Daily News – November 19, 2008

November 19, 2008

Japan Announces Its Third Farm Waste Ethanol Project

Japan’s agricultural ministry said that a third project to produce ethanol from farm waste has been approved. The plant building and running costs will be subsidized to the extent of $32 million spread over five years. The advantage of using the waste from farms and forestry is that it does not involve food crops like corn. As a result, countries that have sparse resources are working on developing enzymes that produce ethanol from farm waste rather than crops like corn. Kawasaki Heavy Industries and the Akita government in Northern Japan have come together for this project.

Yahoo

France Furthers Solar Power Development

The French Environment and Energy Ministry presented a plan to build a minimum of one solar power plant in each area. The total power generated from these solar facilities would be 300 MW. France intends to play a leading role in solar power generation. France has the fourth largest current installed solar base in Europe after Germany, Spain and Italy. As per the plan, France intends energy from solar sources to account for 23 percent of the renewable energy target set for 2020. The planned projects are projected to result in an annual growth of 130 percent and create more than 1, 20,000 jobs.

English People’s Daily Online

Suzlon to Enter Solar Energy Space

Suzlon Energy has released a statement on its decision to enter the solar energy space. A statement released by Suzlon’s Chairman, Mr. Tulsi Tanti said that Suzlon saw India as having enormous potential in wind and solar power. Suzlon has identified sites to house the power plant in areas of Gujarat and Rajasthan. Financial details, though, were not disclosed. Suzlon might take its time recruiting due to the current economic slowdown. The company’s net profits have dipped by 95.22% in the second quarter of the financial year.

Business Standard

US and China to Work Together on Solar Energy Technology

The United States and China have decided to work jointly to conduct research and develop new technology in the solar energy space. An MoU was signed this past weekend between the IEE (Institute of Electrical Engineering) under the CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences) and the US NREL (Natural Renewable Energy Laboratory). A sophisticated photovoltaic cell test center is planned in Beijing as part of this understanding. Also included are research data and personnel exchanges along with battery related efforts. It is hoped that this would further the common interests of both countries.

China Daily

Envo Diesel to Be Replaced by Methyl Ester as Biofuel

The Malaysian government has decided to scrap the use of Envo Diesel, which is made from Palm Olien, due to concerns voiced by engine manufacturers. Palm based Methyl Ester, called B5, will be used instead as biofuel. Envo Diesel, which consists of 95% diesel and 5% palm olien, is said to clog engines. B5 will be tested in government vehicles over the next year starting February and will be available in select fuel stations. Malaysia currently has 14 biofuel plants in production and has issued close to 91 licenses for its production.

Business Times

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Carbon Capture and Storage is a ruse!

November 19, 2008

In my book www.strategicbookpublishing.com/ZEROGreenhouseEmissions.html presented in plain language for the layman to understand I explain why CCS is a ruse -

