Posted on November 7th, 2008 by Green Assembly
From The Economist print edition
SINGAPORE ~ Earlier this year, with the oil price at record heights, T. Boone Pickens, a celebrated Texas oilman, seemed to confirm the unstoppable growth of the clean-technology industry when he announced plans not only to build the world’s biggest wind farm, but also to spend US$58m of his personal fortune [...]
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Posted on September 2nd, 2008 by Green Assembly
MANILA ~ The Olongapo City government has passed a resolution objecting to a proposed 300 MW coal power plant in the Subic Bay area. Greenpeace Southeast Asia welcomed the decision and has called on other Philippine cities and provinces to join the movement to ‘quit coal’ and go renewable as a solution to stop dangerous [...]
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Posted on August 23rd, 2008 by Green Assembly
BANGKOK ~ The solar power industry is capable of deploying enough solar power plants in the deserts of the world to provide about 50 percent of global energy needs, according to experts.
“Based on our present knowledge and available technologies, we are convinced that concentrating solar thermal collectors (CSP) of about 10,000 GW, as necessary [...]
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Posted on August 5th, 2008 by Green Assembly
CHINA is constructing the world’s first eco-city near Shanghai and claims it will be sustainable not just environmentally, but also socially, economically and culturally, according to a report just shown on BBC World News.
Called Dongtan, and located on the third largest island in China at the mouth of the Yangtze River, the city will cover [...]
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Posted on August 4th, 2008 by Green Assembly
GREENPEACE Southeast Asia will march in Bangkok tomorrow (Tuesday 05 August) in a renewed bid to prevent the government from going ahead with its plan to develop a string of nuclear power plants in Thailand.
The group is using tomorrow’s meeting of the energy ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in Bangkok, to [...]
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Posted on August 3rd, 2008 by Green Assembly
CHINA is already the world’s leading renewable energy producer* and is over-taking more developed economies in exploiting valuable economic opportunities, creating green-collar jobs and leading development of critical low-carbon technologies, says a new report just published by The Climate Group.
The report - China’s Clean Revolution - shows that China’s transition to a low carbon economy is [...]
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