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Low-efficiency or inefficient programmes are replacing those that tackle hunger and illiteracy
Published by USA Today
The lesson from the federal government's failed backing of Solyndra is not that the United States should abandon energy innovation. It is that the government should not try to pick industry winners in the race to replace fossil fuels with an alternative. Solyndra is the now-bankrupt solar-panel manufacturer that received a $535 million federal loan guarantee in 2009 to build a factory based on the proposition that solar power should be captured through solar cylinders rather than the more established technology of silicon wafers.
Published by Lifestyles Magazine
The Green Monster - Bjorn Lomborg on the biggest environmental problem in the world. (Hint: It's not climate change.)
Written by Kimberly Greene
From LIFESTYLES MAGAZINE - SUMMER 2014
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Published by The Australian
Global leaders recently swept into New York for the United Nations General Assembly, trailed by thousands of media, activists and protestors. During the high-level get-together, two very different meetings held at the exactly same time revealed much about their priorities—and their flawed approach to the planet’s biggest problems.