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As temperatures soared and New York City broke records for electricity use at the end of July, landscapers were installing a "green" roof at Silvercup Studios in Long Island City, Queens, where the television series "The Sopranos" is filmed. fonte: Wbcsd.Org

Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page (along with brother Carl Page) are investors in Nanosolar, which specializes in thin-film solar cells, according to the company's Web site. >>>

The EU is widely recognised as a champion of the Kyoto Protocol and a global leader in fighting climate change thanks to its unique international CO2 trading scheme. But the US is set to leapfrog Europe when it comes to the roll-out of research and technology. >>>

In summer 2004, the levels of ground-level ozone were high in southern Europe with widespread exceedances of the information threshold value (180 µg/m3), as laid down in the ozone directive (2002/3/EC). The exceedances of the information threshold were similar to earlier years, except for summer 2003, when there was a record number of exceedances. Also the directive's long-term objective to protect human health, 120 µg/m3 of ozone concentration over 8 hours, was extensively exceeded in the EU and other European countries. The target value to protect human health was also exceeded in southern and part of central Europe. The highest levels were reported from Italy and Spain, with a maximum ozone level of 417 µg/m3. >>>

IKEA customers in Berlin will hardly hear the arrival of the company´s service personnel in the future. Visits will be made with the emission-free HydroGen3 fuel cell vehicle >>>

It's the economics, stupid. Or so says Exxon. The economics of solar and wind energy is why the world's largest publicly traded energy company is not making any bets on the environmentally friendly power sources now, and does not plan to any time soon. [@]