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The 27 member countries set a goal of reducing carbon emissions 20 percent by 2020 and increasing renewables to 20 percent of their energy portfolio. Unfortunately, they underestimated the carbon intensity of burning wood (a.k.a. “biomass”) for ...

Gen-Y May Prove Major Challenge To Renewable Investment

CleanTechnica

Common thinking over the past decade has been that the current trend in renewable energy investment will only continue to grow as Generation-Y babies grow and start making their own financial decisions. However, a new report published by Green ...

Renewable Energy Momentum Has Passed The Tipping Point

CleanTechnica

This is a great summary piece on the renewable energy revolution from one of CleanTechnica's daily readers. Unlike with many of the recent reader articles we've published, this one doesn't come from a frequent commenter but from one of the many, many ...

The challenge of getting renewable energy into our power networks

euronews

Renewable energy is on the rise around the world, but many experts say it will always remain the minority partner in our total energy mix, mainly because it is a question of reliability: you cannot always promise the sun and the wind. When there is a ...

Human Habitat

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Is ecology explaining less and less?

Science Now

Ecologists are testing more and more hypotheses, but their studies are explaining less of the world. That's the striking conclusion of a new study that analyzes 8 decades of research papers. What exactly is driving these trends isn't clear, but ...

State eases water usage rules; critics still blast Ecology

Longview Daily News

The state Department of Ecology this summer began easing restrictions in its 2006 water management plan from what it calls the Cowlitz Water Resource Inventory Area. The plan guides the state in governing how much groundwater and surface water can be ...

The Incubator For Social Change; Institute For Social Ecology Celebrates 40 Years

Vermont Public Radio

Vermont has played a seminal role in the development of this somewhat obscure social science, thanks to the Institute for Social Ecology founded in Plainfield in 1974. The institute started at Goddard College and operated out of Goddard's 90-acre Cate ...

What Ecologists Are Most Worried About Right Now: 5 Emerging Trends in ...

Huffington Post

Ecologists studying the impacts of climate change today know that change is not coming at some point in the future; change is here, with much more to come. And most of us are pretty worried -- a heat reflected even in the cool questions we as ...

Water Power

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Matt Damon Does Ice Bucket Challenge With Toilet Water

Huffington Post

"But because I co-founded Water.org, and we envision the day when everybody has access to a clean drink of water -- and there are about 800 million people in the world who don't -- and so dumping a clean bucket of water on my head seemed a little crazy.".

Water restored after water main break in Mount Dora

WFTV Orlando

Crews are working to determine what caused a water main break in Mount Dora on Sunday, city officials said. The water main break on Lincoln Avenue left some residents either without water or with low water pressure Sunday evening. "It was not the ...

Boil water advisory lifted

KSDK

LOUIS COUNTY – The St. Louis County Office of Emergency Management says a boil water advisory that affected parts of west St. Louis County has been lifted. The boil water advisory was put in place as a precaution after a power outage affected a ...

Drought leaves California homes without water

News10.net

PORTERVILLE (AP) - Government officials and community groups say hundreds of rural San Joaquin Valley residents no longer can get drinking water from their home faucets because California's extreme drought has dried up their individual wells.