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July 30 2010
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Source: Environmental Leader

Chicago May Get Largest U.S. Urban Solar Plant



On the south side of Chicago, a former industrial park is the proposed site of a $60 million project to add 10 MW of solar photovoltaic panels. Supporters say it will be the largest urban solar installation in the United States.

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The Terra international reserve currency is the basis of the Terra International Monetary Union - the TIMU system. Each nation will have its carbon account become a line in their balance of payments which will be administered by the proposed World Central Bank (WCB), roughly in the same way as the European Central Bank does for the European Monetary Union. This bank with a democratically chosen Board of Governors will have two additional funct continue..

Trust and confidence are the socio-psychological attributes that everyone  considers to be essential to get the local and global economies going. How do you build them if the population does not have confidence in their politicians, let alone continue..

There is an enormous amount of pain and suffering of millions of humans and other sentient fellow creatures on account of the synchronous crises in the global financial system and in the change of the climate. This unnecessary suffering will continue continue..

Mesoamerica's salamanders appear to be joining the global decline in amphibian species, like frogs, adding to the evidence of ecological change around the planet. "What's happening to salamanders and other amphibians may be a strong l continue..

Several of the 17 species of penguin worldwide are in trouble: they face the very real possibility of extinction in this century. Most people love penguins. Therefore, most people are in trouble, goes the logic.

It may seem a reach to sugg continue..

The ancient capital of Kyoto conjures up many images among international tourists, ranging from quiet rock gardens and temples to performing geisha. But since 1997, when it hosted the United Nations conference that forged the agreement on greenhouse continue..
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