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Investing in girls, especially in their education, can literally transform lives and end global poverty, says Roberts. An educated girl will be more likely to marry later and have fewer, healthier children.
3.06.2012
I'm Skeptical: World's nations achieve UN goal to improve access to safe drinking waterWashington Post
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The goal of reducing by half the number of people without access to safe drinking water has been achieved, well ahead of the 2015 deadline for reaching the globally agreed development targets aimed at ridding the world of extreme poverty, ...
Wind-power companies lose luster with investors San Francisco Chronicle
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The weather's getting worse for wind-power companies, which are finding it increasingly difficult to attract venture backers.
Excellent Stats on FY 2010-2012 Renewables Investments. tpg org
Limbaugh is wrong. Clean energy isn’t just the future of the 21st century economy, it’s driving the present.
In 2010, global investment in wind, solar, and biomass energy hit $187 billion, exceeding the $157 billion spent on fossil fuel energy. U.S. solar installations more than doubled in 2011. U.S. wind power capacity represents more than 20 percent of the world’s installed wind power. Over 400 manufacturing facilities across the U.S. make components for wind turbines. In July, 2011, the Brookings Institute found that the green energy sector has had “explosive job gains” since 2003.
Limbaugh’s attitudes about energy, like his opinions about women, are stuck in the 19th century.
In 2010, global investment in wind, solar, and biomass energy hit $187 billion, exceeding the $157 billion spent on fossil fuel energy. U.S. solar installations more than doubled in 2011. U.S. wind power capacity represents more than 20 percent of the world’s installed wind power. Over 400 manufacturing facilities across the U.S. make components for wind turbines. In July, 2011, the Brookings Institute found that the green energy sector has had “explosive job gains” since 2003.
Limbaugh’s attitudes about energy, like his opinions about women, are stuck in the 19th century.
Visitors, invasive species and climate change threaten pristine Antarctica Bizcommunity.com
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(Image: Andrew Mandemaker, via Wikimedia Commons) Changing climates are making matters worse, and are making it easier for these plants to establish, to become invasive, and to ultimately disturb the naturally occurring Antarctic ecosystems.
Climate Change Could Cause 900 Tropical Bird Species to go Extinct International Business Times
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By Amir Khan: Subscribe to Amir's RSS feed Up to 900 species of tropical birds could go extinct by the year 2100 because of climate change, according to a new study. The expected average temperature increase of 6.3 degree Fahrenheit (3.5 degree ...
3.05.2012
Breaking: Two Arrested for Blocking Tar Sands “Megaloads” in Idaho It's Getting Hot In Here
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News from Moscow Idaho, two arrested blockading Exxon's megaload trucks bound with tar sands equipment for Alberta. Four remarkably brave activists eluded the barricades and put their bodies between enormous Alberta tar sands upgrader parts and the ...
Solar Power Will Save University $1.6 Million EarthTechling
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National University, one of California's largest private, nonprofit colleges, recently announced the completion of optimized rooftop and carport solar power systems at two of its campuses in San Diego that are expected to generate more than 1.4 million ...
Japanese Developers Find Growing Interest in Homes With Solar Panels New York Times
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That is what happened with “solar apartments,” residential buildings that have solar panels on their roofs. Now, such buildings are being aggressively promoted by some Japanese developers.
Wind energy output reaches record high in Spain REVE
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Wind farm broke a record in February in Spain with wind turbines achieing their highest-ever electricity outpu. The wind power industry prevents 260 million euros of income transfers abroad. Wind power accounts for 21.7% of Spain's electricity demand.
I'm extremely skeptical, however: Ending Poverty in Our Time (VIDEO) Huffington Post
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1.4 billion people live in extreme poverty today. That's a staggering amount, but let's put those numbers in perspective: In 1981 52 percent of the world lived in extreme poverty. Today it's 26 percent. Again, that means we have cut the number in half, ...
Archbishop of Canterbury Insists Tackling AIDS Has Wider Social Implications Christian Post
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By Ivana Kvesic , Christian Post Reporter The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, discussed the importance of combating HIV/AIDS in tackling global poverty and and its implications on gender roles and minority rights at a town hall meeting at ...
Growing population will increase global climate challenges MIT News
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As populations across the world grow, new research out of MIT shows the rising influence of large or developing countries in shaping our future global challenges. MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change's 2012 Energy and Climate ...
ROFL Title: When Romney Talks, Mitt Happens Huffington Post
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Mitt Romney has the opposite problem that Al Gore Jr. had. When Gore was whipping America into a stupor long in 2000, the vice president's aides assured us that behind closed doors he was one funny dude.
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Hunger strikers joined by prominent figure in fight for Chinese democracy Tibet Post International
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Dharamsala: On day ten of the Indefinite Hunger Strike in New York, Tibetan protestors were joined by Dr. Yang Jianli, President of Initiative for China and Research Fellow at Harvard.
Israelis deny winter clothing for Palestinian on hunger strike gulfnews.com
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Ramallah: The Israeli Prison Service has refused winter clothing for Hanaa Shalabi as a punishment for the woman who refuses to end her 19-day hunger strike, family sources said. Speaking to Gulf News, Omar Yahya Shalabi, Hanaa's brother, ...
Students strike enters Day 6,still no word from colleges Indian Express indian express
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Even as students' hunger strike to protest against charging of fees from Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), other backward caste (OBC) and other students from the reserved categories entered its sixth day on Monday, the 120 students are yet to ...
Palestine: Israeli soldiers invade Jenin, nearby areas, break into homes The Muslim News
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Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday at dawn, the northern West Bank city of Jenin, the Jenin refugee camp, and a number of nearby areas, broke into and searched several homes; no arrests were reported.
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