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2 Indian-run firms among WEF Tech Pioneers
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 day ago
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bringing mobile phone service to the more than one billion people who live in the world's poorest and remotest areas. VNL has developed a solar-powered GSM system specifically for remote and rural areas where people have less than US$ 2 a month to spend...
Tags: USA Evan Williams, USA Oliver Peoples, USA K.R. Sridhar, USA Christina Lampe-Onnerud, USA Bill Gross, USA Edward Manicka, Corventis, pacific biosciences, waste water, fossil fuels, New York City, Biofuel, Hydrogen vehicle, ESolar, Fuels, Fossil fuel, Energy storage, Technology Internet, Alternative propulsion, Twitter
Africa: New Technology Brings New Options for Least Developed Countries
Washington :: WA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility New Technology Brings New Options for Least Developed Countries Nicola Winter 20 November 2009 In a Wednesday presentation on the "Intersection of Energy and the Economy," Elizabeth Cheney of Shell outlined three energy realities: the demand for energy...
Tags: Washington, Environment, Energy economics, Energy, Fossil fuel, Energy conservation, Energy in the United Kingdom, Technology Internet, Energy development, Climate change in Australia
Nuclear is cleanest power source: senator
Alice Springs :: Australia | 1 day ago
Credibility The Country Liberal Party's Nigel Scullion has praised the new federal Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, for opening the nuclear discussion. "If you're fair dinkum about dealing with the effects of climate change, then you can't put aside one of the major...
Tags: power source, Australia, Alice Springs, Environment, Nuclear power, Politics, Energy conversion, Nuclear technology, Radioactive waste, Energy economics, Anti-nuclear movement, Nuclear power debate, Fossil fuel, Nuclear energy policy
Energy Stocks Dive Into Rally
New York :: NY :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Energy stocks rose with the broad market on Friday amid hopes that better-than-expected U.S. jobs data could feed demand for fossil fuels...The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose more than 100 points, or about 1.1%.
Tags: energy stocks, New York, Business Finance, NYSE Arca, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Unemployment, New York Stock Exchange, Fossil fuel, Dow Jones & Company, Labor
Veterans push climate change bill
Indianapolis :: IN :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Bringing a new face to the debate over climate change, a half dozen military veterans spoke today to a small group -- mostly of the converted -- about the threat that a warming Earth and an ongoing dependence on foreign oil poses to national security....
Tags: climate change, Indianapolis, Environment, Energy economics, Energy policy, Renewable energy, Energy, Fossil fuel, Energy development, Technology development, Disaster Accident
Crime › Hatoyama's brother received money from mother in fund report scandal
Tōkyō :: Japan | 3 days ago
Credibility The political funds scandal involving the family of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has apparently spread to his brother as Kunio Hatoyama, a former internal affairs and communications minister, has been found to have received a large sum of money from...
Tags: Yukio Hatoyama, Kunio Hatoyama, Japanese Trade Union Confederation, minister yukio, prime minister, environment minister, environment tax, Japan, Tōkyō, Environment, Prime Ministers of Japan, Climate change, Business Finance, Politics, Carbon finance, Hatoyama Hall, Naoto Kan, Climate change denial, Energy economics, Gasoline, Fuel tax, United Nations Climate Change Conference, Internal Revenue Service, Kyoto Protocol, Taxation, Democratic Party of Japan, Petroleum products, Fossil fuel, Taro Aso, Finance, Opinion poll
Big Utility to Close 11 Plants Using Coal
Charlotte :: NC :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility The utility, Progress Energy, based in Raleigh, said it would close 11 coal-fired power plants built between the 1950s and 1970s. “Some of these plants are quite old,” said Bill Johnson, the chief executive of the company. But, he added, “They have a...
Tags: power plants, Progress Energy Inc., Progress Energy Will Close, fired power, burning power, Charlotte, Environment, Fossil fuel power plant, Climate change, Coal, Chemical engineering, Energy economics, Clean coal, Fossil fuel phase out, Fossil fuel, Global warming, Sustainable energy, Business Finance, Power station, Acid Rain Program, Electricity generation, Energy development, Disaster Accident, Progress Energy Inc
Copenhagen conference: The view from America | Elizabeth Kolbert
Singapore :: Singapore | 5 days ago
Credibility The view from America Barack Obama may be judged harshly by history if the US does not show its hand at the talks Elizabeth Kolbert Barack Obama has said that “our generation’s response to this challenge will be judged by history".
Tags: America Barack Obama, Singapore, Environment, Carbon finance, Climate change, Global warming, Black carbon, Barack Obama, Political positions of Barack Obama, Politics, Environmental skepticism, Jim Inhofe, United States presidential election, Punahou School alumni, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Greenhouse gas, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, Patrick Michaels, Climatologists, Fossil fuel, Carbon dioxide, Action on climate change
ENERGY-US: Paper Mill is Reborn, Sans Fossil Fuels
Park Falls :: WI :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility A paper mill that runs without fossil fuels and has a neutral carbon footprint? That's the goal for Flambeau River Papers in Park Falls, Wisconsin, and the company is already on its way, thanks to a switch to biomass fuel, plus a biorefinery in the works.
Tags: million dollars, paper mills, Flambeau River Papers, fossil fueling, Flambeau River Biofuels, Wisconsin Department of Energy, Park Falls, Johnson, University of Wisconsin, Environment, Biofuel, Bioenergy, Biorefinery, Fuels, Business Finance, Fossil fuel, Biomass, Alternative propulsion, Biofuels
Banks v the banks as call grows for ethical investments
London :: United Kingdom | 6 days ago
Credibility Iain Banks has joined MPs and church leaders in accusing the government of failing to push banks to adopt ethical investments. In a letter to the Chancellor, the group said the Treasury had not used influence gained through last year's government bail-out...
Tags: RBS Iain Banks, United Kingdom, London, Business Finance, Royal Bank of Scotland, Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Environment, Equator Principles, Oil sands, Peak oil, Tar, Fred Goodwin, Petroleum, Fossil fuel, Oil fields, Bituminous sands
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