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...People have a view of environmentalism that to reduce energy usage you have to use solar panels and not drive a car, and although these are good things, there are easier things we can do,” said Environmental Action Committee treasurer Karen A. McKinnon...
...biggest benefit to recycling might be psychological. Start recycling regularly - and successfully - and you'll begin thinking a bit more about your impact on the Earth. "There are so many environmental initiatives out there that are important," says Gonen. "Solar, wind, biofuels. But these are all huge, capital-intensive projects. Most of us can't do that, but everyone can recycle." I just hope RecycleBank comes to Brooklyn soon - my newspapers are piling...
...that have pushed biofuels as the major energy alternative, which has ravaged forests and agricultural land. Biofuels, he said, "will produce just 6% of energy consumption by 2010, and has not even reduced greenhouse gases." Instead, the world's most powerful oilman advocated "truly renewable sources of energy, like solar power." Saudi Arabia this year committed $300 million to researching alternative energies, even though they plan within the next year to boost their oil output from 11 million barrels a day to 12.5 million barrels...
...jobs can be recreated. From that point on, their riffs run parallel. The two support cutting subsidies to companies that outsource jobs abroad and creating rewards for those that keep production here. Both candidates would invest $150 billion over 10 years in new green technologies such as solar and wind power, which both campaigns say will create five million new jobs over the next decade. The only distinction is that Clinton deems them "manufacturing" jobs, while Obama considers them part of the new economy...
...next day, addressing a gathering of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, Obama cited the same facility as the first of the next generation of American ingenuity. "We're going to transform shuttered steel mills to make windmills, plants that have closed will make solar panels," he said. "These kinds of jobs are bringing new life back to places that have been hard hit in recent decades - places like Fairless Hills in Bucks County, where the old U.S. Steel plant is now being used to make wind turbines...