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September 2007

How to make an eco-billion

Property billionaire Vincent Tchenguiz is investing hundreds of millions in environmental businesses. He isn’t doing it for charity.

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Urban

What if New York….

New York’s Mayor Bloomberg launches competition for best survival designs in event of climate change catastrophe. Rest of world should follow suit.

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Mobile

Luciano Benetton’s eco-yacht

Preview of life aboard Luciano Benetton’s new yacht, which has won the first ever yachting green star for eco excellence at the Monaco Boat show.

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DiCaprio interview

Leonardo DiCaprio explains exactly why he spends time campaigning about Global Warming when he could be partying by a pool.

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MIT does zero-carbon home

MIT Solar Decathlon entry
Early sketch of MIT’s Solar 7

Members of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Solar Decathlon team head out for Washington, D.C. next week taking with them a house they designed and built from scratch. Dubbed “Solar 7,” it’s a home of the future: self-sufficient, powered purely by the sun, and MIT’s entry in an international competition for the most efficient – and livable – solar house.

The team hits the road Oct. 1, heading to the National Mall for the solar decathlon. There, in the shadow of the Capitol Building, Solar 7 will be judged against 19 other solar homes not only for architectural and engineering excellence, but also comfort, marketability, and energy efficiency.

But before it gets to compete, the team must finish building the house.

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Community

Clinton’s green goodie bag

The Goodie bag at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York is the most noteworthy thing.

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Food

Here come the Locavores

Eating local food is more than a movement – its way of helping yourself and the environment. here’s how and why.

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Mobile

Zero-carbon car

The Auto industry could perfectly well build a zero-carbon car tomorrow. Author Bill Kemp shows them how.

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Land

Armand Hammer
Hammer: Lenin loved him

Russia and two former Soviet republics are host to four of the world’s top 10 most polluted places, according to a new report from the Blacksmith Institute, a New York-based nonprofit group.

Three of the four Soviet sites are around chemical factories formerly owned by Armand Hammer, the American billionaire who struck a deal with Lenin allowing him to exploit the Russian economy in return for channeling funds to Russian agents in the West, as well as into the Kremlin itself.

The history of the relationship between Hammer and the Russian State symbolises the corruption and nepotism in Russia

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People

Green=protectionist?

Debate emerges over whether protectionists are trying to snatch green policies for their own ends.

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Community

Climate change shock warning

New intergovernment report says climate disaster will happen “decades earlier” than previous forecadts.

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