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Forest ecologist sees climate consequences

Climate Central’s climate characters: Now appearing on TIME.com
Many people worry about the link between rising bark-beetle infestations and an increase in western wildfires. But Dr. Susan Prichard, a Research Scientist at the University of Washington, adds another concern: what happens after the fires go out?
Prichard’s story is the latest in a series of video shorts featured on TIME.com and produced by Princeton, NJ-based nonprofit Climate Central, an authoritative, non-advocacy source for science-based information about climate change. The series introduces viewers to people from all walks of life who are studying or dealing with the impact of climate change today.
Climate Central’s Correspondent and Senior Research Scientist, Dr. Heidi Cullen, interviewed Prichard. Cullen says Prichard helps bring …

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smashing green: launched new Green Directory

The smashing Green Directory is a another online resource for locating genuine green business, products and services.
We hope many of you will add your business to our directory so that it will become a bigger source for people that are looking for green services and products. It could be your Product they´re searching for.
Why should you add your site to our green directory?
For a green company (be it a Green builder / Architect / Solar-Energy business / plumbing or any other green trade) it is especially important to be visible to potential clients searching the net. In todays reality, when print-version of Yellow-Pages is nearly extinct, 70% of people look for green companies online, which …

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Solar Rebate – Australian Government Step to Increase the Usage of Renewable Energy Resources

The Australian Government has realized how important solar energy is to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and to the increase in usage of renewable resources. Their realization saw the introduction of a solar rebate, which ended on 9 June 2009. It was means tested and was available to households with an annual taxable income of less that $100, 000.
In place of the solar rebate the government has introduced the Green Loans, which will be available from 1 July 2009. The Green Loan gives households a four year interest free loan of up to $10, 000 to assist them with improving energy and water efficiency in their homes.
The Green Loan differs from the Solar Rebate …

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