Archive for May, 2009

NSS camp orgnised by Moti Ram Arya Senior Secondary Model School

internet advertising28 May : Moti Ram Arya Senior Secondary Model School, Sector 27-A has been organizing week long NSS programmes and activities from May 23 to 29.  Students of +2 commerce sections have participated in the programmes enthusiastically.          The NSS students visited the village ‘Mauli Jagran’ and had a healthy interaction with residents there. It was a noble experience, full of understanding and learning. The students have engaged themselves in various social activities such

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Study: Oil Prices Will Return to $110/Barrel in 2015, Possibly Hit $200/Barrel in 2030

by Edmunds.com Green Car Advisor on May 28, 2009 Most Americans likely expect the price of gasoline to one day reach the record highs we saw last summer. The question is not so much will the price soar again, but rather when will it. According to the Energy Information Administration’s 2009 outlook report released today, oil prices will return to $110 per barrel in 2015 and could go up to $200 per barrel in 2030, depending on supply You’ll recall that the nationwide price for a gallon of regula

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Fascism Wrapped in Green

Here is Benito Mussolini in an article entitled “The Doctrine of Fascism” which appeared in the Italian Encyclopedia of 1932. The Fascist State, the highest and most powerful form of personality, is a force, but a spiritual force, which takes over all the forms of the moral and intellectual life of man. It cannot therefore confine itself simply to the functions of order and supervision as Liberalism desired. It is not simply a mechanism which limits the sphere of the supposed liberties of the

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CBS: Paint Roofs and Roads White to Stop Global Warming

On Thursday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Julie Chen teased an upcoming segment on a new way to combat global warming: “Up next, if you could do one thing to fight global warming, would you do it? How about painting your roof white? We’ll explain.” Fill-in co-host Chris Wragge later introduced the report: “Could painting your roof white be the best defense against global warming? Some very important people think so. So Early Show national correspondent Hattie Kauffman put that idea to the test.”

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Renewable Energy Can Supply America’s New Energy Demand

By Dennis Markatos-Soriano, American Forum May 28, 2009 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission director Jon Wellinghoff recently stated that the U.S. may not need any new coal or nuclear power plants. Due to our tremendous renewable energy potential, the rising challenge of global warming, and the high cost of new conventional plants, I think he’s right. The U.S. can meet future electricity demand by deploying efficiency and renewable energy. The potential for renewable energy is grea

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Clean Energy and Jobs highlighted at Sarbanes event

Sarbanes release CLEAN ENERGY AND JOBS HIGHLIGHTED AT SARBANES EVENT WITH TOWSON GLOBAL AND SOLAROAD TECHNOLGIES – 5/27/2009 Towson – Today, in the Student Union University parking lot, Congressman John Sarbanes attended a demonstration of the ElectraWall device, a solar energy apparatus that can be put on highway sound barriers and light poles to power sign lighting, overhead lights, stop lights or other transportation infrastructure. ElectraWall, designed by Solaroad Technologies of Towso

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A new era of ‘climate thinking’

Mary Nichols was keynote speaker at the The West Coast Summit of the Women’s Network for a Sustainable Future in Santa Clara recently, reports Reuters News: In a broad overview of her agency’s scoping plan that will carry out the goals of the state’s Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, Nichols described how a new way

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Meet Catherine Namugala

Two of my colleagues were in Rwanda last week for a conference of African Ministers on climate change and whilst there they caught up with Catherine Namugala, the Zambian Minister of Tourism, Environment and Natural Resources. She did a little video for ONE, talking about climate change in Zambia. She says that the adverse effects of climate change are definitely being felt in Zambia, most notably for subsistence farmers and others living off the land. Changing rainfall patterns as part of c

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China Believes Climate Risk Tops Credit Crisis, Hu Aide Says

(Bloomberg) — China, the world’s second-biggest energy consumer, views global warming as more serious than the world financial crisis, President Hu Jintao’s special representative on climate change wrote in an editorial.Xie Zhenhua, also vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, said China is working on provincial climate change programs this year, and that the stimulus plan contains energy conservation and pollution components, according to the article in the South China

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Green.view: Shellfish, not selfish

Green.view: Shellfish, not selfish Turning the tide for the oyster H H MUNRO once said “there is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster”. The generosity of these molluscs, though, has not been reciprocated by mankind. According to a report published on May 21st by the Nature Conservancy, an American environmental organisation, the world’s shellfish reefs, which are formed mainly of oysters, are probably the most imperilled

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