A U.S. mine debate centers on water, jobs (Reuters)
News | news.yahoo.com | 2 hours 1 minute ago
Standing on the marshy ground at Eagle Rock in the remote woods of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, it's hard to imagine that beneath one's feet is a lump of nickel worth billions of dollars.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091126/us_nm/us_usa_economy_mining
States mull 'Plan B' after climate bill falters
News | www.dailyreportonline.com | 2 hours 19 minutes ago
Cash-strapped states in search of new revenue may establish their own “cap-and-trade” program for greenhouse gases covering more than half the U.S. economy if Congress doesn't set up a federal emissions market.
Obama offers U.S. climate cut, to attend Copenhagen
News | uk.reuters.com | 2 hours 55 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States unveiled its proposal to cut greenhouse gases by 2020 on Wednesday and said President Barack Obama will attend U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen next month -- before
Obama offers fixed targets for US emissions cuts
News | www.newscientist.com | 8 hours 29 minutes ago
The US president has given a major boost to next month's Copenhagen talks by offering firm targets for cuts in US greenhouse gas emissions
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18198-obama-offers-fixed-targets-for-us-emissions-cuts.html
Beijing Slams Europe Emissions Effort
News | online.wsj.com | 8 hours 30 minutes ago
China's top climate envoy lashed out at Europe for failing to meet its previous greenhouse-gas commitments, and said reaching an agreement at the global warming summit in Copenhagen next month is essential.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125917215393364339.html?mod=europe_home
Obama to Offer 17% Emissions-Cut Goal at UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen
News | www.bloomberg.com | 9 hours 49 minutes ago
President [bn:PRSN=1] Barack Obama [] will attend climate-change talks in Copenhagen next month, offering an emissions-cut goal of about 17 percent by 2020 after legislation to reduce greenhouse gases stalled in Congress.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=auzyy7ajS24k&refer=worldwide_news
Todays Information Ecology
News | www.folden.info | 9 hours 59 minutes ago
New media has changed life in various ways and most obviously the way information is distributed and accessed. A presentation made available by PEW Internet is illustrating how these ways have changed within the last years and which means are used today to access information. This presentation is
Obama to offer cuts at Copenhagen
News | www.ft.com | 10 hours 20 minutes ago
President Barack Obama will travel to Copenhagen next month for a much-anticipated global summit on climate change and will offer to reduce the US’s greenhouse gas emissions by 17 per cent from 2005 levels by 2020.
DOE Invests $18M into Small Business Clean Energy Research
News | www.environmentalleader.com | 10 hours 59 minutes ago
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $18 million in funding from the stimulus act to small businesses for the development and deployment of clean energy technologies and to help create new jobs, reports the Gov Monitor.
Norway's Statkraft Turns On World's First Osmotic Power
News | www.sustainablebusiness.com | 11 hours 2 minutes ago
The prototype generates power by exploiting the energy available when fresh water and seawater are mixed--as happens in the numerous fjords along Norway's coast.
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/19307
