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Bicycle Benefits Program Rewards Pedal-Powered Customers
My three-year old daughter is one of the newest participants in Bicycle Benefits, a national program that rewards people for biking to participating businesses. Bikers pay $5 for a sticker that adheres to their helmet, which they present at participating … Continue reading
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Startup Develops Floating Solar Farm
While solar energy companies throughout the world are competing for the relatively few vast land areas required to house solar farms, Israeli startup Solaris Synergy has found a new terrain to use. Instead of a land-based solar system, the company … Continue reading
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Coal-Power in China Makes Electric Vehicles More Polluting
China produces electricity for its burgeoning economy with its ample coal reserves. A full 80 percent comes from coal-burning power plants, and new plants are being constructed all the time. The country’s reliance on coal power, while causing very dirty … Continue reading
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Organic Brown Rice and Arsenic
A new study by Professor Brian Jackson, director of the Trace Element Analysis Core Facility at Dartmouth has found alarming levels of Arsenic in Organic Brown Rice and Brown Rice Syrup. This is particularly alarming since Brown Rice Syrup is … Continue reading
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Fracking impacts reviewed in major study
A controversial method of drilling for natural gas, called fracking, has boomed in recent years—as have concerns over its potential to cause environmental contamination and harm human health. But a major review of the practice uncovered no signs that it … Continue reading
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Geo-engineering: now Bill Gates is supporting it
With the help of a group of very wealthy and well known individuals, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Chairman of the Virgin Group, Richard Branson, a group of leading climate scientists are advocating for the use of controversial geoengineering … Continue reading
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Geo-engineering: now Bill Gates is supporting it
With the help of a group of very wealthy and well known individuals, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Chairman of the Virgin Group, Richard Branson, a group of leading climate scientists are advocating for the use of controversial geoengineering … Continue reading
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Price of Solar Energy Decreasing in India
Solar energy may have a reputation to be more expensive in most parts of the world, but not in India. In the world’s second most populous nation, electricity stemming from solar energy is now cheaper than oil-based energy. The Indian … Continue reading
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World’s biggest offshore wind farm officially connected to the Grid
The world’s biggest offshore wind farm was officially opened today after record-fast construction in the middle of the Irish Sea. The 102 turbines of the two connected Walney wind farms cover an area of 73 square-kilometres and were formally connected … Continue reading
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Budget Woes and Ozone
Budgets are being cut all over. So something has to be hurting. U.S. scientists are raising the alarm about Environment Canada saying cuts in the department could go far beyond ozone monitoring. Programs tracking pollution wafting into Canada from Asia, … Continue reading
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