One Megawatt Solar Power System Unveiled at Gap Inc.’s West Coast Distribution Center
| Ted Turner announces Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria On Monday, mega-entrepreneur Ted Turner announced the Partnership for Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria, a new sustainable tourism standards regime for tourism businesses, at the IUCN World Conservation Congress. Turner, founder of the United Nations Foundation, was joined by the Rainforest Alliance, The UN Environment Program and the UN World Tourism Organization and many other groups. The voluntary sustainable tourism criteria are based on best practices drawn from different standards for sustainability in use around the world today. |
| NJ: We’ll Become a World Leader in Wind Power Gov. Jon Corzine wants the Garden State to triple the amount of wind power it plans to use by 2020 to 3,000 megawatts. That would be 13 percent of New Jersey’s total energy, enough to power between 800,000 to just under 1 million homes. |
| California, nonprofits form coalition to protect Sierra. On Wednesday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger praised the creation of a private, non-profit coalition EUR the Northern Sierra Partnership EUR to work with government to protect open space, forests, watersheds and step up efforts to respond to climate change. |
| France, Britain back coal plant climate fix. The European Union must fund a new technology to clean up coal plants and fight the twin problems of energy security and climate change, the EU’s French presidency and Britain’s new climate minister say. |
| FPL group lauded for lowering greenhouse emissions. The Environmental Protection Agency has praised Florida Power and Light Group for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Environmentalists, however, are sharply critical of the utility’s plans to build new nuclear power plants in Florida. |
| Dell, HP Cut PC Power Consumption 2010 For both laptop and desktop computers, Dell plans to cut power consumption as part of its required work on compliance with the EPA’s EnergyStar 5.0 standard, reports Mark Hachman of pcmag.com. HP earlier said it would cut power use of “volume” PCs by 25 percent, relative to 2005. In those terms, Dell’s reductions would be [.] |
| Clean energy act sets Philippines up for $3 billion rebate Manila, Philippines - With the passing of its Renewable Energy Act — legislation that spent 19 years in limbo - the Philippines can save over US$2.9 billion, a WWF and University of the Philippines study has found. The savings would come from increasing the country’s renewable energy share in its power generation mix from 0.16 per cent to 41 per cent from wind, solar, ocean, run-of-river hydropower and biomass. |
| Warmer world threatens penguins. More than half the colonies of Antarctica’s penguins, including emperor penguins made famous by the documentary film March of the Penguins, face decline or being wiped out if the world warms by 2 degrees Celsius, a report says. |
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