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31 October 2008
12:31:28 PM
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31 October 2008
2:29:53 PM
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The future looks at small cars
- The Brunei Times
Electric cars may be the green dream, but it's the small petrol and diesel "city" cars that are creating a buzz in the downturn....
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31 October 2008
11:57:59 AM
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Prince Charles urges world to keep green course amid economic crisis
- NST Online
Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, urged Japan and other major nations Tuesday to take action in the global ”battle for survival” against climate change and emphasized that the current financial crisis should not be made an excuse to abandon efforts on emission cuts and forest conservation....
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30 October 2008
10:11:31 AM
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Museum features 'green' town
- The Straits Times
Tiny Greensburg, Kansas, rebuilding from scratch after nearly being wiped away by a tornado last year, is quickly becoming a model for going green....
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29 October 2008
2:47:45 PM
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28 October 2008
9:45:50 AM
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2 greenhouse gases on the rise
- The Straits Times
Carbon dioxide is not the only greenhouse gas that worries climate scientists. Airborne levels of two other potent gases - one from ancient plants, the other from flat-panel screen technology - are on the rise, too....
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28 October 2008
9:35:24 AM
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27 October 2008
6:17:05 PM
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The Greening of Consumer Electronics
- TIME
Polluters such as coal power plants and automobiles have shouldered the brunt of the attention on climate change. It helps that you can actually see them spewing black exhaust. But people often forget that when they plug in their home electronics — whether it's a jumbo flat-screen TV or an iPod — the electricity that juices those devices has a carbon footprint too....
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26 October 2008
10:58:30 AM
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Partying helps power a Dutch nightclub
- IHT
If you felt that the atmosphere in the new hip Club Watt was somehow electric, you would be right: Watt has a new type of dance floor that harvests the energy generated by jumps and gyrations and transforms it into electricity. It is one of a handful of energy-generating floors in the world, most still experimental....
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25 October 2008
3:49:07 PM
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Sold! Children's art to go under UN hammer
- CNN
It is an unusual art auction where making money isn't a great concern. But that is the case this weekend when a series of paintings go on the block with the purpose of drawing attention to climate change....
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22 October 2008
12:41:54 PM
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Momentum Slows for Alternative Energy
- NY Times
For all the support that the presidential candidates are expressing for renewable energy, alternative energies like wind and solar are facing big new challenges because of the credit freeze and the plunge in oil and natural gas prices....
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21 October 2008
6:29:24 PM
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And Justice For All
- Newsweek
An environmental expert talks about the challenges of helping disadvantaged communities deal with pollution and climate change at a local level....
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21 October 2008
2:37:11 PM
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Completely unplugged, fully green
- IHT
Simon Woods, who is 6, would like to play on a baseball team. His mother, Sharon Astyk, is sympathetic, but is also heavily committed to shrinking her family's carbon footprint. "We haven't been able to find a league that doesn't involve a long drive," she said. "I say that it isn't good for the planet, so we play catch in the yard."...
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21 October 2008
2:24:17 PM
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21 October 2008
10:08:20 AM
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No to carbon trading
- The Straits Times
Low-cost airlines claimed on Monday they will not make windfall profits from a trading programme intended to limit their greenhouse gas emissions....
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20 October 2008
9:55:42 AM
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Arctic record 5degC higher
- The Straits Times
Autumn temperatures in the Arctic region are a record 5.0 degree Celsius higher than normal due the melting of the ice cap, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) report said on Friday....
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20 October 2008
4:32:48 PM
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Global climate change to be dealt
- Straits Times
WORLD leaders must deal with the costly threat of global climate change despite the spreading 'cancer' of the global financial crisis, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Friday....
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19 October 2008
4:01:28 PM
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Is Europe Backsliding on Climate-Change Targets?
- TIME
Is this the moment the European Union's ambitious climate change agenda unraveled? At the end of the two-day E.U. summit in Brussels Thursday, European leaders congratulated one another on their bold bank rescue plans. But the mutual backslapping might have provided perfect cover for a retreat from their long-standing commitment to reduce Europe's overall CO2 emissions by 20% by 2020, compared to 1990 levels....
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16 October 2008
9:53:29 AM
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16 October 2008
11:11:22 AM
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Cooking The Carbon Books
- Forbes.com
Los Angeles has either the second-smallest or second-largest carbon footprint in the United States. Which is it? Depends how you ask.
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15 October 2008
10:55:56 AM
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14 October 2008
1:47:04 PM
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Car ban for Beijing?
- The Straits Times
The city will ban half of its 3.4 million cars from the roads during periods of very heavy pollution, a state news report said yesterday....
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14 October 2008
1:08:43 PM
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13 October 2008
10:44:25 AM
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How the Philippines Can Be a Solar Power
- BusinessWeek
With all this competition, are there still opportunities for developing countries like the Philippines? Yes, particularly in manufacturing and in the downstream and applications areas of the value chain. The Philippines semiconductor and electronics industry, working closely with local universities, industries, and investors, can offer significant opportunities for innovation, particularly in solar energy applications development and manufacturing-process reengineering and optimization.
