Minister to make key decision on major
crop • Broad alliance takes on Monsanto subsidiary A...
fierce row over the future of the humble aubergine, staple ingredient of fiery brinjal curries for tens of millions of Indians, will reach a climax on Wednesday with a key government decision on the ...
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India's simmering row over GM aubergine crop comes to a head
cleantech.com - 3 hours ago
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Mumbai-based firm says its technology that captures potable
water from the air in Andhra Pradesh uses electricity...
or alternative power sources.
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WaterMaker India looks to bring down air-to-water costs
greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com - 30 minutes ago
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Nexamp, a Massachusetts clean energy firm, announced Tuesday
that it has raised $6.5 million in venture financing...
from the Dutch-Swiss investment giant Good Energies and other investors.
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Good Energies Invests in Massachusetts Clean Energy Firm
nytimes.com - 16 hours ago
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New York Times: Just over two years ago,
Rajendra K. Pachauri seemed destined for a scientist's version...
of sainthood: A vegetarian economist-engineer who leads the United Nations' climate change panel, he accepted the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf ...
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UN Climate Panel and Its Chief Face a Siege on Their ...
inhabitat.com - 29 hours ago
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inhabitat.com —
Imagine living in a high-rise apartment building where
the 360 views are of fishes and saltwater? Although...
just a concept now, this upside-down, underwater eco-skyscraper could be the future of building, especially if sea levels rise as predicted and we end up living in a water world. ...
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The Gyre: A Floating Upside Down Eco Skyscraper
inhabitat.com - 100 minutes ago
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inhabitat.com —
Portable wireless mice have a problem: most of
them rely upon disposable batteries, which often wind up...
in landfills as e-waste . Adele Peters’ Corky mouse aims to change all that — it’s a kinetic energy -harvesting mouse that is powered with a flick of the wrist. One of 18 ...
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Corky Mouse Generates Kinetic Energy With Every Click
theoildrum.com - 98 minutes ago
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This is a guest post by Oil Drum
reader Carl Henn. I spend a lot of time...
reading The Oil Drum. It helps me to understand the nature of the energy and economic problems we face. These problems are complex and important, so it is easy to spend an ...
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How to Write Letters to the Editor
climateprogress.org - 24 minutes ago
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Our guest blogger today is Donald A. Brown,
Associate Professor for environmental ethics, science, and law at...
Penn State University. He blogs at ClimateEthics (a Time magazine Top 15 pick). If ethical and justice arguments about why climate ...
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Ten reasons why examining climate change policy through ...
betaus.reuters.com - 21 minutes ago
guardian.co.uk - 117 minutes ago
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guardian.co.uk —
Cars and gloating go together. But glee at
the plight of the tree-hugger-carrier is something else As...
any random five-minute segment of Top Gear will demonstrate, car ownership is roughly 5% about getting from A to B and 95% about gloating. Gloating that your car is either nippier than the ...
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The Prius deniers | Toby Litt
