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	<title>ABC Carbon</title>
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	<description>ABC Carbon is a climate change consulting business and publisher of the book The ABC of Carbon and newsletter ABC Carbon Express.</description>
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		<title>Profile: Steven Chu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Profile: Steven Chu
US Energy Secretary Steven Chu calls for sweeping action across both public and private sectors to revolutionise, diversify, and propagate green technology – at a pace commensurate with the severity of the impact that human energy consumption has already made on the global ecosystem.
Waving the banner of energy revolution: U.S. Secretary of Energy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://abccarbon.com/profile-steven-chu/</link>
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		<title>Scientists Say The Situation Is Getting Worse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scientists Say The Situation Is Getting Worse
As scepticism about climate change seems to be gaining traction around the world, a group of international scientists is hitting back. A new study shores up the facts and figures behind global warming. It not only updates the information of the UN&#8217;s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, but shows [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://abccarbon.com/scientists-say-the-situation-is-getting-worse/</link>
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		<title>Outsourcing and Offsetting Emissions Through Global Trade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Outsourcing and Offsetting Emissions Through Global Trade
Scientists at the Carnegie Institution of Washington synthesized carbon emissions and trade patterns, finding that more than one-third of CO2 emissions related to the consumption of goods and services in developed countries are actually emitted outside their national borders. And rich nations are essentially outsourcing emissions to developing nations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://abccarbon.com/outsourcing-and-offsetting-emissions-through-global-trade/</link>
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		<title>The Evidence For Rapid Glacial Melting Is Overwhelming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Evidence For Rapid Glacial Melting Is Overwhelming
The world has become far too hot for the aptly named Exit Glacier in Alaska. Like many low-altitude glaciers, it&#8217;s steadily melting, shrinking two miles over the past 200 years as it tries to strike a new balance with rising temperatures. Park managers have learned to follow the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://abccarbon.com/the-evidence-for-rapid-glacial-melting-is-overwhelming/</link>
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		<title>Which Climate Changes Can Be Blamed On Humans?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Which Climate Changes Can Be Blamed On Humans?
A new comprehensive study by the UK Met Office finds that there are definite human influences on a host of aspects of the climate, all of them driven by the rising temperatures. To find a human &#8220;fingerprint&#8221; on the climate, they focussed on data that has been collected [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://abccarbon.com/which-climate-changes-can-be-blamed-on-humans/</link>
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		<title>Energy Efficiency Alone Could Cut National Emissions by 5%</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Energy Efficiency Alone Could Cut National Emissions by 5%
Industry group the Energy Efficiency Council says a 15% efficiency gain by the biggest companies would cut national emissions by nearly 5% and save business billions in energy costs. And there’s one company &#8211; Ecosave – already working with some of the countries’ largest commercial, retail and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://abccarbon.com/energy-efficiency-alone-could-cut-national-emissions-by-5/</link>
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		<title>Imagine a Fleet of Electric Cars Driving the Grid!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a Fleet of Electric Cars Driving the Grid!
There’s a three year old electric car in California called the eBox. It has a 35 kilowatt hour battery and it goes 95 miles an hour. It not only uses clean energy, but its stores it and feeds it into the grid. Robin Williams, reporting on ABC’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://abccarbon.com/imagine-a-fleet-of-electric-cars-driving-the-grid/</link>
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		<title>Power Plant to Cut Coal By 20% &amp; Go For Biomass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Power Plant to Cut Coal By 20% &#038; Go For Biomass
The operator of a large power station in NSW has begun planting trees in a scheme to create carbon-neutral fuel and cut its use of coal. More than 200,000 Mallee eucalypt trees will be grown on 10 farms around Forbes, in the state&#8217;s central west [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://abccarbon.com/power-plant-to-cut-coal-by-20-go-for-biomass/</link>
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		<title>Geothermal Industry Steamed up for More Saintly Stimulus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Geothermal Industry Steamed up for More Saintly Stimulus
The geothermal industry is citing a report by consultancy firm Activated Logic that predicts $1.5bn in direct funding assistance from Government over the next few years could trigger a further $16bn in geothermal investments from the private sector. Green Chip Giles Parkinson reports.
GREENCHIP: Giles Parkinson in The Australian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://abccarbon.com/geothermal-industry-steamed-up-for-more-saintly-stimulus/</link>
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		<title>Japanese Cottage Industry Churning Out Green Cars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Japanese Cottage Industry Churning Out Green Cars
While auto manufacturing giants spend millions to develop environmentally-friendly electric cars, one Japanese company has taken a more low-key approach, crafting hand-made &#8220;green&#8221; cars. The family-run business makes its cars from scratch in a garage workshop in the snowy foothills in the northwest of the country.
Karyn Poupee for AFP [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://abccarbon.com/japanese-cottage-industry-churning-out-green-cars/</link>
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