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Divesting From Dirty Energy
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 1 month ago
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San Francisco was following Seattle's lead in publicly attempting to break with fossil fuel companies, and other municipalities are also taking up the cause. Late last month, Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates introduced a similar resolution. State of
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Fossil fuel energy needs conversion to renewable energy: Kumi Naidoo, Greenpeace
London :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
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Mar 11 2013 (IPS) When the environment changes, smart creatures adapt. And, in the face of a changing climate and changing economics, smart people are backing green energy. In 2011 almost a third of new electricity came from renewable sources. But,
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Necessary Extinction
Cape Town :: South Africa | 3 months ago
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And, in the face of a changing climate and changing economics, smart people are backing green energy. In 2011 almost a third of new electricity came from renewable sources. But, just as the first mammals had to contend with a world of dinosaurs, the
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Robert Redford: Where Is the Climate Leadership? We Need to Get It Right on Keystone XL
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
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We Need to Get It Right on Keystone XL Posted: 03/04/2013 3:19 pm Read more share this story Mr. Secretary, I am disappointed. I thought that we all understood that to fight climate change, we have to be able to say "no" to dirty energy projects. Our
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Electronics companies still to eliminate dirty energy
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 7 months ago
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Greenpeace India's Wipro wins top spot in new Greenpeace ranking for companies' eco-friendliness San Francisco, USA, November 19, 2012 Global electronic companies must do more to end the use of climate changing dirty energy in their manufacturing and
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Al Gore to argue link between dirty energy and dirty weather
Ottawa :: Canada | 7 months ago
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Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore will try to make the case next week that dirty energy is contributing to what he calls dirty weather events around the world. Hurricane Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come, Gore wrote in a recent opinion
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2 Greenpeace members arrested at Apple HQ after protest featuring iPhone costumes
Charlotte :: NC :: USA | 1 year ago
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Font Resize A protest at Apple headquarters over the tech giant's energy practices featured full-sized iPhone costumes and ended Tuesday morning with the arrests of two people who locked themselves inside a small dome, authorities said. To make the
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Dirty clouds, not so green apples
Mumbai :: India | 1 year ago
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We love our iPhones, MacBooks and the technology of communication on the move has become indispensable. But do we know that these sleek looking shiny gadgets are powered by burning heaps of coal that releases huge amounts of carbon in the atmosphere?
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Africa: Apple - Think Different About Your Dirty Energy
Charlotte :: NC :: USA | 1 year ago
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They've become central tools for how we bring pressure on polluters and governments. But if we are not careful, the Internet could become an internal combustion engine that fuels climate change instead. To avoid that scenario, there is at least one
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Utility Company Expects Apple's New Data Center to Guzzle Plenty of Dirty Energy
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 1 year ago
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Apple says its giant new data center will be a low-power consumer, but a now-hidden report from a coal and nuclear plant-powered utility company tells a different story...Photo: Garrett Fisher/Wired The report also talks about Apple's power
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