Sustainable Jersey Awards $200k in Grants to 14 Municipalities

This is the complete Sustainable Jersey press conference held June 22, 2009 in Trenton, NJ to announce the awarding of $200,000 in Green Grants funded by Walmart Stores, to 14 NJ municipalities. Four towns...

8 Ways to Simplify Your Home Network

In this article we wish to supply you with 8 ways to simplify your home network. These solutions are readily available and easily implemented on any home network.  The basic goal is to reduce and remove the total number of wires and gadgets used on a desk or in your home...

Obama and Harper announce a clean energy pact between two nations

US President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announed today that they will work together as two nations to provide clean energy to both countries and to reduce climate change. Obama said that...

Environmental expectations are high for President Barack Obama

It is President Barack Obama's first day in office and environmentalists around the world have high expectations for the man they believe is going to change the way environmental issues are looked at around the...

Citi Rescue Talks Underway

"The market shrugged off the prospect of a Citigroup meltdown and focused instead on the leak that Timothy Geithner was Obama's pick for Treasury Secretary. Citi fell another 20%, its shares dropping below $4. Have banking catastrophes become so routine that it is now...

Calgary company invests in clean coal technology

"CALGARY -- Immersive Media Corp., a Calgary-based video technology company, says it has struck a strategic deal with Future Fuels LLC to invest US$5 million in start up money for Future Power PA Inc., a...

The Credit Crunch Is Good For The Environment

Spiralling petrol prices in the uk and economic slowdown caused by the credit crunch is having some unexpected beneficial side effects on the uks roads. People are getting from A to B quicker with less stressful journeys as a result of an ...

Joe's Gaffe: Say It Ain't So

"There is no question that when Barack Obama sat down and listed out the pros and cons of picking Joe Biden as his running mate, at the top of the "cons" he wrote: "has a propensity for making hard to explain...

Belarus parliamentary elections: mixed reviews

Many deem the current government of Belarus to be the "last dictatorship in Europe.” Hence, falsifications and inconsistencies were expected to take place in Parliamentary elections that happened yesterday in capital Minsk. Yet, international monitors claimed that despite...

Clean up the World weekend

For the first time, communities around the world that are taking action this weekend to help protect the environment as part of Clean up the World Weekend, will be able to map their activities out on Google...

Maple Leaf Plant Reopens in Toronto

The Maple Leaf plant which was the source of a listeriosis outbreak in Canada that spurred 16 deaths and sparked a massive national recall of deli meat products has reopened after nearly a month since its closure.  ""It is with mixed emotion that I speak to you today,...

300 People 'Fish' For Trash In Mexican Reservoir

The Associated Press is reporting that hundreds of Mexicans are fishing for bottles, plastic bags, and tin cans in a competition to clean a reservior near Texas. Instead of fishing for trout or catfish, more than...

Credit crunch is good for environment

Spiralling petrol prices in uk and economic slowdown caused by [capitalism] the credit crunch is having some beneficial side effects on the uks roads. People are getting from A to B quicker with less stressful journeys as a result of an estimated 12 % less traffic on...

Help, I'm turning into my mother

"(LifeWire) -- Stacy Pearson keeps buying food she knows she'll never eat -- from tomato soup to green beans to ramen noodles -- merely because it's on sale. Why? Blame her mother. ...

HRW Warns of Unexploded Russian Cluster Bomb Ordnances

"Unexploded ordnances of cluster bombs, left by Russian attacks, pose risk to life of civilian population in the conflict zone, the Human Rights Watch warned on August 21. It said that its researchers saw more unexploded submunitions from cluster bombs in and around the...

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