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How to Bury a Climate Bomb

GE Look Ahead
March 13, 2014
In August 2011, the Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) and its partners began drilling a well into the layer of soft sandstone located a mile beneath its headquarters in Decatur, Illinois. This was unusual in two respects. First, ADM isn’t an energy concern–it is the world’s largest agricultural commodities company. Second, the well wasn’t meant to extract oil or gas, but to inject carbon dioxide back into the ground.
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Rail’s on a Roll With Big Data

Peter Thomas GE
March 13, 2014
Some may think trains are just steel wheels on steel rails, but freight rail is a rapidly evolving sector that is increasingly fitted with and connected to innovative 21st-century technology that keeps our economy moving.
As the industry takes its message to lawmakers today during “Railroad Day” on Capitol Hill, the industry is on a roll. Revenue is up 19 percent since 2009 to $80.6 billion, creating 10,000 new directly related jobs and countless other ancillary jobs. Some $21 billion in wages were paid last year alone, a $1 billion increase from the year before.
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Where are the Women in the App Economy?

Neelie Kroes European Commission
March 12, 2014
All over the world, the digital economy and in particular the app sector are booming. The rest of the economy needs that boost.

EVENT: Google Hangout on the Water-Energy Nexus

March 12, 2014
To celebrate World Water Day 2014, we’ve assembled a panel of experts to discuss the interdependent relationship between two important resources: water and energy. How can technology improve global accessibility to these resources? How can we ensure that they remain available to all who need them?
Please watch a recorded version of this live event below as our panelists discuss these pressing global issues.

Google+ Hangout on the Water-Energy Nexus
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NatGas: From Niche Player to Mainstream Contender

Dave Mccurdy American Gas Association
March 11, 2014
I’ve been to many State of the Union speeches and know first hand how powerful a policy driver they can be. That’s why I was particularly pleased to hear President Obama in his latest address call on Congress to “help by putting people to work building fueling stations that shift more cars and trucks from foreign oil to American natural gas.”
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No Skills Gap in the Oil and Gas Industry – It’s a Perception Gap

Shaun Crofton Imperial College London
March 10, 2014
Whether the skills gap in engineering I’ve been hearing about for two decades now is real or not is a matter of opinion. I don’t think a lack of qualified engineers is the biggest recruitment issue facing the oil and gas industry. The issue is that there’s a huge perception gap.
Let’s face it: The oil and gas industry doesn’t have a terribly good reputation among students and young people. This is largely because of what they hear in the media, opinions that in my view are chiefly fostered by ignorance and misrepresentation.
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International Women’s Day, a Chance for Change

Ambassador Sally G Cowal American Cancer Society
March 07, 2014
We celebrate International Women’s Day March 8. Originally, it was an event to promote equal political rights, including the right to vote, for women. As a Chicagoan I’m proud to say that one of the earliest Women’s Day observances was held in that city in 1908!
Today, although women have the right to vote almost everywhere, health inequalities and disparities between women in the developed and developing worlds – and between men and women in many countries and regions of the world – continue to exist.
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How to Save the Shale Revolution

Robert A Manning Atlantic Council
March 06, 2014
“We’re in the first inning of a nine-inning game on the shale revolution in the United States,” Conoco CEO Ryan Lance recently boldly predicted. Given the dramatic impact of the shale revolution on the U.S., global energy and the geopolitical landscape—not to mention on declining GHG emissions—one can only hope he is correct.
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Millennials Are Bringing Communication Innovation to Schools

Melissa Moritz Teach For America
March 05, 2014
Those born between 1982 and 2000, commonly known as millennials, belong to a generation full of contradictions.
On the one hand, they’re incredibly deft at helping others. According to Leigh Buchanan’s Meet the Millennials, nearly 70 percent of millennials hold “giving back” and “being civically engaged” as their highest priorities.
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Electric Transportation: The Future is Now

Thomas Kuhn Edison Electric Institute
March 04, 2014
Electricity is playing a more important role in both on-road and non-road transportation, and that’s an energizing development for us all.
But it’s electricity’s role in powering various other transportation applications that’s rarely discussed. The good news, though, is that the conversation is finally changing.
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