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Study finds shifts to renewable energy can drive up energy poverty

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Efforts to shift away from fossil fuels and replace oil and coal with renewable energy sources can help reduce carbon emissions but do so at the expense of increased inequality, according to a new study by researchers at Portland State University (PSU) and Vanderbilt University. —Julius McGee.

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Dipping Into the World’s Most Stunning Hot Springs

Baua Electric

Riemvasmaak, South Africa In 1973 and 1974, during South African apartheid, the Black residents of Riemvasmaak, a settlement in northwest South Africa, were torn from their homes so that the government could build a military site. Greta Rybus is a photojournalist based near Portland, Maine. That’s part of the ritual, too.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

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BYD currently exports gasoline-powered cars to Africa, South America, and the Middle East, but they compete on price, not quality. Ted Kulongoski arrived to test-drive an electric car and urge the company to import through the port of Portland. "Their cars are way behind Toyota, for sure," Sokol admits.

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