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San Francisco Converting Restaurant Grease to Bio-Diesel
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ebekins 
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 9 months ago | political-news
San Francisco will become the first city to institute a program to convert "brown grease" from restaurants into bio-diesel. Mayor Gavin Newson announced the $1.2 million pilot program, which will collect about 10,000 gallons of grease a week from city-wide...
Re-inventing Urban Space: Green Alleys
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ebekins
Chicago :: IL :: USA | updated 9 months ago | odd-news
One of the central tenets in making sustainability work is re-imagining the way we use public urban spaces. This involves turning inefficient utilitarian spaces into urban amenities that are vital to the city’s social and environmental fabric. Most environmentalists agree...
High Potential for CDM Markets in Africa
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ebekins
Berkeley :: CA :: USA | updated 9 months ago | political-news
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) program, developed under the Kyoto Protocol, is a method of combating climate change by encouraging sustainable development through market incentives. It is essentially a compromise allowing industrialized countries needing to meet Kyoto standards to...
Pacific Northwest Trees Dying as Climate Warms
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ebekins
Berkeley :: CA :: USA | updated 9 months ago | technology-news
A new study conducted over a 50 year period in the coniferous forests of the American West, reports that forest trees are dying at a rate twice as fast as they were 17 years ago. The scientists are blaming this...
Approaches to Conservation in China
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ebekins
Beijing :: China | updated 9 months ago | political-news
There are sufficient reasons why China gets a bad reputation in regards to its environmental policy, yet there is cause to be optimistic about the future of ecological conservation in China. Professor Lu Zhi's lecture at UC Berkeley entitled "Seeking...
Envisioning the Future
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ebekins
Berkeley :: CA :: USA | updated 10 months ago | allnews
It’s 2009 and the world is changing…and fast. I say this not because of the constant infiltration of apocalyptic messages of our current fear-mongering media, but because I can truly feel it. There is just something in the air that...
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