By Jane Qiu Growing environmental costs and energy demands have persuaded China's leaders that the country cannot sustain its breakneck economic growth. [More]
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Anyone who witnessed the wrath of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano last year knows that the country possesses ample geothermal resources. Iceland has so much geothermal energy, in fact, that it might build the world's longest undersea electric cable just to share energy with the rest of Europe.
Read More »China Trying to Harness 2 Trillion Tons of Coal Reserves for Global Energy Dominance
Coal may be the most loathed energy source among sustainability advocates, but it isn't going anywhere, especially now that governments are investing billions in carbon capture and sequestration projects for coal plants. Any country with significant coal reserves and a government that pays little attention to safety and environmental hazards stands to profit handsomely.
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Bravia color-blasts San Francisco's streets. When announcing its new line of TVs, Sony enlisted Fallon, an agency based in London.
Read More »Most Innovative Companies: Charles Best of DonorsChoose.org on Fixing Education
This year DonorsChoose.Org made our list of The Most Innovative Companies . We speak to CEO Charles Best on how he applies a "best of breed e-commerce" approach to transforming public education.
Read More »Libya’s ‘Extraordinary’ Archaeology under Threat
By Declan Butler Eleven Italian researchers who were evacuated from Libya in a C-130 Hercules military aircraft on Saturday are thought to have been among the last foreign archaeologists in the country. [More]
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Read More »Inc. 5000 Update: Brewing for Dollars
Greg Koch took his first sip of a craft-brewed beer in 1987. Nine years later, he co-founded, with Steve Wagner, Stone Brewing in Escondido, California
Read More »FrontRunners: Bold and Beautiful
The daring jewelry designs from New York’s Deborah Pagani (www.deborahpagani.com) combine Art Deco–style geometric shapes with colorful, unconventional gemstones. After having sold her jewelry through Hotel Ritz Paris for several years, Pagani began offering her pieces in this country last year. They range in price from $500 to $30,000 and ...
Read More »‘Stroke belt’ mystery: Fried fish may be cause
People who live in the South's stroke belt were 30 percent more likely to eat two or more servings of fried fish every week than those living in the rest of the country, a new study says.
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