Archive for 'Business & Politics' Category
Aug 6th, 2008 by Frederick Carle |
Less than a year ago Dell announced they were heading towards a carbon neutral future. Today this is a goal they claim to have achieved. Dell is buying wind and solar power where possible and they have bought carbon credit to make the difference. But most importantly they are cutting the amount of energy [...]
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Jul 31st, 2008 by Frederick Carle |
Founded in October 2007 on $200 million of venture capital, Better Place, in its first six months, announced cooperative agreements with Israel and Denmark to transform their transportation infrastructure from oil-based to renewable energy and significantly reduce harmful emissions. Doing so they have committed to deploying the world’s first electric car networks.
Realized by Shai Agassi, [...]
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Jul 28th, 2008 by Frederick Carle |
Moblogic’s Lindsay Cambell chats with Shaun Chapman, East Coast Campaigns Director at The Vote Solar Initiative about the growing demand for solar power in the United-States. The problem with all this is that the US government isn’t doing anything to promote this clean and reliable power.
To overcome this problem, local communities are coming together and [...]
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Jul 24th, 2008 by Frederick Carle |
“We have to drill offshore. we have to do this. Oil executives say in a couple years we could be seeing results from it. So why not do it? We need to do it.”
Those are the words of a running candidate to the United-States presidential election. The only thing that came to my mind when [...]
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Jul 18th, 2008 by Frederick Carle |
The green guru has spoken again. Yesterday, former Vice President Al Gore challenged the United-States.
America must commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and other clean sources within 10 years.
He tried to convince the American population that by making the right choices there will be benefits for the environment, national security, [...]
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Jul 16th, 2008 by Brad Cartier |
Mr. McGuinty`s Ontario government this week pledged to protect almost a quarter of a million square kilometers of Ontario`s northern boreal forest – an area which is equivalent in size to the U.K., or six Belgium’s.
In a move that has evoked praise from environmental groups, the Ontario government has now made good on promises made [...]
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Jun 3rd, 2008 by Tara Benwell |
A high school teacher I know showed “The Story of Stuff” to a group of students the other day. It’s nothing they probably didn’t already know (except maybe some scary statistics that are worse than most people realize), but the way it is presented really makes you want to stop shopping for anything that is [...]
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May 15th, 2008 by Frederick Carle |
For the last three years, the US Department of Interior has been dragging its feet when it comes to protecting the polar bear. It has now finally listed the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. This might seem like a victory but there are enough exemptions in this listing to leave the [...]
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