Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Pledge to Recycle and Win a Computer for Your School
By completing the pledge cards, students and residents agree to:

· Renew their personal commitment to recycling, and increase their recycling efforts at home, school and work.
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· Tell five friends that recycling is the easiest way to slow climate change.
Don’t cap, subsidize: Wind industry needs to become cost competitive
Many in the renewable energy sector have gotten lazy and have decided that hiring lobbyists is easier than innovating and competing. Sen. Grassley should work to help the latter and to discourage the former.
China insists rich world's carbon targets must be on Cancun agenda - 05 Oct 2010 - BusinessGreen.com
The stand off at the centre of the UN's long-running climate change negotiations reared its head again at the latest round of talks in Tianjin today, when one of China's top negotiators reiterated his call for industrialised nations to adopt more ambitious emission reduction targets.
The Associated Press: Here comes the sun: White House to go solar
WASHINGTON — Solar power is coming to President Barack Obama's house.

The most famous residence in America plans to install solar panels for the first time atop the White House's living quarters. The solar panels — which will be installed by spring 2011 — will heat water and supply some of the first family's electricity.

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