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New Green Jobs Don’t Require College DegreeAs solar incentives kick off during Energy Awareness Month, new jobs are opening up all across the nation. |
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Cité du Design: Solar Powered International Design Center UnveiledSituated in an defunct arms manufacturing facility in Saint-Etienne, the recently unveiled Cité du Design is a stunning international center for design. |
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Dell Plants Solar Trees in the Parking LotDell is doing it again, this time on-site, with a series of solar trees that will not only help power its headquarters in Round Rock, Texas, but also serve to charge electric vehicles parked there. |
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New forest helps save villagesOver the past month, typhoons “Pepeng” and “Ramil” lashed northern Luzon, but residents of a town in Cagayan province are thanking their young trees for sparing their place from killer landslides that buried villages in other mountainside communities. |
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Alabama Schools Make $2.9 Million Green CommitmentThe Florence City Schools in Florence, Ala., are implementing $2.9 million in facility enhancements designed to improve operations, comfort and efficiency at nine district buildings totaling more than 925,000 square feet. |
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Disney Spends $7 Million to Conserve Forests in Peru, Congo, USAThe Walt Disney Company, which for 60 years has portrayed the glories of nature in film, today announced a $7 million investment to protect forests in the United States, in the Peruvian Amazon and in the Congo Basin. |
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Fisker To Retool Former GM Plant To Make Electric CarsElectric-car start-up Fisker Automotive said Tuesday it will invest nearly $200 million to buy and retool a former General Motors plant in Wilmington, Del., facing off against Honda Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp. and other big manufacturers in the nascent market for electric vehicles. |
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UN casts Disney’s Tinker Bell to raise environmental awareness among childrenThe United Nations today named the Disney animated character Tinker Bell an “Honorary Ambassador of Green” to help promote environmental awareness among children. |
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Creative bus stops ease the commuteTaking the bus can be a cheaper commute than driving a car. |
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A pioneering solar energy project is using green technology to improve the lives of isolated villageA pioneering solar energy project is using green technology to improve the lives of isolated villagers living beyond the reach of power lines on Argentina's windswept Andean plains. |
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Arizona Air Force Base Community to Rely 75% on SolarThe Soaring Heights Community at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base will become the largest solar-powered community in the continental U.S., upon completion, according to a press release. |
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‘Simple lifestyle tweaks’ key in climate change fightThe United States could cut greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of France's total annual emissions by getting Americans to make simple lifestyle changes, like regularly maintaining their cars or insulating their attics, a study showed. |
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Volunteers plant 1,000 treesVolunteers on Guam joined a global movement to reduce carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere by planting trees at Cetti Bay. |
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SOM Wins Competition to Create Beijing’s Sustainable City CenterSkidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) was recently awarded the contract to create a stunning new Central Business District in Beijing. |
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Environmental news headlines
- EU to ban pesticides in bee scare
- New law to protect Puerto Rico leatherback turtles
- China, world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gasses, will tax carbon
- New wind power cheaper than coal or gas in Australia
- Gorillas to Be Protected with New Congo National Park
- From the brink of extinction: elephant seals stage remarkable comeback
- Nations agree on legally binding mercury rules
- Six million turn out for global garbage clean-up
- Obama triples area of protected California coastline
- Swiss Parliament Passes Plastic Bag Ban
- This week, a shark sanctuary the size of Australia has been established
- French move boosts shark sanctuaries
- Canada introduces new rules to curb future vehicle emissions
- Brazil says Amazon deforestation at record low
- Australia outlaws illegally-logged wood from abroad
- Tokelau islands shift to 100% solar energy
- Another city in BC bans shark fins
- EU on track to exceed Kyoto emissions goal
- Victory for Forests: Disney Stands Up for Endangered Forests and Animals
- new mammal menagerie uncovered in remote Peruvian cloud forest
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