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Paying to save trees: Last gasp for the forest
A new climate treaty could provide a highly effective way to reduce carbon emissions by paying people to not cut down forests
Steering sunbeams
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Solar power is becoming less of a luxury
JUST below your correspondent’s hillside home in southern California, a house is being rebuilt with all the latest thinking in materials technology and construction codes. Much has changed in the eight years since your correspondent did the same. Most strikingly, the house below has a gleaming [...]
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The much-talked-of smart grid prepares to enter the home
READERS may recall a futile exercise your correspondent undertook last year to go solar (“Sunny side down”, Feb 15th, 2008). Despite having a large flat roof, an unobstructed view to the south, over 300 days of sunshine a year, and access to generous tax credits, [...]
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