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Miami-Dade urges residents to recycle old phonebooks

Posted by DeshRaj on 31/10/2009

We sure love to keep precious literature treasured for long, but does it go for those telephone directories as well? I believe not. The Miami-Dade Department of Solid Waste Management also thinks the same in advising residents to recycle their old...

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DOE Awards $338M for Geothermal R&D

Posted by Environmental Leader on 30/10/2009

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $338 million in Recovery Act funding for geothermal research and development. The grants were awarded to 123 projects in 39 states, across private industry, academic institutions, tribal entities, local governments, and DOE’s national laborato ...

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Cost of Installed Solar Fell 30% in Past Decade

Posted by Environmental Leader on 30/10/2009

The cost to install solar has dropped 30 percent over the past 10 years, according to the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.Most significantly, the cost of PV modules dropped from 2007 to 2008 after three years of remaining relatively flat, according to a new report from ...

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DOE Shows Commercial Builders How to Achieve 50% Energy Savings

Posted by Environmental Leader on 28/10/2009

Building owners in four key commercial building sectors will now be able to achieve a 50-percent energy savings with the help of new technical documents that show how to achieve higher levels of performance.New technical support documents from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the DOE natio ...

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US designates key areas of polar bear habitat across Alaska

Posted by AditiJ on 23/10/2009

We have long forgotten the phrase live and let live. It about time we start taking it seriously and show some humanity towards animals. An effort by the U.S. Department of the Interior certainly deserves appreciation. The department has today...

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