The premise being, we can continue to generate energy from polluting nonrenewable sources by the burning of fossil fuels, as long as when we intentionally release the trapped carbon, we run around and catch it before it leaves the building!
Over the coming years there will be a great deal of investment in CCS. Billions of dollars of public funds, your money and mine, will be directed to it. Some would argue that CCS is a convenient diversion by the pro-coal lobby. Some would say the investment would be better placed to fast track renewable energy supplies and increase energy efficiencies. The European Union and the United Nations Climate Panel along with many researchers, place high hopes on the development of CCS. Indeed many of their hopes and much of their forecasting for emissions reductions over the coming years rely heavily on the success of the technology and its wide deployment. By 2020 the EU has committed to overall CO2 emission reductions of 20 percent, but plans to construct 50 new coal-fired power plants by 2013.
CCS, while technically feasible, according to industry experts (can we trust these guys?), is expensive, while decreasing the average efficiency of power plants by up to 20 percent, and so far globally there are only a smattering of small “demonstration projects.” In Norway they are demonstrating they can capture and store a million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year. Do the numbers add up? 12.77 billion tonnes of CO2 from coal-fired energy generation by 2020? Retrofitting the over fifty thousand coal-fired power stations presently operating globally—and rising? Various scenarios put forward by its supporters suggest that CCS could account for between 15 and 55 percent of the reduction of greenhouse gases by 2100.
The International Energy Agency estimates that world energy demands will soar by 60 percent from current levels by 2030, with 85 percent of that being from the burning of fossil fuels. It reports that Germany is planning twenty new plants in the coming decades while China is expected to install a further 800 gigawatts of new electrical power capacity by 2015, of which, 90 percent will be from coal. The IEA highlights that 800 gigawatts is equivalent to all the power capacity installed throughout the European Union member countries since 1945.
So how do we catch Elvis before he leaves the building? Some researchers studying CCS point out themselves that their models and scenarios in many respects are based on insufficient factual foundations, unrealistic assumptions, and major oversimplifications. One report by Anders Hansson of Linkoping University Sweden states: “In full scale this technology only exists in the imagination of the people developing it and that it is overly optimistic to place such great faith in CCS considering all the uncertainties found in current scientific literature.” Is it a diversionary tactic by those with vested commercial and political interests wishing to continue down the fossil fuel burning path? By the coal industry lobby and suppliers, who will benefit while we blindly follow them down this well-trodden proven path of pollution? Is it politically easier to offer hope to us that a solution may be found, so that all of us can keep the energy consumption drug we are addicted to? Do the numbers add up? To live up to the hopes placed on CCS requires the storage of billions of tonnes annually, meaning carbon dioxide would become the world’s largest transported good.
But there is another complication. Some may suggest that it means that CCS, even if successfully developed and deployed to all the coal-fired power stations in the world, would save such a minuscule amount of the CO2 pollution resulting from the process of extraction and burning coal, that it is a thorough waste of time and of the billions that will be spent in coming decades.
It again comes back to externalities. It is the hidden environmental consequences resulting from the very process of getting the coal out of the ground.
If we revisit the basics: coal is formed in ecosystems where the remains of plants were preserved by water and mud from oxidation and biodegradation. Over time geological processes apply pressure to the dead matter and under suitable conditions, it transforms into coal.
The fact is that coal mining doesn’t just dig up the coal. Mining the volumes now consumed around the world means that most coal today comes from opencast–open pit coal mines. As we know, methane, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide (the stuff that kills the canary!) is released in the process. These emissions start as soon as the layers above, called the overburden, are stripped away.
The damage starts right then.
Conservative estimates from experiments going back as far as the 1960s and reported by Brame and King in Fuel, show that these gases alone account for about twice the emissions of the burning of the coal that has been mined. In other words, for every 1 kilogram of coal burned, producing 1.83 kilogram of CO2, a further 3.66 kilograms of CO2-e emissions result.
And again, back to the basics; not all that is disturbed, or dug up, is coal. In fact, around 98 percent of what is mined is not coal. A large portion, on average 25 percent or ten times the amount of coal that is extracted, will be shale and mudstone, with a carbon content of 50 percent of that of coal, in other words, the carbon content by mass of 250 grams per kg. So 1 kilogram of successfully mined coal (50 percent carbon by mass or 0.5 kilogram of carbon), has an externality in unwanted mudstone and shale of around 6.25 kilogram of carbon. This shale and mudstone cannot be burned due to its high ash content, but it still oxidizes if exposed to air, producing CO2. These along with other unwanted workings are tipped as part of the mining process waste. Again, conservative estimates give this carbon source the potential to emit three to four times as much CO2 as the mined coal.
So if we revisit the question as to the value of investing in carbon capture and storage at the power station, we see that if successful these would account for a result of between 5–10 percent maximum of the emissions attributable from the process of working/mining and burning coal. Personally, I think Elvis has left the building!

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Bob Williamson
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation

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Geothermal Power Generation Gets Boost from Federal Government

November 19, 2008

Covina, CA (The Open Press) November 18, 2008 — The advantages and possibilities of geothermal energy, generated by heat in the ground, have long been known. It is green and biofriendly energy, because no fuels are being burned, so no greenhouse gases are produced, nor any other harmful emissions. And plenty of it is available, especially in the Western United States. Further, geothermal has the added advantage that, unlike with solar or wind energy, the power generated is continuous.

Seeing the potential of developing geothermal power, the Department of the Interior has announced that it will make 190 million acres of federal lands in 12 western states available for geothermal power development. What has environmentalists excited is not only the prospect of clean energy, but also that no environmentally sensitive areas, such as national parks or designated wilderness areas, are being targeted for this project.

It is estimated that under this initiative geothermal power production can reach 5,540 megawatts by the year 2015—enough to power 5.5 million homes. And by 2025 power delivery is expected to climb to 12,100 megawatts, enough for more than 12 million homes.

