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Papua forest communities offer new perspective on climate change
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Source: RTCC The role local people have to play in responding to climate change is being given increasing focus in the international climate talks. How communities perceive changes to their local climate and environment can help fill the gaps in climate science and provide a more comprehensive pictu...
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Hearty One-Pot Suppers Made from Winter Produce
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We all know that eating locally and seasonally reduces the carbon footprint of your meal. But going local can seem challenging in the winter, especially if you call a cold-weather climate home. Don’t fret, hungry locavore. Earth911 broke down seasonal produce suggestions for every region of th...
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Korea Seeks to Build World’s Largest Hydrogen Fuel Cell Town
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Using Byproduct Hydrogen and Investing 9 Billion Won… It Will Install Fuel Cell Facilities at 150 Houses and 10Buildings The world’s largest town of using hydrogen fuel cells will be established in Korea in this year by investing 9 billion won, at the earliest. The Ministry of Knowledge Economy anno...
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Chevron Refinery Explosion Fires up Local Residents
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Source: EcoWatch The fire that engulfed Chevron’s refinery late on Aug. 6 in Richmond, California may now be extinguished, but worrying questions remain about the company’s ongoing safety record at the refinery. The fire caused a huge toxic black cloud to sweep over the city and other parts of the S...
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Large Wind Power Generation Companies Can Now Receive Certification in...
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KEMCO will select 3 local and foreign certification organizations each…with the intentions of improving competitiveness and exchange It selected 3 local organizations, including the KR, KIER and KIMS, and will select foreign organizations among the UL, TUV-SUD and DNV. The Korea Energy Management Co...
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Energy Poverty Alleviation – 2
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AGENDA for ACTION The world is grappling with the challenge of providing energy access to nearly 2bln people deprived of it. Alleviating energy poverty poses numerous problems. Most of the energy poor live in remote rural areas making it difficult and costly to connect to the electrical grid. Some e...
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Energy Challenge One: Greenbelt, Maryland
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Vice President Joe Biden kicked off Earth Day in April by announcing the selection of 25 communities to receive up to $452 million in Recovery Act funding to “ramp-up” energy efficiency building retrofits. Under the Department of Energy (DOE) Retrofit Ramp-Up initiative, communities, gov...
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Energy Challenge One: Greenbelt, Maryland
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Joint Energy-saving Campaign With Local Governments Proven to be ‘Effe...
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KEMCO’s Gyeonggi Regional Headquarters signed agreements with Ansan City and Seongnam City…mayors and representatives of community residents participated in the campaign. While the government continues to conduct energy-saving activities across the country, the energy-related organization is expandi...
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The Urbanwood Project Turns Dying Urban Trees Into a Resource
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In 2002, the emerald ash borer, an invasive insect destructive to ash trees, was first identified in Michigan, and a number of agencies began working to figure out how to deal with afflicted ash trees in the southeastern part of the state. Many trees needed to be removed to prevent further damage, a...
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Energy Challenge Two: The WeatherizeDC Campaign
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In my quest to learn what other local groups are doing to help the environment and hopefully avoid reinventing the wheel, I attended a meeting of the Greenbelt Climate Action Network, a local chapter of the grassroots, nonprofit organization Chesapeake Climate Action Network. There I met two Weather...
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Energy Challenge Two: The WeatherizeDC Campaign
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Yellow dust storms bedevil local industry
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In Korea, spring not only signals the advent of warm weather but also the arrival of an uninvited guest in the form of hwangsa, or yellow dust. Rising from the deserts of Mongolia and northern China, the sporadic but intense dust storms scatter more than 80,000 tons of dust particles over the Korean...
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Energy Poverty Alleviation – 3
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The four quadrants of EPA matrix 1. Community Driven EPA Initiatives Availability of Resource – High Capacity to Pay – Low There are many villages which have abundance of sunlight, are in deep forests with lot of biofuel available but the local population is deep in poverty depending on natura...
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Majority of local leaders approve Japanese restarts
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Over half of the mayors of municipalities near Japan’s nuclear power plants said they would approve the restart of reactors after the nuclear regulator confirms their safety, a survey has found. In the survey – conducted by the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper in December – the mayors of ...
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Exceed the target delivery of CNG buses by 7 local governments
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By the end of 2011, accumulated units of 28,827 were delivered At the end of 2011, it was revealed that the 7 local governments including the city of Seoul exceeded the natural gas-powered bus (CNG bus) deployment target of 100%. The deployment rate exceeding 100% included the replacement units (CNG...
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Tide rising for local blue chip bonds
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Companies accelerate issuances in anticipation of tough road ahead GS Caltex, the leading domestic oil refiner by market share last year, has been kicking its corporate bond issuance up a notch. Issuing more than any other Korean company so far this year, the refiner expanded its planned March offer...
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Rare-earth mining in China comes at a heavy cost for local villages
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Source: The Guardian Pollution is poisoning the farms and villages of the region that processes the precious minerals From the air it looks like a huge lake, fed by many tributaries, but on the ground it turns out to be a murky expanse of water, in which no fish or algae can survive. The shore is co...
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Interview: Inside a Panamanian Ecotourism Development
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Source: Triple Pundit Where can you find an unspoilt 400-acre private island filled with wildlife, and only a few dozen highly-serviced rooms and homes on it? Amble Resort’s Isla Palenque in Panama is not your average luxury resort. Benjamin Loomis is not your average entrepreneur or outdoorsman. Oh...
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Builders see Latin American boom
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Latin America is becoming a new frontier for local builders as its oil-rich nations are tapping the expertise of Korean construction companies. Recently, Daewoo Engineering & Construction and STX Engineering and Construction signed a memorandum of understanding with Venezuela’s energy minister t...
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The Easy Way to Use Renewables: Buy Clean Electricity
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Clean air means a lot to me. My wife and I had a small solar electric system installed on the roof of our house that produces about 2% of the annual electricity consumed by our all-electric house. We don’t have a large south-facing roof, so we couldn’t easily install a larger system. But...
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Indianapolis program delivers solar energy, revenue, and public educat...
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Source: Midwest Energy News As director of sustainability for the city of Indianapolis, John Hazlett has big plans—and not enough money in his budget to make them happen. So, he sometimes has to look for creative ways to finance projects. A few years ago, his counterpart in Cincinnati told him that ...
