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Amazon's unique data center heating system: Clean, green and frugal
2014-09-23 03:23:39| IT Services - Topix.net
Amazon.com will save around $225,000 a year for starters by extracting waste energy from a data center to help heat its new high-rise campus, according to City Light. While that's not a lot of money for a company worth more than $152 billion, it's further evidence of the thrift that CEO Jeff Bezos encouraged in the early days of the company.
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Aim to be Green Township Recycling Program Recycles 10M Pounds
2014-09-22 21:41:00| Waste Age
<a href="http://thepennews.com/">ThePennews.com</a> In August of this year, the OSS Solid Waste District drop-off recycling program reached another milestone by collecting over 10 million pounds of recyclable materials. Content Classification: Curated read more
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Department of Education reps visit Colorado green school honorees (with video)
2014-09-22 16:07:00| American School & University
Over the past seven years, Douglas County has saved more than $18.3 million in energy costs. Content Classification: Curated read more
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Green cred under fire, Peru host UN climate talks
2014-09-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Global Post: Extremely vulnerable to global warming, Peru might seem like the ideal location to hold the next round of the United Nations' climate talks. The country's mountain glaciers are melting at an alarming rate while parts of the vast Peruvian Amazon are already wilting, literally, as the mercury gently rises, potentially releasing billions of tons of carbon stored in the trees into the atmosphere. No wonder the government here has been getting ready to roll out the red carpet for the estimated 12,000...
Merkels taste for coal upset $130 billion green drive
2014-09-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: When Germany kicked off its journey toward a system harnessing energy from wind and sun back in 2000, the goal was to protect the environment and build out climate-friendly power generation. More than a decade later, Europes biggest economy is on course to miss its 2020 climate targets and greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants are virtually unchanged. Germany used coal, the dirtiest fuel, to generate 45 percent of its power last year, its highest level since 2007, as Chancellor Angela Merkel...
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