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To Hell With The Grownups. I’m Now With Greta & #FridaysForFuture

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The first media notice Greta got was from the BBC in September of last year. When I tell them people that this movement has been growing, week after week internationally and now starting across the United States they scoff and say they’ve seen that before. In November she gave a widely noticed and watched TED talk.

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RCA’s Lucite Phantom Teleceiver Introduced the Idea of TV

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www.youtube.com Sarnoff’s speech was unusual at that time for the United States simply because it was the first time a news event was broadcast live for television. RCA president David Sarnoff’s speech at the 1939 World’s Fair was broadcast live. television market from taking off.

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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

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The 2 ºC maximal warming limit was cited at the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972, and revisited several decades later, in 1995, by the Wissenschaftlicher Beirat Globale Unweltveränderungen (WGBU), Germany’s national advisory council on climate change. “We The >2 Degree Target. Not the last two days.”.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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The last official UNFCCC meeting prior to the 15 th Congress ended 6 November in Barcelona, and environment ministers have been shuttling in and out of Copenhagen since then to conduct ad hoc negotiations prior to the summit. That is what matters, and that matters to the whole world ” [ 7 ]. ºF) increase. Earlier post.)

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Energy & Environment World U.S. Mr. Kulongoski wants to make Oregon the go-to state for electric vehicle production. Ted Kulongoski behind the wheel of Nissan’s prototype electric vehicle. Email us directly at greeninc@nytimes.com.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Energy & Environment World U.S. and Segway Unveil … Something Previous post Report Says Cap-and-Trade Is a Must for Canada’s Economic Survival Next post From War Bonds to Environment Bonds From 1 to 25 of 29 Comments 1 2 Next » 1.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Energy & Environment World U.S. Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel. Email us directly at greeninc@nytimes.com.

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