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Offshore Wind Power to Take Flight Off Atlantic CoastOn the heels of yesterday’s good news about progress for offshore wind energy in Massachusetts, today the Obama Administration announced a major new initiative to accelerate the development of clean, offshore wind power along the Atlantic Coast. |
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US Socially Responsible Investing Thrives In RecessionDespite the recent economic downturn, sustainable and socially responsible investing (SRI) in the United States is continuing to grow at a faster pace than the total universe of investment assets under professional management, according to the new 2010 edition of the Social Investment Forum Foundation's Report on Socially Responsible Investing Trends in the United States. |
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Spain Looks to Green Jobs to Remedy Soaring UnemploymentSpain has become the latest country to identify green jobs as the answer to its economic woes, today detailing how it plans to create around a million jobs over the next decade in low carbon industries. |
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Ambitious plans for 5 gigawatt solar plant in South Africa
via GizMag |
Sun November 07, 2010 |
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US flags additional 2.4 billion dlrs for high-speed railThe US government on Thursday pumped in an additional 2.4 billion dollars to develop high-speed rail projects as it moves toward building the nation's first nationwide next-generation program. |
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World Bank to lead economic push on nature protectionThe World Bank has launched a global partnership aimed at helping countries include the costs of destroying nature into their national accounts. |
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Organic wines are taking offFRANCE - Supermarket and cave shelves can contain a baffling array of wines from around France and it is understandable if you just head for the bottle with the gold medal sticker from the Salon de Paris. However... |
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Runway opens at world’s first spaceport
via BBC |
Sat October 23, 2010 |
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Wal-Mart to boost buying from small and local farmsWal-Mart Stores Inc is planning to double the sales of fresh produce from local farms in its U.S. stores by the end of 2015, part of a strategy to revamp its global produce supply chain. |
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Virgin spaceship’s first solo flight
via The Sun |
Mon October 11, 2010 |
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BrightSource Wins Final OK For Major Solar PlantBrightSource Energy Inc said Thursday it won final approval for a $1.7 billion-plus, 370-megawatt solar energy plant in Southern California, the latest in a string of large-scale projects greenlit for the most populous state. |
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Russian Firm Unveils Plan for First Space Hotel
via ABC News |
Sun October 03, 2010 |
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Banks Seek Distance from Mountaintop Removal Mining PracticesBlasting off mountaintops to reach coal in Appalachia or churning out millions of tons of carbon dioxide to extract oil from sand in Alberta are among environmentalists’ biggest industrial irritants. But they are also legal and lucrative. For a growing number of banks, however, that does not seem to matter. |
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Greece Unblocks $2.7 Billion Renewable Energy ProjectsGreece unblocked renewable energy projects worth 2.1 billion euros ($2.7 billion) as the cash-strapped country struggles to attract new investments to boost its ailing economy, the energy regulator said on Monday. |
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Corporate social responsibility
- Victory for Forests: Disney Stands Up for Endangered Forests and Animals
- Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific bans shark fins as air cargo
- Johnson & Johnson Announces a Ban on Harmful Chemicals in Products
- How Some Food Retailers Are Coming to the Rescue of Pigs
- Company Designs Bottle From Great Pacific Garbage Patch Debris
- KFC-Indonesia suspends purchases from Asia Pulp & Paper due to deforestation
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