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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - State-owned electricity generator Mighty River Power said on Thursday it planned to build a 132 Megawatt geothermal power station to meet growing demand.
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They may not be gas-guzzlers, but electric cars have a raging thirst for water. A comparison of the volume of coolant water used in the thermoelectric power plants that provide most of our electricity and that used in extracting and refining petroleum suggests that electric vehicles require significantly more water per mile than those powered by gasoline.
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., March 5, 2008 — A destructive spring freeze that chilled the eastern United States almost a year ago illustrates the threat a warming climate poses to plants and crops, according to a paper just published in the journal BioScience. The study was led by a team from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
It finally happened this week. The price of oil passed the all-time inflation-adjusted peak of $103.76 that was set in April 1980—and is now three times what it was just four years ago. What's going on? This is a record that virtually none of the world's oil experts predicted, particularly at a time when the world economy is slumping and the demand for gasoline is now dropping in the United States. Some of the blame may go to speculation and the decline of the dollar. But the roots of the problem run deeper.
The study, which appears in Nature, settles some long-standing debates about the relationships between major groups of animals and offers up a few surprises. The big shocker: Comb jellyfish -- common and extremely fragile jellies with well-developed tissues -- appear to have diverged from other animals even before the lowly sponge, which has no tissue to speak of. This finding calls into question the very root of the animal tree of life, which traditionally placed sponges at the base.
What's next in home design and decor? Greenness and gadgetry, that's what. Local design experts say that technology and ecology are shaping the way homeowners build, renovate and otherwise outfit their homes, and they see energy savings and electronics as fuels for the fire. "I think that laptops, and I'm not quite sure where it's going to go, are going to change the way we use our spaces," says licensed interior designer Davia Gallup of Davenport, Iowa, owner of HomeFront Interior design. Gallup uses a computer-aided drafting program like the one seen on the HGTV network's 'Hidden Spaces' program to show her clients what their dream spaces will look like before they're renovated or built from the ground up.
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Tesso Nilo National Park, Sumatra – Communities on the fringes of Sumatra's Tesso Nilo National park mixed tradition and conservation on March 1, with a party to name and welcome the newest members of the WWF's Elephant Flying Squad. In Riau Province, the flying squad are four adult elephants and eight mahouts patrolling an area along the National Park boundaries, keeping wild elephants away from local communities and teaching villagers non-lethal ways to protect their crops.
Berlin/Nairobi, 6 March 2008-Tourism can play a key role in restoring economic activity and employment in Kenya and in doing so play its part in bringing peace and stability to the East African country, the head of the UN Environment Programme(UNEP)said today. Achim Steiner, UNEP's Executive Director was speaking on the eve of his departure to Berlin, Germany which this week is hosting one of the world's biggest tourism fairs.
HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) - Europe's biggest information technology fair went green this year. The problem was that there weren't many people around to notice. CeBIT 2008 was a slimmed-down, serious affair, cut back to six days from seven. Formerly sprawling exhibits were corralled into order by theme and publicity stunts banished to the weekend that now comes at the end of the show, not the middle.
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In a suit that could serve as a national test case to interpret the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, a coalition of conservation groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging approval of a natural gas pipeline that will require construction of more than eight miles of new roads in protected roadless areas. By: Earth Policy Institute
'At its current growth rate, global installed wind power capacity will top 100,000 megawatts in March 2008', writes Jonathan G. Dorn in a recent Earth Policy Institute release, 'Global Wind Power Capacity Reaches 100,000 Megawatts.' By: Pineapple Hospitality
As the sustainability movement continues to escalate, Pineapple Hospitality's EcoRooms & EcoSuites adds green leader Q Hotel & Spa as a new member and recruits two top talents to serve as Advisors — Bernadette V. Upton and Ray Hobbs. By: Environmental Law Institute
Guidebook identifies both the state-of-the-art and the range of current practice in protection of wetland buffers by local governments By: Center for Biological Diversity
Three environmental organizations filed suit Monday against the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service program to force the agency to link its analyses of the impact of East Kentucky Power Cooperative's proposed power plant and power transmission lines. By: Center for Biological Diversity
The Center for Biological Diversity and Turtle Island Restoration Network formally petitioned the U.S. government today to enforce the Marine Mammal Protection Act and impose a ban on imported swordfish until exporting countries provide proof that their fishing practices are at least as protective of marine mammals as those used by U.S. commercial fishers. By: Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
The latest in cutting-edge sustainable (residential and commercial) building materials and products, renewable energy technologies, and green design and construction services, will highlight the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association's (NESEA) 33rd annual Building Energy Conference and Trade Show, March 11-13 at Boston's Seaport World Trade Center. By: Center for Biological Diversity
The Center for Biological Diversity issued a 60-day notice of intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Friday over the agency's decision not to recover an endangered species native to the United States, the jaguar, in violation of the Endangered Species Act. The notice is required to allow the federal agency one last chance to comply with the law.
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A personal quest to promote the use of wind energy and hydrogen technology in the Great Lakes area of the United States. The Great Lakes area is in a unique position to become an energy exporting region through these and other renewable energy technologies. *Update 2014: Just do it everywhere - Dan*
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