Monthly Archives: May 2009

Auto Insurance Shopping

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iAre you auto insurance shopping? Do you know how auto insurance rates are set? Find out with this informative article. Original post by miscellaneous
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Tips On Selecting An Auto Repair Shop

By | Published: May 31, 2009
iNeeds some tips on selecting an auto repair shop? Here’s some helpful tips to show you how to tell if the shop you choose to repair your car is a reliable and trust worthy auto repair business. Original post by miscellaneous
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LED Lighting Automotive Technology

By | Published: May 31, 2009
LED lighting automotive technology…how to make your car greener. LED automotive lighting can help you to make your car greener. The 2010 Ford Mustang’s LED tail lamps use 87 percent less energy than standard bulb lamps. Original post by miscellaneous
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Obama’s Secret Meeting With the Oil Industry

By | Published: May 31, 2009
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Sometimes I come across information that isn’t publicly known. That occasionally happens because I am digging, and I uncover something newsworthy. I can generally report on those kinds of things. But sometimes it is because someone sends me information that is confidential – or they tell me something they learned in confidence. [...]
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India: The great carbon credit con: the ‘eco’ companies causing pollution

By | Published: May 31, 2009
Mail Sunday: The farmers, faces wizened and browned from hours in the harsh Gujarati sun, lower a bucket into a well. It`s a solid-brick cylinder 100ft deep. The sun is high in the sky, beating down on the scorched earth. In the baked fields, maize and cotton have been planted. But none of the crops [...]
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Q&A: ‘Climate Change Will Soon Make Millions Homeless’

By | Published: May 31, 2009
Inter Press Service: Millions of people will soon have to leave their homeland as a result of global warming, says a report on environmental refugees by the Italian environmental association Legambiente. Half of them will move due to natural catastrophes, the rest will be hit by desertification and rising sea levels. "For the first [...]
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Obama seeks funding cuts for wave, tidal energy research

By | Published: May 31, 2009
McClatchy Newspapers: The Obama administration has proposed a 25 percent cut in the research and development budget for one of the most promising renewable energy sources in the Northwest — wave and tidal power. At the same time the White House sought an 82 percent increase in solar power research funding, a 36 percent [...]
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Climate change turning seas acid: scientists

By | Published: May 31, 2009
Reuters: Climate change is turning the oceans more acid in a trend that could endanger everything from clams to coral and be irreversible for thousands of years, national science academies said on Monday. Seventy academies from around the world urged governments meeting in Bonn for climate talks from June 1-12 to take more account [...]
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Brazil: Cattle a tough target in Amazon protection fight

By | Published: May 31, 2009
Reuters: The small plane is gliding over a mesmerizing landscape of green pasture interspersed by patches of forest, but Wayne Lindbergh keeps his eyes firmly glued to his laptop. Below, where a map on his screen indicates forest stood last year, bare soil is charred brown by recent burning, another example of the widespread [...]
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United States: Up North utilities are giving more of their attention to renewable energy

By | Published: May 31, 2009
Detroit Free Press: In downtown L’Anse in the Upper Peninsula, a dormant 50-year-old coal plant smokestack is operating again. Instead of coal, the L’Anse Warden Electric Co. plant creates electricity and steam by burning biomass, such as old railroad ties, recycled tires and sawmill waste. The biomass plant is the first such plant to [...]
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Climate change causes 315,000 deaths a year-report

By | Published: May 31, 2009
Alibaba: Climate change kills about 315,000 people a year through hunger, sickness and weather disasters, and the annual death toll is expected to rise to half a million by 2030, a report said on Friday. The study, commissioned by the Geneva-based Global Humanitarian Forum (GHF), estimates that climate change seriously affects 325 million people [...]
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Hurricane barriers floated to keep sea out of NYC

By | Published: May 31, 2009
Associated Press: When experts sketch out nightmare hurricane scenarios, a New York strike tends to be high on the list. Besides shaking skyscrapers, a major hurricane could send the Atlantic Ocean surging into America’s largest city, flooding Wall Street, subways and densely packed neighborhoods. As a new hurricane season starts Monday, some scientists [...]
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India: Climate change set to wreak havoc in coastal Orissa

By | Published: May 31, 2009
Express Buzz: The latest World Bank report ‘Climate Change Impacts in Drought-and Flood- Affected Areas in India’ has painted a very grim future for Orissa. Climate change is all set to wreak havoc in the coming years but the Government is still to shed its complacency and prepare itself to counter the unfolding disasters effectively. [...]
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India asked to cut greenhouse gas emissions 15-30 p.c

By | Published: May 31, 2009
Indo-Asian News Service: India is under pressure from industrialised countries to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 15-30 percent by 2020. India’s negotiators are meeting their counterparts from G77 couontries and China throughout this weekend in Bonn to formulate a joint response. The mandatory GHG emission reduction target has been included in [...]
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For climate change bill, hard part starts now

By | Published: May 31, 2009
San Francisco Chronicle: Environmentalists celebrated earlier this month when a key House committee approved a contentious proposal to combat climate change after months of often-bitter public deliberations and intense closed-door negotiations. But for congressional supporters of the bill, the really hard part is just beginning. To get the climate change initiative to the [...]
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