Earth-Friendly Elements, Mined Destructively
New York Times - Sat Dec 26, 2:51 pm ETSome renewable energy technologies rely on a group of elements that mainly come from harmful Chinese mines.
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China adopts law to boost renewable energy industry
AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Dec 26, 11:59 am ETChina's national assembly Saturday signalled the country's commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by adopting a law supporting its renewable energy industry.
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Amendment to Chinese energy law adopted
UPI - 1 minute agoBEIJING, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- China's renewable energy law was amended Saturday to require power companies to buy all power generated from renewable resources.
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Decade's top stories in Maine: Terrorism, recession
Boston Herald - Sat Dec 26, 12:53 pm ETAUGUSTA, Maine - The terrorist attacks in which the ringleader visited Portland and the Great Recession that rocked both Wall Street and Main Street serve as infamous bookends...
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Connecticut High School Going Green
WCBS 880 New York - 48 minutes agoThe recession has private companies and government scrambling to find savings anywhere they can, while those entering the job market are facing limited prospects.
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China Law to Require Grid to Buy Renewable Energy, Xinhua Says
Bloomberg - Sat Dec 26, 3:11 am ETDec. 26 (Bloomberg) -- China’s National People’s Congress, the country’s legislature, today approved new rules compelling utilities to buy power generated from companies using renewable energy sources, the official Xinhua News Agency said today.
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Decade's top stories in Maine: Terrorism, recession, tragedy
Bangor Daily News - 1 hour 46 minutes agoAUGUSTA, Maine -- The terrorist attacks in which the ringleader visited Portland and the great recession that rocked both Wall Street and Main Street serve as infamous bookends to a difficult first ...
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Follow an auditor as he looks at a home for sale
Austin American-Statesman - Sat Dec 26, 9:17 am ETFollow an auditor as he looks at a home for sale
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Earth-Friendly Elements Minded Destructively
Free Internet Press - 11 minutes agoSome of the greenest technologies of the age, from electric cars to efficient light bulbs to very large wind turbines, are made possible by an unusual group of elements called rare earths. The world’s dependence on these substances is rising fast.
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Micro-hydro makes inroads in region
Telluride Daily Planet - 43 minutes agoThe San Juan Mountains, marked as they are by steep terrain and plenty of downward-hurtling water, hold significant potential for hydropower.
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New projects bring sustainability ideas to fruition
Telluride Daily Planet - 53 minutes agoFor a relatively small team, The New Community Coalition (TNCC) is making quite the impact.
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In dark economic times, a brighter downtown
Telluride Daily Planet - 56 minutes agoUnemployment rates climb, the stock market drags and the federal deficit hits record levels.
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Telluride joins global day of action
Telluride Daily Planet - 1 hour 3 minutes agoOn Saturday, people around the world with gather on beaches and highways, in cities and churches and atop mountains in an effort to mobilize world leaders to find effective solutions to reverse climate change.
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Ridgway renewable energy project gets Big Ideas grant
Telluride Daily Planet - 1 hour 8 minutes agoTeacher Matt Wade and a group of students from Ridgway High School had a big idea. They saw a need for renewable energy education in Ouray County and they wanted to learn in a hands-on, innovative way. Their vision: To study solar energy through the installation of a 10-watt solar panel on the school, and to generate enough energy to power a student-made iPod listening station in the student ...
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Nine candidates, four seats, one evening at the library
Telluride Daily Planet - 1 hour 12 minutes agoThe nine candidates vying for four seats on the Telluride Town Council represent a cross-section of the community — from a late-20s video store manager to a retired schools superintendent, from a glider-plane-flying incumbent to a computer tech taking his first stab at council.
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A Mojave power failure A shortfall in Mojave protection bill
Los Angeles Times - Sat Dec 26, 3:15 am ETSen. Dianne Feinstein's desert-protection proposal is leaving solar energy out in the cold. From an aesthetic perspective, vast solar arrays stretching for thousands of acres across the desert aren't pretty. But what they do for the environment and for U.S. energy independence can be downright beautiful. Which is why, though we'd be happy to see about 1.5 million acres of the Mojave Desert ...
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Italian village sets sustainable living standard
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