Incarceration is a time of self-reflection, learning survival instincts and rehabilitation. When it comes to coping with climate change, everyone on planet Earth is doing hard time. But many prisons across the world are learning to cope with climate change by going green - and saving money in the process.  However, their uniforms will still stay the same color and...
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What a difference an election makes. In a return to belief in the importance of science, President-elect Barack Obama will nominate Steven Chu, currently the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as his Energy Secretary, according to CNN.

Chu who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics and is a former chairman of the physics department at...
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I'm writing from the UN Climate talks in Poland, where one thing has become heartbreakingly apparent: for some people, these negotiations aren't just about numbers and compromise and diplomacy.  For some people, these negotiations Read more...

The inspiring and transformative choice by the American people to elect Barack Obama as our 44th president lays the foundation for another fateful choice that he - and we - must make this January to begin an emergency rescue of human civilization from the imminent and rapidly growing threat posed by the...
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The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, otherwise known as the Climate Change Conference, meeting December 5^th through the 12^th in Poznan, Poland, has admitted that the richest nations will be asked to contribute $1 billion to a fund to help the poorest...
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A former Missile Officer in the East German National People's Army, Peter Meuser, has designed a hydraulic drive for wind power plants. The 64 year old former Lieutenant Colonel once designed an air defense system while serving in the East German military. It was so successful that it is still used today, only now it is employed to protect a unified Germany. Today, he...
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• Obama's Nobel prize winning pick for energy secretary is said to focus more on renewable energy and green jobs, rather than same old fossil fuels.
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A new resource is available from the UK's Public Interest Research Centre.  "Climate Safety" is a concise, 49 page, one-stop-shop for everything you need to know about climate change.  Neatly arranged, the guide has 5 sections: Summary, Science,...
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