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Let clean technology "stand on the shoulders of giants"

Green growth has been in the news lately with much talk about greening the fiscal stimulus for a triple bottom line. Yet there are worries and the question remains as to whether green growth means slower growth with resources diverted to cleaning up the growth process. And what would happen to... [continue]

A Roadmap For Taking On Coal Plant by Plant

photo via flickr Coal activist Ted Nace today published a must-read post in Grist on the importance of taking on coal via a variety of strategies, effectively coming at the country's Number 1 contributor to climate change from every angle possible. Nace, the man behind the indispensable Coalswarm,... [continue]

Rwanda Turns to Trapped Methane For Electricity, Growth

A project that aims to harvest energy from a potentially disastrous situation in Rwanda's Lake Kivu aims to turn risk into reward, and bring much-needed power to a developing economy. [continue]

Let's Not Forget: Even Without CO2, Coal Would Still Be Very Dirty

"Orthographic aerial photograph of Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill, in Kingston, Tennessee, taken the day after the event." Photo: Public domain CO2 is Important, But Not the Only Thing David Roberts over at Grist has a great rebuttal of Thom Friedman's latest column in which he and... [continue]

Is it time to generate your own domestic power? | Leo Hickman

Will the government's feed-in tariff scheme which guarantees a rate of payment for renewable energy sold back to the grid tempt you to install your own solar panels or wind turbine?Is now the right time to invest in micro-generation?P Moore, by emailWhat a difference a week makes. When this question... [continue]

Evidence Provided In UK Parliamentary Inquiry Into Climate Scientists Was Prepared By Oil and Gas Industry Consultant

The Guardian just broke the news that a consultant to Shell and other oil and gas interests was the source of ‘evidence’ provided by the Institute of Physics in the current UK parliamentary review of the controversy in England over climate scientists’ emails stolen from servers at... [continue]

Obama's Nuclear Madness and the Future of 'Clean' Energy

In early February, President Obama did something that his predecessor George W. Bush was unable to do: He pushed the restart button on the U.S. nuclear power industry [continue]

Energy-intensive production is poor solution to rekindle growth

   Photo © iStockphoto.com Hans Timmer, director of the World Bank Prospects Group which analyses the world's economic outlook, described recently a scenario in which only high-income countries would limit the emission of CO2 while developing countries would seize on... [continue]

Reader Report: Low-cost Clean Tech for Rural Communities

by Baskut Tuncak Editor's Note: We encourage "Reader Reports" -- submissions from members of Worldchanging's global audience who volunteer to write up their notes from conferences, workshops and other worldchanging happenings they participate in. If you'd like to contribute your own report, please... [continue]

Drought Uncovers City Submerged For Decades

Photo: BBC Brasil Josefa Garcia Rojas walks through the eerily barren streets of Potosi, a small Venezuelan city where she lived most of her 84 years, amid the skeletons of trees and groups of curious onlookers. This is the first time she's stepped foot here since she and a thousand other residents... [continue]
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