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Taxing Banks to Fight Climate Change: The Robin Hood Tax (Video)

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Image credit: The Robin Hood Tax

The UK's top bankers may be using G-Wiz electric cars to get around these days, but that's not enough to make them popular. In fact there is as much public anger over bank bailouts in the UK as there is in the US.

Organic Wines Taste Better Than Conventional, But Still Seen as Inferior 'Hippy Wine'

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photo: Mr. T in DC via flickr.

Organic produce and textiles may fetch a premium compared to their non-organic counterparts, are certainly better for the planet and your health, and often proudly proclaim their eco-friendly status.

Are Solar Feed-In Tariffs a Rip Off?

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Image credit: Solarcentury

With the launch of the new UK renewable energy feed-in tariffs, the Government will now be paying every homeowner that installs solar panels and other renewables a guaranteed income in addition to the energy savings they are likely to reap.

The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies in 2009

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And one of them is Iron Man. Image via Fast Company

Which company would you bestow the honor of 'Most Innovative' upon for its performance in 2009? Would it be a mammoth like Google, for continued innovation and investment in technologies of the future like clean energy and smart grids? Would it be a decades old entertainment company like Disney?

What are the Top 5 Cities for Clean Energy Jobs?

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Photo via Ning

We talk a lot about the growing economic importance of the clean energy sector, the employment opportunities it will provide, etc--hell, so does pretty much everyone these days.

Obama's 'Green' Stimulus: Did it Work?

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Photo via Huffington Post

We made a lot of noise about Obama investing heavily (or at least more heavily than US presidents are typically wont to do) in 'green' ventures when the stimulus bill was passed last year.

MicroEnergy Credits Help Speed Adoption of Clean Tech Worldwide

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One family shows off a new Solar Water Heating system; Photo via Abri Beluga

Described as "providing the handshake" between the carbon market and the microfinance industry, MicroEnergy Credits is a business solution that holds the potential to speed along clean tech adoption globally by making it much more accessible.

Agricultural Free Trade & Market Fundamentalism Increased Poverty for Millions of Africans

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photo: IRRI Images via flickr.

That headline may sound like anti-globalization rhetoric, and I suppose in a way it is, but based on a new report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences we now have some more proof that the enforced market reforms on the mid 1980s in Africa have, rather than bring prospe