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Wind ‘can revolutionise UK power’

BBC News reports here: Wind has the power to revolutionise the UK’s electricity industry, according to a study published on Wednesday.

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Analysis: Climate bill may spur energy revolution

AP reports here at Yahoo News: WASHINGTON – Congress has taken its first step toward an energy revolution, with the prospect of profound change for every household, business, industry and farm in the decades ahead.

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Abu Dhabi to host renewables agency

AFP reports here at Yahoo News: Abu Dhabi, capital of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, will host the headquarters of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), participants said, despite criticism of its high carbon footprint.

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Green walls: the growing success of ‘vegitecture’

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CNN reports here: Yeang’s designs use walls of plants, scallop-shaped sunshades, solar panels, advanced ventilation and the structure and of the building itself to collect water and catch cooling air currents. It enables the construction to function as a self-managing ecosystem with less need for external energy.

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Scientists attack energy industry

BBC News reports here: Britain’s energy systems are no longer fit for purpose, according to leading members of the UK’s best-known scientific academy, the Royal Society.

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The greening of tech packaging

CNET reports here at News.com: Microsoft claims that Windows 7 packaging “has a 37 percent weight reduction, and the econometrics score has improved by 50 percent over its predecessor.”

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British PM urges 100-billion-dollar global green fund

AFP Reports here at Yahoo News: LONDON – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Friday called for a global fund worth 100 billion dollars a year to tackle climate change in the developing world, ahead of crunch talks later this year.

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Brazil’s Lula signs Amazon bill

BBC News reports here: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has approved a controversial bill allowing Amazon farmers to acquire an area of public land larger than France.

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The US House of Representatives passes major energy-climate bill

AP reports here at Yahoo News: WASHINGTON – In a triumph for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed sweeping legislation Friday that calls for the nation’s first limits on pollution linked to global warming and aims to usher in a new era of cleaner, yet more costly energy.

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Obama touts climate change bill in meet with Merkel

AFP reports here at Yahoo News: WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama, joined by visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel, touted a climate change bill being debated by Congress Friday as representing “enormous progress” but said more needed to be done.

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