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Green homes: Would you pay more for energy and water efficiency?
2016-06-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: What do you look for when youre searching for a new home? If you are like most buyers and renters, youre looking for something in the right location, at the right price, near the right amenities that somehow feels like home. While these subjective features can be difficult for real estate agents to tap into, there are other aspects of a property that agents can take to the bank. According to research by the CSIRO and Common Capital for the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Low Carbon Livings...
Bangladesh river eats up land and homes, trapping poor villagers
2016-06-22 08:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Piyara Begum once had a happy life in Garuhara village by the Brahmaputra River in northern Bangladesh, but worsening erosion of the river banks has displaced her family seven times. Now Piyara, 30, has taken shelter in Panchgachi village, 8 kilometers away in the same sub-district of Kurigram Sadar. I am always concerned about where Piyara and her three children are living, and how she manages her family expenses, as she has lost everything due to erosion, said her uncle, Abdul Majid, who...
Wildfires rage across Southwest, but homes mostly spared
2016-06-22 01:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Cooler, more humid weather gave at least some temporary help Wednesday to crews battling dangerous wildfires in Southern California, while other blazes across the West were on the move. Improved weather in the aftermath of a severe heat wave allowed firefighters to make progress against two fires in the steep San Gabriel Mountains 20 miles northeast of Los Angeles. Some evacuations below in the foothill city of Duarte were being lifted, but the calm was not expected to last. "We will have stronger...
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SES reaches 2.81 million TV homes in Nigeria
2016-06-21 15:00:18| Digital TV News
SES (Paris; Luxembourg: SESG) has announced the results of a study of the Nigerian market. The study highlights that SES reaches 2.81 million TV homes across the country, of which 1.69 million are reached directly by satellite and 1.12 million cable TV homes are fed indirectly.
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World?s First 24/7 Solar Power Plant Powers 75,000 Homes
2016-06-21 09:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Eco Watch: SolarReserve`s Crescent Dunes Project in Tonopah, Nevada is quietly providing clean, green solar energy to 75,000 homes in the Silver State even when the sun isn`t shining. Crescent Dunes is the first utility-scale facility in the world to use molten salt for power energy storage capabilities, a technology also known as concentrated solar. With a concentrated solar plant such as Crescent Dunes--including other plants like it around the world--more than 10,000 movable mirrors, or heliostats,...
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