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Emanuel Delivers on Clean Energy Promise for Chicago
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has taken two more big steps toward a clean energy future for Chicago. While many leaders talk about the urgency of transitioning to clean energy, Emanuel is acting, and making major changes that will deliver cleaner air and new jobs for Chicago in the near future. First, Emanuel made a major [...]
Is the Silicon Valley of Clean Energy Growing in China?
How Baoding, China became the world’s first "carbon positive" city. (by Tyler Burton, crossposted from The Breakthrough Blog)100 miles southwest of Beijing, a green revolution is underway; and it began, as Peter Ford of the Christian Science Monitor reports, with a "bad case of smelly fish". Yu Qun (pictured)had only recently been elected mayor of [...]