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12 October 2008
10:26:53 AM
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11 October 2008
4:53:33 PM
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Consensus on climate crisis
- The Brunei Times
An elusive consensus on the best way to reduce forest carbon emissions took shape yesterday with the release of a joint statement by forestry companies, green organisations and indigenous peoples....
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11 October 2008
3:43:19 PM
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11 October 2008
3:15:31 PM
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Europe backs carbon capture with €10bn
- Financial Times
European legislators have committed about €10bn ($13.6bn, £7.7bn) to help build as many as a dozen power stations equipped to capture and store carbon dioxide, throwing its weight behind a technology that supporters say has immense potential to curb greenhouse gases....
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9 October 2008
10:22:34 AM
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'Deadly dozen' due to climate change
- The Straits Times
A 'deadly dozen' diseases ranging from avian flu to yellow fever are likely to spread more because of climate change, the Wildlife Conservation Society said on Tuesday....
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9 October 2008
4:08:44 PM
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9 October 2008
4:03:57 PM
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8 October 2008
3:37:57 PM
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PM: Focus on renewable palm biofuel
- The Star Online
The country’s biotechnology industry could take advantage of the global concern over food and energy security by focusing on developing new and economically viable renewable fuel from palm oil....
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8 October 2008
3:35:07 PM
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Ozone issue needs its own 'Kyoto'
- The Guardian
The world needs an international agreement like the Kyoto protocol to reduce levels of ozone pollution which harm human health and crop yields, according to a report from senior scientists....
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8 October 2008
10:37:16 AM
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8 October 2008
2:40:34 PM
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It pays to go green in Taiwan
- The Straits Times
Starting today, consumers who buy an energy-efficient electrical appliance can get back NT$2,000 (S$90) from the Taiwan government, under a plan to boost conservation as well as the business of electronics retailers.
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7 October 2008
2:31:06 PM
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6 October 2008
12:01:42 PM
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5 October 2008
12:53:20 PM
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5 October 2008
3:03:08 PM
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Paying SE Asia's power bill
- The Brunei Times
There is an uneasy calm that swirls through this South-east Asian capital, which sits on the banks of the Mekong River. White sandbags piled waist-high over a 13km stretch along the river offer the reason why — floods....
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5 October 2008
2:57:15 PM
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Virgin Galactic to measure gas levels
- The Brunei Times
Richard Branson's space tourism company, Virgin Galactic, is to use its space planes to gather scientific data on climate change from the highest reaches of the atmosphere under a new collaboration with an American government laboratory.By Ian Sample...
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4 October 2008
2:52:43 PM
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Climate change: Reprieve for Asia's mangroves
- The Brunei Times
Lack of access to military-ruled Myanmar has not stopped a global environmental body from setting its sights on the country's Irrawaddy Delta, which was devastated by a powerful cyclone in early May. Rehabilitating mangroves is the draw....
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3 October 2008
12:25:45 PM
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Australia economy can afford emissions trading
- Reuters
Australia's economy, powered by coal-fired generators, can afford to cut greenhouse gas emissions by five to 10 percent by 2020 through an emissions-trading scheme starting in 2010, said the nation's chief climate adviser....
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3 October 2008
10:47:15 AM
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3 October 2008
10:43:04 AM
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The future of energy
- CNN
While many of the world's best business brains are exercising themselves over the current global banking and equities crisis, there is another issue which has the potential to dominate our lives far more in the longer term -- energy....
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2 October 2008
10:18:05 AM
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Driven together by a green future
- China Daily
China is well-positioned to take a leading role in the economy of the 21st century, one that will be driven by the environment, top officials and industry leaders said on the sidelines of the 2008 Summer Davos in Tianjin yesterday....
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2 October 2008
4:53:49 PM
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Can a green F1 ever exist?
- Straits Times
FOR the first time in my life, I watched an entire Formula One (F1) race from start till finish. It was a remarkable feat, considering I'm not a massive fan and have always regarded the F1 sport somewhat as glorified traffic....
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1 October 2008
2:05:09 PM
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Going green for Raya
- The Star
Green may be the colour identified with Hari Raya Aidilfitri but Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam has taken the green theme a step further....
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1 October 2008
12:02:20 PM
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Gore's Rebellion
- WSJ.com
For a while, it was a standard-issue Al Gore jeremiad, with calls for everything from installing solar panels in Darfur (seriously) to legal action against "the carbon lobby" for denying global warning (ditto). But then Mr. Gore really got going and told his disciples to head -- literally -- to the barricades to "stop" coal....
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1 October 2008
11:27:13 AM
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Carbon Trading Won't Save Aviation and Shipping
- Wired
Carbon trading schemes won't solve the aviation and shipping industries' problem of soaring carbon emissions, a British climate scientist says, and the cuts needed to address global climate change are so deep that both sectors must limit their growth....
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