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The global economic crisis might cause carbon dioxide emissions to drop — for now — but the longer-term impact could be higher emissions, Reuters reports. The article quotes Fatih Birol, chief economist of the International Energy Agency, who warns that slumping investment in alternative energy technologies could mean worsening greenhouse gas emissions
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Too many Top-This-or-That-of-2008-type stories are published during the end-of-the-year holidays: who has time to read them all? That’s why, here at Greenbang, we’ve saved the wrapup (and look ahead) feature till now. Anyway, doing our Top-Stories-of-2008 story now makes sense in another way as well, as many of
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In a world that’s increasingly looking under every imaginable rock for a new potential energy source, can it come as a surprise that cremation could become a community heating source? That’s the case in the Swedish town of Halmstad, where cemetery operators have found a silver energy lining
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What’s the best overall source of energy if you take into account factors like climate change, sustainability, pollution, human health and reliability? Not biofuels, nuclear power or so-called clean coal, according to a new study from Stanford University. Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, concludes
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An historic theatre in Indiana is featuring a uniquely powered Christmas tree display in its annual Festival of Trees. The Embassy Theatre in Fort Wayne has held the festival for more than 20 years, but never displayed a tree like this before: an alternative-energy tree whose lights are powered by
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Ah, nuclear power. Is it, as writer-thinker James Lovelock (The Revenge of Gaia) says, the only energy source that can replace fossil fuels and save civilization? Or is it, as many environmentalists warn, a dangerous and not-economically viable path toward the next Three Mile Island or Chernobyl? Those are the