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‘Silicon Valley investors are pointing to something called cleantech — alternative energy, more efficient power distribution and new ways to store electricity, all with minimal impact to the environment — as a candidate for the next boom.’
via Where’s the next boom? Maybe in `cleantech’ – Yahoo! Finance.
‘According to new reports, American negotiators demanded that there should be similar mitigation obligations for developed as well developing countries. The demand was strictly against the unanimous decision to draw distinction between capacities of developed and developing nations to reduce carbon emissions taken at the Bali Climate Conference in 2007.’
via US Playing Spoilsport at International Climate Negotiations? | Green Business | Reuters.
‘WASHINGTON Reuters – Apple Inc on Monday became the latest company to quit the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because the technology company disagrees with the business group’s climate change policy.’
via Apple, citing climate, tells U.S. Chamber iQuit | Green Business | Reuters.
‘NICOSIA (Reuters) – Cyprus has moved closer to reaching the European Union’s renewable energy target by 2020, with the birth of the first wind park on the island.’
via Cyprus unveils mammoth wind farm | Green Business | Reuters.
‘By analyzing the way the GPS signals are transformed as they travel through snowpack, a team of scientists from the University of Colorado, Boulder, may have found a cheap, easy way to optimize an important variable in climate models.’
via Throwaway GPS Data Reveals Snow Depth | Green Business | Reuters.
‘…environmental statistics about meat production are often misunderstood. Take global warming. Because the greatest portion of meat’s global warming contribution comes from deforestation in Latin America, India, and Asia, domestically-produced meat is unconnected to those emissions. Additionally, livestock raised without being fed fertilized crops are unrelated to another large part of the global warming equation: fossil fuel-based agricultural chemicals.’
via Is Meat Bad for the Environment? – The Atlantic Food Channel.
‘WASHINGTON Reuters – As the world wrestles with how to cut greenhouse gas emissions, new technologies are gearing up to grab climate-warming carbon right out of the air.’
via New technologies may grab carbon right out of air | Green Business | Reuters.
‘SAN FRANCISCO — A draft plan to remove four aging dams along the Klamath River in Oregon and California was released Wednesday, a long-awaited step toward ending a protracted dispute over the waterway.’
via Plan Outlines Removal of Klamath River Dams – NYTimes.com.
‘LONDON Reuters – U.S. and China markets are driving recovery in the global clean energy industry, after a sharp fall in investment this year, but uncertainty over government support is clouding the 2010 outlook.’
via Wind, solar execs eye U.S., China for growth | Green Business | Reuters.
‘A Phoenix company said it has created a solar cell that combines gallium-nitride with silicon, an unusual approach that achieves an efficiency of 25 percent to 30 percent.’
via Greentech Media: Nitride With Silicon: Think Solar Cells With 30% Efficiency.