Google Inc. /Google News
Brazil Forest Protection to Get Economic Aid in California Deal - Bloomberg -
Calgary HeraldBrazil Forest Protection to Get Economic Aid in California DealBloomberg - 1 hour agoBy Adam Satariano Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- California pledged financial aid for efforts to curb logging in Indonesia and Brazil, aiming to slow deforestation that scientists say adds to global warming.Video: Obama Pledges New Direction on Climate Change AssociatedPressObama seeks immediate action
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Honda FC Sport: Hydrogen Sports Car Concept Of The Future [LA Auto Show] -
Honda surprised the motoring world today with the release of the radical and futuristic Honda FC Sport, a three-seat Hydrogen-powered design study that hints at the future of Honda sports cars to come. Using the Honda V Flow fuel cell setup already found in the Honda FCX Clarity, the FC Sport is the supercar to the FCX's stately sedan. The stunning design is meant to invoke the concept of a high
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Honda Debuts Fuel Cell Sports Concept Car -
Honda today revealed the FC Sport, a three-seat hydrogen fuel cell sports car design exercise, at the Los Angeles Auto Show.
The FC Sport. Click to enlarge.The FC Sport powertrain is based on the V-Flow stack of the FCX Clarity. The FC Sport is configured to accommodate a custom-formed high-power fuel cell stack, located between the rear seats, and a battery pack placed low in the middle of th
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The Big Picture
Dubai and the UAE -
Tomorrow will be the grand opening of the latest addition to the skyline of Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Atlantis Palm Resort, with over 1,500 rooms, will be hosting an opening ceremony with celebrities from around the world tomorrow night. The rapid development in Dubai and across the UAE hasn't all been easy lately, as infrastructure problems (handling rising levels of waste to match m
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Ladies And Gentlemen, Physicists Have Just Created Something Out Of Nothing -
A team of 20 physicists from four institutions has literally made something from nothing, creating particles of matter from ordinary light for the first time. The experiment was carried out at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) by scientists and students from the University of Rochester, Princeton University, the University of Tennessee, and Stanford. The team reported the work in the S
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More shots of the 2010 Prius leak out -
Filed under: Hybrid, Solar, Toyota
Click above for more leaked shots of the 2010 Toyota Prius
Finally! Some actual interesting images of the new 2010 Toyota Prius, along with a couple of videos that we've pasted after the break. We already had a pretty good idea of what the hybrid hatch would look like, but there are a few more details revealed in these new images. We also get to see more shots of
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Lloyd Chapman: Obama's Change.gov Website Drops Small Business Promise -
Petaluma, Calif. - President-elect Obama's pre-election promises to end dramatic and well-documented abuses in federal small business contracting programs are conspicuously absent from the "Agenda" on the new Obama-Biden Change.gov website. (www.change.gov)
In February Senator Obama released this statement, "It's time to end the diversion of federal small business contracts to corporate giants."
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Mariella Moon /GoodCleanTech
Funai Develops LCD Backlight-Less LCD Technology -
A new LCD technology that doesn't need backlighting was developed by Funai Electric Advanced Applied Technology Research Institute, a subsidiary company of Funai which is a Japanese electronics company. According to CrunchGear, the new LCD is a reflective display pretty much like e-paper technology. It reportedly has 80 percent reflectivity specification (that is 30 percent more than the usual ref
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Climate change animation -
The good people at [Worldchanging](http://www.worldchanging.com/) have an ally by name of Michael Schmitz from Berlin who sent them [this terrific video](http://www.noe21.org/solutions/) their way earlier this week. He and several friends produced the animation, which reviews (in a weirdly soothing way) the process of climate change, and offers a glimpse of a grim future in which we've done nothi
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CalPERS Cuts Down PE Holdings By 26%; Started Selling As Early As '05 -
California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), one of the largest limited partners of private equity industry and the largest public pension fund in the US, has cut down its holdings of private equity funds, a process it started three years ago. It has so far sold 26% of its private equity interests, according to data provided by Prequin , a London based r
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The Polish Loophole Takes Shape -
In a few posts lately I’ve discussed the importance of Poland, and other eastern European countries, to European efforts to secure agreement on a climate policy package. Poland has balked at emissions reductions commitments due to its heavy reliance on domestic coal for electricity production. At the same time, Europe really can’t let its climate policies appear to fail. So the ques
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Toyota to Reduce Production in U.S. -
The Japanese automaker plans to stop production at all its plants in the U.S. and Canada for two extra days in addition to the regular Christmas holidays next month.
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Ener1 and Kyushu Electric to Partner on Rapid Recharging Systems -
Lithium-ion batterymaker Ener1, Inc. has signed a memorandum of understanding with Kyushu Electric Power (KEPCO), the fourth-largest publicly traded power and utility company in Japan on working together to create and manufacture rapid recharging systems for electric vehicles.
KEPCO has already developed advanced rapid charging stands and plans to customize that solution with the EnerDel High Ener
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David Kurtz /Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall
Final Acts -
Even some Bush political appointees at EPA are crying foul over the administration's 11th-hour push to allow major polluters to build near national parks and wilderness areas.......
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