Monday, June 22, 2015

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Economic Times
The installed capacity of renewable energy in the country reached 32,269.6 megawatts according to the renewable energy status report 2014. Consequently, the renewableenergy, now constitutes 28.8% of the overall installed energy capacity in in the ...
Center for Research on Globalization
The Tory plans announced this week are a huge threat to the renewables industry in Scotland – and represent a total betrayal towards people who were persuaded to vote No after being told that Scotland'srenewables sector was only safe if Scots rejected ...
IEEE Spectrum
A group of researchers at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, led by Stanford's Mark Jacobson and Mark Delucchi, says that the United States can get 100 percent of its energy from renewablesources, using existing ...
Somewhat Reasonable - Heartland Institute (blog)
The fact the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee is attacking the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) management—er, mismanagement—of the federal renewable fuel standard (RFS) is indicative of the growing frustration over ...
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HUMAN HABITAT

NPR
Well, a whole lot, according to France'secology minister Segolene Royal. This past week, she urged the public to stop eating the hazelnut spread because it is made with palm oil. The production of palm oil has had a major impact on the environment, ...
Deutsche Welle
France's Ecology Minister Segolene Royal apologizes for Nutella boycott claim. France'sEcology Minister Segolene Royal has apologized for telling people not to eat the Italian Nutella chocolate and nut spread. She had claimed it contributed to ...
Toronto Star
Third, Francis advocates not just for a pastoral reorientation toward the planet, but a seismic shift away from “rapidification” and “irrational confidence in progress and human abilities” toward a culture of social andecological inclusion, to protect ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
People need an “ecological conversion” from a throwaway mentality that has turned the earth into a dumping ground, Pope Francis said in a landmark teaching document Thursday that some see as a “game-changer” in pushing for action on climate change.
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WATER POWER

Yahoo Health
Wegmans, an upstate New York supermarket with devoted shoppers — along with several other chains including Giant Food Stores, Shaws, and 7-11 — recalled its branded bottled water due to potential E. coli contamination. Niagara Bottling, a leading ...
Los Angeles Times
Don Wells spotted a trail of pooling waterand slowed his van. Runoff from a sprinkler gone rogue streamed down a long block of thirsty brown lawns, watering the sidewalk. "There it is," he said, pulling up to a house with grass too wet for this time ...
Contra Costa Times
Robby Cella,16, of Diablo, carries a bucket holding three days worth of shower waterthat he has collected to help water his mothers potted plants in Diablo, Calif., on Saturday, June 13, 2015. The Cella family as stopped watering their front lawn, to ...
Al Jazeera America
CARLSBAD, California — Along the sun-dappled shores of the Pacific Ocean, the electronic signs up and down Interstate 5 flash constant reminders to save water during California's worst drought in history. It's a cruel irony for residents of a state ...
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