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Environment News tagged with renewable energy

Fiddling as the Earth Burns ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, renewable energy, Carbon Tax, ecological sustainability, earth, habitat, protection )

Cher
- 52 days ago - globalwarming.change.org
Governments and the UN should impose a carbon tax on corporations, both for production - wherever their facilities are located - and for transport, which the Kyoto Protocol does not account for directly. Incentives for renewable energy are also essential
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South African Company to Import Waste Vegetable Oil to Produce Biodiesel
Environment  (tags: environment, biodiesel, renewable energy, habitat, nature, protection )

Cher
- 59 days ago - ecoworldly.com
Another renewable energy business that could get South Africa moving towards its goals is taking shape in Richards Bay in KwaZulu Natal.
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Big Opportunity in Renewable Energy Identified in South Africa - Start of a Series of Posts
Environment  (tags: environment, renewable energy, S. Africa, habitat, protection )

Cher
- 68 days ago - ecoworldly.com
This positive report on the opportunities for Renewable Energy in South Africa is a starting point for a series of posts that will report on developments in and linked to the use of Renewable Energy in South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa
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Australian Parliament OKs 20% By 2020 Renewable Energy Target
Environment  (tags: environment, renewable energy, Australia, habitat, nature, protection )

Cher
- 96 days ago - redgreenandblue.org
The Australian government's ruling coalition has come to terms on an agreement that would quadruple the renewable energy target set by the previous government in 2001 and is in line with the renewables target set by the European Union in 2008.
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Ask Your State Representatives to Support Renewable Energy By 2020 ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, renewable energy, habitat, protection, nature, humans, wildlife )

Cher
- 146 days ago - change.org
Please take a minute now to write Gov. Schwarzenegger, and your state Assembly and Senate representatives, urging them to pass SB 14 and AB 64, setting our renewable electricity standard at 33% by 2020.
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Let's Use Renewable Energy in Public Schools ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, renewable energy, public schools, habitat, protection, humans )

Cher
- 148 days ago - change.org
When public schools need to be renovated and updated, this would be the perfect time to invest solar, wind, or geothermal new technologies.
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Now Is the Time to Repower, Refuel, and Rebuild America ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, renewable energy, low-carbon transportation fuels, habitat, protection, nature, globalwarming, greenhousegases )

Cher
- 176 days ago - change.org
The American Clean Energy and Security Act, introduced last month, will cut the "greenhouse gases" that contribute to global warming, while increasing the use of renewable energy and the production of low-carbon transportation fuels.
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Mexico Looks Beyond Oil and Toward the Wind
Environment  (tags: Renewable energy, Sustainability, CO2emissions, climate-change, pollution, ecosystems, globalwarming )

Ben
- 305 days ago - article.wn.com
Mexico inaugurated one of the world's largest wind farm projects on Thursday as the nation looks for alternative energy, in part to compensate for falling oil production. Mexico is trying to exploit its rich wind and solar potential after relying...
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Algae: Biofuel?
Environment  (tags: biofuel, algae, renewable energy, alternative energy )

RC
- 483 days ago - cnn.com
This sounds like a great idea to me. Skim the algae off pond cells and make fuel...how great is that?
35 comments
Texas Supasses California as The Windmill State
Environment  (tags: Sustainabililty, windmills, Texas, Caifronia, energy, energy production, renewable energy )

RC
- 641 days ago - nytimes.com
Texas is looking to wind power, not oil, these days as a prime energy generator. This is great news for the environment and surrounding ecosystems.
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Wind Huggers- Shield Your Eyes...
Environment  (tags: renewable energy, Nantucket Sound, wind farm, NIMBYism, Ted Kennedy )


- 667 days ago - thedailyshow.com
"Don't ruin my view!" NIMBYISM
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[GOOD NEWS] Oregon State Senators Okay Renewable Energy Bill
Environment  (tags: Oregon, renewable energy, green legislation, wind energy, solar energy, conservation )

Rooibos
- 957 days ago - planetark.org
Oregon state senators passed a bill on Tuesday to require electric utilities to make renewable energies such as wind, solar and wave power at least 25 percent of their power supplies by 2025.
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