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Three Reasons Why Open Source Will Have A Great 2016
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ShareWhen Netscape released its Web browser's source code to the public in 1998, it seemed like a Hail Mary move for a company embattled by Microsoft.Now barely a week goes by without a commercial tech company announcing the launch of a new platform,...

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  The Age Of Autonomy Is Coming - 18 Jan

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A Brief History of Stephen Hawking Being a Bummer
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ShareStephen Hawking is at it again, saying it’s a “near certainty” that a self-inflicted disaster will befall humanity within the next thousand years or so. It’s not the first time the world’s most famous physicist has...

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Why An Overflowing Oil Supply Won't Drown Renewable Energy Growth

Huffington Post

- Jan 19, 2016

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A barrel lies in a pool of oil at a damaged petroleum plant on Jan. 15, 2005, in Indonesia, after a 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Oil is incredibly cheap these days, but that doesn't spell doom for renewables.

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A pioneer in renewable energy is inexplicably abandoning the cause

Quartz

- Jan 18, 2016

- Jan 18, 2016

By most accounts, this is likely to be an incredible year for investment in renewables just about everywhere. In 2014, China overtook the first wave of green-power stalwarts—like many countries in Europe—to become the biggest investor in renewable ...

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GOP candidates talk renewable fuels at annual summit

DesMoinesRegister.com

- Jan 19, 2016

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Four Republican presidential candidates addressed the 10th Annual Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit on Tuesday in Altoona and each drew applause from a crowd strongly supportive of corn-based ethanol and other renewable fuels. The candidates included ...

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Large-Scale Renewable Energy Solar & Wind Project Coming to Fort Hood

KCEN-TV

- Jan 19, 2016

- 10 hours ago

"We are very pleased with the recent award of a large scale renewable energy contract with Apex Clean Energy, as it will allow Fort Hood to utilize sun and wind resources to generate nearly half of our electricity needs over the course of a year, at a ...

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Ecology's $434000000 test

Nature.com

- Jan 19, 2016

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But ecologists have not had an easy journey into the world of big science. During its five-year construction phase, NEON has encountered a series of high-profile problems that have raised concerns about the programme, which is funded entirely by the US ...

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CDTi Begins Shipments of SPGM DOC Technology to Panasonic Ecology Systems

Nasdaq

- Jan 19, 2016

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OXNARD, Calif., Jan. 19, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Clean Diesel Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:CDTI) ("CDTi" or "the Company") has begun supplying its new synergized-platinum group metal (SPGM™) diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) to Panasonic Ecology ...

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Grazing critical to ecology

Castanet.net

- Jan 19, 2016

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Grassland farming is not only the basis of organic farming, but the basis of all farming, and hence the basis of civilization itself. The reason for this bold proclamation is, first of all, based on the fact that there is far more land across North ...

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Ecology: Biodiversity and productivity entwined

Nature.com

- Jan 13, 2016

- Jan 13, 2016

An abiding goal of ecology is to understand how the biological diversity of natural communities is linked to the rate at which those communities produce biomass, if it is linked at all. Elucidating this connection and the processes behind it is useful ...

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How water crisis in Flint, Mich., became federal state of emergency

USA TODAY

- Jan 19, 2016

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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder gave a State of the State address Tuesday night, following remarks he made a day earlier on how he's made mistakes in handling the Flint, Mich., water crisis. "I'm sorry and I will fix it," Snyder said near the opening of his ...

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Vandals drain 400000 gallons from Flagler water system

WKMG Orlando

- Jan 18, 2016

- Jan 18, 2016

FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. - Vandals drained 400,000 gallons of water from the Flagler County water supply, prompting officials to issue a boil water alert. Detectives said the vandals opened about 20 valves at the Plantation Bay water system sometime Sunday ...

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Surrounding communities feeling effects of Troy water main break

NEWS10 ABC

- Jan 18, 2016

- Jan 18, 2016

WATERFORD, N.Y. (NEWS10) – Several surrounding municipalities are feeling the effects of a major water main break in Troy. Waterford Town Supervisor Jack Lawler and Halfmoon Town Supervisor Kevin Tollisen declared States of Emergency in their ...

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Flint's dirty little water secret

USA TODAY

- Jan 19, 2016

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Because an entire community has been drinking poisoned water, and it took years for anyone to do something about it. Explain: Flint's drinking water became contaminated with lead in 2014 after the city switched its water supply to cut costs and then ...

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