According to the Secretary of the Interior, Dirk Kempthorne, this will give a tremendous boost to geothermal power generation. “Geothermal energy will play a key role in powering America’s energy future,” Kempthorne said, “and 90 percent of our nation’s geothermal resources are found on Federal lands. Facilitating their leasing and development under environmentally sound regulations is crucial to supplying the secure, clean energy American homes and businesses need.”

This plan was developed in liaison with state and local communities, environmental groups and industry, which greatly benefited the final outcome in providing a model for cooperative action towards a more optimum energy future.

Fifty percent of the revenues generated by these geothermal plants will go to the state in which the power is produced, 25 percent to the county and the remaining 25 percent to a special fund to finance future geothermal development.

Geothermal power is not a new thing. In fact, the U.S. already is the world leader in this field with 29 plants now operating on public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management in California, Nevada and Utah, providing enough power for 1.2 million homes. In addition to electrical power, geothermal installations can also provide heat directly to surrounding communities. The Bureau’s website provides information on the final environmental impact results.

It is heartening to know that the Federal Government is taking positive steps in the direction of a greener, healthier planet for the benefit of current and future generations. Individuals and commercial enterprises are involved in this process as well. One company that distinguishes itself in this field is Biofriendly Corporation, which produces Green Plus®, a liquid fuel catalyst that provides a cleaner, more linear fuel burn in internal combustion engines, resulting in fewer harmful emissions, increased torque and better fuel economy.

For more information about Green Plus visit the Biofriendly website at www.biofriendly.com.

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Your Solar Home Inc. Introduces SolarSheat(R) Hot Water

November 19, 2008

TORONTO, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ — Your Solar Home Inc. (www.yoursolarhome.com) introduces SolarSheat(R) Hot Water, a dual mode space heating and domestic solar hot water system without glycol for residential use.

Your Solar Home, a leading provider of solutions for solar space heating, announced today that it will be selling a new product called SolarSheat(R) Hot Water. The SolarSheat(R) Hot Water product provides a dual mode heating capability for supplemental residential solar domestic hot water or solar space heating.

The SolarSheat(R) Hot Water system will provide the same great functionality for space heating but will also give the homeowner the ability to switch between producing hot water or space heating. During the summer months the SolarSheat(R) Hot Water system can produce supplemental hot water, further reducing C02 emissions while saving the consumer money on hot water bills. “This is a real milestone for homeowners who might have been on the fence about purchasing a solar thermal system for one application. Now, homeowners can have a dual mode system for space heating or producing solar hot water. The combined SolarSheat(R) Hot Water system can save a homeowner between 25%-50% of their annual space heating/hot water requirements,” says Todd Kirkpatrick, company founder and President.

The SolarSheat(R) Hot Water system is a self contained non glycol based solution that is unique for producing solar hot water. The system eliminates the need for glycol. This simplifies installation and maintenance traditionally associated with these glycol based systems.

“Your Solar Home intends to have the SolarSheat(R) Hot Water system SRCC Certified under the OG-300 certification program. The current family of SolarSheat(R) products already meets the OG-100 guidelines and this will complete our product for solar domestic hot water,” says Kirkpatrick.

Your Solar Home will begin taking pre orders for its SolarSheat(R) Hot Water system. The system will ship sometime in the early part of 2009 and be available through qualified SolarSheat(R) Hot Water partners. Your Solar Home will be providing training for its authorized dealer base for this product category.

About Your Solar Home

Your Solar Home Inc. is a Toronto based company that manufactures solar air, solar hot water, ventilation and furnace heating systems for residential and industrial use. The SolarSheat product line is available from Your Solar Home’s authorized partners in the U.S. and Canada. For more information, call 1-866-556-5504, email info@yoursolarhome.com or go to www.yoursolarhome.com.

Source: Your Solar Home Inc.

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Amyris Opens Pilot Plant to Produce Renewable Diesel Fuel

November 19, 2008

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Battery Breakthrough? Could it really lead to 150 MPG Cars

November 19, 2008

AFS TRINITY TO SEEK $2.5 BILLION TO RETOOL FOR MASS PRODUCTION OF ITS 150 MPG
SUV USING AN EXISTING FACTORY AND THE WORKERS OF A MAJOR AMERICAN CAR MAKER

Will ask US DOE to allocate to AFS Trinity funding from $25 billion
Auto Industry “green retooling” fund established by Congress

LOS ANGELES, CA, November 18, 2008 . . . AFS Trinity Power Corporation today announced it intends to file for $2.5 billion of funding from the $25 billion “green retooling” fund just established by Congress, with up to $2 Billion of the funding to be used for retooling an existing factory of a major American car maker whose assembly line employees will be retrained to produce plug in hybrid SUV’s that utilize AFS Trinity’s 150 mile per gallon “Extreme Hybrid” technology.

