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		<title>US, Canada Launch a New Global Attack on Climate Change Pollutants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The $15 million effort involving four other countries and the United Nations Environment Program is aimed at reducing powerful but relatively short-lived pollutants to bring about near-term results in the battle against climate change.]]></description>
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		<title>DOE Budget a Bonanza for Battery Builders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Announced on February 14, the Obama administration’s Department of Energy (DOE) budget recommendation is a big valentine to those working on developing batteries for electric vehicles. As we said last year, the current administration has focused the majority of its vehicle technologies research and development dollars on EVs. This is a significant reversal from the [...]<br /><div><img src="http://blog.cleantechies.com/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/gfx.php?value=0.0" /></div><div>Rating: 0.0/<strong>5</strong> (0 votes cast)</div><br />]]></description>
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		<title>Nominate your fav Albertan company for an Emerald Award</title>
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Albertans are passionate about balancing the development of this province’s rich resources with environmental stewardship. The Emerald Awards recognize and reward the excellent environmental initiatives undertaken each year by large and small corporations, individuals, not-for-profit associations, community groups and governments.
You can submit your nominations BEFORE Feb. 24th, 2012 by visiting http://emeraldfoundation.ca/emerald-awards/nominations/
Each year the Foundation receives nominations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleantechnologies.ca/34216/nominate-your-fav-albertan-company-for-an-emerald-award/</link>
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		<title>Don’t Do These 7 Things When Installing Solar Panels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every homeowner that makes the switch to solar becomes part of the solution to sustainably meeting the world’s energy needs. To ensure that your residential solar system is not only kind to the planet, but to your finances as well, avoid these seven mistakes when installing solar panels. 1. Hiring the Wrong Contractor Choosing the [...]<br /><div><img src="http://blog.cleantechies.com/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/gfx.php?value=5.0" /></div><div>Rating: 5.0/<strong>5</strong> (1 vote cast)</div><br />]]></description>
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		<title>4 Innovative Startups that Lower Costs of Commercial Energy Audits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although an energy audit is an extremely useful tool in the sustainability toolbox, it is also usually a labor- and cost-intensive process. But these four firms are helping to make them affordable for any company.]]></description>
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		<title>Reliance on ‘Virtual Water’ Puts Some Nations at Risk, Study Says</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new study calculates that about one-fifth of all water goes toward the production of crops and commodities for export, part of a global phenomenon known as “virtual water” that researchers say could place pressure on finite water supplies in some nations. Using worldwide trade indicators, demographic data, and statistics on water use, researchers from [...]<br /><div><img src="http://blog.cleantechies.com/wp-content/plugins/gd-star-rating/gfx.php?value=0.0" /></div><div>Rating: 0.0/<strong>5</strong> (0 votes cast)</div><br />]]></description>
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		<title>Cleantech Startup Accelerator Starts 2nd Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love it when I&#8217;m planning to cover a story and then see someone on one of our sister sites already has. In this repost below, Priti Ambani does a great job covering Greenstart, &#8220;the first startup accelerator exclusively designed for the cleantech industry.&#8221; Check out the post and video below for more: Cleantech Startup [...]
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		<title>Unexpected Discovery of New Power Source</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; While on sabbatical from RMIT University in Melbourne, Associate Professor Dr Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh, from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, joined MIT Associate Professor Michael Strano&#8217;s nanotechnology research group and together accidentally discovered a new way to generate power. Their work was published in the December IEEE Spectrum Magazine, the publication of the [...]
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		<title>Hydrovolts Hydrokinetic Turbines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; A hydrokinetic turbine company, Hydrovolts, has been getting into the news recently for innovative new hydrokinetic turbines that will go where no hydrokinetic turbine has gone before. &#8220;Clean technology innovator Hydrovolts is using software from Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) to create unique hydrokinetic turbines that are more easily installed in rivers, canals and other [...]
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		<title>President Obama Ups the Clean Energy Ante by a Cool $150 Million</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Clearly undeterred by the GOP&#8217;s ongoing effort to cut federal support for clean energy, the Obama Administration has just announced a new $150 million round of funding for cutting-edge research into solar, wind, geothermal, bio-based energy and ocean power along with dozens of other categories related to renewable energy and energy efficiency. The funds are [...]
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