Asian bank endorses clean energy
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Asian governments must promote clean energy such as wind and solar power to maintain their booming economies and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in coming decades, the Asian Development Bank said Tuesday.
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By Gilbert Chan, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Feb. 2--Bank of America wants its employees to go for the green.   In the largest campaign of its kind, the giant banking company today will unveil a $3,000 incentive program for more than 185,000 U.S.
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Blog: IBM's Venture Capital Group is placing its own bets in clean tech in energy efficiency and water conservation.
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Science & environment: Green groups urge government not to scrap key local authority policy that has been credited with boosting the use of renewable energy.
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The British government on Thursday announced support for the construction of new nuclear power plants, backing atomic energy as a clean source of power to fight climate change.
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Asia-Pacific leaders agreed on Saturday to adopt a "long-term aspirational goal" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Australian Prime Minister John Howard said.
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(InfoWorld) - The Web hosting company chosen to power the Web sites for this weekend's Live Earth concerts adopts an environmentally friendly business plan: Let the sunshine in. Affordable Internet Services Online (AISO) has been hired to power the Web sites from its 100 percent solar-powered Web hosting facility in Romoland, California, north of San Diego. The company's green philosophy fits with the theme of the concerts to raise awareness of the issue of global climate change. The concerts are to be held around the clock July 7 in Shanghai, Tokyo, London, New York, and other cities. Organizers of the Live Earth event say the concert venues will be carbon neutral with electricity to power musicians' amplifiers and microphones coming from renewable energy sources. AISO has been using the renewable energy of the sun to power its data center since 2001, said Phil Nail,Â CTO for the 10-year-old company. AISO will operate two Live Earth sites, one for the concert and the other to track pledges. Live Earth is not seeking financial donations but asks people to pledge to adopt a carbon-neutral lifestyle. The company installed 14 IBM BladeCenter servers powered by AMD Opteron dual-core processors to host the sites. Each of the servers uses about 142 watts of electricity, which Nail considers more energy efficient than average. Low-end servers, including blades, run at an average of 218 watts, and midrange servers run at an average of 638 watts, according to figures from a 2007 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory study. Because these are the first Live Earth concerts, organizers have no idea how much traffic to expect at the Web sites, he said. The concert will be televised, and viewers will be invited to make pledges on the AISO-hosted pledge sites. Later, the names of those who pledged will appear on TV. Other Web hosting companies advertise themselves as "green," Nail said, but they often simply buy carbon offsets rather than actually improve their own energy efficiency. Affordable Internet also has installed solar tubes, shafts that run from the roof of a building to the ceiling in a room, to light the data center's interior. It also irrigates a rooftop garden with recycled water from the data center's cooling system. Affordable Internet, with 15,000 customers, has attracted prospective customers from as far away as the U.K. to host their Web sites because they are seeking out carbon-neutral hosting services.
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Australia&#39;s prime minister, facing a  tough re-election fight and under pressure over his climate  credentials, has pledged new &quot;clean energy&quot; targets in a move  environment groups said would not sway green-leaning voters.
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Southeast Asian nations are gearing up for a palm oil boom as interest in biofuels soars, but activists warn the crop may not satisfy a global thirst for energy that is both clean and green.
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Green Energy Advocates urge sustained support through inclusion in stimulus package.
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The U.S. Conference of Mayors has endorsed the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star program aimed at cutting U.S. energy use by 10 percent.  The mayor said the EPA's program could be a key strategy in meeting the goals of the conference's Climate Protection Agreement.
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The combination of consumer interest and saving money prompts green incentives.
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High oil prices kept Asian stock  markets in check on Wednesday as investors fretted over the  impact of energy costs on corporate earnings, but an upbeat  outlook from Applied Materials lifted some tech issues.
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China should raise interest rates to cool the economy and prevent a future buildup of bad loans in the banking system, the Asian Development Bank&#39;s (ADB) Bei-jing representative Bruce Murray said.
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Blog: IBM's Venture Capital Group is placing its own bets on clean tech in energy efficiency and water conservation.
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China Development Bank and Temasek help with Barclays' bid for ABN.
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HONG KONG China Power International Development has raised 2.5 billion Hong Kong dollars, or $320.6 million, in an initial public offering, bankers said, after pricing its shares at a discount to rivals and selling a stake to Singapore&#39;s state-run