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The tech giving people power to rise above disability
2016-01-29 01:12:09| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
How tech is giving disabled people more power
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People power: rejecting the Big Six through collective switching
2016-01-06 01:00:00| Power Technology
Collective switching schemes have emerged as an alternative to the high prices of the UK's 'Big Six' major utilities. Why have the country's biggest energy suppliers gained such a toxic reputation among their customers, and does the power of collecti
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People power: New utilities may offer greener energy for less green
2015-11-29 06:35:04| Energy - Topix.net
From Silicon Valley to the East Bay to the Central Coast, a “people's power” movement is sweeping through California that will give local residents a choice to ditch PG&E and buy cleaner - and possibly cheaper - energy from the cities and counties where they live. To its proponents, the idea is a no-brainer.
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People Power Needed Now More Than Ever
2015-07-10 17:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Thirty years ago, groups of individuals in New Zealand were preparing to leave their families, their jobs and their homes to set off in small boats across the Pacific Ocean into a nuclear weapons testing zone. They hoped that their presence there would be enough to stop nuclear bomb tests. The French Government conducting the tests must have known it could not win against such a show of people power. So a few minutes before midnight on 10 July 1985, French secret service agents struck in Auckland...
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People power has shut the doors on fracking in UK
2015-07-03 17:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Attempts to create a commercially viable fracking industry in the UK were dealt fresh blows this week, with the refusal of planning permission for a key site, and the revelation of an unpublished government report showing fracking could cause falls to peoples house values. The setbacks, cheered by jubilant anti-fracking campaigners, highlight the struggles that fracking backers still face in the UK, where for several years the pioneering Cuadrilla has been trying to drill gas wells, now joined...