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Improving accuracy and accountability in the International Global Warming agreement
Having a strong, credible, and transparent system for tracking greenhouse gas emissions and the actions of a country is an essential building block of an effective international system to address global warming. This was a key issue at the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009. Resolving important details about how these pieces would be implemented has been […]
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Leaked cables reveal Saudi minister of petroleum helped craft toothless Copenhagen climate accord
Trying to get Saudi Arabia to sign on to an international climate accord is like asking a drug dealer to start a rehabilitation clinic.
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Energy Secretary Chu Talks Energy Innovation and U.S. Competitiveness
Energy Secretary Steven Chu gave a speech at the National Press Club on Monday in which he referred to China’s investments in clean energy as a “Sputnik moment.” “America still has the opportunity to lead in a world that will need essentially a new industrial revolution to give us the energy we want inexpensively but […]
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Ten affordable neighborhoods-in-progress will design to LEED-ND standards under grant program
A series of grant winners are leading efforts to strengthen surrounding neighborhoods.
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Brooklyn’s red bees, Maraschino cherries, and a collision of cultures
A beekeeper in the gentrifying Red Hook neighborhood finds her bees returning from their foraging with strange red markings, hunts for a source, and finds her way to a Maraschino cherry factory.
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Converting astronaut poop to space power — the final frontier?
UNESCO's 2011 space odyssey involves launching a shatellite filled with bacteria that could possibly turn astro-poo into power. At last!
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China widens gap with U.S. in green energy race
Energy Secretary Steven Chu warned China was investing billions in renewables while our politicians fought over the stimulus. A Ernst & Young report confirmed Asia's ascendancy.
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Chu criticizes anti-innovation conservatives
In a conference call, Energy Secretary Steven Chu derided the conservative desire to turn back the clock on technological innovation.
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Worldchanging’s bright green contribution
The site recognized, before much of the environmental movement did, that cities are hotbeds of innovation, leadership, and people who have internalized a sustainability ethic.
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Historic food-safety bill passes Senate, awaits House
The Senate finally passed its food-safety bill. Now the ball is back in the House's court. Will it fall by the wayside before the end of the year?