EDITORS’ NOTE: Extreme Hybrid prototypes and further details of today’s news will be available to the media in Los Angeles, CA, at 10:30 a.m. today, Tuesday, November 18, at 1500 S. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, 90015 across from the Los Angeles Convention Center. To arrange interviews or video coverage contact Tim Kent at 310-409-3861.

Selection of the car maker, factory and SUV models into which AFS Trinity’s breakthrough technology will be incorporated would be conducted by AFS Trinity with the support of Ricardo, Inc, the world’s leading automotive engineering firm and a preferred supplier of AFS Trinity. Ricardo will also, acting as a subcontractor to AFS Trinity, assist with technology transfer and integration of the redesign, retooling and retraining programs to be conducted in cooperation with the car maker whose manufacturing assets will be utilized in the program.

Ricardo estimates that about 80% of the $2.5 billion will be paid under subcontract to the American carmaker, which would continue to operate the facility once it is retooled to incorporate Extreme Hybrid technology licensed from AFS Trinity.

AFS Trinity CEO Edward W. Furia said, “AFS Trinity has the technology to make possible cars, trucks and SUVs that people want, but AFS Trinity is a technology developer, not a manufacturer. On the other hand, the American auto industry has skilled and experienced auto workers and sophisticated manufacturing. By infusing AFS Trinity technology into existing, but recently under-employed American SUV plants, new plug in hybrid SUV models can be built that will leapfrog world competition. These models will not only be attractive because of their extreme fuel efficiency and low emission benefits, usually absent in an SUV, but also because Extreme Hybrid SUV’s will provide consumers the size, comfort and performance that first attracted consumers.

David Shemmans, CEO of Ricardo, said, “We are confident that all three major American carmakers have SUV production facilities that are well suited to retooling for production of Extreme Hybrid SUVs. We believe that of these existing plants several would be candidates that can be retooled to annually produce 100,000 to 150,000 Extreme Hybrid SUVs within a few years of the onset of production. For Ricardo, I can say we are very excited about being part of this historic transformation.”

Furia said, “Tens of thousands of consumers have expressed a desire to buy the Extreme Hybrids since two prototypes were first unveiled at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit last January.”

The prototypes have been exhibited and demonstrated across America over the last 10 months, including drives by Members of Congress, Senators, Governors and operators of America’s largest automotive fleets. The CBS Evening News sent a crew to South Carolina to cover the first road tests of the XH150 SUV prototype, and said “ the technology tucked inside the Extreme Hybrid is revolutionary.” CNN covered the arrival of the prototype in Detroit suggesting it might be “…the car of the future.”

Furia said that all three American carmakers have current models that are candidates to be redesigned as Extreme Hybrids and they have factories where they can be built. The Saturn Vue Greenline mid-size SUV was used as a platform by AFS Trinity in creating the first two 150 mpg prototypes, but the Extreme Hybrid technology can be used with a variety of models from any carmaker. The Saturn Vues were purchased directly off the showroom floor of GM Saturn dealerships, but GM, itself, was not involved in the Extreme Hybrid development program in any way.

Furia said about $2 billion of the total $2.5 Billion loan will used to pay whichever carmaker is selected by AFS Trinity and Ricardo to retool their plant and train their employees who will manufacture and market the first production vehicles. The remaining $500 million would be used by AFS Trinity and Ricardo for technology transfer and support of engineering for model redesign and retooling.

Comparative battery system test results

Yesterday, AFS Trinity reported results of a ten month battery testing program delivered to AFS Trinity November 7, 2008, from an independent scientific laboratory that evaluated the comparative durability of lithium ion batteries used alone or, as in the AFS Trinity dual energy storage system, coupled with ultracapacitors and subjected to typical plugin hybrid vehicle current demands. The outcome of the tests was that the battery/ultracap combination was 6 times as durable as the same lithium ion battery used alone. Furia said, “These tests demonstrated that our battery/ultracap combination survived the equivalent of 150,000 miles of continuous use in a plug in hybrid duty cycle compared to only 25,000 miles durability of the same batteries when used alone.”

