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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Monday, May 28, 2012

28 May - Green Power

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Rio JaguarãoRio Jaguarão (Photo credit: Jefferson Bernardes)
English: A map of the former West Indies Feder...English: A map of the former West Indies Federation. Map of CARICOM member States. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - MAY 23: Two Afghan women ...KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - MAY 23: Two Afghan women carry strawberries at the Badam Bagh farm May 23, 2011, in Kabul, Afghanistan. The women make about $5 USD (3.5 euro) per day working at the 55 hectares farm that grows 22 kinds of fruits and vegetables. The Afghanistan Women's Business Council (AWBC), a non-governmental organization, allows female members to harvest and market the fruit and vegetables grown at Badam Bagh, which is a USAID-supported demonstration and research farm. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
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Biomass Plantations Can Power India
By Keya Acharya
SHIVGANGA, India - A group of women working in a tree-shaded nursery in this arid part of southern Tamil Nadu state is helping to manage India’s very first biomass energy plantation.
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Brazil and China, Oiling the Wheels of Business
By Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO - China's voracious demand for energy has prompted it to embrace Brazil as a major oil partner, fuelling the dramatic expansion of Chinese companies in this South American country. But while some see this as a boost to the Brazilian economy, others fear that it poses a risk to this country’s future self-sufficiency.
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Belo Monte Dam Hit by Friendly Fire
By Mario Osava *
SÃO PAULO - Those who made the final decision on the design of Brazil’s Belo Monte hydroelectric dam will face legal action in the future for the damages caused. This is the kind of warning one would expect from environmentalists, but in this case it comes from a surprising quarter: staunch supporters of hydropower.
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Caribbean Courts Mexico as Ally in the G20
By Peter Richards
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The Caribbean Community bloc (Caricom) is lobbying Mexico to use its influence as chair of the G20, which controls 90 percent of world trade, to promote the interests of the Caribbean and other small island developing states when it meets in June.
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Big Hydropower Dams Trump Alternative Energy in Chile
By Marianela Jarroud
SANTIAGO - Chile has enormous potential for producing non-conventional renewable energies (NCRE) like solar and geothermal, yet they only contribute three percent of the country's energy mix.
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Green Groups Urge Obama to Attend Rio+20
By Carey L. Biron
WASHINGTON - With a month to go before the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, nearly two dozen NGOs are calling on President Barack Obama to confirm his attendance at the event, known as Rio+20.
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Brazil Drives Energy Integration in South America
By Mario Osava
SÃO PAULO - Energy integration in South America will be a reality "in the medium to long term," driven by hydropower and drawing on Brazil’s experience, predicts Altino Ventura Filho, secretary of planning in this country’s Ministry of Mines and Energy.
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International Rivers has much on the downside of damming waterways
The world's large dams have wiped out species; flooded huge areas of wetlands, forests and farmlands; and displaced tens of millions of people.*

