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While Costa Rica is a small country, with a popular of about 4.8 million people, it has made great strides in its use of renewable energy. Last year 80 per cent of the energy used came from hydropower, while geothermal energy made up about 10 per cent ...

Solar sails set course for a new journey into renewable energy

The Guardian

Solar sails set course for a new journey into renewable energy. Perry Carroll of The Solar Cloth Company explains why his flexible solar sail panels can generate energy not only at on sea but on millions of spaces on land. Perry Carroll, founder of The ...

Will the Oil Price Crash Destroy Renewable Energy Stocks?

Motley Fool

Ask any theoretical economist to map out the demise of renewable energy, and she'll grab a napkin, a pen, and draw a couple of supply and demand curves that'll make things strikingly clear: Oil has the upper hand. When oil is cheap, people use more of it.

New York Utilities Can't Own Renewable Energy Assets Under New Rule

CleanTechnica

Renewable energy advocates were jubilant. "This ruling is a step toward providing the certainty needed for future development of grid-scale renewables - like wind power and hydropower - as the state's current program expires this year," said Anne ...

Human Habitat

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Initiatives to conserve forests, ecology

The Hindu

On the occasion of the International Day of Forests, the Madurai Division of the Forest Department launched two initiatives in a bid to involve public in its conservation and awareness activities. Launching the initiatives on Gandhi Memorial Museum ...

VIDEO: British School Muscat students pitch for ecology in Oman

Times of Oman

Muscat: Edward Ridd, a Year 6 student, secured the first place in the Dragons' Den Project at the British School Muscat (BSM) on Sunday afternoon. The topic for this project was saving 'Our Precious Planet.' Stay ahead of the rest and download our free ...

California's Lotusland gardens mix whimsy, ecology

Columbia Daily Tribune

California's Lotusland gardens mix whimsy, ecology. AP PHOTOS: Lotusland gardens mix whimsy, conservation. Pamela Hassell/AP. Ganna Walska altered the more classical and formal plants with mass plantings of cacti and other succulents outside this ...

MEC to host presentation on aquatic ecology

Wicked Local Melrose

Juliet Simpson is an aquatic ecologist. She studies water – who lives in it, how it's used, what humans do to it and, most importantly, how it affects our environment. Simpson, who works with the MIT Sea Grant College Program, is the featured speaker ...

Water Power

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Many in US Face Another Dry Year as World Water Day Arrives

NBCNews.com

"We get about 30 percent of our summer water from the snowpack, but this year you might as well say we are not going to get any," Doug Carlson, a spokesman with the California Department of Water Resources, said. On Tuesday, as California's snowpack ...

World Water Day 2015: UN calls for global unity in pursuit of better water ...

UN News Centre

22 March 2015 – As the perils of climate change increasingly threaten the planet, the international community must unite in “a spirit of urgent cooperation” to address the many water-related challenges facing humanity, United Nations Secretary-General ...

Take A Shorter Shower — It's World Water Day

NPR (blog)

Even though water scarcity is probably among the top of our list of 21st century worries, few people stress about it unless directly lacking a safe source of ample water. World Water Day — this year landing on Sunday, March 22 — aims to raise ...

World Water Day 2015: 12 Facts And Things To Know

International Business Times

Many people take it for granted, but water is essential for life. World Water Day is celebrated Sunday, March 22 to simply celebrate water. The United Nations started the campaign 22 years ago to show how water makes a difference to areas of the world ...