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Not merely tilting at windmills — investing in them too

Posted by helene 129 days ago (http://googleblog.blogspot.com)

On Friday we made our first direct investment in a utility-scale renewable energy project — two wind farms that generate 169.5 megawatts of power, enough to power more than 55,000 homes. These wind farms, developed by NextEra Energy Resources, harness power from one of the world’s richest wind resources in the North Dakota plains and use existing transmission capacity to deliver clean energy to t

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Pacific Garbage Patch Could be the Next Alcatraz | Greenopolis - StumbleUpon

Posted by helene 129 days ago (http://www.stumbleupon.com)

An architectual team wants to build a habitable island made entirely from recycled plastic to call attention to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The island is intended to be a safe haven for climate-change refugees.

The island would be an urban utopia powered both by solar and wave energy. All food would be locally grown with food waste being composted. While the idea is both fascinating and l

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