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...enough to make them more than self-sufficient. But unlike most other countries, Denmark never forgot the lessons of 1973, and kept driving for greater energy efficiency and a more diversified energy supply. The Danish parliament raised taxes on energy to encourage conservation and established subsidies and standards to support more efficient buildings. "It all started out without any regard for the climate or the environment," says Svend Auken, the former head of Denmark's opposition Social Democrat party and the architect of the country's environmental policies in the 1990s. "But today there's a consensus that we need...
...there is something special in the way that Samso's residents - and Danes as a whole - have adapted to 21st-century realities about energy and the environment. Hermansen credits the Danish tendency to organize in groups, which helps reinforce support for going green. "To us, going for lower energy use is like a sport," he says. That sense of communal competition is shared by Denmark's Scandinavian neighbors, and may help explain why countries like Sweden and Finland are also among Europe's greenest. On a regional level, cooperation is a necessary component of Denmark's success - the Nordic nations...
...information and education to the greater community. “The other part of the grant will be to develop a workshop to teach high school teachers and students about acid mine drainage,” Hansel said. Hansel said she would also use part of the grant to support undergraduate researchers in her lab over the next five summers...
...involved once she returned. Poliak agreed, noting that he now has monthly reunions with friends from the trip.SHOW ME THE SHEKELSBecause Taglit-Birthright is funded in large part by individual philanthropists, as well as the Israeli government and many local Jewish communities, many of the organization’s supporters were worried that the current downward economy would affect the program’s existence.A spokesperson for Taglit Birthright explained that while the economy has impacted the program’s funding, the organization is taking precautions to ensure its future by launching a new fund raising campaign...
...Panetta added that he would not support any prosecution of CIA officials who had used the techniques approved by the Bush Administration because "they were doing their jobs...