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United Kingdom: Older and disabled people 'put off' energy efficiency schemes
2013-05-02 08:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Older and disabled people are put off the government's flagship energy efficiency programmes because of their complexity and fear of taking on debt, unpublished government research shows. Focus groups commissioned by the Department for Energy and Climate Change (Decc) to assess the "perceptions" and "potential take-up" of the green deal and Energy Company Obligation (ECO) found significant concerns, a freedom of information request has revealed. The green deal facilitates loans - paid back...
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Progress in introducing cleaner cook stoves for billions of people worldwide
2013-05-01 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: It may be the 21st century, but nearly half the world's population still cooks and heats with open fires or primitive stoves that burn wood, animal dung, charcoal and other polluting solid fuels. The article in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology describes impressive progress being made to remedy that situation and the obstacles that remain. Susan C. Anenberg and colleagues describe the health and environmental consequences of those old-fashioned energy sources. They...
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Sound Really Informed + Blow People Away With How Smart You Are
2013-05-01 18:19:39| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
Want to blow your friends and co-workers away with how informed, smart and up-to-date you are? Whether it's cyber-security, how to predict future gas prices, or what Bitcoin is -- read on to learn more about some current hot topics...The Article Sound Really Informed + Blow People Away With How Smart You Are appeared first on Automotive Digest.
Australia's boom is anything but for its Aboriginal people
2013-04-28 22:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Eleven miles by ferry from Perth is Western Australia's "premier tourist destination". This is Rottnest Island, whose scabrous wild beauty and isolation evoked, for me, Robben Island in South Africa. Empires are never short of devil's islands; what makes Rottnest different indeed, what makes Australia different is silence and denial on an epic scale. "Five awesome reasons to visit!" the brochure says. These range from "family fun" to "historical Rottnest". The island is described as "a guiding...
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If Corporations Are People, I'm All for DOMA
2013-04-28 19:06:48| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Under the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, corporations are now granted the rights of living people -- specifically the right to make unlimited financial contributions to political campaigns in the name of "free speech." Of course, "the law in all its majesty" also allows the homeless and the poor the same right to given massive amounts of ... (more)
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