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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Water and environment feed returns

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Chevron Backpedals Again on Renewable Energy

Businessweek

In a statement issued in late May, Chevron said it's still engaged in renewable energy. “Chevron's approach to renewable energy continues to be on pursuing technologies that leverage our strengths and can be deployed with competitive economic returns,” ...

China way ahead of India in renewable energy space

Economic Times

MUMBAI: Manufacturing and infrastructure aren't the only areas where China has beaten India hollow by establishing world-class capacities. The communist nation, the world's largest polluter, has stolen a march on India in the renewable energy space too ...

Warren Buffett was spending $15bn on renewable energy. He's now upped that ...

CITY A.M. (blog)

Tax credits available to offset profits at other businesses, introduced as the US ups its reduction of carbon emissions, have enabled Buffett to put a lot more into renewables. "We've poured billions and billions and billions of dollars in retained ...

GE Energy unit invests in Japan's renewable power market

CT Post

The transaction, with project developer Pacifico Energy, contributes to GE Energy Financial Services' plan to invest more than $1 billion annually in renewable energy projects. Financing for the solar project, known as Kumenan, was supported by a $107 ...

Human Habitat

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Ecology, botany class for women offered in Beartooths

Billings Gazette

Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks' Becoming an Outdoor Woman Program is sponsoring a Beartooth ecology and botany class July 11-13 in Red Lodge. The Beartooth Plateau is an interconnected "archipelago" of high-elevation land that contains one of the ...

New Environmentalism: Protecting Your Female Ecology

Huffington Post (blog)

Ecology refers to the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings. I was recently introduced to the work of Sandra Steingraber, a biologist, activist, and internationally recognized expert on the environmental links to ...

Integrating Ecology And Economics

CounterCurrents.org

Attempts to integrate economics and ecology have been based on one of three strategies: (1) economic imperialism; (2) ecological reductionism; (3) steady-state subsystem. Each strategy begins with the picture of the economy as a subsystem of the finite ...

ET FEATURED ARTICLE World Oceans Day 2014

Ecology Global Network

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Water Power

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California Farmers Ask: Hey Buddy, Can You Spare Some Water?

NPR (blog)

Imagine if a gallon of milk cost $3 in your town, but 100 miles away it cost $100, or even $200. Something similar is happening right now in California with water that farmers use to irrigate their crops. Some farmers are paying 50 or even 100 times ...

Supreme Court rules against homeowners in toxic water case

CBS News

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a group of homeowners in North Carolina can't sue a company that contaminated their drinking water decades ago because a state deadline has lapsed, a decision that could prevent thousands of ...

Does water have feelings? Paltrow says it does

Chicago Tribune

The actress has a media and e-commerce lifestyle website called Goop, because of course she does, and it was there that I read of Paltrow's new fascination with "how negativity changes the structure of water." Turns out we've been parading around this ...

Clean Water proposal is toasted by brewery but roasted by Rep. Bob Gibbs

The Plain Dealer

The Great Lakes Beer Company - whose product consists of roughly 90 percent water from the Great Lakes - backs an EPA proposal to ensure the Clean Water Act safeguards the lakes' tributaries. Hand-crafted brews and high-speed production at Great ...