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Korean agency offers $700,000 for green school project
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| UNFCCC
Source: Jakarta Post - Marking its first ever joint cooperation with the Education and Culture Ministry and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) is launching a Green School Action Project to …
Gambia: FAO Trains Journalists, Others on 'Communication for Development'
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| UNFCCC
Source: The Daily Observer (Banjul) - Food and Agricultural Organisation of the UN-Gambia office has begun a four-day intensive training for local journalists and communication specialists to enhance their knowledge on 'Communication for Development' abilities and skills at the Ocean …
Germany: Durban Platform climate talks in Bonn
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| UNFCCC
Source: AfriqueJet - Africa stresses fair emission cuts as key to moving climate talks forward - African countries attending the opening of the 'Durban Platform' climate talks in Bonn, Germany, on Thursday expressed worry that there had been no change …
Analysis: Germany's Merkel losing green battle to cheap coal
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| UNFCCC
Source: Reuters - To reach its strict climate targets and fulfill Chancellor Angela Merkel's nuclear exit plans, Germany needs to avoid coal and build a stack of gas power plants to secure clean energy supplies beyond 2020.
Low Natural Gas Prices Threaten Carbon Capture Projects
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| NYTimes.com
Cheap, plentiful natural gas provides utilities with little incentive to build coal-fired plants with a technology that traps carbon gas for storage or other uses.
RozVerky Environmental Institute Veronica
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| EnviWeb.cz
Climate Star heading to Hostětína For its access to the use of renewable energy sources won Hostětín price Climate Star. As the only Czech village is ranked after the Swiss side Zurich, German Leipzig or the region of Andalusia in …
DAF introduced Euro 6 engines supply
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| EnviWeb.cz
DAF Trucks is a new generation of engines. It was developed in order to fulfil the emission standards Euro 6, which in the European Union will enter into force on the 1. January 2014. In order to achieve the best …
This Is Your Child's Brain on Exercise; How to Make Schools Healthier
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| Yahoo! News
Discovered: Kids brains look different than adults brains when exercising, how to make schools healthier and how thunderclouds are contributing to climate change. This is your child's brain on exercise. It looks different than your adult brain, finds research. When kids …
Climate Ride NYC-DC 2012 [New York, USA]
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| EEA.eu
Climate Ride will return for its fourth year this May 19-23, 2012, and will once again see hundreds of cyclists pedal beautiful country roads 300 miles from New York City to Washington, DC to raise awareness of sustainability, renewable energy …
Rio+20 to mull giving UN climate body more teeth: Brazil
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| Yahoo! News
Next month's Rio summit on sustainable development will discuss how to strengthen the UN Environment Program (UNEP), Brazil's environment minister said Friday.
Peabody Coal pays U.S. taxpayers $1.11 per ton of coal, sells it to China for $123
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| Grist Magazine
By David Roberts The feds just sold 400 million tons of mineable coal at bargain-basement prices to a company that's now going to strip-mine public land and screw the climate.
Green Economic Transition Needed to Achieve Sustainable Development
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| Worldwatch.org
Image: Homepage Image: Node: Green Economic Transition Needed to Achieve More Equitable and Sustainable Development
Expect lower gas prices heading into Memorial Day
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| Yahoo! News
If you're lucky enough to live in some parts of the United States, you may see gas pump prices fall to around $3.25 a gallon or less in the next week or two. Even West Coast drivers should get some …
Dot Earth Blog: A 'Fracked' Photograph
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| NYTimes.com
A photographer slices open a stone and finds an image reflecting our gas thirst.
Climate-Cooling Trial Balloon Gets Canceled
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| Yahoo! News
One of the first trials of geoengineering Earth's climate would have launched a balloon with a hose that could pump two bath loads of water into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight. But disagreements about that small, symbolic step combined with …
After Greenpeace Protests, Apple Promises to Dump Coal Power
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| Mother Jones
This story was produced by Wired as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Apple is cleaning up its energy act. The computer company says that by early …
Chefs disregard for environment leaves a bad taste
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| Grist Magazine
By Twilight Greenaway When Thomas Keller, the iconic chef at The French Laundry, made a point to privilege flavor over sustainability in the New York Times recently, he did us all a disservice.
Otero Mesa; Search for Rare Earth Threatens a Desert Bio-Gem
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| SierraActivist
Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC: An essential mineral ingredient used in a variety of electronics from cell phones to smart bombs could be a death knell for a pristine part of a wild New Mexico desert grassland coveted by …
Otero Mesa; Fight Over Rare Earths Threatens a Desert BioGem
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| SierraActivist
Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC: An essential mineral ingredient used in a variety of electronics from cell phones to smart bombs could be a death knell for a pristine part of a wild New Mexico desert grassland coveted by …
BP Spill Residue Found in Minnesota Pelican Eggs
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| SierraActivist
An American white pelican sits on her nest in Minnesota. [Imagevia Minnesota Public Radio] The impacts of the Deepwater Horizon are being felt in -- you guessed it -- Minnesota. White pelicans that winter in the Gulf of Mexico and …
