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Possible To Reduce Emissions By 30 Percent By 2025, Model Shows
[...] and 80 percent by 2050 and possibly exceed those numbers if a combination of strategies are implemented, including reducing fuel consumption, increasing fuel efficiencies and fuel c...
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080722072030.htm
California First State to Adopt Green Building Code
The new standards will call for a 20% improvement in water use efficiency for both residential and commercial plumbing fixtures as well as target a 50% increase in conservation for water ...
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http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/california-first-state-to-adop-003335.php
McKinsey: well, they’re great fact finders… « Breakthrough Generation
Given that the industrial landscape is either poor—the MUSH–or moves a lot and is extremely volatile—the industry–it would make sense for the public sector to play its best hand: ...
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http://breakthroughgen.org/2008/06/25/mckinsey-well-they%E2%80%99re-great-fact-finders%E2%80...
WorldChanging: U.K. Committee Supports Personal Carbon Trading
A personal carbon-trading scheme would likely be welcomed by the growing number of U.K. residents who are voluntarily reducing their carbon footprints or purchasing carbon credits to offs...
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http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008086.html
A tool in the toolbox | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist
To make much needed progress on environmental issues in this political climate [...] environmentalists would do well to drop the fight against cost-benefit analysis, and to take up the op...
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http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/6/3/1772/04462
Interview with Thomas Casten, part one | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist
All across the nation, factories and power plants are wasting energy -- lots and lots of it. If that energy could be captured and put to good use, greenhouse gas emissions could be substa...
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http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/8/12/105752/270
No Impact Man: Designers: If it isn't life-enhancing, can it really be sustainable?
We have become so short on environmental resources that we can no longer afford to be wasting them on things that don't even improve our lives.
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http://noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/2008/05/designers-if-it.html
Neuroscientifically Challenged: The Neuroscience of Distributive Justice
The imaging evidence from this study may help to explain why the debate over distributive justice has never been resolved. The concepts of equity and efficiency, and their respective valu...
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http://neuroscientificallychallenged.blogspot.com/2008/05/neuroscience-of-distributive-justi...
WorldChanging: Cap and Caulk: How Smart Climate Policy Can Cut Our Energy Costs
Cap and Caulk [...] reduces the regressive effects of high energy prices even while it tempers emissions. Along the way, it yields healthier and more comfortable dwellings and generates a...
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http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008058.html
Europe Is Going To Legislate What Makes A Product Green
Green procurement is now set to receive backing from European policymakers who are devising a set of minimum requirements for the most environmentally damaging products, Stavros told the ...
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http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/europe-is-going-to-legislate-w-003174.php
Nanosolar
Nanosolar has developed proprietary process technology that makes it possible to produce 100x thinner solar cells 100x faster.
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http://www.nanosolar.com