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Today’s Energy Crisis Is Very Different from the Energy Crisis of 2005

Energy Central

Back in 2005, the world economy was “humming along.” per year in the 2001 to 2005 period. China had been added to the World Trade Organization in December 2001, ramping up its demand for all kinds of fossil fuels. ” World growth in energy consumption per capita was rising at 2.3%

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Book Review: Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard

Terra Infirma

So I got hold of a copy of Chouinard’s book Let my people go surfing: the education of a reluctant businessman – originally published in 2005 and updated in 2016 – and I dug in. ‘Better’ gradually began incorporating environmental and social concerns – why shouldn’t all cotton be organic?

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DeSmog Remembers Ross Gelbspan, Who Inspired Our Founding

DeSmogBlog

It was Ross’s books and journalism that sparked the flames of outrage and opportunity that inspired Jim Hoggan to create the DeSmogBlog in late 2005. He said, so reasonably, that his two books on the topic of organized climate change denial had completely exposed the perpetrators; surely the world would now disregard their input.

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The future is climate-friendly software

GreenBiz

The new nonprofit organization, Green Software Foundation , aims to change the culture of software development to prioritize sustainability. Energy use in data centers doubled from 2000 to 2005, a trend we thought would continue. I admit, I hadn’t considered software design as a major contributor to greenhouse gas. "We

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Exploring underwater methane sources with mass spectrometry

Envirotec Magazine

Another submarine source of methane is the microbial decomposition of organic material in lower sediment layers. On board: scientist Dr. Torben Gentz who has been involved in the UWMS project in the Marine Geochemistry Department at the AWI since 2005. Today’s system has little to do with the original device.

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Best Cleaners – New York’s Capital Region Experts

Green Business Bureau

Tim and Catherine McCann founded Best Cleaners in 2005 to better serve their own garment care needs. Best Cleaners is a proud affiliate of America’s Best Cleaners , a third-party organization that searches out the top cleaners across the United States. About America’s Best Cleaners.

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Tropical megacities enter new phase of declining air

Envirotec Magazine

Published on 8 April in Science Advances , the investigation – led by UCL – looked at 46* future megacities in these regions, using space-based observations from instruments onboard NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) satellites for 2005 to 2018. of up to 12% for ammonia and up to 11% for reactive volatile organic compounds.

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