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Green heating payments to double for householders	20.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
Rates for one-off payments will be increased to support the market as renewable heat incentive delays continue Payments to help householders switch from heating their homes with oil to greener systems such as biomass boilers and solar thermal will double in most cases, the government is to announce on Monday. The grants were intended as a stopgap measure until the start this summer of the government's bigger renewable heat incentive (RHI) scheme – ongoing payments akin to the feed-in tariff for solar panels but for generating low-carbon heat . But in March, the RHI was postponed until 2014 , in a delay that industry said it was "bitterly disappointed" with. From today, rates for the one-off payments, the Renewable Heat Premium Payment (RHPP) scheme , will be increased to support the market through the limbo imposed by the delay. Energy and climate change minister Greg Barker said: "I want to kickstart this exciting new market for consumer renewable heat technologies. This time ...
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Center School study wins OK	19.5.2013	Boston Globe: Massachusetts
Center School study wins OK
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Ancient history gets new digs (Cached)	19.5.2013	Durango Herald
MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARKNo more artifacts moldering in the x201cTin Shed.x201d No more storing archives in nooks and crannies. No more driving a long, narrow, winding road to learn what Mesa Verde National Park has to offer. After decades of fundraising and lobbying, and five months after a x201csoftx201d opening,...
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Dilma Rousseff inaugurates Brasilia stadium (Cached)	19.5.2013	New Kerala: India News
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), May 18 : Brasilia's Mane Garrincha National Stadium, one of six stadiums that will host the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Football competition was officially inaugurated on Saturday morning.
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Editorial: Climate Warnings, Growing Louder	18.5.2013	NY Times: Editorials
Editorial: Climate Warnings, Growing Louder
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Royal Society Young People's Book Prize shortlist announced \| @GrrlScientist	17.5.2013	Guardian: Science
Finally, what I know you've all been waiting for: the six shortlisted young people's science books have been selected and are now in the mail to hundreds of children across the UK who will select the winner of the 2013 Royal Society's Young People's Book Prize! Are you a scientist who was inspired by a children's book to pursue your passion? As a member of this year's panel of judges, I freely admit that I am jealous of children today – jealous because when I was a child, I had nothing close to this wealth of science books to read. In fact, I cannot remember reading any children's science books in my youth. As it was, from almost the moment I learned to read, I was reading science fiction. The only science-y book I remember reading as a child was Alfred Russel Wallace's engaging The Malay Archipelago , a book that strongly influenced my career choice and inspired my lifelong passion for the flora and fauna of the South Pacific. (I still own that book; it is a treasured friend that has ...
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Energy Costs Move Up Europe's Agenda	17.5.2013	Wall St. Journal: World
Some executives at the annual European Business Summit say the real challenge for the EU is to prevent a further deindustrialization of the continent.
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A powerful use for spoiled food	16.5.2013	LA Times: Business
A powerful use for spoiled food
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Horses as Farm Equipment	16.5.2013	NYT: Home Page
Horses as Farm Equipment
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Green Column: Clean Energy Learns to Compete	15.5.2013	NY Times: Business
Green Column: Clean Energy Learns to Compete
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How to build a Mars colony that lasts – forever	15.5.2013	New Scientist: Health
How to build a Mars colony that lasts – forever
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Is Kleiner Perkins Sorry It Ever Met Al Gore?	13.5.2013	American Spectator
The story in the New York Times says Kleiner Perkins has been “humbled” by the past decade’s performance. That seems appropriate. The nation’s most famous venture capital firm had a stunning 35.7 percent annual rate of return in the decade of the 1990s. That was before they met Al Gore. Somewhere around the time Gore had won his Academy Award for warning the world about global warming, the former Vice President was hired on as a senior partner at KPCB. Fortune wrote an article describing Gore sitting in the board room firing off ideas after calling Senator Barbara Boxer “on the way over” to get government on board. Clean Energy! It was the Next Big Thing! Silicon Valley would do for the nation’s energy generation what it had done for computers — discover technological secrets that would change the whole game. And make money at it, too! After all, solar cells were made out of the same thing as computer chips, right? Silicon! If Silicon Valley could do for solar what it had done for the ...
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Renewable energy fund lacks power to fulfill purpose	13.5.2013	Chicago Tribune: Business
Renewable energy fund lacks power to fulfill purpose
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Sold! Buyers go ga-ga for this extreme green home	10.5.2013	Star Tribune: Business
This earth-sheltered house in Maplewood got three offers and sold for more than the list price
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Traces of water in moon came from Earth, study finds	9.5.2013	The Guardian -- Front Page
Lunar rocks brought home by US astronauts contain droplets of water chemically identical to that on ancient Earth Traces of water inside the moon were inherited from ancient Earth, according to a fresh analysis of lunar rocks brought home by US astronauts. The findings make for a clearer picture of our cosmic neighbour, once viewed as an arid expanse, but now considered a frost-coated rock that holds water throughout. The latest results come from studies on the most extraordinary samples hauled back from the moon, including green-tinged stone collected by Apollo 15 in 1971, and orange material gathered by Apollo 17 in 1972. The surprise discovery of the green rock, by Commander Dave Scott and lunar module pilot Jim Irwin, sparked a lengthy debate among the astronauts about the boulder's true colour while Nasa controllers listened in. Scientists focused on tiny droplets of volcanic glass that were trapped in crystals inside the rocks. The crystals protected the droplets from the ...
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Oxford students and alumni to protest over Shell Earth sciences funding	9.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
Campaigners say the partnership undermines the university's credibility and conflicts with its work on climate change Students and alumni of Oxford University will protest this afternoon at the opening of a new lab in its Earth sciences department that is funded with £5.9m from oil company Shell. Campaigners say the partnership – which will see the climate and energy secretary, Ed Davey, attend the Shell Geoscience Laboratory's official opening on Thursday – undermines the university's credibility and conflicts with its work on climate change. Oxford alumni including environmental campaigner Jonathon Porritt and solar entrepreneur Jeremy Leggett yesterday called Shell "a particularly inappropriate choice of funder" in a letter published in the Guardian . The funding over five years will include research into "unconventional hydrocarbons", including the geological impact of the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking", for shale gas, which is currently at the ...
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DealBook: Kleiner Perkins Shifts Strategy After a Rough Decade	8.5.2013	NY Times: Business
DealBook: Kleiner Perkins Shifts Strategy After a Rough Decade
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Can Humans Survive?	6.5.2013	Newsweek Top Stories
Five mass extinctions have nearly wiped out life on earth. The sixth is coming.
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How Al Gore amassed a fortune that rivals Mitt Romney’s	6.5.2013	Seattle Times: Nation & World
Leveraging his aura as a technology seer and his political and climate work connections, Gore has remade himself into a wealthy businessman, amassing a fortune that may exceed $200 million.
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Seattle plan would make city carbon neutral by 2050	6.5.2013	Seattle Times: Top stories
Seattle officials unveil a 37-year climate action plan for the city.
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