Environment News - February

Turkish Elections go green
Local elections are coming up next month in Turkey, and so far we've seen politicians' opponents accuse them of grandstanding for votes by storming out of a debate in Davos and speaking Kurdish in Parliament
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Global Green Hosts Star-Studded Pre-Oscar Bash
Warming up for the Academy Awards on Sunday, celebrities started partying at Global Green’s pre-Oscarbash in Hollywood last Thursday, February 19, to bene?t its Green Schools Initiative.
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Seaweed Car? Ask Toyota
Toyota is looking to a greener future — literally — with dreams of an ultralight, superef?cient plug-in hybrid with a bioplastic body made of seaweed that could be in showrooms within 15 years.
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Japan to Force Utilities to buy Surplus Power from Micro-producers at a Premium
The scheme, to start as early as the fiscal year beginning in April, aims to promote solar power as part of efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions that drive global warming, an industry ministry official said
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Between the River and the Deep Blue Sea
Stand on the banks of the Rhine where it ?ows into the North Sea, near the port of Rotterdam in theNetherlands, and you'll witness a vast, untapped source of energy swirling in the estuary
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