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:: A Global Marshall Plan for a Better World Dr.
Franz Alt is moderator, journalist and author. He published
several essays and books concerning the use of renewable energies and worldwide
securing peace.Among other decorations he received the human rights prize
”Award 2003.” Read
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| 28.12.2008 |
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ENGLISH NEWS ::
- New European Commission Report shows 60% increase in solar panel
production in 2007
- Making the Photovoltaic Industry DoubleGreen
- Economists See Roots of Income Inequality in Ancestral History
- SunPower to Build Largest Solar Power Tracking System in Australia
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| 09.11.2008 |
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- Solar Power Game-Changer: “Near Perfect” Absorption of
Sunlight, From All Angles
- Garnaut releases Framework for Low-Emission Future
- Germany's Largest Pitched Roof Thin-film Solar PV System Installed
- Searching for the "Second Solar"
- Belmar Unveils One of the Largest Solar Parking Structures in the
Western United States
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| 19th October |
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- Wind Energy in Turkey
- ICP Solar Partners with San Francisco-based Eight Inc to drive solar
innovation in portable power category
- Two Groups of Researchers Make Gasoline from Sugar
- Curbing Coal Emissions Alone Might Avert Climate Danger
- Workers silenced while we talk
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The
solution to our climate crisis seems simple. Repower America with wind and
solar. AL Gore |
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| 15th June 2008 |
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- As Israel grapples with the strategic advantages of solar, will PV
get the respect it wants?
- 60 MW PV power plant in set to go on-grid in June
- Natural refrigerant for mobile air conditioning systems
- Concentrator systems from Zytech Solar
- 'CO2 scrubber' could help slow global warming
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| 8th. June 2008 |
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- Food prices remain high despite higher output
- Patenting the “Climate Genes”… And Capturing the
Climate Agenda
- German Parliament adopts amendment of EEG
- 23% Solar Electricity Production fed into utility
- Signet Solar Rolls Out Industry’s Largest Silicon Thin Film
Solar Photovoltaic Modules
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May 2008 |
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| 25th May 2008 |
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- The Dalai Lama: "Tibet is a part of China"
- Lakes of Meltwater Can Crack Greenland’s Ice and Contribute
to Faster Ice Sheet Flow
- Amazon under threat from cleaner air
- Trouble in paradise: Warming a greater danger to tropical species
- New solar energy system makes it possible to produce wholesale electricity
at a cost competitive with fossil fuels
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| 18th May 2008 |
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- Greendex - a Consumer Index putting the US at the bottom of 100
- Worldwide wind energy tops 100,000 megawatts for the first time in
2008
- Utilities Global Survey 2008: A world of difference
- The first European Solar Days will be celebrated with over 4000 events
throughout Europe
- Shell Pulls Out of London Array Wind Farm
- EU biofuel firms say not to blame
- Voluntary carbon markets almost tripled
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April 2008 |
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| 27.April.2008 |
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- Rising Food Prices - What Should Be Done?
