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Australian region kicks off the year with solar power feed-in tariff scheme

January 6, 2010

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Imagine harnessing sun power and earning some extra cash every year? Technorati Tags: Electricity, Energy, Feed-in Tariff, Florida, New South Wales, Renewable energy, Solar power, United States Related Posts:Ideas to green your homeNon-profit takes solar-powered mobile technology to developing worldSolar power: the future, the present and the pastToronto’s renewable [...]

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Initiative wants more legal support for clean energy

December 29, 2009

A new organization called American Businesses for Clean Energy (ABCE), which in a short period of time has already attracted support from 823 companies, is calling on Congress to pass clean energy and climate legislation that will significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Technorati Tags: Activism, Business, Clean energy, Clean technology, Climate change, Energy, Renewable energy, [...]

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Mexicans to produce algae biofuels on industrial scale

December 21, 2009

Biofields, a Mexican clean energy firm, has licensed Algenol’s Direct to Ethanol© technology whereby it can turn an algae cell of a hybrid blue-green seaweed into a ‘tiny ethanol factory’. Biofield’s plant to produce algae biofuel will be sited at Puerto Libertad, in the state of Sonara, 300 km from the United States. The plant [...]

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Energy-saving refrigerators against global warming

December 16, 2009

Energy-efficient refrigerators can save more energy than all the wind, solar thermal and solar photovoltaics in the United States can produce. Thus spoke Steven Chu, the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Secretary during his Copenhagen presentation on Monday. Chu used the event to announce Climate REDI (Renewables and Efficiency Employment Initiative), a $350 million international [...]

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Climate change concern at all-time high – except in China and the U.S.

December 14, 2009

Image via Wikipedia A new survey conducted by Globescan found that “public concern about climate change is at its highest level” since the company began international tracking in 1998. The poll, carried out in conjunction with the BBC World Service poll, was conducted in 23 countries and listened to over 24,000 adults. Nearly two thirds [...]

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