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Chicago May Get Largest U.S. Urban Solar Plant
On the south side of Chicago, a former industrial park is the proposed site of a $60 million project to add 10 MW of solar photovoltaic panels. Supporters say it will be the largest urban solar instal

We Need to Make Good Jobs Out of Green Jobs
Last December, Republic Windows, maker of energy-efficient windows, gained worldwide attention when members of United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers (UE) Local 1110 occupied the plant after th

Green Becoming a Tiebreaker in Shopping Decisions, Survey Finds
Green product attributes are evolving into an important brand differentiator for consumers and can serve as a tiebreaker for shoppers evaluating similar products, according to results of a new study f

Ecologists Put Price Tag On Invasive Species
Invasive species can disrupt natural and human-made ecosystems, throwing food webs out of balance and damaging the services they provide to people. Now scientists have begun to put a price tag on this

Adapting Skills For The Green Tech Revolution
The recent multi-billion-dollar U.S. stimulus package is paving the way for a smarter national infrastructure, which will inevitably creates job, stimulate economic growth and drive innovation to buil

Carbon Sinks Losing The Battle With Rising Emissions - Science Daily
The stabilising influence that land and ocean carbon sinks have on rising carbon emissions is gradually weakening, say scientists attending last week’s international Copenhagen Climate Change Co

Renewable Energy Distribution Market Grows
Companies that have solar and wind power generators tied into the grid are part of a major growth area, according to Pike Research. Renewable Distributed Energy Generation (RDEG) revenue from sub-util

Calculating the Gross National Trash
More than 15 years ago, I received some data that changed the way I looked at trash. It came in the form of an obscure presentation by a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official to a September 19

As planet warms, poor nations face economic chill
A rising tide is said to lift all boats. Rising global temperatures, however, may lead to increased disparities between rich and poor countries, according to a recent MIT economic analysis of the impa

Natural Resource Management Critical to Peacebuilding
Intrastate conflicts are likely to drag on and escalate without a greater focus on environment and natural resources in the peacebuilding process, according to a new report launched today by the Unite

Helping Food Safety, Or Helping Monsanto?
The New York Times reported that, according to President Obama, the government’s failure to inspect 95 percent of food processing plants "is a hazard to the public health."  &ldqu

Key Messages from the Copenhagen Congress on Climate Change
Following a successful International Scientific Congress Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges & Decisions attended by more than 2,500 delegates from nearly 80 countries, preliminary messages f

Growth of 'Green' Consumption On Hold
At 36 percent, the number of Americans who say they “almost always” or “regularly” buy green products remains unchanged, according to recent Mintel consumer survey data. This l

Ministers back right to refuse GM crop cultivation
Attempts by the European Commission to force Austria and Hungary to allow the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) maize on their territory were rejected yet again by EU environment ministers. &nb

A roomful of cynics
What is to be done when the world's leading experts in a field come together in the largest, most extensively peer-reviewed inquiry in the history of science and arrive at a conclusion that is dia


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