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UMaine unveils offshore wind data buoy	24.5.2013	Boston Globe: Maine
UMaine unveils offshore wind data buoy
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Finally, the Namekagon and weather combine for a perfect river day	24.5.2013	MinnPost
Earth Journal writer Ron Meador is posting daily this week from the Namekagon River in Wisconsin. Thursday may have been about as perfect a day as it's possible to have on the Namekagon River: Clear skies, light winds for the most part, temperatures that climbed into the 60s, I think, which is the heart of that that happy zone between being too warm from the work of moving a boat and being chilled no matter what you do. Most if not all of us had found dry and/or fresh clothes, too — guaranteed spiritual balm after four days that had progressed from damp to downright dank. Thursday's leg was to have been 20 miles or so, but the first five were on a flowage that didn't sound very interesting. So when the option was offered of being shuttled directly to the first stop of the day — a tour of the Xcel Energy hydroelectric dam at the bottom of the flowage — Sallie and I were among the many who said yes. I can't tell you about that dam, however, because another little logistical breakdown ...
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Minnesota solar energy standard signed by Mark Dayton	24.5.2013	Twincities.com: News
Minnesota's investor-owned utilities will be required to get 1.5 percent of their power from solar energy by 2020 under legislation signed by Gov. Mark Dayton.
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China’s Supreme People’s Court to hear AMSC cases against Chinese wind turbine maker	24.5.2013	Boston Globe: Technology
China’s Supreme People’s Court to hear AMSC cases against Chinese wind turbine maker
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Gov. Dayton signs solar energy standard	24.5.2013	Star Tribune: Politics

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Gov. Dayton Signs Solar Energy Standard	24.5.2013	WCCO: National
Minnesota's investor-owned utilities will be required to get 1.5 percent of their power from solar energy by 2020 under legislation signed by Gov. Mark Dayton. The solar energy standard also sets a statewide goal of reaching 10 percent by 2030.
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Business groups take on Cape Wind in ads	24.5.2013	Boston Globe: Massachusetts
Business groups take on Cape Wind in ads
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ECB's Draghi: Europe's banking reform must include agency to wind down busted banks	24.5.2013	Star Tribune: World

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Solar-Powered Plane Breaks World Record for Distance	24.5.2013	Wired Top Stories
Solar-Powered Plane Breaks World Record for Distance
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Project would carry NY power to Mass. via Vt.	24.5.2013	Boston Globe: Maine
Project would carry NY power to Mass. via Vt.
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Cold, soggy paddlers look forward to sun on the Namekagon	23.5.2013	MinnPost
Earth Journal writer Ron Meador is posting daily this week from the Namekagon River in Wisconsin. The photo above is included not as a sentimental sunset-on-the-trail shot but as a bulletin of the best news to reach our Namekagon River paddle group since we launched last Sunday: Four days of rainy, windy and increasingly cold weather are about to end. You can see it in the sky. And though the overnite forecast for Wednesday into Thursday is, as I write, for lows in the middle 30s there is still great happiness over what likely lies beyond — dry weather and sunshine. You have to be prepared on an outdoors trip for cold or wind or rain. Any two of those at a time is fine by me. But the combination of all three has been steadily wearing on our procession of 75 canoeists and kayakers, and yesterday the strain was particularly plain: You could hear it in our voices, see it in our fatigue and peculiar dress. People are paddling in so many layers of long underwear, outerwear, rainwear and ...
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Driving Volkswagen's 261-MPG Diesel-Electric Supercar Spacepod	23.5.2013	Wired Top Stories
Driving Volkswagen's 261-MPG Diesel-Electric Supercar Spacepod
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‘Does Someone Have to Go?’: When the office devours itself	23.5.2013	Washington Post
Has it really been only a week since we buried “ The Office ?” The laughs may have indeed vanished, but the workplace angst and resentment burns on in Fox’s late-season experiment in true office awkwardness, a reality show called “Does Someone Have to Go?,” in which the boss hands over the reins to the employees, who evaluate one another and decide who should get fired. ...
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ECB official: New bank authority 'indispensable'	23.5.2013	Seattle Times: Business & Technology
A top European Central Bank official is calling for quick creation of an agency with powers to restructure and wind down busted banks, in an apparent pushback against Germany's insistence that such fundamental changes should take time.
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Will green energy prove cheaper than gas?	23.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
The Committee on Climate Change argues that, in the long term, low-carbon energy will cost less than gas. Leo Hickman, with your help, investigates. Leo Hickman
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Running shoes leave large carbon footprint, study shows	23.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
A typical pair of synthetic trainers generates 30lbs of emissions, equivalent to leaving a 100-watt bulb burning for a week Runners tread more heavily on the earth than they may have ever imagined, especially it seems if they are wearing a pair of Chinese-made men's size nine Asics gel Kayanos , according to a team of MIT scientists. A new pair of synthetic running shoes typically generates 30lbs of carbon dioxide emissions, the researchers found. That's an unusually high carbon footprint for a product that does not use electricity, or require sophisticated components. The researchers said it was equivalent to leaving a 100-watt bulb burning for an entire week. Sports apparel companies have been leaders in trying to reduce their environmental impact. But as the findings suggest, it's an especially complicated problem. Shoes account for a big share of the emissions produced in clothing manufacture. More than 25bn pairs of shoes are manufactured every year, most of them in ...
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Google acquires kite-power firm	23.5.2013	BBC: Front Page
Google has acquired a US start-up that generates power using turbines flying on robotic tethered kites.
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TV installer Multiband to be acquired for $116M	22.5.2013	Star Tribune: Business
But the company has 45 days to solicit other bids.
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The Learning Network Blog: Lesson Plan \| Cool Science: Renewing Interest in Space Exploration Through Social Media and Music	22.5.2013	NY Times: Education
The Learning Network Blog: Lesson Plan \| Cool Science: Renewing Interest in Space Exploration Through Social Media and Music
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Griff Rhys Jones's letter in response to Jeremy Leggett on renewable energy	22.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
Jones accuses the government of 'random desecration' of the countryside and broadens his criticism to taxpayer support of green energy, the planning system and the reliability of wind and solar power
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