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It was decided many moons ago that the countries of the world would work together to stop global warming and climate change, by reducing their carbon emissions, in sync. Well, if you haven’t heard, that hasn’t come about. However, the EU has done a tremendous job of reducing its emissions in various sectors. One sector [...]
I cover solar energy news (and wind energy news) obsessively over on CleanTechnica. I think one of the coolest programs I’ve run across in the past couple years is a UK program to get solar power on more schools. It involves the communities around the schools and helps them to give back to the schools [...]
I was recently contacted by some folks from a great campaign to get a lot more progressives elected to office around the U.S. The campaign is called 2,012 for 2012. It’s an exciting project and has been doing much better than originally planned. Here’s more: 2,012 for 2012 (Grassroots Movement to Get Good Politicians Elected) [...]