- Cooling sulphates in the atmosphere enhance ozone depletion
- US-institute NOAA: Global Land Surface Temperature Warmest on Record
- Artificial Photosynthesis Moves a Step Closer
- Enfinity to install 22 MW on Belgian roofs
- Deteriorating situation in Tibet and fear of worse to come in days
ahead
- As Labor takes over reigns in Australia, campaign noises for solar
could get louder
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| 13.April.2008 |
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- Statement of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to All Tibetans
- La Niña Conditions Strengthen - Expected to Continue
- Renewable Energies Grow Strongly Again in 2007
- Solar Thin-film Production in Greece
- Wind Boom USA – Opportunities for European Companies in the
Wind Industry
- Rich countries’ aid figures drop for second straight year
- Greenpeace report estimates climate impacted migration to be 10 times
worse than Partition
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| 06.April.2008 |
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- My Hope lies with Europe
- 1st European Solar Days: European Citizens to Celebrate Solar Energy
- Solar Millennium AG acquires shares in the Andasol 3 project from
NEO Energía
- Climate change will have a significant impact on transportation infrastructure
and operations
- Climate change: Continued momentum needed as formal negotiations
on new UN climate agreement get under way
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March 2008 |
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| 30.March.2008 |
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- Dalai Lama: An Appeal to the Chinese People
- Impoverished areas of Africa and Asia face severe crop losses from
climate change within 20 years, study finds
- New Research on the 2002 Collapse of the Larsen B Ice Shelf
- Flush with oil money, rich emirate plants huge financial seed for
renewable energy – and PV
- ATM‘s Kassandra scans ingots for defects and maps regions to
be cut
- Leading Chinese Intellectuals Ask China to Rethink Tibet Policy
- Signet Expands Capacity in India
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| 23.March.2008 |
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- The Dalai Lama: “Tibet will be free”
- A European Hope
- Lighting a billion lives
- TU Delft tests windmill for seawater desalination
- The Tibetan Cry for Freedom
- Energy Thinking at the World Sustainable Energy Days
- Dalai Lama Won’t Stop Tibet Protests
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| 16.March.2008 |
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- The Hot Topic - How To Tackle Global Warming and Still Keep the Lights
On
- Shell chief fears oil shortage in seven years
- Garrad Hassan breaks the 3GW mark with GH Forecaster
- 2007 Global Status Report Shows Perceptions Lag Reality
- 2008 OECD Environmental Outlook - How much will it cost to address
today's key environmental problems?
- Google is entering the field of renewable energy
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| 09.March.2008 |
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- Photovoltaic solar energy to attract major investments over the coming
years
- EU to adopt climate fight plan despite differences
- Vestas Gets 82-MW Order from Poland
- BSW estimates 1.1 GW solar market in Germany in 2007
- MAN Ferrostaal enters solar cooling market
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| 02.March.2008 |
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- Spectacular Wind Energy growth saving 200 million tonnes of greenhouse
gas emmissions
- Suntech Opens Sales Offices in Germany and Spain
- How Future Renewable Energy Professionals Are Breaking into the Industry
- Drinking Water Shortage – A Global Problem ...
- First North American World Wind Energy Conference and Renewable Energy
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February 2008 |
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| 24.02.2008 |
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- Loss of mangroves alarming
- Wind energy leads EU power installations in 2007, but national growth
is inconsistent
- US, China & Spain lead world wind power market in 2007
- German cell manufacturer Q-Cells is Number 1 cell producer worldwide
- Phoenix Solar Wins 9-MW Contract
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| 17.02.2008 |
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- Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future
of Capitalism
- Shell chief fears oil shortage in seven years
- Biofuels: plans for certification taking shape
- Water Conservation and Efficiency in Las Vegas
- First Documented Case of Pest Resistance to Biotech Cotton
- Grey Water Geothermal Utilities Used in Australia
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Newsletter Franz Alt Sunpage |
| 11.02.2008 |
Losing
Ground, The human rights impacts of oil palm plantation expansion in Indonesia
EU fuelling human rights disaster in Indonesia, Palm oil production for
food and agrofuels is resulting in wide spread human rights abuses in
Indonesia according to a report released today by a coalition of international
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ENGLISH NEWS
- World Market for Wind Energy - An Overview
- Blackwater - The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
- 21st century water management: Calculating with the unknown
- Solar Millennium technology subsidiary Flagsol develops new, highly
efficient solar collector
- Greenpeace calls for ban on 327 heavily toxic pesticides
- Sustainable Energy Cities take the lead on climate change: the European
Commission launches the Covenant of Mayors
- Focus on the sun and the success
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| 03.02.2008 |
ENGLISH NEWS
- California Solar Outlook for 2008
- Focus on the sun and the success
- China Cracks Down on Tibetan Buddhism Ahead of Olympics
- Survey Shows 95% of Japanese See Global Warming as Imminent Problem
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January 2008 |
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| 27.01.2008 |
ENGLISH NEWS
- "Is there an economical miracle in ecological goods?"
