The world needs to invest a whopping $45 trillion in new energy and environmental technologies to meet the twin challenges of climate change and energy depletion.
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Cleantech Needs $45 trillion investment, G8 Says
(via cleantechlawandbusiness.com)
Submitted by wpentland on Mon, 2008-06-09 01:57. | Tags: technology | clean energy | clean technology | environment | green technology | green-investment | science
A Hundred Year Bridge: The Green Grandma Speaks
(via livegreenlivesmart.org)
The I35 bridge collapse in Minneapolis has people all over the country talking about bridges, roadways, infrastructure needs, and political culprits on all sides of the legislative aisle. The Green Grandma complains that we should ALSO be talking about the things bridges go over and the things they carry: the Mississippi River is at hazard during any rebuilding of the interstate bridges crossing it, the posterity of America needs consideration in our on-going investments.
http://livegreenlivesmart.org/blogs/green_grandma/archive/2007/08/21/a-hundred-year-bridge.aspx
Submitted by Practica on Thu, 2007-08-23 15:29. | Tags: politics | babyboom | carbon-footprint | green building | green-bridge | green-investment | green-transportation | I35-bridge | infrastructure | minnesota | next-generation | river-conservation | roadways
