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Al Gore We Can Solve It

Al Gore and the We Can Solve It Campaign have released a new video calling for 100% of Electricity to be from clean renewable energy sources in 10 years.

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Trees will fight climate change: report

CANBERRA, 5 August 08 - Australia's native forests store three times as much carbon as previously thought and could hold the key to tackling climate change, researchers say.A report to be released has found the eucalypt forests of south-east Australia - stretching from Queensland through NSW and Victoria and into Tasmania - store the equivalent of 25.5 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases.

Brendan Mackay, professor of environmental science at the Australian National University, said that was far more than had been thought.

Saharan sun to power European supergrid

Vast farms of solar panels in the Sahara desert could provide clean electricity for the whole of Europe, according to EU scientists working on a plan to pool the region's renewable energy.Harnessing the power of the desert sun is at the centre of ambitious scheme to build a €45bn (£35.7bn) European supergrid that would allow countries across the continent to share electricity from abundant green sources such as wind energy in the UK and Denmark and geothermal energy from Iceland and Italy.

The idea is gaining growing political support in Europe with both Gordon Brown and Nicholas Sarkozy recently giving backing to the north African solar plan.

4.9 Billion Texas wind power super highway

AUSTIN, Texas, 17 July 2008 - Texas, headquarters of America's oil industry, is about to stake a fortune on wind power.In what experts say is the biggest investment in the clean and renewable energy in U.S. history, utility officials in the Lone Star State gave preliminary approval Thursday to a $4.9 billion plan to build new transmission lines to carry wind-generated electricity from gusty West Texas to urban areas like Dallas.

"People think about oil wells and football in Texas, but in 10 years they'll look back and say this was a brilliant thing to do," said Patrick Woodson, vice president of E.On Climate & Renewables North America, which has about 1,200 megawatts of wind projects already in use or on the drawing board in Texas.

The LED Bulb's Time Has Come

New York, July 28, 2008 - When the Sentry Equipment Corporation in Oconomowoc, Wis., was considering how to light its new factory last year, the company's president, Michael Farrell, decided to try something new: light emitting diodes, or L.E.D.'s."I knew L.E.D.'s were used in stoplights. I wondered why they can't be used in buildings," Mr. Farrell said. "So I went on a mission."

What Mr. Farrell found was a light source that many of the biggest bulb manufacturers are now convinced will supplant incandescent bulbs and compact fluorescent bulbs.

Goldman strikes gold in California

New York, 28 July 08 - Commodity traders at Goldman Sachs are acquiring a taste for the Californian desert, where developments in solar power are taking off. Like most bets wagered by the US broker-dealer, its investment in solar power, and energy in general, has started to pay dividends.Cogentrix Energy, bought by Goldman Sachs in 2003 for $2.4bn (€1.5bn), has become one of the most active filers of land claims to develop solar plants in the desert, with the first due to go online in 2012.

Last year, Goldman Sachs' fixed income, currencies and commodities group generated record revenue of $16.2bn, 13% higher than in 2006.

Urgent action needed on climate change

Melbourne Australia, 21 July 08: A a new book says even that is not enough, warning that the global warming threat to the planet has been drastically under-estimated.

Presenter: Sen Lam
Speaker: David Spratt, co-author Climate Code Red: The case for Emergency Action

Gore urges 100% renewables in 10 years

JULY 27, Washington(AFP) - Nobel laureate and former US vice president Al Gore on Thursday urged Americans to shoot for the moon and make a total shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy to avert a global crisis sparked by climate change.

"I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years," Gore told thousands of people who packed into a conference hall near the White House to hear the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner speak.

Green energy makes Samso self-sustaining

08 July 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark - RESIDENTS from the Danish island of Samso are paving the way towards a greener future by running their island on renewable energy.The island's 4300 inhabitants turned to wind power, energy cooperatives and heat pumps to become carbon neutral - and now produce more energy from renewable sources than they use, The New Yorker reported.

Samso moved to become carbon-neutral after winning a renewable energy contest in 1997 and now has 11 large wind turbines and a dozen smaller turbines on land, and another 10 offshore.

No More Arctic Ice this year - possibility says US Navy Scientist

June 27, ABCNews - Experts Worry About a Disturbing Trend at the North Pole and the very real possibility of its first Ice-Free Summer

The distinct possibility that this summer -- for the first time in