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PG&E Announces Enhanced Green Energy Program To Give Customers More Renewable Options
2013-04-17 18:23:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has reached an agreement with a diverse group of consumer and other organizations to enhance its proposed "Green Option" to give electric customers an opportunity to support 100 percent renewable energy. read more
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Green tourism: Reducing the carbon footprint of holidaymakers
2013-04-17 17:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Each year our desire to get away from it all contributes to around 5% of the world's carbon dioxide emissions. Ignoring the impact of tourism on the environment would be equivalent to ignoring the carbon emissions of a developed industrialised nation. This is why Dr Janet Dickinson and Dr Viachaslau Filimonau from Bournemouth University's School of Tourism are working on ways to reduce the carbon footprint of holidaymakers. Rather than developing punitive taxes or penalties, the research is...
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African nations strive to stem desertification with a Great Green Wall
2013-04-17 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
UN News: Stretching from Dakar to Djibouti, a United Nations-backed programme dubbed the 'Great Green Wall` brings together 11 countries to plant trees across Africa to literally hold back the Sahara desert with a swathe of greenery, lessen the effects of desertification and improve the lives and livelihoods of communities. The Wall, an initiative spearheaded by African heads of State, will stretch about 7,000 kilometres from Senegal in the west to Djibouti in the east and will be about 15 kilometres wide...
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EPA Announces U.S. Organizations Using the Most Green Power
2013-04-17 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
U.S. EPA's Green Power Partnership released updated list of Top 50 organizations using electricity from clean, renewable sources. Intel Corporation, Microsoft, and Apple, Inc. rank in top 10. Agency also released list of 47 partners committed to purchasing green power for 5 yr or more, including 15 higher education institutions. Also, EPA held College and University Green Power Challenge for 7th year, with University of Pennsylvania in lead. This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:
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China trounces U.S. in green energy investments
2013-04-17 00:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: China retook its top spot as global leader in the clean energy race, attracting nearly twice the green energy investment dollars last year as the United States did. Investors plowed $65 billion into Chinese wind farms, solar panel arrays and other clean energy projects in 2012, a 20% increase over the year prior, according to a report released Wednesday by Pew Charitable Trusts and Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The numbers reflect only private investments in power projects, and do not include...
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