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Amy Suarez

by Amy Suarez on February 2, 2010 · 0 comments

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Joan Ruddock and friend

Joan Ruddock and friend

M2 Presswire – LONDON – Twelve communities from across the UK are today celebrating after winning up to GBP500,000 each to help install new green technologies such as solar panels, hydro turbines and energy saving insulation.

The grant money, awarded through the Government’s Low Carbon Community Challenge, will be spent on a range of green measures which will helpthemove to a low-carbon society, save money on energy bills, and could even see some communities make cash from generating their own energy.

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Up in the Air

January 16, 2010
Up in the Air George Clooney's starring role in "Up in the Air" is a movie about a special class of off-gridder - the business traveller - living in a peculiarly amoral world, of airports, corporate hotel rates and frequent flier cards. George Clooney plays a smooth-suited consultant whose job is firing people at a time when downsizing is the fastest growing industry in the US.  "We take people at their most fragile and we set them adrift,” says Clooney's character. Directed by Jason Reitman, the hero of Up in the Air inhabits an entirely new state: Airworld, where the hometown paper is USA Today, the laptop-plus-executive-lounge is the office, a mobile phone is the only permanent friend, the indigenous cuisine wilts under heat lamps, and the citizenry speaks a Byzantine dialect of upgrades, expense accounts, and market share.

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Grid fails in Brazil

November 12, 2009
Grid fails in Brazil The vulnerability of grid-bound power was exposed this week after the world’s largest operating hydroelectric plant failed, blacking out a quarter of Brazil and all of neighbouring Paraguay. The ‘outage’ affected tens of millions of Brazilians living in nine states which include Rio de Janiero and Sao Paolo, the country’s two biggest cities – as well as 6m Paraguayans. They were plunged into darkness at on Wednesday evening when the massive Itaipu plant which straddles the border of the two countries, suddenly went off line.

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Palin speaks her brains

November 11, 2009
Palin speaks her brains Sarah Palin has put some of her stupidest ever thoughts on the record in an interview with foul-mouthed  has-been Rush Limbaugh. See the transcript below. Idiot Limbaugh was moved to say of Palin; “The intellectuals don't understand her, don't like her. She doesn't analyze herself. She doesn't analyze her thoughts; she just has them and expresses them.” He described her new book  ‘Going Rogue’ as “One of the most substantive policy books I've read.”  He cannot be serious!

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States’ resources beat Fed grid

November 3, 2009
States’ resources beat Fed grid Nearly two thirds of US states could be self-sufficient in electricity production if they exploited all the renewable energy available to them, says a new report. The study by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, an environmental lobby group dedicated to creating sustainable communities, examines the potential of seven different forms of renewable energy state by state. It looked at the possible contribution of roof-top solar, geothermal, combined heat and power, enhanced geo thermal, small scale hydro, off and onshore wind, in each  state.

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Dismal UK energy prospects will boost DIY power

October 11, 2009
Dismal UK energy prospects will boost DIY power FoE's Robin Webster: "useless"Micro-generation suddenly looks a better bet in the UK after an official report painted a dismal picture of insecure energy supplies and yo-yo prices over the next decade. In a tacit admission that the private sector and the national grid are failing to deliver energy security, the study by UK energy regulator Ofgem predicts that consumers could face price volatility with energy price spikes of up to 60 per cent within the next 7 years.

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Red China goes green

October 5, 2009
Red China goes green

Don't let the sun  go down on Shi China has given off-grid power a key role in its massive strategic move to renewable energy.  Plans include large-scale on-grid solar projects, urban building photo voltaic projects, nuclear power and wind-solar hybrid installations as well as large and small-scale off-grid solar schemes in rural areas.

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