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World Bank Accused of Ignoring Lessons on Mega Infrastructure
By Carey L. Biron
WASHINGTON - In a renewed funding focus on large-scale infrastructure, the World Bank, Group of 20 (G20) countries and other multilateral groups are wilfully overlooking lessons learned decades ago, a new report by International Rivers warns.*
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Willfully overlooking is usual political apologism for deliberately destructive choices.
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Argentina Faces the Dilemma of Unconventional Oil and Gas
By Marcela Valente *
BUENOS AIRES - Vast reserves of natural gas and oil trapped underground, whose exploitation would signify major environmental impacts, will be the greatest challenge facing YPF, the Argentine oil company that recently returned to state control.
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"We Are Living As If We Had One and a Half Planets"
By Isolda Agazzi
GENEVA - The new WWF Living Planet Report warns of a significant decline in biodiversity, particularly in low-income countries, and a huge increase in the ecological footprint of high-income countries.
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French Environmentalists Want ‘Green’ Without the ‘n’
By A.D.McKenzie
PARIS - As France’s president-elect Francois Hollande prepares to form a new government, many environmentalists are calling for the appointment of an ecology minister with real power who can deliver on promises to reduce the use of nuclear power as well as cut carbon emissions.
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China Key to Green Tech Innovation?
By Carey L. Biron
WASHINGTON - With U.S. federal funding sources for renewable energy sources already drying up, coupled with a newfound antipathy towards "green" issues issue here in Washington, some are suggesting that China could offer an important opportunity for the future of renewables in the United States and around the world.
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Renewable Energies Need New Incentives
Fabíola Ortiz interviews BJÖRN PIEPRZYK of the German Renewable Energy Federation *
RIO DE JANEIRO - Clean, renewable energies contribute to economic growth and job creation while decreasing dependency on imports. This is why governments should be increasing incentives for the development of renewable energy during a crisis like the one facing Europe today, German engineer Björn Pieprzyk told Tierramérica.
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Egypt-Israel Gas Issue Becoming Explosive
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani
CAIRO - The two weeks since Egypt's abrupt cancellation of a Mubarak-era gas-export deal with Israel have seen an exchange of indirect threats and warnings between the two countries, culminating in an apparent Israeli military build-up on the border of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
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Renationalised YPF Aims to Bring Self-Sufficiency in Oil and Gas
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - After the Argentine Congress approved the renationalisation of YPF, the country’s biggest oil company, late Thursday, thousands of demonstrators from different political and social groups cheered the decision outside the legislature.
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Standing Up for the Planet and the Future
By Stephen Leahy
UXBRIDGE, Canada - What are you doing on Saturday? Peter Nix, a retiree, will be standing on a railway track on Canada's west coast blocking a coal train destined to ship U.S. and Canadian coal to Asia.
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U.S. Corporations Sponsor Carbon Scam in Europe**
By Stefano Valentino *
BRUSSELS - Major publicly traded U.S. corporations, including Dow Chemical, ConocoPhillips, Chevron and Cabot Corporation, have secured multi-million-dollar dubious carbon credits to compensate for their greenhouse gas emissions in Europe, as revealed in this investigative report.
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Bolivia Boosts Incentives for Foreign Oil Companies
By Franz Chávez *
LA PAZ - Almost six years after the nationalisation of gas and oil reserves in Bolivia, foreign companies maintain an active presence in the sector, and the government is now offering them greater incentives to increase oil production.
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HUMAN EXISTENCE IS AT REAL AND IMMINENT RISK
by Maurice Strong
NOVEMBER 2009 (IPS) - The current economic and climate change crises are both rooted in the unsustainable nature of the existing economic system. The rapid and unexpected economic meltdown, which began in the United States and quickly spread throughout the world demonstrated dramatically that the phenomenon of globalization and interdependence has a dramatic downside of shared risks and vulnerability, writes Maurice Strong, Secretary General of the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, first Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and Secretary General of the 1992 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment.

BRAZIL: SHOWING THE WORLD HOW TO END HUNGER
by Andrew MacMillan
NOVEMBER 2009 (IPS) - It is scandalous that in a world of ample food supplies, over one billion people face constant hunger -and the number is still rising. What makes matters worse is that we know how to end hunger, and yet few governments are doing so, writes Andrew MacMillan, a rural economist and former Director of the Field Operations Divison of FAO.

PRIVATISATION IS THE ENEMY OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
by Vandana Shiva
AUGUST 2009 (IPS) - The privatisation of the earth's resources is a recipe for famine and desertification, violence against women, hunger, and, as happens in India, the suicide of farmers, writes Vandana Shiva, author and international campaigner for women and the environment.

WHAT WE NEED IS A CLIMATE BAILOUT
by Maurice Strong
GROWING A GREEN COLLAR ECONOMY
by Mark Sommer
MISGUIDED PHILANTHROPY CANNOT FEED AFRICA
by Anuradha Mittal
AFRICA COULD LOSE BIG IN ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS WITH EU
by Aileen Kwa
ECO-AGRICULTURE CAN FEED WORLD, WHILE HEALING EARTH
by Lim Li Ching
THE POSSIBLE AMAZON
by Marina Silva
BIOFUELS AND FOOD SECURITY: CONFLICT OR COMPLEMENTARITY?
by Ignacy Sachs
INDIA: AS THE ECONOMY GROWS, SO DOES HUNGER
by Anuradha Mittal
CLIMATE CHANGE: WE NEED A PROACTIVE MEDIA
by Mario Lubetkin
BIOFUELS AND CLIMATE CHANGE: A CURE THAT MAKES THE DISEASE WORSE
by Vandana Shiva
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South Africa's ‘Traditional Courts Bill' Impairs Rights of 12 Million Rural Women
Annan: 'Bold Steps' Needed for Syria Peace
‘Green Economy' - New Disguise for Old Tricks?
ARGENTINA: How to Sustain Highest Pension Coverage in Region
Israel Takes Up an Olympian Fight
Biomass Plantations Can Power India
'More Indian Working Women Delaying Motherhood'
Malaysia Applies Lessons Learned from U.S. Education System
Q&A: A Green Economy Without a Pricetag on Nature?
Parliamentarians Pledge Support for Reproductive Health Agenda


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