Over 1000 Climate Change Protesters Arrested at Summit
By Colin Freeman
Published: 10:49PM GMT 12 Dec 2009

Demonstrators sit on the ground as police surround them at a rally outside the UN Climate Change Conference. Photo: REUTERS

Cobble stones were thrown through the windows of the former stock exchange building and foreign office buildings in the [...]

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Dow Unveils Solar Power Shingles

Dow Chemical Solar Shingles that any roofer can install.
Dow Chemical has unveiled a residential roof shingle in the form of a solar panel designed to be integrated into asphalt-tiled roofs.
Jane Palmieri, managing director of Dow’s Solar Solutions unit, said the Powerhouse thin-film shingle slashes installation costs because it can be [...]

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New Battery Could Change World
In a modest building on the west side of Salt Lake City, a team of specialists in advanced materials and electrochemistry has produced what could be the single most important breakthrough for clean, alternative energy since Socrates first noted solar heating 2,400 years ago.
The prize is the culmination of 10 years [...]

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Making It In America
Washington’s special genius is for gridlock. As we’re seeing in the health care debate, the entire system is designed to frustrate action — even when Democrats have a popular president, 60 votes in the Senate and a large majority in the House. Moneyed interests trump party loyalty. Partisan politics trumps national purpose. [...]

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The New ‘Good Job’ $12 an Hour?
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Massive investment in renewable energy could ultimately create 4 million manufacturing jobs. But for the workers in the bottom rung of this movement, the shift to green jobs could very well mean a pay cut of nearly 60%, a trend spreading across the entire manufacturing [...]

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Let’s Get Real About Alternative Energy
(CNN) — We need to introduce simple arithmetic into our discussions of energy.
We need to understand how much energy our chosen lifestyles consume, we need to decide where we want that energy to come from, and we need to get on with building energy systems of sufficient size to match [...]

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BrightSource and PG&E Ink Largest Solar Energy Deal

photo: BrightSource Energy
California utility PG&E on Wednesday expanded an agreement with BrightSource Energy to buy 1,310 megawatts of carbon-free electricity to be generated by seven giant solar power plant projects – the world’s biggest solar deal to date. Coming on top of a 1,300 megawatt agreement with Southern [...]

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