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Can Fossil Fuel Divestment Prevent The Carbon Bubble From Bursting?
2013-04-29 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Clean Technica: Could the same movement that brought down Apartheid be the key tactic in convincing America to go fossil fuel free and preventing a new financial crisis? If you ask activists at the more than 400 colleges, cities and states, and religious institutions who have answered 350.orgs call to push for fossil fuel divestment, the answer is a resounding yes and San Francisco just gave the campaign its biggest win to date. On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution...
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Harper to Offer Carbon Fiber R&D Workshop
2013-04-29 06:00:00| Chemical Processing
Thermal processing solutions provider Harper International will host a Carbon Fiber R&D workshop in Buffalo, N.Y., July 25th-26th.
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ABB Standard Drives Set Dramatic Benchmark in Energy Savings and Reduction of Carbon Footprint
2013-04-29 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
The three millionth ACS550 drive rolled off the production line on March 25th, marking it the first for an ABB drive series to reach the three million unit production mark.<br /> <br /> NEW BERLIN, WI – Since its introduction, the ABB standard drive, ACS550, has continued to grow in popularity with customers across industries because of its proven performance, flexibility and its wide range of built-in features. Now, the three millionth unit in this standard drive series has been ...This story is related to the following:Controls and ControllersElectric Motor Drives | Power Transmission Drives
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Carbon bubble makes Australia's coal industry ripe 'for financial implosion'
2013-04-28 22:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australia's huge coal industry is a speculative bubble ripe for financial implosion if the world's governments fulfil their agreement to act on climate change, according to a new report. The warning that much of the nation's coal reserves will become worthless as the world hits carbon emission limits comes after banking giant Citi also warned Australian investors that fossil fuel companies could do little to avoid the future loss of value. Australia is already the globe's biggest coal exporter...
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Why Britain is failing to cut its carbon footprint
2013-04-28 03:37:45| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Successive governments have made much of the fact that Britain's CO2 emissions have come down sharply in the past two decades. But a government advisory committee has laid bare these pretensions, revealing that when emissions generated by the production of the UK's imports are factored in, the country's carbon footprint is actually 10 per cent higher than in 1993. In a study of the impact of the UK's imports on its carbon output, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) reported a 40 per cent jump...
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