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In the News (Thu 24 Dec 09)

  
 Revista Brasil Sempre
FERNANDO GABEIRA – First I’d like to talk about the problem that’s currently seen as the most important environmental issue, which is the decline of the oil-based economy and the beginning of a new era based on solar resources and renewable power alternatives.
GABEIRA – I see a process of emissions reduction in an attempt to prevent warming from continuing to happen the way it is. And we have to continuously search for renewable power sources.
Gabeira, who’s also a writer and journalist, was a leftist militant and remained in exile from 1969 to 1979.
www.insightnet.com.br /brasilsempre/numero17/mat0617i.htm   (4768 words)

  
 "Steady State" Economist Brings Provocative Views To Texas A&M
His talk, titled "Uneconomic Growth: In Theory and In Fact," focuses primarily on his idea that if the earth's physical resources are finite, economic growth cannot be sustained indefinitely.
His presentation is sponsored by the Institute for Renewable Natural Resources, a component of The Texas A&M University System's agriculture program.
COLLEGE STATION -- A controversial economist who says civilization cannot be sustained unless growth slows and a "steady state" is achieved brings his message to the Texas A&M campus Thursday (March 26).
www.tamu.edu /univrel/aggiedaily/news/stories/archive/032598-8.html   (328 words)

  
 Solar Energy Specialist to Speak at NASA Langley
Solar Energy International is a nonprofit educational organization that helps people use renewable energy resources and environmental technologies through education and technical assistance.
Johnny Weiss, co-founder and director of education for Solar Energy International (SEI), will present his talk in Building 1250, room 118.
The man whose company is helping people in developing nations use solar power to cook will give a talk at NASA Langley on Thursday, Oct. 2, at 10 a.m.
oea.larc.nasa.gov /news_rels/1997/Oct97/97_118.html   (328 words)

  
 OECD Observer: Biotechnology
In their biotechnology report (European Life Sciences, 1998) they sometimes call it the entrepreneurial life sciences sector and in their analysis include those companies which use modern biotechnological techniques to develop pro-ducts or services for health care, animal health, agriculture, food pro-cessing, renewable resources and the environment.
Biotechnology is a fairly broad term and it is difficult to talk of it as a specific sector or industry.
Biotechnology is one of the fastest-growing areas of scientific research, the latest OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard shows.
www.oecdobserver.org /news/categoryfront.php/id/48/Biotechnology.html   (1243 words)

  
 international paper:
International Paper to sell 1.1 million acres of Forestlands in Maine and New Hampshire to GMO Renewable Resources.
International Paper's President gives talk at Smith Barney Citigroup Global Paper, Forest Products and Packaging Conference
International Paper named number one in its industry for the second straight year.
www.internationalpaper.com   (1243 words)

  
 Hubbert peak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
solar energy and they are non-renewable resources — there is a finite amount of them, and their reserves are not being replenished (at least, not at a speed comparable to that of their extraction).
They would buy an extremely nice lunch for the Devil, and they would talk contract and concession terms".
There are large but finite coal reserves which may increasingly be used as a fuel source during oil depletion.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peak_oil   (1243 words)

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