news.bbc.co.uk - 7/10/2009
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Ambitious plans to grow 24 million trees to soak up carbon dioxide and restore the rainforest have got underway in Ghana. The first million seedlings are being planted in a pilot scheme in an area that has been heavily logged in recent years. The trees are all tropical hardwoods, mostly ...
pbs.org - 7/14/2009
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On the outskirts of Ghana's biggest city sits
a smoldering wasteland, a slum carved into the banks...
of the Korle Lagoon, one of the most polluted bodies of water on earth. The locals call it Sodom and Gomorrah. Correspondent Peter Klein and a group of ...
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FRONTLINE/World Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have demonstrated a way to fabricate efficient solar cells from low-cost and flexible materials. The new design grows optically active semiconductors in arrays of nanoscale pillars, each a single crystal, with dimensions measured in billionths of a meter.
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... 2) Third World efforts to lock up carbon in trees may not be a Ponzi scheme after all. Exhibit A has got to be a project already underway in Ghana that’s designed to grow 24 million trees in exchange for carbon credits. The BBC reports: ...
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