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A new report called ‘Green Jobs: Towards Decent work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World’,  commissioned by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) says the global market for environmental products and services is projected to double from $1.37 trillion per year at present to $2.74 trillion by 2020, creating millions of new "green jobs", says a recent [...]

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At first glance it looks like a piece of public art, a moving sculpture and it doesn’t have the howl of other wind turbines. The QR5 is the first of British company QuietRevolutions urban wind turbines. QR5 is 16 feet tall and appropriate for larger building rooftops or with a freestanding mast. According to the [...]

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We like to be positive here at livegaia and hey there’s other folks that do too. Now there is a place where you can share positive news stories and find lots more. PosiPeople is a community-driven forum that highlights any web content that makes or is about positive impact on society and the environment. PosiPeople [...]

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Just one hour of sunlight that hits the earth is enough to provide humankind power for one whole year. The one major drawback with solar power systems is that they only produce power when the sun is up. The system on our house is grid tied meaning the power from the system in excess of [...]

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Continuing the worldwide growth of wind energy Scottish and Southern Energy plc (SSE) has been granted consent to develop a 456 MW wind farm called Clyde in southern Scotland located between Biggar and Moffat. Costing £600 million [US $1.2 billion] project will be built in two phases, and is to be  The wind farm will [...]

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Wow, did I ever hit the nail on the head with that ingeniously creative comment. MIT engineers led by Marc Baldo believe they have found a way to use windows to collect solar power. The light is collected over the surface of the window and concentrated at the edges. This allows the costly solar cells [...]

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Hawaii becomes the first state to pass into law (Act 204) a requirement for solar water heaters on all new single family homes from 2010. Hooora!! I don’t personally get why legislation like this doesn’t begin straight away for all new building permits. It’s not as if this requires solar water heaters on all existing [...]

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