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India’s Most Promising Energy Source is Free and Found Nearly Everywhere

Quartz Bulletin
July 17, 2014
[Editor’s Note: This article is part of a six-month BULLETIN series exploring GE’s innovation, technology, and manufacturing initiatives in India.]
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Confronting the ‘Blood Money’ of Conflict Minerals

July 04, 2014
If you’ve texted, chatted, computed, flown, opened a fridge or put on jewelry today, chances are good you’ve come in contact with one of the “conflict minerals”—tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold—used to fund the bloody 18-year-old war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
The war has killed an estimated 5 million people since the turn of the century and is characterized by the worst kinds of human rights abuses, rape as a weapon and the recruitment of child soldiers.
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Drive Innovation and Profits By Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Suzanne Apple World Wildlife Fund
July 02, 2014
Climate change presents a real economic liability of increased risks to growth and productivity of American business. However, the silver lining in all the dire news about climate change is the opportunity for the private sector to not only quell the rising tide, but do it profitably.
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EPA’s Sweeping Carbon Cuts Reduce Emissions 30 Percent by 2030

June 03, 2014
The Environmental Protection Agency released sweeping guidelines on Monday aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power plants. The guidelines, pushed out through executive order, will cut carbon pollution by 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030.
“By leveraging cleaner energy sources and cutting energy waste, this plan will clean the air we breathe while helping slow climate change so we leave a safe and healthy future for our kids,” said EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy.
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More From Less — Cleantech’s New Wave

Grant Allen Abb Technology Ventures
May 26, 2014
Cleantech is thriving. This may sound like the jawing of one of those clipboard yielding, sidewalk-canvassing, save-the-planet types, but the data are clear: As bruised and imperfect a descriptor as it is, cleantech not only has a heartbeat, it’s booming.
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You’ll Never Look at BATs the Same Way Again

May 23, 2014

BATs floating 1,000 feet above the earth could hold the secret to providing cheap, quickly installed power to off-grid consumers or disaster-stricken areas.

The BAT, short for “Buoyant Air Turbine,” is essentially a wind turbine in the sky. Developers across the country and around the world are testing various methods of sending these lightweight, high-altitude turbines aloft, using blimps, winged aircraft, and cylindrical balloons to reach sweet-spot heights where operators can harvest the most wind with the least resistance.

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Shale Boom Built on ‘Junk’

Brock N Meeks Ideas Lab
May 19, 2014
The so-called “shale revolution” in the U.S. may be powered by innovation but it feasts on the financial equivalent of junk food, according to a recent report that questions boom’s the long-term sustainability.
Although share prices for most U.S. exploration and production (E&P) companies are at all-time highs, the elephant in the room is an industry financed by the high-yield debt market, better known as “junk bonds.” The S&P says that 75 of the 97 energy E&P companies it rates are below investment grade.
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Why Renewables are the Way Forward for Africa

Jasandra Nyker Biotherm Energy
May 15, 2014
If you take a solar map and a wind map and compare the African continent to other continents, you’ll see we have some of the best resources in the world. The solar resource in the Northern Cape of South Africa is 25 percent higher than that of Spain, and Spain is considered to be a world class site.
Renewable energy can bring enormous socio-economic benefits and be a ticket out of poverty for many Africans. As much as one needs roads, one needs power. And to get it from a renewable energy source means you are creating a sustainable electrical solution that will also power jobs.
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National Climate Report Touts Importance of Natural Gas and Shale

Dana Bohan Energy In Depth
May 13, 2014
The Obama administration’s National Climate Assessment covers a wide array of energy sources and topics. But there is one key takeaway that has largely been lost in the initial coverage of the report: Natural gas development—especially from shale—is critical to both the future of American energy and the nation’s ability to reduce its carbon footprint.
From the report:
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    Lighting Your World by the Power of the Moon

    Brock N Meeks Ideas Lab
    May 09, 2014
    Time and tide may wait for no man but they can be harnessed and used—predictably—to help shore up the world’s insatiable need for more energy.
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