Friday, August 24, 2012

renewable energy - Hawaii going green on a global scale




The Asia Pacific Clean Energy summit is underway in an effort to expand the state's renewable energy production while boosting local businesses bottom line.



In the News:




SKorean court rules Samsung didn't copy iPhone
Huffington Post
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea's Samsung won a home court ruling in its global smartphone battle against Apple on Friday when judges in Seoul said the company didn't copy the look and feel of the U.S. company's iPhone, and that Apple infringed on ...




EU Green Energy Drive Says No To Shale Gas, Looks Towards More ...
Huffington Post
... development in Europe, but certainly the scale and speed at which it happens will not be like in the U.S.," said Chris Rowland, an associate at Ecofin, a British-based investment manager with around $1.9 billion of assets under management, covering ...




Waste More, Want More: America Throws Out Good Food
New America Media
Going Green, But Wasting Not much has changed since then as far as being wasteful goes. In fact, it's gotten worse. Sure Americans recycle. We talk green and want to save the polar bears. But Americans still remain as wasteful as ever. A study by the ...




High home prices in New Zealand causing anxiety
Huffington Post
While much of the world remains mired in a housing slump, median home prices in the South Pacific nation in June rose to an all-time high of 372,000 New Zealand dollars ($303,000). That's 6 percent above the peak reached before the global financial ...




Latin America Is World's Most Urbanized Region, UN Report Says
Huffington Post
The report by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme said the region is already the world's most urbanized, with 80 percent of the population living in cities. This growth came at a cost: it was "traumatic and at times violent because of its ...

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