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30.08.2006 from Ecostreet blog:
Climate activists hope to shut down the UK's biggest coal-fired power station by mass action.
Image: Climate camp poster

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Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Climate change] [Pollution]
Child deformed by radiation poisoning, India.
22.08.2006 Indian-US plans to cooperate on nuclear energy have drawn public criticism from eight of India's top scientists in the field. They say that recent US changes to the text of the deal are "unacceptable to India" and would limit its independence in nuclear research and its right to a nuclear deterrent.
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From: SciDev.Net
Related topics/regions: [United States] [India] [International cooperation] [Nuclear Issues] [Politics]
Image: Child deformed by radiation poisoning, India. © Centre for Science and Environment
11.08.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 11 (OneWorld) - The loss of 400,000 barrels of oil a day caused by the closure of BP's Prudhoe Bay oilfield in Alaska could be offset if all the cars and trucks in the United States got just one extra mile per gallon of fuel efficiency, a prominent non-profit grouping of scientists said this week.
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Related topics/regions: [United States] [Transport] [Consumption] [Corporations]
Sunset industries?
09.08.2006 from Survival Acres blog:
'The world’s infrastructure is already creaking towards a dangerous collapse' when in comes to dependency on oil.
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Image: Sunset industries? © Friends of the Earth International
Old-fashioned... but no standby with this set
06.08.2006 from Terrablog:
Banning standy mode would mean actually having to turn on the TV using the button on the box itself. Shock, horror! But what would it save? More than you'd think, it seems.
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Image: Old-fashioned... but no standby with this set
Unlike other renewables, geothermal energy doesn't depend on the sun
03.08.2006 from Gristmill blog:
Geothermal energy has a big advantage over other renewables: it offers steady baseload power to electricity grids because hot rocks in our own planet provide continuous energy.
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Related topics/regions: [Renewable energy]
Image: Unlike other renewables, geothermal energy doesn't depend on the sun © Greenpeace International
Would carbon credits work?
01.08.2006 from ActonInstitute blog:
What if carbon credits become the currency of the day? Would that be 'Carbon Communism'?
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Related topics/regions: [Consumption] [Climate change]
Image: Would carbon credits work? © www.carbonsense.org / Resurgence
01.08.2006 As bombs rain down on a hapless and helpless Beirut and the world looks the other way, another development – that would be of interest to the powers that be – is fast becoming one of constant concern. Oil prices have shot up considerably.
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From: The Energy and Resources Institute
Related topics/regions: [Nuclear Issues]

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