Battery tests were conducted by America’s leading independent battery testing laboratory, Mobile Power Solutions of Beaverton, Oregon.

“However,” Furia said, “AFS Trinity does not rule out the possibility that more durable cost effective batteries could be invented that could be used alone and which might be sufficient to handle the duty cycle of a PHEV. However, no such battery, of which AFS Trinity is aware, currently exists.”

Ricardo CEO David Shemmans, said, “Batteries are the single most expensive part of an electric vehicle or plug-in hybrid EV. From a cost standpoint, replacing the batteries is analogous to replacing the engine in an internal combustion-only car. Replacing the battery after they are used for only 25,000 miles, which could occur in just over 18 months in an average American driver’s car, would make plug-ins impractical. A plug in hybrid with an energy storage system that can survive 150,000 miles of driving is an enormous advantage and a potential economic game changer.”

Optimum use of America’s automotive infrastructure

Andrew Chien, President of Ricardo’s North American Strategic Consulting Operations, addressed the feasibility of the AFS Trinity $2.5 Billion “Green Retooling” program:

“AFS Trinity, has, in important respects, already done the heavy lifting of developing the Extreme Hybrid System, deploying it in fully operational prototypes, and subjecting its key elements to scientific analysis and review. It works.”

Chien said, “The $25B ‘Green Retooling’ program was setup to help companies like AFS Trinity make the leap from developing prototype Green technologies to deploying them into commercially viable vehicles that the average American consumer can buy. The $2.5 billion that AFS Trinity will seek from DOE is essential to fully developing this technology and launch it into mass production. I’m confident that the funding will be sufficient to allow AFS Trinity and its partners to both fully commercialize the technology as well as retool an existing U.S. assembly plant and retrain its personnel to produce Extreme Hybrid vehicles in volume.”

Furia said the AFS Trinity plan makes the best use of American assets. “AFS Trinity has a technology that makes possible cars, trucks and SUVs that are superior to anything now available in the U.S. or anywhere in the world, but AFS Trinity does not possess manufacturing, plants, equipment or the skilled labor who operate them. The American car industry has the manufacturing infrastructure to build Extreme Hybrids now and the skilled auto workers to build them. If the government will use part of the auto industry “green retooling” funds already approved by Congress to redesign and retool for production of Extreme Hybrids under the AFS Trinity plan or under an alternative plan from a manufacturer that would employ AFS Trinity technology, a factory being closed in Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin or another state, could be re-opened and its employees returned to work.”

XH150 performance

Describing the prototypes, Furia said AFS Trinity’s XH150 is not only a roomy SUV but “a fully operational Extreme Hybrid™ that can go at least 40 miles without burning a drop of gasoline in the electric vehicle mode with a top EV speed of 87 MPH. . . . and from zero to 60 in 11.6 seconds in all electric mode and 6.9 seconds in full hybrid mode. After 40 miles as an electric vehicle the Extreme Hybrid automatically converts to gas.”

Calculating mileage

Furia explained, “As the U.S. EPA is still in the process of determining how it will calculate fuel economy of electric vehicles (EV) or plug in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV), no EV or PHEV has yet received an EPA certification of mileage, including AFS Trinity’s XH150. Eventually, EPA will issue guidelines regarding EV and PHEV mileage which are expected to translate kilowatt hours consumed per hundred miles to the more familiar mile per gallon units. The Department of Energy is also using an adjustment factor for such calculations that take into account not only energy content but also scarcity of fuel and reduction and distribution efficiency, which will yield even more impressive mileage figures.”

He said, “No matter how EPA resolves the question about how mileage will be calculated for EVs and PHEVs, a vehicle such as the XH150, which can travel 40 miles per day and 280 per week without burning a drop of gasoline, will achieve fuel economy previously unheard of in any passenger vehicle, let alone a 5 passenger SUV. Therefore, until the dust clears regarding new EPA mileage certification methodology, for the time being AFS Trinity will use its own calculation that estimates the amount of gasoline that would be consumed by a typical American driver using her vehicle in a typical week of driving 320 miles.”

Furia said, “Since, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics of the US DOT, over 78% of Americans drive less than 40 miles a day, in this car they would burn zero gasoline on most days. On weekends, they might drive twice that far on one day, 80 miles, half of which would use gasoline. Even assuming a heavily laden vehicle and an aggressive driver, the gasoline consumed in a week would still only be 2 gallons. Thus, based on a total of 320 miles per week, fuel economy will average over 160 miles per gallon, which we round down to 150 mpg. No additional new technology is needed to achieve these results. The AFS Trinity technology is ready to be immediately integrated into vehicles that could be mass produced.”

