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TIME’s Top 10 Green News of 2010 ~ 4. Prop 23 Is Defeated
The 2010 midterms were tough for Democrats and even tougher for environmentalists. The loss of the House and the near-loss of the Senate for Democrats mean that greens will be playing defense for at least the next two years. But there was a silver — or green — lining. In 2006 California passed a landmark climate change law that pledged the state to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. With the recession in full swing in the Golden State, business forces put a ballot initiative called…
Read MoreTIME’s Top 10 Green News of 2010 ~ California embarks on Cap and Trade
Cap-and-trade may be dead nationwide, but the defeat of Proposition 23 removed perhaps the last obstacle in the way of California developing its own carbon-cutting program. At the end of October, California’s powerful Air Resources Board released hundreds of pages of proposed regulations that will help California — which is, on its own, the eighth-biggest economy in the world — to cut some 273 million metric tons of CO2 or its equivalent between 2012 and 2020. California has the advantage of watching and learning from Europe’s own struggles with a…
Read MoreElephanta gets solar power
Residents of the Elephanta Island can finally bid farewell to darkness and diesel generators. On Monday, 30 homes of Rajbander village on the island that hosts the heritage Elephanta Caves, will be lit up with solar lamps. The island, which is a 90-munite ferry ride away from the Gateway of India,does not have electricity as it is not connected to an electric grid. Its 1,500 residents get four hours of power every,day – between 7 pm and 11pm – from diesel fed power generators provided by the Maharashtra Tourism Development…
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Read MoreTIME’s Top 10 Green Stories of 2010 ~ 6. Lake Mead Is Drying Up
Las Vegas is a city that shouldn’t be — but somehow is. The desert metropolis of nearly 2 million people survives thanks only to the intricate system of irrigation and reservoirs that tap the flow of the Colorado River. Much of the water is kept in the artificial Lake Mead, 30 miles south of Las Vegas. But Lake Mead could be slowly drying up. The region is in the grips of a back-breaking 11-year drought, and in October the reservoir fell to its lowest level since it was filled nearly…
Read MorePower Engineering Names Renewable Project of the Year
Orlando, Florida, USA — This year’s Power Engineering Projects of the Year Award winners and honorable mentions represented facilities and/or technology that signified excellence in four categories: coal-fired, gas-fired, nuclear and renewable/sustainable. Best Renewable/Sustainable Projects Tekeze Hydropower Project The Tekeze Hydropower project in Ethiopia, located on the Tekeze River, a tributary of the Nile, is the Project of the Year for renewable/sustainable projects. The $350 million project, funded by the government of Ethiopia and owned byEthiopian Electric Power Corp adds 40 percent more electric capacity to the country and was…
Read MoreRunning a hotel on Renewable Energy
Added to the present acute energy crisis, leading scientists and researchers predict that oil and coal will run out of stock in the decades to come. There is therefore a serious need to conserve energy to save the planet earth. It has thus become an extremely important and challenging task.Turing to renewable energy is one of the easiest and greatest option available
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