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...biofuels for many years. However, since 2004, projects in the U.S. have doubled, and countries such as Indonesia have set ambitious goals for geothermal generation. The financial crisis has hit the renewables sector, to be sure, but analysts say that thanks to U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's green-energy agenda, and recent G-8 goals to cut carbon emissions by 50% by 2050, the industry will come back strong. "I have people calling me asking, 'Where should I put my money? Who do I invest in?' " says Mark Taylor, a geothermal analyst with renewable-energy-research firm New Energy...
...blatantly obvious” monetary incentives for increasing energy efficiency should move the United States toward a more energy frugal future, green energy advocate Amory B. Lovins said in a talk at the Science Center yesterday evening. “We are often given a multiple choice test in the media. We must choose between climate change, oil wars, or nuclear holocaust,” said Lovins, the co-founder of the sustainability-research organization Rocky Mountain Institute. “We are never given the choice of ‘none of the above,’ when...
...escaped Verstrepen. “I was presenting this work here at Harvard and in the audience was an evolutionary biologist by the name of Kevin Foster,” Verstrepen said. “He started jumping around and crying out that this is a ‘green beard gene.’” The “green beard gene” was initially proposed by Oxford evolutionary biologist William D. Hamilton in 1964. The idea helps explain how cooperative behavior can evolve among organisms. Biologists have often asked how cooperation could succeed when...
...present-day audience. Faust mentioned this achievement, which she referred to as “perchance his most legendary achievement,” in her speech, and described the section of his Senate Web site biography that details his famous touchdown and the subsequent offer to play for the Green Bay Packers. “Fortunately for all of us not from Wisconsin, he turned them down,” she said, telling the audience that he told the Green Bay coach he wanted to “‘go into another contact sport, politics...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has given his rubber-stamp National Assembly the green light to fashion yet another constitutional referendum on whether presidential term limits should be eliminated in the western hemisphere's largest oil producer. "We're going to achieve it," the left-wing Chávez declared to thousands of supporters in Caracas on Sunday. "We're going to demonstrate who rules in Venezuela. If God gives me life and health, I will be with you until 2021" - the bicentennial of Venezuela's independence from Spain. "Uh-ah, Chávez no se va," he sang...