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A german fishing boat flies giant kite to save fuel. How great is that? And this is a sign of how the marine future may look like? A really interesting article.
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The 15,000 tonne ‘Maartje Theadora’ is the first fishing vessel to use the system, in which a 160 square meter blue and white [...]

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This is an interesting opinion piece from Marketing Week about the recent announcement by Marks and Spencer (A UK retail business) about their decision to expand their Sustainability initiative called ‘Plan A’. I also agree with the authors conclusions that a lot of organizations are under-selling their sustainability work.
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Marks & Spencer’s impressive announcement regarding the [...]

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The Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games have added another color to its coveted gold, silver and bronze medal lineup – green!  For the first time in Olympic history, the 2010 athlete medals contain metals from end-of-life electronic waste, commonly referred to as e-waste.
Teck Resources, Ltd., a diversified mining company based in Vancouver, is [...]

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How much of this census will be propaganda and spin? Or is this a real effort by China to measure its pollution? I am not so sure. Decide for yourself. This is the beginning of the article :
China has revealed its most ambitious measure of what explosive development has done to its environment, saying Tuesday [...]

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The European chemical industry is embracing innovation to ensure sustainability. Moreover, through innovation the industry is providing measures to facilitate a sustainable society.
The chemical sector plays a significant role in the European economy, contributing 30% of the world’s total chemical production, employing 1.2 million people and generating €537 billion in sales in 2007.
The EU registration, [...]

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This is an interesting article I thought I would share with everyone here:
Industrial biotechnology is gaining supporters among environmentalists as a way to make significant cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions and eventually move to a society free from fossil fuels. The lofty idea behind industrial, or white, biotechnology is to use nature’s own ingredients to solve industrial problems. [...]

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An engineering professor has figured out why oil remains trapped along miles of gravel beaches more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez tanker disaster in Prince William Sound.
An estimated 20,000 gallons of crude remain in Prince William Sound, even though oil remaining after the nearly 11-million-gallon spill had been expected to biodegrade and wash [...]

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The amount of venture capital that went toward green-technology companies fell to $4.85 billion in 2009, compared to $7.6 billion in 2008, according to numbers published on Wednesday by Greentech Media. The number of deals was up slightly from 350 in 2008 to 356 this year.
In a statement, venture capitalists cast the numbers in a [...]

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This is an interesting analysis of the Copenhagen talks:
Fuqiang Yang, director of global climate solutions, WWF International
The negotiations in Copenhagen ended without a fair, ambitious or legally binding treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Despite this, what emerged was an agreement that will, at the very least, cut greenhouse gases, set up an emissions verification [...]

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UK Transport Secretary Andrew Adonis (nice alliteration) has announced that his government would be investing £30 million in charging stations for electric cars. The initiative is called “Plugged-In Places” and the stations will be located on streets, in car parks and in commercial, retail and leisure facilities in 3 to 6 cities/regions of the UK. [...]

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