Year-End Reading – Wind’s Future Ally: Better Transmission; Grid interconnections will let turbines compete with coal plants

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NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines click here for main page: http://www.NewEnergyNews.net/ TODAY @ NewEnergyNews, 12-30: For year-end reading, NewEnergyNews is this week posting some of its best original reporting (not previously posted here) from 2010. Today, some stories about what one expert recently called the “glass ceiling” for New Energy, transmission. * …

Shaping Tomorrow Insight Newsletter: Pollution and health

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Pollution may be having a far greater and longer lasting effect on our health than we realised. New research, while not yet conclusive, indicates potentially strong links with obesity, intelligence, autism and cancer. Consumers may demand action and governments may get tough on polluters. What is changing? Research in Spain …

Nuclear Disarmament Has a Future

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By Jamshed Baruah IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BERLIN (IDN) – The United Nations is keen to counter growing skepticism about nuclear disarmament really happening and culminating into a nuke free world. According to the UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Sergio Duarte, the peoples and countries of the world are not willing …

SustainAbility Update: Changing Minds, COP 16 and more

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CLIMATE LEADERSHIP FROM BUSINESS Little was expected from COP 16 and modest progress, it seems, is what we got. Post Cancún commentary speaks of ‘groundwork’, ‘building blocks’, ‘solid foundations’ and ‘platforms’. Small steps towards implementing key elements of the Copenhagen Accord have been taken, but we are nowhere near a …

Sunlight Foundation Wants You to Check Your Influence

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NEW TOOL LETS YOU SEE HOW YOUR EVERYDAY (AND HOLIDAY) SPENDING IMPACTS POLITICS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 30, 2010 Contact: Gabriela Schneider 202-742-1520 WASHINGTON, DC – The Sunlight Foundation today launched Checking Influence, a web tool that analyzes your online bank or credit card statement to reveal how your everyday spending …

A message to all members of The Foresight Network

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2010 Laurel Awards The results of this years ‘all-time best futurists’ are in as voted upon by Foresight Network Members. They are in no particular order: Alvin Toffler, Ray Kurzweil, Richard Slaughter, and Sohail Inayatullah. There was a draw for third place so we have not split hairs and recommended …

Utility Sun Thru 2015

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NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines click here for main page: http://www.NewEnergyNews.net/ Today At Newenergynews, 12-7: * Today’s Study: Utility Sun Thru 2015 * Quick News, 12-7: Biggest U.S. Pv Plant Online; Coal’s Long Goodbye; Eu Will Build Supergrid; Rent An Ev From Hertz Yesterday * Guest Lead Post: Coal V. Sun On …