Tag: Bill Clinton - Page 2
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Biofuels Produced at the Expense of Tropical Forests Are No Victory: Bill Clinton Tells Brazil
I guess when you're a former US president with a well-respected eponymous humanitarian foundation you can really lay into a touchy subject without much mincing of
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Clinton Foundation & USGBC Unveil "Climate Positive" Cities Initiative
The Clinton Climate Initiative, which works with 40 of the world's biggest cities to reduce greenhouse emissions, is expanding. The Initiative announced last month that it would support some 16 large-scale, carbon-neutral urban developments, scattered
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Quote of the Day: Bill Clinton on Earth Day
The science is clear. Virtually all climate experts agree that we must reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by the year 2050. If we fail, the worst consequences of climate change threaten to increase the severity of health epidemics,
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Best of Green: Business & Politics (Slideshow)
Update: Vote now for Best of Show! Now that the initial voting period has ended, it's time to vote for the 'Best in Show' -- check out the category winners in the Best in Show slideshow, and then click over to Planet Green to View & Vote for your
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Earth Day Heads-Up: Pres. Clinton to Speak at Fortune Mag's Brainstorm: GREEN Conference
What do you do when you're a former president who still wants to stay active after being the most powerful man in the world? If you're Bill Clinton you start the Clinton Global Initiative, a Foundation, and give lots of keynote presentations at
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How to Get New Renewable Energy Projects on the National Grid
This week a major meeting of the minds took place to discuss clean energy and more importantly, how to get more of it where its needed, reports the Los Angeles Times. With new, massive solar farms being located in the desert, and wind
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Robert F Kennedy Jr to Head EPA? and 4 Runners Up
While not officially nominated, the Washington Post reported yesterday that he is on the short list of new leaders for the US Environmental Protection Agency. Obama's Administration is also reported to be looking to
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Four Big Thinkers' Ideas on Going Green, Ending Poverty
Poverty isn't a simple
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Highlights from the 1st day of the Clinton Global Initiative
Former President Bill Clinton seemed happy to be in his role of statesman again on the first day of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) - an event which gathers government leaders, business leaders, rock stars, and sports heroes who work together to
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Bill Clinton Chats With Bloggers About Pickens Plan, Offshore Drilling, Clean Energy--and Gives "TreeHugger" a Thumbs Up
Former President Bill Clinton sat down last night and chatted with a select group of excited bloggers about current affairs, the economy, and last but not least, the Clinton
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World's Largest Solar Energy Project (5GW!) Planned for Gujarat, India
Now this is a world record worth talking about! Although still very much at the planning stage, The Business Standard is reporting that the Clinton Foundation is investigating developing what would be by far the world’s largest
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Watch the Premiere Episode of Planet Green's Focus Earth - Saturday, July 12!
Finally! A news program that won't give me the week's projected weather forecast a million times or uplift me with stories about local shootings.
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Write Your Own Eulogy, Says Father of LEED David Gottfried to a Crowd in Las Vegas
David Gottfried's resume overwhelms us. He's the founder of the U.S. Green Building Council and the World Green Building Council, president of WorldBuild, a green strategic consulting firm, and author of "Greed to Green: The Transformation of an Industry
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Bill Clinton Coming to Green Living Show
The first Green Living Show in Toronto last year had Al Gore as the headliner. How do you top that? You bring in the big guns, lots of them, starting with Bill Clinton and then a flying squad of Ed Begley Jr., Jean-Michel Cousteau, Robert F. Kennedy,
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A Bicycle That Creates Clean Air AND Clean Water!
As part of Specialized and Google's Innovate-or-Die contest, we've seen the bicycle put to some interesting uses, including lawn mowing and powering an MIT supercomputer. Clever as those designs were, however, the Grand Prize went to a team from Menlo
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Clinton Global Initiative Expanding to Universities in March, 2008
With all the madness leading up to the Democratic Primary down in South Carolina I’m not quite sure how President Clinton found the time to announce the expansion of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) to college campuses through CGI U. But it turns out
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Clinton Global Initiative 2007: Overall Impact
Now in its third year, the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) managed to collect 245 commitments over its recent three-day annual meeting, adding to the more than $10 billion in pledges pooled toward world causes in its first two conferences.
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The Best Kind of Chastity Belt: Education
The only way we'll be able to put the brakes on our runaway population growth is to give every girl on the planet an education, said former president Bill Clinton at the opening plenary session of the Clinton Global Initiative meeting today.
