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US researchers has introduced a car that earns money for its driver. The vehicle was shown Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Diego, California.

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An Obama administration plan to build huge new solar energy plants in the Southwest is causing heartburn in the environmental community.


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SYDNEY — Australia on Thursday passed a clean energy law requiring the country to produce 20 percent of its power from renewable sources by 2020 in move that could draw billions of dollars of green investment.

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A new national poll of 800 residents by the Sacred Heart University Polling Institute found a nearly even split between those suggesting nuclear energy was very or somewhat safe (46.1%) and those who said somewhat dangerous or very dangerous (44.7%).


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When American Airlines Flight 63 departs Paris for Miami at 10 a.m. local time on Thursday, June 11, it will embark upon a journey that aims to prove that trans-Atlantic flights can be operated a bit greener and leaner.

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Commissioner for Innovation & Technology Eddy Chan says the Government will enhance the promotion of photovoltaics, which convert sunlight into electricity.


Earth Hour May Prompt 1 Billion to Turn Off Lights

Jason Scott Bloomberg.com 28.03.2009
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Earth Hour, an event created in Sydney two years ago by environmentalists keen to cut energy use and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, started today as residents of New Zealand’s Chatham Islands turned off their lights.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday said it has created a special task force to speed the development of renewable energy projects on federal lands.


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The Bush administration's decision to halt production of an experimental power plant that would capture and store carbon dioxide emissions underground may have set back "clean coal" technology in the United States by as much as a decade, according...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Global warming concerns took center stage Monday as two organizations held rallies to draw attention to an issue that President Barack Obama has promised to place near the top of his agenda.


Signs of the Times

Pavan Shamdasani HK-magazine 20.02.2009
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There is nothing more iconic in Hong Kong than a street full of neon signs—but increasingly more people are fed up with the pollution they cause, and the danger posed by their potential collapse. By Pavan Shamdasani.

MTR upgrade shines light on energy-wasting city

Diana Lee The Standard 13.02.2009
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Hong Kong is two years behind the mainland in terms of using more environmentally friendly lighting, such as light-emitting diode streetlights, according to a research and development study into the MTR lighting system.


Energy-guzzling plasma TVs will be banned in Brussels eco blitz

The plasma screen television is poised to become the next victim of the battle to curb energy use.

Biofuel from algae, weeds helps to power Boeing 737 jet in test flight

Continental Airlines ratcheted up the race to develop alternative fuel for passenger planes last week after it successfully flew a Boeing 737 twin-engine jet powered partly by algae and weeds.


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About 180 private cars have joined the Hong Kong Fuel Economy Run for Private Cars today, striving to complete the assigned routes using the least amount of fuel.

Solar panels on graves give power to Spanish town

DANIEL WOOLLS Physorg.com 24.11.2008
Solar panels on graves give power to Spanish town

(AP) -- A new kind of silent hero has joined the fight against climate change. Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a gritty, working-class town outside Barcelona, has placed a sea of solar panels atop mausoleums at its cemetery, transforming a place of perp...


Obama Looks to Axe Daylight Time -- NYT Explains Why

Eugene Sandhu Green Daily 22.11.2008
Obama Looks to Axe Daylight Time -- NYT Explains Why

In order to conserve energy, President-elect Barak Obama wants to eliminate daylight saving time. Twice a year, a bunch of countries, including most of the United States, practice daylight saving time or DST, shifting one hour ahead in the spring ...

Blinding Lights

June Ng HK-magazine.com 07.11.2008
Blinding Lights

Excessive lights at night darken our skies with pollution during the day, writes June Ng.


Power plant emission limits gazetted

A technical memorandum stipulating the quantities of emission allowances of three air pollutants for the power-generation sector in 2010 and beyond has been gazetted.

Backing for `cheaper and cleaner' plan

MandyLo The Standard 03.11.2008
Backing for `cheaper and cleaner' plan

A plan by Green Island Cement to build a waste melting system at Tap Shek Kok in Tuen Mun has been backed by the nongovernment organization Momentum 107.