- Keeping the Electrons Flowing
- Ninety percent of Europeans believe biodiversity loss is a problem
- Showa Shell to Quadruple Photovoltaic Module Production
- Biofuels under (belated) scrutiny
- The Hard Coal-Fired Power Plant at Hamburg-Moorburg and Its Alternatives
- Human wrongs every day in Tibet
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Newsletter Franz Alt Sunpage |
| 20.Jan 2008 |
50
people who could save the planet
Stranded polar bears, melting glaciers, dried-out rivers and flooding on
a horrific scale - these were the iconic images of 2007. So who is most
able to stop this destruction to our world? A Guardian panel, taking nominations
from key environmental figures, met to compile a list of our ultimate green
heroes
- Angela Merkel, German chancellor
- Amory Lovins, Physicist
- Leonardo DiCaprio, Actor
- Zhengrong Shi, Scientist
- Ken Livingstone, London mayor
- Wangari Maathai, Environmentalist, Nobelprice, Minstry of Kenya
- Hermann Scheer, Politician
- Al Gore, Politician, Oscar-winning slideshow An Inconvenient Truth,
- Dieter Salomon, Mayor of Freiburg
- and many more
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ENGLISH NEWS
- Climate Change study predicts hazy future for Europe's birds
- Civilized Markets instead of Markets of Practical Constraints
- Brussels considering climate tax on imports
- 2007 Ozone Hole Looms over Antarctica, as for the Past Decade
- New Report Documents Status of Geothermal Energy Technologies
- The Guardian: "50 people who could save the planet"
- Nuclear blow to UK climate policy
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| 13.01.2008 |
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Newsletter Franz Alt Sunpage |
| 06.01.2008 |
ENGLISH NEWS
- Presidential Candidates: How Green Are They?
- BP Announces Full Operation of Wind Farm
- European solar thermal market affected by strong decline in Germany’s
heating equipment sales
- Xcel Energy Announces 1,000th MW of Wind in Minnesota
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December 2007 |
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| 30.Dezember.2007 |
ENGLISH NEWS
- Duke Energy Purchases 150 MW of Wind Turbines
- Solar Integrated Wins $4.3 Million Order
- Blue H Launches Floating Wind Turbine
- Penguins in peril as climate warms
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Sunpage Newsletter Franz Alt |
| 23.Dezember.2007 |
ENGLISH NEWS
- For German Homeowners, Renewable Energy is No Longer a Choice
- Britain's wind power revolution
- REpower to Deliver 25 Turbines to Cannon Power
- ersol turns again to Wacker for silicon
- Tracking down water leaks
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Sunpage Newsletter Franz Alt |
| 16.Dezember.2007 |
ENGLISH NEWS
- Shell and HR Biopetroleum build facility to grow algae for biofuel
- California Commission To Recommend Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariffs
- "Mainstream" Renewable Energy Continues Double-digit Growth
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Sunpage Newsletter Franz Alt |
| 9.Dezember.2007 |
ENGLISH NEWS
- In Larger Freedom
- Rockefeller Center Tree Lights Will Be Energy-Efficient
- Report: Sweden, Germany do most to protect climate
- Spezial WAB-Offshore-Magazine
- PM Rudd's first act: ratifying Kyoto
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Sunpage Newsletter Franz Alt |
| 2.Dezember.2007 |
ENGLISH NEWS
- Do we still have universal values?
- European Solar Prizes 2007
- REpower to Deliver 25 Turbines to Cannon Power
- Global Wind Power Base to More Than Triple by 2015
- Germany Starts Testing Bio Oil for Heat
- Clean Power from Deserts for Europe, the Middle East and North
- China on Pace to Become Global Leader in Renewable Energy
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