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Obama Embraces 'Green Path' in Stimulus Plan to Aid Environment
December 2, 2008 08:48 AM - http://www.bloomberg.com

Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- President-electBarack Obama is considering a stimulus package that will include a heavy dose of spending on environmentally friendly projects aimed at creating “green-collar jobs” and saving energy. While the package will focus on short-term outlays for traditional infrastructure projects to jumpstart an economy now officially declared to be in recession, it will also include longer-term measures to safeguard the environment.

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Brazil plans to cut deforestation by 70 pct over 10 years

The Brazilian government on Monday unveiled a plan to cut the deforestation of the Amazon by 70 percent over the next decade. It is the first time Brazil, home to the largest area of tropical woodland on the planet, has set a target for reducing the damage wrought by illegal loggers and ranchers.

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CO2 removing mechanism resumes in North Atlantic Ocean after a decade

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London, Dec 1 : Scientists have determined that due to a dramatic loss of sea-ice in the Arctic during the summer of 2007, convective mixing in the North Atlantic Ocean, a mechanism that helps to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, has returned after a decade of near stagnation.

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Is Recycling Worth It? Popular Mechanics Investigation

The modern era of recycling began in the meandering wake of the Mobro 4000. The infamous garbage barge spent much of 1987 traveling up and down the eastern seaboard looking for a place to dump its 3000-ton load of New York trash. It was refused at every port. By the time the spurned vessel returned to Long Island, still ferrying its fetid cargo, it had become the poster child for what was trumpeted as a national crisis: dwindling landfill space. Faced with the scale of their own refuse, Americans took action.

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