A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet with Renewables

Submitted by ward on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 8:51am

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Mark Z. Jacobson and Mark A. Delucchi

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In December leaders from around the world will meet in Copenhagen to try to agree on cutting back greenhouse gas emissions for decades to come. The most effective step to implement that goal would be a massive shift away from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy sources. If leaders can have confidence that such a transformation is possible, they might commit to an historic agreement. We think they can.

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Scientific American

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India's population hits 1.21 billion

Submitted by ward on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 8:47am

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The Associated Press

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India's new national census puts the population at about 1.21 billion people, or 17 per cent of the world population, the census commissioner says.

The increase of 181 million over the last decade is near what officials had estimated, C. Chandramauli said Thursday. While it is a 17.6 per cent increase from the 2001 census, population growth is slower than the previous count that showed 21.5 per cent growth.

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CBCNews

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India

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Population

Gap widening between poorest countries and others

Submitted by ward on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 8:43am

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Patrick Worsnip

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UNITED NATIONS, March 29 (Reuters) - The wealth gap between the least developed and other countries has widened in recent decades and will go on doing so unless their basic weaknesses are tackled, a report for the United Nations said on Tuesday.

"In short, the 'least developed' condition has tended to generate 'less' development," even though most of the countries concerned had registered some economic growth, said the report by a group of nine "eminent persons."

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AlertNet

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Arab spring: an interactive timeline of Middle East protests

Submitted by ward on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 8:36am

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Garry Blight and Sheila Pulham

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Ever since a man in Tunisia burned himself to death in December 2010 in protest at his treatment by police, pro-democracy rebellions have erupted across the Middle East. Our interactive timeline traces key events

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/mar/22/middle-east-protest-interactive-timeline