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Climate change is being repositioned from a difficult and complex challenge to a looming planetary disaster, with all other values now paling in comparison, writes Brad Allenby.
by Brad Allenby
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Maryline Lewett offers reasons to feel good about the new year.
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America's biodiesel industry will add $24 billion to the U.S. economy between 2005 and 2015, according to a study by the National Biodiesel Board. The figure foresees biodiesel growth reaching 650 million gallons of annual production by 2015.
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The Goldman Sachs Center for Environmental Markets has awarded its first research grants, totaling more than $2.3 million, to fund programs focused on finding market-based solutions to climate change.
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Alcan is providing innovative solar cookers and pans to 1,000 rural Indonesian families in the country's Banda Aceh region as part of a €450,000 contribution with Klimaschutz e.V. to a 'Clean Development Mechanism' (CDM) project aimed at preserving the environment.
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A year-end perspective from Worldwatch President Chris Flavin.
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German power producer RWE could lose up to 17% of its value if its business strategies fail to take into account climate change policies, environment group WWF and the independent and leading Sustainability Investment Manager SAM Group said last week.
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A new Greenhouse Gas Product Certification Standard has been published for stakeholder comment by the Center for Resource Solutions.
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Rapidly growing interest in environmentally friendly 'green' computers has resulted in more than 300 computers being registered with EPEAT, the green computer standard released in July. Nine manufacturers currently participate in the program.
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Laboratory experiments with a type of nanomaterial that has great promise for industrial use show significant potential for dispersal in aquatic environments -- especially when natural organic materials are present -- according to new research.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a Toxics Release Inventory rule that encourages reductions in chemical emissions and increases in recycling at facilities nationwide. EPA also announced today its decision to continue requiring TRI data reporting on an annual basis.
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'WANTED: One highly motivated, business-savvy, green-minded, entrepreneurial self-starter, looking to have a worldchanging impact on how business gets done. Must be willing to move to northwestern Arkansas.'
by Joel Makower
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According to a new report by the Natural Resources Defense Council, some airports and the airlines that use them are finding creative solutions that pay significant financial dividends while reducing their waste and environmental impacts.
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General Motors says it has reduced its energy use by 25 percent and added solar and landfill gas as energy sources at its North American facilities over the past five years.
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RHÔNE-ALPES, France, Dec. 15, 2006 - Alcan is launching an R&D initiative aimed at reducing the environmental impact of its aluminum smelting technology and has set a target of reducing energy use by 20 percent.
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The metals industry has today published a declaration on recycling principles aimed at encouraging product policy-makers, designers and manufacturers to adopt life cycle thinking when developing metals recycling policies.
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Ceres and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) today announced the shortlist of candidate reports for the Ceres-ACCA North American Sustainability Reporting Awards for 2006.
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Dell has launched free recycling in several additional markets worldwide, meeting a timetable set in June to provide free recycling of any Dell-branded product for consumers worldwide as part of its global recycling policy.
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If all the cars and light trucks in the nation switched from oil to electrons, idle capacity in the existing electric power system could generate most of the electricity consumed by plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
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Investors worldwide must embed environmental thinking in the heart of their property investment portfolios if the financial services sector is to play a pivotal role in halting climate change, the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) Working Group warns.
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'Green Buildings and the Bottom Line,' a 64-page White Paper that assesses the financial costs and benefits of environmentally sustainable buildings, has been published by Building Design+Construction.
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Fujitsu Ltd. and Fujitsu Laboratories have announced their development of a new polymer with a high bio-content that uses castor oil extracted from the seeds of the castor bean.
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From an environmental perspective, New Jersey Gov. John Corzine's Economic Growth Strategy, announced in September, certainly has some good things in it, but it is still lacking key themes, writes Matt Polsky. Maybe they should think like Goldman Sachs.
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The state of socially responsible investing, direct from the SRI in the Rockies Conference, by Christine A. Renner. The good news: The financial sector is beginning to recognize both the challenges and opportunities that come with dramatic climate change. The bad news: We're running out of time.
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The California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance has unveiled its 2006 Progress Report indicating a 24 percent increase since 2004 in the number of California wineries and vineyard businesses working to adopt practices that are sensitive to the environment and society at large.