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Berkeley Lab researchers devise new technique to reduce lignin and increase sugar yields; lowering biomass pretreatment costs
2016-02-25 11:56:13| Green Car Congress
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City Bureaus Devise Plan for Street Improvements in Southwest Portland
2016-01-28 19:15:12| PortlandOnline
The Tryon-Stephens Headwaters Neighborhood Street Plan will be a guide for street improvements that include appropriate stormwater management techniques
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Europe's leaders must devise a global trading system that puts the poor first
2015-11-20 13:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Last week, the EU made public its initial proposal for legal text on trade and sustainable development in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The EU has a longstanding commitment to policy coherence for development, making sure its trade and other policies dont have a negative impact on international development goals. Yet the EUs proposal for TTIP says virtually nothing about ensuring that the worlds biggest trade deal does not have a negative impact on developing countries....
Chemists devise technology could transform solar energy storage
2015-06-19 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: The materials in most of today's residential rooftop solar panels can store energy from the sun for only a few microseconds at a time. A new technology developed by chemists at UCLA is capable of storing solar energy for up to several weeks -- an advance that could change the way scientists think about designing solar cells. The findings are published June 19 in the journal Science. The new design is inspired by the way that plants generate energy through photosynthesis. 'Biology does a...
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Canada: Feds request provincial input to devise national climate plan
2015-04-12 23:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: This week could mark a turning point in Canada's struggle to shed its international image as a climate-change laggard, but could also lay bare the fault lines running through the country's attempts to deal with what many would argue is the defining environmental struggle of the century. While Ontario will join Quebec in implementing cap and trade, British Columbia has instead opted for a simpler carbon tax. Saskatchewan, meanwhile, is looking to new green technologies. Alberta, for its part, is...
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