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    <title>Nature Network - energy efficiency</title>
    <description>The latest taggings for energy efficiency</description>
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      <title>Mass. gets green with new law</title>
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        <![CDATA[Corie Lok - Environmentalists are praising the energy-efficiency law MA Gov. Patrick signed yesterday, according to this "article":http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/articles/2008/07/03/state_starts_a_green_era/ in the Globe. The law requires, among other things, utilities to buy a certain amount of power from renewable energy companies, and allows the utilities]]>
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      <title>Doing research the green way ????</title>
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        <![CDATA[Matt Brown - Most of the times when I work in the lab I am confounded with the question, if i am doing my research in the most energy efficient and environment friendly way. If I were to have my own way in]]>
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      <title>What states can do for green energy</title>
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        <![CDATA[Corie Lok - MIT "announced":http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/chesonis-0422.html yesterday that it has received $10M from the Chesonis Family Foundation to fund R&D on better solar power technologies. (Last week, MIT "announced":http://network.nature.com/boston/news/blog/U66E7CD1A/2008/04/14/monday-miscellany-new-mit-energy-center-blogging-for-jobs-and-a-new-nature-video-competition that it was launching a new research center devoted to making solar power less costly.)]]>
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      <title>Natural Fusion Recap</title>
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        <![CDATA[Jeffrey R. S. Brownson - It has been a very busy semester at Penn State. I've served as the faculty director for the Solar Decathlon 2009 effort ("Natural Fusion project":http://www.solar.psu.edu/), I'm developing a course in solar energy conversion, I'm establishing my materials research laboratory, and]]>
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      <title>How to build a zero-energy house in four months &#8211; a photo tour</title>
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        <![CDATA[Corie Lok - In the middle of a small parking lot on the MIT campus stands a partially built, 800 square-foot house sitting on cinder blocks. It’s no ordinary house though. A group of about 40 volunteer students from MIT and other local]]>
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      <title>What will cities ban next?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Corie Lok - First they banned smoking. Some are trying to ban trans fat. Next on the list of possible forbidden things in cities: plastic bags. "Boston city councilors are talking about ridding the city of plastic shopping bags":http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/04/26/plastic_bags_may_be_banned_in_boston/, by banning their use]]>
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      <title>Battling climate change the Boston way</title>
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        <![CDATA[Corie Lok - The city of Boston emerged yesterday as one of the few cities in the US pledging to tackle the global warming problem. Mayor Menino "announced a plan":http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/04/13/mayor_aims_to_cut_citys_greenhouse_emissions/ to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the city’s 400 buildings and 2,000 vehicles]]>
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      <title>Cambridge goes green</title>
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        <![CDATA[Corie Lok - Over the next five to seven years, energy usage in Cambridge buildings could decrease by 10 to 14 percent if a "new $70 million energy efficiency program being launched today":http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2007/03/29/cambridge_sets_70m_energy_initiative/ by the city succeeds. Here’s how the Boston Globe describes]]>
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