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Wind Is Energy ‘Gift’ For Native AmericansThe Great Plains, USA - Native Americans on the Great Plains are harvesting a new gift these days ... wind power.
"We're broke here. We're poor. (But) the wind is free. There's energy here all the time."
- Ken Haukaas, tribal official |
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Wind Is Energy ‘Gift’ For Native AmericansThe Great Plains, USA - Native Americans on the Great Plains are harvesting a new gift these days ... wind power. |
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Skies to be swept for alien lifeHat Creek, California - The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life. |
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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Bottling Wind PowerDallas Center, Iowa, USA - Business Week says "the future is taking shape under the windswept corn and soybean fields outside Dallas Center, Iowa," where a group of Midwest utilities is building a facility where excess wind power will be stored underground. |
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South Dakota, Michigan faith, tribe leaders, musicians fight domestic violence with free concert
Source: Native American Times, Fri August 03, 2007 |
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Forest Service Teams with Nonprofit Foundation to Combat Global WarmingWashington, D.C., USA - The U.S. Forest Service is teaming with a nonprofit foundation to allow consumers to participate in a voluntary program to "offset" their carbon dioxide emissions. |
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Energy-Infused Sunflower Seeds on MarketSioux Falls, South Dakota, USA - Baseball players and truck drivers who chew sunflower seeds at work no longer have to down a cup of black coffee or a Red Bull for an extra energy jolt. |
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N.D. approves wind power line proposalBismarck, North Dakota, USA - The Public Service Commission has approved a transmission line for a new wind farm in North Dakota and South Dakota. |
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Mountain Lion Research Continues in South DakotaSioux Falls, SD - A research project tracking mountain lions in the Black Hills has been extended for another year. |
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Official tells Indian side of Mt. RushmoreMount Rushmore National Memorial, SD - The huge granite faces of presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt evoke the ideals of the country's leaders as America changed from rural republic to world power. To many American Indians, though, the imposing monument in the Black Hills is a painful symbol of treaties broken by the federal government. And they want their story told. |
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