About AFS Trinity and Ricardo

AFS Trinity develops Fast Energy Storage™ for vehicular, spacecraft and stationary power systems utilizing batteries, ultracapacitors, and flywheels. The Company has conducted programs with private and government organizations including DARPA, NASA, the U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, U.S. DOT, California Energy Commission, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Lockheed, Honeywell, Mercedes and Ricardo. AFS Trinity’s patent-pending Extreme Hybrid™ drive train utilizes ultra-capacitors, batteries and proprietary power and control electronics for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). Ricardo, the world’s leading independent automotive engineering firm, with over 1900 engineers in facilities around the world, has assisted AFS Trinity in building the first XH-150 prototypes and is a preferred supplier to AFS Trinity for drive train integration support. For more information visit www.afstrinity.com and www.ricardo.com.

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Daily News – November 18, 2008

November 18, 2008

Carbon Dioxide Emissions to be Pumped Back into the Earth

Columbia University Scientists have come up with a novel way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Peridotite, a rock found in the upper mantle below the Earth’s crust, when exposed to air reacts with CO2. Upon reaction it forms carbonates such as marble or limestone. Peridotite is found in places like the Omani Desert, Greece, Croatia and a few Pacific Islands. Since transporting the rock to CO2 producing sites would create emissions it was decided to drill and fracture the rock and pump the CO2 in. This would reduce emissions by about 4 billion tonnes a year out of a total of 20 billion tonnes.

Environmental News Network

South Australian Tourism Operators Recognized for Reducing Environmental Impact

Seven South Australian tourism operators have received recognition for doing their bit to reduce the environmental impact of their businesses. Some of these are Adelaide Convention Centre and the Quorn Caravan Park. The highest level of recognition was awarded to Banrock Station in the Riverland and the Gluepot Reserve. To achieve this end the businesses needed to make several changes to their functioning to be more environmental friendly. These operators also audited their operations in an effort to be environmentally sustainable, make water savings and have extremely efficient management processes in place.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Sustainable Development Discussed by UN in Thailand

Sustainable Development and the Media’s role in it were discussed at a recent media workshop conducted by the United Nations in Bangkok, Thailand. Journalists from different press agencies in central Asia and the Pacific Region were invited. Bangkok was chosen as the location for this workshop as South Asian countries, due to their sudden burst in growth, need to be more environmentally aware. The workshop saw an active dialogue between journalists to discuss how to deliver the message of sustainable development to the general public. Practical actions and experiences from different countries were discussed.

New Europe

Indo-German Environment Forum to Begin on Tuesday

A two-day forum, the first of its kind between India and Germany, begins on Tuesday. The forum seeks to enable and strengthen cooperation between the two countries with regards to the environment. Germany has set itself an ambitious target by aiming to reduce emissions 40% by 2020. It is known for its innovative work in technology for the environment. India is currently a huge export market for Germany. The main focus in the forum will be waste management, sanitation and water. These are extremely important in the Indian context. The aim is to strengthen bilateral business ties and at the same time work at reducing the environmental footprint.

Thaindian News

Canadian Greenhouse Emissions Up by 22 %

A recent study by the United Nations revealed that Canadian industries, along with those in the US and Australia, remained among the highest greenhouse gas emitters. The data released showed that while the overall emission readings taken from 40 industrialized nations have seen reductions by about 5% from 1990 to 2006, Canadian emissions have seen an increase by 22% in the same period. The erstwhile Soviet Union countries have also seen a steady rise in pollution levels. The study caused grave concerns among climate change groups that industrialized nations had not yet begun to take the issue of pollution seriously.

Canwest Digital Media

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[Video] Hybrid solar, sail boat

November 17, 2008

* Uses renewable energy
* More efficient
* Everything is electric
* Robert Dane interview

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[Video] Coworking - Better Telecommuting

November 17, 2008

* Telecommuting is boring
* New form of social telecommuting
* Could save energy if it catches on

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[Video] T Boone Pickens on Auto Bailout and Energy

November 17, 2008

* Should we have a gas tax?
* Oil prices will come back up
* Why is wind the future

On Morning Joe

On MSNBC

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