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The third book „Our Choice“ from the former Vice President Al Gore gives us a whole heap of information on the climate change situation at the moment and what we can do about it. In his book Gore delivers loads of information on the climate change and stunning facts about a future which we have in our hands. The experts questioned by Gore all agree that there is still hope and reason to be optimistic. The crisis can be stopped by switching to renewable energy sources now.

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No city in the United States is more popular and well known as the city that never sleeps – New York. New York is known for the largest buildings, the most popular sights and much more, but now the city is wanting more – more green. New York is looking to take large steps toward reducing greenhouse gases and using more renewable energy.

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Finally the largest wind farm in the world has started operating. The Roscoe Wind Complex has 627 huge wind turbines standing spread out across 100,000 acres of farmland in West Texas. The wind park began construction in 2007 and reaches through four counties in the area of Roscoe creating a huge amount of 781.5 megawatts the German company E.ON Climate and Renewables North America said. Looking at his finished work the chief development officer Patrick Woodson said, "In three years to be able to take this project from cotton fields to the biggest wind farm in the world is something we're very proud of."

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The American people seem to almost completely have the same opinion when it comes to the development of solar energy. According to a study, 92% of the Americans think that the development in America in the solar energy branch is very important. On the solar subject both Republicans and Democrats seem to share the opinion that solar energy is important because the study shows the opinion is shared by Republicans to 89%, by Democrats to 94% and Independants to 93%.

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The EU has stated that there is a new plan that is going to be released which supposed to cut the carbon emissions and it includes a Smart Cities Initiatives to promote energy efficiency measures.

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The city of Pasadena is receiving more trash cans that use solar energy. The fascinating solar energy can even be used in combination with trash cans to compress the mass of trash that is thrown into the trash can from 200 gallons into 70 gallons.

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Solar energy technology is a large part of the trend taking place toward renewable energies, but due to the fact that the renewable energy technology is so young, scientists haven´t come close to developing a system that makes the most of the sun.

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China has recently become the leader in developing green energy. The United States newly elected President Obama, has made statements that he wants the U.S. to become “the world’s leading exporter of renewable energy.” Unfortunately, that is not the case. China has taken the ball and run with it.

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With the world increasingly facing dire consequences of climate changes, alternative energy such as solar and waste capturing is finally gaining popularity.

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The state of California has awarded contracts to solar power energy plants for the production of over 8,600 megawatts of green energy to power the state's utilities. Little information was given to the press until the California Public Utilities Commission approval of the purchase of two 25 year contracts or 310 megawatts of solar electricity between BrightSource Energy and Pacific Gas & Electric drew attention to the state's purchasing of green energy. BrightSource Energy builds solar power plants, and their company is headquartered in Oakland, California.

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